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For Congress,
Vote Fink
We must express dismay over the letter
urging support for U.S. Rep. Joe
Knollenberg, R-Bloomfield Hills,
because of his unwavering support for
Israel ("Rep. Knollenberg Deserves Our
Vote," Aug. 30, page 6).
Attention should be paid to his lack
of support for other issues, most
notably those related to family plan-
ning. He has consistently voted against
any funding that would benefit women
and families, both here and abroad. To
argue that all other issues are irrelevant
in view of the crisis in Israel is ridicu-
lous, particularly when the Democratic
candidate, David Fink, is equally pro-
Israel.
By all means honor Joe Knollenberg
with testimonials and tributes, but
rejoice that there's finally a highly quali-
fied candidate who is concerned about
domestic issues as well as Israel. To put
it bluntly, "Joe must go."
Edith Broida
while financed by U.S. taxpayers. This
investigation should have been under-
taken years ago.
Thankfully, we have a member of
Congress who recognizes the importance
of fighting terror on all fronts and has
the ability to use his senior status to take
meaningful action in support of these
efforts.
Thank you, Joe Knollenberg!
Marc Weinbaum
vice president,
Detroit Development Co. Inc.
Detroit
Waterford
In Search Of
A Better Life
On Sept. 11, 2001, Americans were
ripped from their collective slumber by
the barbaric actions of Islamic militants
engaged in a cultural holocaust against
the freedom-loving peoples of the world,
East and West.
Perhaps Jewish Americans were more
aware of this ongoing warfare than their
Farmington Hills gentile counterparts. Such violence has
Beverly Stone been a part of our history for decades,
West Bloomfield the very reason many of our ancestors
first escaped to the American continent.
Every mangled body and lifeless child
torn from this world by Osama bin
Laden's soul mates in Palestine, broad-
cast live via CNN, sparked yet another
thought of cousins-and friends in the
Our community owes a debt of grati-
Holy Land, parents and grandparents of
tude to U.S. Rep. Joe Knollenberg, R-
57 years past — thoughts coming from
Bloomfield Hills. He continues to be
inside our suburban citadels in the
instrumental in the U.S. and Israel's
impregnable fortress of America.
effort to fight terror.
Yet on Sept. 11, the war that has
Through his senior position on the
chased us our entire history, the war
House Foreign Operations
against the Zionists and infidels — the
Subcommittee — the subcommittee
war against the Jews — caught up with
responsible for the nearly $3 billion
us on the urban capitals of our adopted
Israel receives in security assistance each
land, and reached for the throats of our
year — the congressman was able to
American families.
secure language in the 2003 budget
We share American citizenship with
requiring an investigation of UNRWA,
our cousins from the paternal arms of
the United Nations Relief and Works
Abraham, the children of Esau. Just as
Agency, for possible complicity in fund-
we have migrated from the hostile lands
ing or abetting terrorist operations ema-
of Nazi and pogrom Europe, so have
nating from U.N.-sponsored refugee
they, the democratic Muslims and
camps.
Chaldeans, fled from the Talibanic intol-
U.S. taxpayers fund more than $100
erance of Wahadi Saudi Arabia and fun-
million per year to UNRWA, which is
damentalist Egypt, from terrorist Syria
responsible for the oversight of such
and occupied Lebanon, from an Iran
places as the Jenin refugee camp —
that cloaks them in the blackness of fear
regional headquarters for the likes of
and an Iraq that fills their vapors with
Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Al-Aqsa
poison gas.
Martyrs Brigade, and home to dozens of
Fifty-seven years ago, our children
successful homicide bombers and
were burned alive by the goose-steppers,
numerous weapons depots and factories.
by our neighbOrs in Jewadne, by the
These terrorist organizations have
Cossacks. Their children are being made
flourished for years under the watchful
to walk through the burning embers of
eye of this United Nations agency —all
their own schools by the unmasked
Knollenberg Works
For Us In Congress
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Gestapo of vice and virtue.
Each of our communities has leaders
in education, culture, the arts and poli-
tics. We each seek a better life for our
families and ourselves. The process of
assimilation came sooner for the Jewish
community, helped by those who came
before us and reached out to us in
friendship.
Now, as our cousins face the collective
rage of an attacked America; it must be
our hands that reach out in friendship
and our voices that say, "No, America.
This man is my friend."
Sanford L. Wolok
Why No Outrage
Among Arabs?
Not one Muslim cleric leader or Arab
nation has condemned the murder of
some 3,000 Americans in the Twin
Towers disaster on Sept. 11, 2001, in
New York City.
Fifteen of the 19 airplane hijackers
were born, raised and educated in
Saudi Arabia. One was from Egypt.
Arab-Americans plead for tolerance
and understanding. Seldom do you
hear them condemn the vicious anti-
Semitism so prevalent in the Arab and
Muslim world.
What stunning hypocrisy!
Charles Kaye
Southfield
Don't Forget
CMU Hillel
Your article about Michigan colleges
and their Jewish students ("The Jewish
Focus On Education," Aug. 23, page
25) gave an interesting, but incom-
plete picture of Jewish life on
Michigan college campuses.
Unfortunately, it appears that
nobody from your paper was able to
contact the Hillel-Jewish Student
Organization at Central Michigan
University. I am a Jewish student at
Central and active in CMU's Hillel,
which has a growing and active stu-
dent population.
Two years ago, when I looked at
Central as an alternative to the
University of Michigan or Michigan
State University, where it seems every-
one "had" to go, it would have been
nice to know (especially for my par-
ents) that a Jewish student population
does exist up here.
For information on the CMU
Hillel-JSO, e-mail Jason Levinson,
president, at
-
jso@cmich.edu or call (989) 774-
2635.
Bryan Hamburger
co-president,
CMU Hillel-JSO
Mount Pleasant
Make Sept. 11
A Spur To Peace
On the morning of Sept. 11, I had the
opportunity to join the mobile caravan
of religious leaders who traveled from
Fort Presbyterian Church in Detroit to
Herlong Episcopal Cathedral School in
Detroit to Hillel Day School of
Metropolitan Detroit in Farmington
Hills to the Islamic Center of America
in Dearborn.
In each location, we recited prayers of
healing and hope. In each location, the
faces of beautiful children looked to us
for guidance and reason. Sept. 11, 2001,
should and never will be forgotten. But
on this most solemn day, I was touched
by this gesture of solidarity.
The challenge is now to make Sept.
11, 2002, a new beginning: a beginning
of dialogue, of harmony, of peace.
Ann Zousmer
president,
Jewish Community Council of
Metropolitan Detroit
Bloomfield Township
Detroit Jewry Must
Be More Visible
The Detroit Lions' scheduling of an
interfaith dedication of their new stadi-
um on erev Yom Kippur was most likely,
as Temple Beth El Rabbi Daniel Syme
put it, not malicious. But it was certain-
ly not surprising. ("Jews Accidentally Are
Excluded," Staff Notebook, Sept. 13,
page 26).
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In such a racially, ethnically and reli-
giously divided metropolitan area like
ours, many minority groups seem to be
lost in the shuffle. I think this is espe-
cially true in the city of Detroit with
respect to Jewish people.
While there are a small number of
Jews living in the city proper, most live
and conduct their business and social
affairs at a considerable distance from
the city.
So many of our brethren are off the
radar screens of most metro Detroiters,
that we are not considered when events