Professor Dear Rabbi Lamm: Congratulations for making the front page of the Jewish Post. If you had not cancelled your subscription some time ago, they might even have printed your picture. Congratulations also for the diplomatic manner in which you handled the Bar Mitzvah. You are a professor and Jewish; but if you only had been born in Germany, you might have become our next Secretary of State. Perhaps if you had been a European you might have been a little more skeptical about the statistics given out at the Food Conference. As a frequent traveler to Europe I know that East Europeans in particular are voracious meat eaters, starting with consuming hot breakfasts. I have also noticed that many of these well-meaning international conferences frequently indulge in anti-American diatribes, in which our own statistics are being hurled at the USA, for the simple reason that other countries don’t have any statistics to speak of. Last year’s Population Control Conference in Bucharest was an outstanding example of the same technique, because it deteriorated into a collection of hate-America speeches & resolutions. Please forgive my candor, but you are not yet an experienced international conference attender. A really conscientious delegate would have stretched a 4-day seminar into a 4-weeks research project, studying the food habits of the various cultures (I almost wrote: vultures). If your activities are limited to kosher restaurants and such a study might perhaps prove fatal. Glad to have you back.