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Date out of state) MasterCard Signature (Required) Your Name Your Address Your City - State Zip Phone from page II 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." ❑ Gift Card Message: Send the Gift Subscription to: Name DISCREET SILENCE from page 11 Address City State Zip Phone Mail to: Detroit Jewish News, P.O. Box 2267, Southfield, MI 48037-2267 Phone: (248) 354-6620 Fax: (248) 354-1210 Allow 2-3 weeks delivery of The Detroit Jewish News . 9/18 1998 12 Detroit Jewish News DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 4111 WHOM E98 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. ❑