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14 Detroit Jewish News
ther), when he came to this country,
he helped lead a strike."
"Was he a socialist?" Odier-Fink
wondered.
"Hah," his father roared. "You
couldn't even say the word. He just
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wanted more money.
Odier-Fink laughs heartily when he
tells the story.
Judaism's commandments guide
Odier-Fink. "Judaism is a religion of
action," he said. "What makes some-
one a good Jew is taking action on
these commandments (tenets of
Judaism)." He said gemilut chesedim,
acts of loving kindness, should be cen-
tral to our life.
. Odier-Fink's upper-middle-class
upbringing insulated him from want
but highlighted class disparities. He
recalled a Brooklyn housing project
that made it clear "there were people
who lived like that, and then there
were people who lived like me. "
He talks about himself in self-dep-
recating ways. "I'm a little skinny
Jewish kid from Brooklyn. I've got
these tattoos" — they peek out
beneath his short-sleeved shirt — "and
I intimidate people a little bit."
That amuses him, and he sees it as
a useful negotiating tool.
This summer, he plans to return to
New York City and hunt for a job while
he finishes his doctorate. In view of the
tight academic labor market, a job as a
labor negotiator is attractive to him.
For now, it's back to preparing his
thesis proposal (he wants to research
the role of nationalism in the U.S.
labor movement), and helping his wife
apply to law schools.
He'll miss Ann Arbor, he said. It
was the place I came back to
Judaism. It was the place my wife
came to embrace Judaism. That's
going to be very hard to leave." I I
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