Letters to the Editor

‘Arts+'

As an arts consultant here in New York, I wanted to thank you for the caliber of your arts coverage — a welcome antidote to the general degradation occurring elsewhere in town.

It's especially pleasant and surprising to see works of art featured so frequently on your front page — above the fold, even — and I am drawn to pick it up in my lobby daily.

Maybe it's the buoyancy of the art market or just the perception of a gap to fill driving the coverage. Whatever it is, I am grateful, as it restores faith that perhaps there still lurk a few readers interested in the arts and editors and publishers who find value in their coverage.

ELIZABETH CASALE
New York, N.Y.

‘Flying Over the Temple Mount'

To reassure the Arabs that Israel does not threaten them, Hillel Halkin wants Israel to divest itself of most land and religious sites that constitute the Jewish and also the Christian connection to their biblical and historical past [Oped, "Flying Over The Temple Mount," February 13, 2007]. If that occurred, it would end any legitimacy Israel has to exist in the Middle East as well as shrinking the country to a nonviable coastal strip.

GEORGE RUBIN
New York, N.Y.