Reva Mann Follow-up

Regarding "Between cocaine and commandments," Haaretz Magazine, August 17

May I express my feelings of distaste at your choice of cover picture and article by Dalia Karpel about Reva Mann and her tempestuous teenage sex life, which she, and your magazine, apparently feel the necessity to share with the world at large!

I am aware that your magazine is not always sensationalistic, and that you are trying to draw more readers, but surely you should set clear limits as to how you want to present yourselves in the eyes of the public.

Do you really believe that the public does not know by now that religious youth are also human beings with strong sexual needs as are we all? But was it absolutely necessary to force us all to know about her ventures, carried out on the synagogue floor?

I am a secular Jew, but one who does have respect for synagogues as holy places. Do we always have to put ourselves down in the eyes of other religions - once again, a case of Jewish self-abomination?

Jossy Fabian

Kibbutz Tzora