If you think dealing with the issues surrounding intermarriage is easy, just ask any rabbi -- or Jewish newspaper editor. 

Julie Wiener's "In the Mix" column about the challenges facing intermarried couples continues to draw heaps of reader mail --some of it positive, some absolutely outraged.

For a sample of the latter, here's something from Jay Saltzman, a reader in Woodmere, who raises an interesting dilemma.  Saltzman argues that publishing Wiener's monthly column "undermines what (Jewish Week editors) seem to believe is important to the survival of the Jewish people."

Saltzman goes on to state that "rather than publishing a monthly column about intermarriage, how about a monthly column about the struggles of parents to send their children to private Jewish day schools, the failure of the Jewish 'establishment' to help make tuition affordable and the failure of rabbis to speak out against this utter disaster?"

Publishing "In the Mix," Saltzman writes, is "antithetical to American Jewish survival."

                                                       

Jewish Week editor Gary Rosenblatt acknowledges that the inclusion of Wiener's column may outrage some readers -- a lot of readers, actually -- but argues it provides an important service to many others who are wrestling with similar issues in their own lives.

The Jewish Week faces a difficult choice, he said.

"We could ignore or confront these and other delicate issues; we choose to bring them to light and welcome the resulting debate, as long as it is not hurtful on a personal level."

So debate away, and let us know what you think.