August 4, 2010

Open-mindedness does not mean that we form our beliefs in a world without curation or filtration. Few Jews (or anyone, for that matter) have such an anarchistic view of knowledge. Prager (“How Open-Minded Are Jewish Liberals?” July 30) sets up this false dichotomy when he makes such narrow definitions. We have seen that there is a world beyond our own; we choose to embrace and explore it and to assert the importance of our people in it.