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Hebrew Day School of Ann Arbor

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honoring
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Power Of Pickling
My brother, his best friend and I are all
members of the Suddenly Sauer pickle
club and we're all big fans ("Preserving
The Earth," Jan. 20, page 16).
Blair Nosan's success with the Detroit-
based artisanal fermented pickle busi-
ness Suddenly Sauer is so exciting to
me not only because I get to enjoy her
delicious pickled vegetables, but also
because it's inspiring to see she has dis-
covered work that is both enjoyable and
an expression of her values about com-
munity and the environment.
Most of us find lots of reasons why we
don't live in Detroit, why we buy most
of our food at the grocery store, why we
need to eat whatever is convenient. It's
great to have Blair showing us that its
possible to live and eat in a way that is
more sustainable, healthy and locally
mindful (not to mention, creative; her
hot head cauliflower is my favorite prod-
uct.)
Thanks for publicizing Blair's awe-
some efforts.

Jennifer Bass, Class of 2012

University of Michigan Medical School

Ann Arbor

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36th Anniversary Co-Chairs

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36th Anniversary Honorary Co-Chairs

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United We Walked
For the 17th time, I had the great honor
to take part in United We Walk, which
is at the center of the West Bloomfield
annual celebration of the Martin Luther
King Jr. Day commemoration.
Despite the big chill, we all walked in
unity and great harmony — a sea of
diversity, people of all ages and of myri-
ad religions and ethnic groups, girls and
women with with hijabs, the traditional
Muslim headcovering, alongside boys
and men wearing kippot.
After the mile walk along Orchard
Lake Road, which for about an hour
on Jan. 16 became a human mall, there
was the inspiring program at the West
Bloomfield High School auditorium.
It included the presentation of the
Community Leadership Award given
to Clara Bohrer, director of the West
Bloomfield Public Library.
Earlier, the library was granted the
2010 National Medal for Museum and
Library Service, which was presented by
First Lady Michelle Obama in the White
House.
Each year, as I participate in United
We Walk, which I regard as a sacred rite
of winter, I am reminded anew of how
blessed I am to be living in a community
where diversity and harmonious co-
existence are the name of the game.

Rachel Kapen

West Bloomfield

Deadline: February 22nd

6 January 27 2011

The Pollard Issue
To its credit, the IN has kept its readers
informed on the Pollard case for the
past 25 years (Roundup, Jan. 13, page
8). Recall when Jonathan Pollard did
plead guilty to the charge of spying for
Israel, the U.S. government promised not
to seek the maximum penalty under the
law — a promise quickly broken.
When Pollard appealed his life sen-
tence, the appellate court ruled 2-1
against him. Appellate Judge Steven
Williams, in the minority opinion, called
Pollard's punishment "a fundamental
miscarriage of justice:' In contrast, Judge
Ruth Ginsburg, who now sits on the
Supreme Court, cast the deciding vote,
supporting the government position.
Fast forward to 1998, to the Wye
Agreement. It was then Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu believed,
during the negotiations, he had a verbal
agreement with President Clinton to
commute Pollard's life sentence. That, it
turned out, was a mistake.
Fast forward to the present. During
recent "peace negotiations" between
Israel and the Palestinian Authority,
initiated by President Obama, the con-
tentious issue of the "settlement freeze"
arose. Prime Minister Netanyahu stated
he would agree to continue the "freeze"
if President O'oama would agree in
writing to commute Pollard's life sen-
tence. President Obama refused.
By making his request public, via an
open letter, the prime minister ensures
the Pollard issue will persist, impacting
the peace process further and perhaps,
as a result, the next presidential election.
For some, the politics of "hope and
change,' so evident in the last presidential
election, seem to ring hollow, do they not?

Irving Warshawsky

West Bloomfield

Correction
• In "Working On Water" (Jan. 20, page
28), the photo was incorrectly cropped
and the caption incomplete. Shown at
the 2005 dedication of the Grand Water
Research Institute at the Technion in
Haifa are donor Stephen Grand, then-
Technion President Professor Yitzhak
Apeloig and then-GWRI Director
Raphael Semiat.

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