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Yes On Bonds
We are proud parents of students cur-
rently attending or recently graduated
from West Bloomfield Schools. Over the
years, we feel the school district has
provided a top-quality education and
amazing academic and extracurricular
opportunities to all students.
On Tuesday, May 5, West Bloomfield
School District voters will be asked to
approve a bond proposal. Even if you
do not have children attending West
Bloomfield public schools, it is impor-
tant that you vote "yes" for this bond
proposal as it affects the heart and soul
of West Bloomfield — our children
and our schools.
The bond proposal will help the
school district make essential improve-
ments and upgrades to its facilities
with no increase to your property-tax
millage rate based on estimated 2009
taxable values. As community mem-
bers, we should all want to keep our
property values up and ensure that our
community is desirable to-businesses
and future families.
So prase vote "yes" on Tuesday,
May 5, and join us in supporting West
Bloomfield Schools. As we all know, the
bottom line is that good schools are the
heart of thriving communities!
extreme emotions. White supremacists
and radical hate groups use their sym-
bols as part of their cultural armor
to decorate their bodies and separate
themselves from the general public and
to get a rise from other people. They
revel in reactions. These tattoos and
icons can convey tremendous meaning
and significance in a compact immedi-
ate and recognizable form. Hate sym-
bols instill fear and insecurity.
The Anti-Defamation League under-
stands the devastating power of hate
symbols. As the most respected private
authority on extremism and domestic
terrorism, ADL understands that good
information is crucial in the fight
against hate. We should never ignore
hatred, bias and bigotry. At every
opportunity, we must bring this igno-
rance out into the open and decry its
existence.
Whether we see swastikas or nooses
or the KKK written on rocks or paper
or cars, we must come together and
be ready to act against this kind of
hatred. Only when we are vigilant and
responsive and looking out for each
other can we become a caring commu-
nity of peace and humanity. When one
person is attacked we are all victims.
Betsy S. Kellman, regional director
Randi Berman Sakwa
Anti-Defamation League
Sandy Zoldan Colvin
Southfield
souls of anyone they can reach.
And Sam ... you write beautifully!
Janice Tracht
West Bloomfield
Biidging Detroit, Ann Arbor
I read with interest your Publisher's
Notebook "Bridging Detroit And
Ann Arbor" (April 16, page A5). As
president of Ann Arbor's Beth Israel
Congregation, I found your suggestion
of holding "Torah and Tailgate" events
at Beth Israel most interesting.
Beth Israel holds Shabbat services at
9:30 a.m. every Shabbat, regardless of
whether there is a game at Michigan
Stadium that day. Metro Detroiters and
anyone else in Ann Arbor for a foot-
ball game or even just to pickup their
children's laundry, are always welcome
to attend.
If kickoff takes place before kiddush
is finished, you can usually tell how
Michigan is doing by whether you can
hear the cheers from the stadium as
you leave our building.
We look forward to seeing Detroit
Jewish News readers this fall. Please feel
free to introduce yourself to me, Rabbi
Robert Dobrusin or Rabbi Blumenthal
at kiddush.
Haran Rashes, president
West Bloomfield
Power Of Words
The Anti-Defamation League is a 96-
year-old civil rights agency that fights
hatred and bigotry and fights all forms
of prejudice and discrimination. It
is particularly poignant that we take
notice of anti-Semitism this week
with the backdrop of Durban II and
the celebration of Yom HaShoah, the
Holocaust Remembrance Day (April
21).
As you may know, there was an
instance of vandalism and desecra-
tion of property that occurred on April
16, a few blocks from the University
of Michigan law school in Ann
Arbor. Several of the cars that were
damaged were emblazoned with swas-
tikas and foul language and the word
"Jews" used as an epithet.
Words and symbols are power-
ful weapons, particularly to provoke
Beth Israel Congregation
Ann Arbor
Soul Touching
In 1997, I was part of the staff that
accompanied 60 Detroit-area teenag-
ers on the March of the Living. It was
a profoundly life-changing event for
me, filled with moments of awe at the
height and the depth that my soul was
touched.
Twelve years later, another spark of
awe ... Sam Ginglas's article "Carrying
On The Legacy" (Teen2Teen, April 2009,
page B1).
Yes, Sam, we must all remember, and
much responsibility for this lies on
the shoulders of the third generation.
Our Jewish community needs to get
behind local teen Anna Eisenberg and
support her efforts to establish Third
Generation.In that way, these grand-
children and great-grandchildren have
a vehicle to put their youthful energies
and talents into programs that contin-
ue to educate, enlighten and touch the
Corrections
• In "A Native Daughter" (April 23, page
Al2), Tel Aviv native Rachel Kapen, now
of West Bloomfield, is shown in Kikar
London (now Gan HaAtzmaut) near the
beach in Tel Aviv, 1949.
• The photo cap-
tion in "Heroes Of
Warsaw" (April 23,
page A17), should
have stated that it
is Shirley Benyas
of West Bloomfield
who is leading the
group in song.
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April 130 2009