Sir: There has just come to my attention the letter by Dr. Alan W. Miller which you published in your January 6th issue. I am sure that Rabbi Jakobovits does not need my assistance in withstanding an attack so intemperate and in such remarkably bad taste. Men of good will do not lend credence to such vituperation, and will no doubt rally to the new Chief Rabbi who brings to England a distinguished combination of scholarship and spiritual leadership. Having had the privilege of becoming a friend as well as a neighbor of Rabbi Jakobovits for the past eight years, I suspect he also possesses a sense of humor sufficent to react with equanimity and amusement to the kind of abrasive discourtesy your correspondent reveals.The letter-writer has also seen fit to include a gratuitous jibe, somewhat left-handed, at "Tradition," whose first editor I was. Apparently, "Tradition" and those who write for and edit it are also to be lumped together as "fundamentalists״ who remain hopelessly anachronistic ״in terms of the humanistic spirit of the modern age.״ Dr. Miller therefore compliments the Jewish Chronicle for not printing Rabbi Jakobovits' column from "Tradition."While I wonder whether, and to what extent, the editors of the Chronicle are flattered by this unsolicited encomium, I believe it should be known to your readers that "Tradition״ has received the acclaim of almost all groups outside Orthodoxy, and that Rabbi Jakobovits' column is probably the most popular feature in our journal. Both Rabbis and laymen turn to this column first and read it avidly, and with great care, before turning to the rest of the magazine. Apparently there are those, even in this "humanistic״ age (has Dr. Miller forgotten Auschwitz – and Hiroshima – and Vietnam?), who still regard Torah and Halakhah as retaining some value for their lives. It might be a good idea indeed for "Tradition", and especially the new Chief Rabbi's regular column, to be made available to English Jewry on a broader scale.I…