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book included an "incredible passage
from the Yom Kippur liturgy" and he
then read it aloud.
"Now is the time for turning. The
leaves are beginning to turn from
green to red to orange. The birds are
beginning to turn and are heading
once more toward the south. The ani-
mals are beginning to turn to storing
their food for the winter.
"For leaves, birds and animals, turn-
ing comes instinctively. But for us,
turning does not come so easily. It
takes an act of will for us to make a
turn. It means breaking old habits. It
means admitting that we have been
wrong, and this is never easy. It means
losing face. It means starting all over
again. And this is always painful.
"It means saying I am sorry. It
means recognizing that we have the
ability to change. These things are ter-
ribly hard to do.
"But unless we turn, we will be
trapped forever in yesterday's ways.
"Lord help us to turn, from callous-
ness to sensitivity, from hostility to
love, from pettiness to purpose, from
envy to contentment, from carelessness
to discipline, from fear to faith.
"Turn us around, 0 Lord, and
bring us back toward you. Revive our
lives as at the beginning, and turn us
toward each other, Lord, for in isola-
tion there is no life.
"I thank my friend for that. I thank
you for being here. I ask you to share
my prayer that God will search me and
know my heart, try me and know my
anxious thoughts, see if there is any
hurtfulness in me, and lead me toward
the life everlasting.
"I ask that God give me a clean
heart, let me walk by faith and not
sight.
"I ask once again to be able to love
my neighbor — all my neighbors — as
myself, to be an instrument of God's
peace; to let the words of my mouth
and the meditations of my heart and,
in the end, the work of my hands, be
pleasing. This is what I wanted to say
to you today.
"Thank you. God bless you." ❑
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Americans, I'm very disappointed at
what has transpired, primarily the
long time frame during which the
President asserted one thing and now
it turns out to be untrue."
Gilda Jacobs (D), running for state
representative in the 35th District,
said, "I think it's a black page in
Clinton's history. I wish this never
happened. "I think he's a great presi-
dent but he has some great flaws."
Against his impeachment, "whether
or not he resigns is up to him. He
needs to do a lot of soul-searching
over this. The real victims are his fam-
ily, and Monica and her family."
Doug Ross, who made an unsuc-
cessful bid as the Democratic nominee
for governor, said, "I don't think any-
one disputes what he did was wrong.
It appears that most Americans want
the President censured, and then get
on with the business of the country. I
agree with that belief. Impeachment
will consume at least six months' rime,
and there's too many other issues that
require a fully functioning president."
"At this point, I think impeach-
ment and resignation cause more dis-
ruption. We need to get on to the
business of this country," he said.
Ross managed Clinton's primary
campaign in 1992, and served as
Assistant Secretary of Labor until the
fall of 1995.
U.S. Rep. Sander Levin (D-Royal
Oak) could not be reached for corn-
ment.
State Rep. Burton Leland (D), rep-
resentative in the state's 13th District
and running for a 5th District state
Senate seat, declined comment.
Jerome Kaufman, president of the
Zionist Organization of America-
Detroit District, said if Clinton were a
"true patriot" he would resign.
"It's too bad it's gone as far as it
did. Now that it's become a total
media frenzy, I'm afraid it will con-
sume the presidency. I think if
Clinton has any respect for the office,
he'll resign, simply because the presi-
dency — the office itself— has
become virtually functionless, simply
because all the attention will be placed
on this sex scandal rather than on the
far more important business that con-
sumes the nation."
Bob Aronson, executive vice presi-
dent of the Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit, could not be
reached for comment
Penny Blumenstein, incoming pres-
ident of the Federation, Sharona
Shapiro, Michigan area director of the
American Jewish Committee, David
Gad-Harf, Jewish Community
Council of Metropolitan Detroit exec-
utive director, and Don Cohen, direc-
tor of the Anti-Defamation
League/Michigan, all declined com-
ment.
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