Dear Dr. Himler: A member of my congregation showed me the November 1, 1971 issue of the New York Journal of Medicine, and pointed out the article entitled "Strange Murder of William of Norwich." I must express to you my sense of shock and outrage that such an obviously anti-Semitic article should have been accepted for publication in your Journal. The last 25 or 30 years certainly should have taught us that racial bigotry is all the more noxious when disguised in pseudo-scientific jargon than when it is bellowed forth with vulgar crudeness. For your Society to permit publication of an article that pretends to scientific accuracy and which does nothing more than disinter ancient falsehoods that have caused untold anguish to Jews who were innocent hostages in a hostile environment, is an outrageous abdication of editorial responsibility and a singularly scandalous expression of insensitivity. Sincerely yours, Rabbi Norman Lamm