My dear Rabbi Lamm,

I just read in the New York Times about your sermon, and I fully agree with you. To wish still for such a blasphemy – to make a Sefer Torah into a cake, as I see it time and again in the Elmhurst bakeshops, for a Bar Mitzvah, filled with sugar candy? Barbarous! The first time I did not trust my eyes, when I saw it. I think it is one of the most disgraceful things to do. Have you ever seen a New Testament baked into a cake – or a Crucifix?

I am a liberal Jewess. I do not go to services regularly. I do not observe the Sabbath. But I have the highest esteem for that which is sacred to people. In rereading the article, I wonder whether, when you write, “This is not the only example of such exploitation and misuse,” you are referring to these kinds of things.

Is there any way to adapt this?

Gertrude Rosenfeld