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Israel Must
Defend Itself
The roots of terror and Arab attacks
upon the Jewish state of Israel go
back a long way.
Israel was founded in 1948 and has
been under attack by Arab forces
ever since. In 1948, it was Egypt,
Syria and Iraq that attacked Israel
and they were defeated.
In 1956, the closing of the Suez
Canal and Gulf of Aqaba to Israel led
to another war and another Israeli
victory; in 1967, the Six-Day War,
which Israel won; and in 1972, terror
at the Olympic games.
Next came the Yom Kippur War in
which Egypt and Syria attacked Israel
and they were again thwarted.
Now, the Palestinians are trying to
attack Israel from within. There can
be no peace if terrorist attacks con-
tinue. No country would make peace
while being attacked. Israel has a
right to defend its people, and if no
peace is reached, to go to War against
the Palestinians and defeat them.
Brian D. Seifinan, M.D.
Southeast Michigan's First Fellowship Trained
Laparoscopic Urologic Surgeon
Specializing in Adult Urology
With Special Interest in Laparoscopic, Robotic,
and Minimally-Invasive Surgery of the
Kidney and Prostate
For Appointments or Consultations:
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Rick Gladstone
Waterford
Heartbreak
Story Moving
We know
what guys
want
Quicksilver
Tony Hawk
Blue Marlin
Echo
The article written by Rabbi Carlos
Huerta, 101st Airborne Army chap-
lain, ("Heartbreak In Iraq," Aug. 1,
page 27) is heartbreaking indeed.
As I read this, tears came as the
rabbi described his findings in
Ninevah, now known as Mosul.
What a unique experience, and he
described with love and care the
ancient discoveries. It's one of the
finest articles written in the Jewish
News.
I've had it enlarged and framed
and weep at the thought of the lost
people, schools, synagogue and
cemetery.
Marita Murphy
Commerce Township
Bar-Ilan Boosts
Jewish Identity
The Editor's Notebook review of
Rabbi Baruch Yehudah Gradon's
reflections on the loss of Jewish iden-
tity even among the Israel Defense
Forces' elite soldiers obviously hit a
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Rabbi Gradon
sensitive cord ("The Fight, The
Hurt," Aug. 8, page 5).
As president of the Detroit. Friends
of Bar-Ilan University, Israel's largest
university with 30,000 students, I
would like to acknowledge Bar-Ilan's
effort in support of its commitment
of Jewish identity and Jewish educa-
tion.
Unique in the world, Bar-Ilan
requires that all of its students,
regardless of their major or religious
background, take an additional 25
percent of their course-load in Jewish
studies, be they religious or cultural
in nature. This means that while
undergraduates in Israel's other uni-
versities study approximately 20
hours weekly in their academic
courses, Bar-Ilan's students, who also
take the same 20 hours, study an
additional 3-5 hours weekly in such
subjects as Jewish history, Hebrew
literature, Bible, Talmud, Jewish phi-
losophy, archeology and Yiddish.
From a menu of 400 courses, each
student customizes the areas of
Jewish interest that are most attrac-
tive.
The university's students, 60 per-
cent of whom come from non-tradi-
tional backgrounds, study, work, do
full military service — often as offi-
cers — and contribute to the Jewish
state and to the Jewish people for
their entire professional careers. All
of this, of course, is working to
counteract the influences brought
out in the article on Rabbi Gradon
and are the values that our entire
people want to retain.
Linda Zlotoff
president,
Detroit Friends of Bar-Ilan University
Bloomfield Township