no longer affordable

Re: "Full-price Sundays back at Art Museum," Monday:

It is very disturbing that after announcing Tim Rub as its new head, the Museum of Art has unceremoniously dropped the pay-as-you-wish Sundays without any prior notice.

Pay-as-you-can Sundays were a popular way for less affluent families to pay for a day with art. Dropping the program is an outrage perpetrated by elitist, overpaid, unfeeling museum intellectuals who believe that the art in that building somehow is their private property.

Throw them out. Reveal to taxpayers their outrageous pay and benefits (trips, parties, honorariums, etc.) and send them packing.

Julian Fox

Philadelphia

unoslyfox@hotmail.com

Nazis treated

all Jews the same

The writer of Sunday's letter "Finding practicing Jews" should know better than to suggest that a Jew must practice his religion to be considered really Jewish. A child is considered Jewish if he or she is born to a Jewish mother, period.

Gratz College is named for Rebecca Gratz, a woman who very much practiced her religion. Kirk Douglas rediscovered his Jewish roots by having a Bar Mitzvah at age 80. Many Jewish actors have hidden their religious identity in order to gain public acceptance.

The Nazis never differentiated between practicing and non-practicing Jews. Some German Jews were liberal thinkers, and still they wound up in the ovens.

Elizabeth Brockman

Philadelphia

Racism's death

is exaggerated

I hope every one of your readers will give a careful reading to Sunday's column by editorial page editor Harold Jackson, "End of racial bias? Not yet." We've come a long way, and now have a black president, but we still have a long way to travel to reach the end of racial bias.

You need only read the daily paper to see what still remains: from the black and Hispanic children being turned away from a private-club pool, to President Obama's visiting Ghana and urging self-reliance, to the battle over the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.