EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK

Remembering A Special Friend

PHIL JACOBS

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fter seven years at The Jewish
News, there are a few stories

Talmud with Akiva Principal Rabbi
Karmi Gross and other community
members.
Steve Levitz died of cancer Sunday
morning. Here I am, on a gray, cold

that I wish I had gotten
around to writing, but
for one reason or another they just
never happened.
One of those articles was actu-
ally an Editor's Notebook I want-
ed to write on a 48-year-old
Southfield man named Steve
Levitz. I wanted to follow this
spark, this dynamo, around for a
week.
He was in the business of
building. He turned the former
Congregation B'nai Moshe build-
ing in Oak Park into Bais Yaakov.
The antiquated Yeshiva Beth
Chayala and Steve Levitz: He cared about
Yehudah buildings in Southfield
every
Jew.
received new life and vitality with
his construction. There was Young
day, sitting in my home in Baltimore,
Israel of Southfield's simcha hall and
feeling as if the wind has been
the Bais Chabad Torah Center in West
knocked out of me.
Bloomfield. He even was beginning
Now, I sit in front of the computer
work on what would be the new Akiva
and I finally start writing some words
Hebrew Day School building at Beth
that I wish had been written two or
Achim.
three years ago.
I remember him vividly poring over
Everyone of us hopefully knows a
unwieldy pages oft.lueprints — wear-
group (small or large) of people who
ing reading glasses with rainbow-col-
we don't have to necessarily see or talk
ored frames, khaki pants, no socks and
to every day. As long as they are on
loafers — while walking through the
this Earth or around the corner, we
construction debris as the yeshiva gym
know that the community is in good
in
that
debris
was
was being built. It
hands, that the world is automatically
that you could see he felt at home
a better place.
because he knew he saw something
I knew this about Steve. For me, he
beautiful there.
was
one of a handful of men who
I have a similar memory of him in
made
me feel better about myself. He
those same rainbow-hued glasses,
made
me feel like a better person and
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facture and store weapons of mass
destruction. This explains why Israel is
afraid of an attack launched by Iraq
against its population.
Israel's population is highly concen-
trated along a narrow coast vulnerable
to ballistic missile attacks. Israel has
no illusions about Saddam's inten-
tions. The army keeps a close eye on
the eastern horizon to prevent a sur-
prise attack that could put the country
in a worse situation than it found
itself in during the Yom Kippur War
in 1973.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu said, "There is always
doubt as to the degree to which Sad-

dam will fulfill his commitments and,
therefore, Israel will keep its eyes open
and remain ready for every possible
situation.
This threatening atmosphere con-
firms the need for an urgent action to
prevent the Iraqis from producing an
arsenal of weapons of mass destruc-
tion.
If the West does not act now, we will
repeat the mistake that Chamberlain
made with Hitler in 1933. For this rea-
son, the removal of Saddam is the only
solution available to save the world from
a new period of demonization.
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