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Kudos on Arthur Horwitz's Publisher's Notebook "In Search
Of Leadership" (July 31, page A5). This sort of concise and
specific plea does much more to promote change than all the
think tanks we put together. I certainly hope we get some
good folks serving on commissions and boards.
Thanks so much for mentioning Michigan Jewish
Conference and the Business Bridge — it's doing wonders
for a new entity. Like you, I'm hopeful Michiganians have the
abilities and desires to handle this latest financial crisis.

Jeannie Weiner

West Bloomfield

Jewish Contributions
Thanks so much for the nice mentions of Center for Michigan
in your Publisher's Notebook " In Search Of Leadership" (July
31, page A5). I thought you caught the community conversa-
tion in your office just right: The terrible void of leadership
throughout Michigan and how vital it is to fill that void with
competent, pragmatic, effective new citizen leaders. The
Jewish community has contributed more than its share in
years past; I thought your call for renewed energy was right
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August 14 • 2008

Imposing Semantics
As Americans and Jews, we owe a double debt of gratitude to
U.S. Rep. Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., for his amendment to the
2009 Intelligence Authorization Act, which won overwhelming
House passage two weeks ago.
Specifically, the amendment prohibits intelligence funding
that would be used to restrict the use, as appropriate, of such
qualifiers as "jihadist,, `jihad,""Islamist,""Islamo-facism" and
"caliphate" used by our government and intelligence commu-
nity to describe the scourge of global terrorism.
The congressional vote removes the chokehold of censor-
ship increasingly strong-armed by forces of political correct-
ness to subvert our nation's capability to identify and combat
the extremist ideologies which imperil free Western societies
and which target foremost Israel, Jews and other "infidels:'
Radical Islam is as much a threat to us today as was
Nazism. Then as now, the inspiration underpinning our ene-
mies' designs is anything but amorphous, and neither should
be our language defining the dynamics of terrorism.
If we pay attention at all to the rhetoric of the terrorists
themselves, we know that their goals are unambiguous. We
can ill afford to expunge from our national vocabulary seman-
tics that reflect unflinching realities; to do so is to whitewash
current history.
An intelligent approach to any problem demands that you
properly define it before you create a framework for solving it.
If we failed to recognize, for example that obesity contributes

to diabetes, heart disease and cancer, or that the source of
much of the drug trade emanates from Latin America and
Asia, we would be turning a blind eye to reality and sabotag-
ing our own efforts to address such problems.
If we have any hope of defeating radical Islam, we must not
be afraid to invoke terminology that accurately characterizes
it. In doing so, moreover, we will separate the peaceful practice
of Islam from its violent religious and political perversions.
Kudos to the 10 members of the Michigan Congressional
Delegation (Reps. Hoekstra, Stupak, Rogers, Knollenberg,
McCotter, Ehlers, Camp, Walberg, Miller and Upton) who
voted with the majority to support this vital protection to our
free speech and democracy.
It is most unfortunate that Reps. Levin, Kilpatrick, Conyers
and Dingell are capitulating to semantics of surrender.

Linda Stulberq

Farmington Hills

Crohn's Commitment
As we mark the 60th anniversary of the State of Israel, we
remember the committed Zionists during the early 20th
century. I would especially like to pay tribute to my maternal
great-grandfather, Lawrence Washington Crohn, who was a
staunch Zionist as well as a prominent member of the Detroit
Jewish community.
My great-grandfather was born in New York City in 1892
and was educated in the New York schools. As an adult, he
moved to Detroit, where he served as president of the Zionist
Organization of Detroit and the Hebrew Free Aid Society. He
was a member of Shaarey Zedek.
My great-grandfather believed that Jewish children needed
to be taught about Zionism and then Israel. Even in 1946, he
affirmed in an article that,"... we miss the boat by not teach-
ing at all about Palestine in a formal course' His commitment
extended to his family; his oldest son, David, made aliyah and
raised his children in Israel.

Nathan Weissler

Chevy Chase, Md.

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