Letters More Brands More Inspiration You'll find everything you need, including great prices. Check Out Our New Showrooms All in one spot. Shelby Twp. and Birmingham Make your next kitchen or bathroom project a success! Explore our new Shelby Township and Birmingham showrooms for: • Thousands of kitchen and bathroom products • Hundreds of designer and exclusive brands 'LIMITED TIME ONLY. SEE STORE FOR DETAILS. a Unique interactive and hands-on displays • Advice from design professionals • Answers from the most Get details and directions at knowledgeable sales team in the business WittockKitchenandBath.com Wittock Kitchen and Bath PLUMBING HEATING and MECHANICAL A Diwsion of Standard Electna Company Birmingham (248) 283-8400 Gaylord Imlay City Shelby Township (586) 731-4111 Want to get the JN online? Not a print subscriber? Get your issue now! IT'S EASY! Deanna Tachna Birmingham Being More Inquisitive I read Robert Sklar's Editor's Letter "Presbyterians Regroup" (July 22, page 5) and, of course, I agree with it. But I think he, and pretty much all of our Jewish leaders, are missing a very, very major point that I wish would always be raised. Like almost every organization, country, group and individual that criticizes Israel, yet is not anti- Semitic, the never-asked questions should be: "What other countries do you treat the same way? Gee, what's the difference between Israel and all the other countries?" So have any of our Jewish lead- ers asked the Presbyterian leaders: "I understand your concern for Palestinian Christians and I would like to know what your church is ■ ns .111111 0 OUNINI1111 NOM. P. OW 11.1.1•40. .111/0441 14114M10 1.1114111. rorasav se:177.* iFC Get your ePaper subscription today by visiting djn.pressmart.com 1567320 8 August 5 • 2010 Peters Strong On Israel I read the IN letter "Stand With Israel," praising certain members of Congress for their work to sup- port Israel in the wake of the Gaza- Flotilla incident (July 22, page 8). I was stunned the letter did not include my U.S. representative, Gary Peters, D-Bloomfield Township. While I am not a very partisan person (I consider myself an independent for the most part), I want everyone in the Jewish and pro-Israel communities to know what he has been doing for Israel since he took office. Peters has been an amazing nationally recognized champion for the State of Israel and has visited the Holy Land several times. He rejected the Goldstone Report, advocated and sponsored legislation to sanc- tion Iran and has condemned the administration and the international community for incessantly rushing to judgment to criticize Israel before reviewing the facts. Beyond all of that, however, Peters responded with a strong statement immediately after the Gaza-Flotilla incident and soon after, wrote a let- ter to the president about supporting Israel. Peters' bipartisan letter had 338 signatures of congressmen on it — more than any other letter to the White House in history. Gary Peters' support for Israel is greatly appreci- ated; I hope everyone has taken note. doing about legal discrimination against Christians in Pakistan? My understanding is that many, many Christians have been killed by the police in that country and that it is illegal for a Christian in Pakistan to even use the words 'Muhammad' or `Islam' and things of that nature Or, "What position has your church taken on the slaughter of black African Christians by Muslims in the Sudan?" "Oh, and by the way, Pakistan is also a huge recipient of U.S. for- eign aid, an excuse always given to explain the extraordinary scrutiny that is always given to Israel (even though, since Camp David, Egypt gets the same amount of foreign aid, actively harasses its Christian population, yet is almost never even spoken of)." Shouldn't I be able to rely on Jewish leaders to be a bit less accommodat- ing and a bit more aggressive when questioning people who are "not anti- Semitic:' but just coincidentally pick out the only Jewish country in the world for extra scrutiny? Joe Zaffern Southfield Lori's Inspiration Thank you for publishing writer Harry Kirsbaum's beautiful obitu- ary on Lori Haber Buckfire ("Lori Saw The Good In People July 29, page 66). I never met Lori, but after reading the article, I believe that I do know this wonderful person. She was a very extraordinary woman in a way that most people might not hear about. While she fought her disease for the last six years bravely, she contin- ued to make the world a little better. I only hope that we try much harder as a society to eradicate cancer in her memory as well as all of the oth- ers that we have lost to cancer, espe- cially ovarian cancer. Harvey Bronstein Southfield Correction • Last week's cover story "United By Cancer" (July 29, page 39) should have indicated it was written by spe- cial writer Judy Berne.