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February 07, 1997 - Image 30

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1997-02-07

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Back then, active euthanasia and me at my parents' house on
became accepted for impaired Calvert while I had a three-day
children in hospitals, followed by leave from duty as a U.S. Navy
killing impaired adults mostly officer during World War II.
He eulogized my mother in
from mental institutions, after
which the definition was broadly Yiddish at her funeral.
To know him was to honor
extended to mean Jewish.
That MSU would expressly in- him; he made a difference in our
clude human use in a patent on lives.
animal euthanasia and have a
Manuel Feldman
German law firm represent the
Southfield
university to do this is extreme-
ly offensive and shameful.
Potential donors to MSU
should question whether they Freedom
wish to support this opprobrious
Of Speech?
behavior.
Who is denying whom freedom of
Dr. Robert M. Levine
Farmington Hills speech?
Several weeks ago, Abraham
Foxman and recently Neal Sher
wrote op-ed articles in the
Locals Aided
Jerusalem Post castigating Mor-
Rabbi Levin
ton Klein for taking the position
I read with interest your article that it was inappropriate for the
"Remembering Rabbi Leizer ADL to invite Thomas Friedman
Levin" (Jan. 24). There was a dis- to be the keynote speaker at an
crepancy as to how the rabbi "de- ADL dinner.
These articles have trans-
cided" to stay in this country.
formed the debate from whether
it was appropriate for the ADL to
invite Thomas Friedman to
whether it was permissible for
Morton Klein to criticize the in-
vitation.
As someone who has often ad-
mired Abraham Foxman's cogent
letters and statements on Jewish
matters and taken great pride in
Neal Sher's prosecution of Nazis
when he was in the Justice De-
partment, I am perplexed and
saddened by what they have writ-
ten on this matter.
In his article, Mr. Foxman re-
ferred to the "ZOA opinion police"
and argued that "in its opposition
to Friedman," the ZOA is "trying
to prevent us from hearing a le-
gitimate opinion." She's article,
titled "A Jewish Thought Police-
man"' characterizes Klein's action
Rabbi Leizer Levin
as "unacceptable bully tactics."
He would apparently have no
It was my father, Ben Feld-
man, then president of Congre- objection to Klein's letter protest-
gation Beth Moses on Owen near ing the ADL's selection of Thomas
Oakland Avenue, with the urg- Friedman as its keynote speaker
ing and insistence of my mother, "if the matter remained a private
who made it possible for Rabbi disagreement between two na-
Levin to stay in this country.
The conflagration in Europe
had begun; the rabbi's visa had
expired. It would have meant cer-
tain death to be deported to what
was then Poland. However, giv-
ing him a job as our rabbi and
posting a bond made it possible
for his permanent residency in
the United States. I must add
that my older brother, I. Irving
Feldman (of blessed memory) had
a hand in the financial arrange-
ments.
I also remember the rabbi stay-
ing temporarily at our house
while his papers came through,
his leaving for Pennsylvania to
find a pulpit, his coming back to
Detroit and our visiting him at
home.
It will be 53 years this March Thomas Friedman: An appropriate
that Rabbi Levin married Doris guest?

JERRY BAUER

"Because Plumbing Doesn't
Have To Be Boring."

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