Dear Rabbi Lamm: I find your reasoning that Russian Jews should be welcomed here by Jews and not criticized for not going to Israel somewhat strange. Is it or is it not our duty to build up the population in Israel through aliya? Why should we support the deception of raising funds for UJA so that Russian Jews should go to Israel only to encourage them to come here? The reason we are given to understand for their leaving Russia is because they cannot live as Jews. Where else than in Israel can that be fully realized? Especially as the majority of Russian Jews coming here will not be an asset as Jews to our community. Most of them have really no interest in being Jewish except the minority coming from religious families where Judaism somehow survived.It was Quite a aifferent matter when the Jews who survived from the Nazi holocaust came here. That was a matter of human survival and the question of Palestine at the time was too complicated politically. Then we had a moral obligation to welcome the survivors. What is our moral obligation to welcome Russian Jews here? Because they happen to have been born Jews? Because they were not given the privileges of other citizens in Russia in terms of scheming and emplkymen>?Do we need numbers in the United States, increasing the rolls with non״identified Jews? In their own words, according to the article in this morning’s Times, many'״■ of them are more Russian than Jewish.I do not feel at all guilty because I harehot gone to live in Israel. My life has been devoted to Jewish education and to Israel. I believe that as an American Jew there is !importance for mo to remain here and act on behalf of Israel. I do not feel that Russian Jews have this orientation. They have come here for a variety of personal reasons, pr׳Xcarily to help themselves. They will not be an asset to American Jewry.It should be made very clear by the UJA and JDC that when we give to these organizations that our funds are being used to bring Russian Jews…