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Oh Brother, It's a Mixed Bag

ur gratitude to actor Charlie Sheen, who thankfully
eclipsed us in the attention-getting department after
March's issue hit the street. We felt the pushback and have
published a sampling for your reading pleasure. That's not
to say it was all bad; and, we are contemplating giving away
a vial of tiger blood with every new paid subscription to Red
Thread, should that come to pass. Thanks and keep writing in.

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E mail: editorial@redthreadmagazine.com

EVEN GIANTS START SMALL
RE: "Meet the Man ..." (March 2011)
Harry Kirsbaum wrote an interesting
profile about strip club owner Alan Mar-
kowitz. But Alan has another claim to fame:
working at Sol & Zygie's Mobil, the former
gas station on 10 Mile
Road at Greenfield in
Southfield. My dad
and uncle, Zygie and
Sol Allweiss, pro-
vided first jobs for
many young people in
our community. An-
other alum is journalist
Ken Fireman, now an
editor with Bloomberg
Business News.

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HELP IS THERE FOR THE ASKING

RE: Letter to the Editor (March 2011)
I am responding to the letter from Dani
Gillman-Glickfeld [in reference to the Day
Schools and Turf Wars portion of the Editor's
Letter, February 2011], the mom who hopes
her daughter who has special needs will
be able to attend a Jewish day school but
worries that lack of supports may not make
it the right fit for her.
I wonder if she is aware of JARC's School
Inclusion program, which has provided
supports to 50 students with autism and
various developmental disabilities in day
schools since its inception in 1999.
We are currently providing compre-
hensive supports to 15 students in five
Jewish day schools. With proper support,
a child with a disability can be successfully
included in the classroom with his or her
peers. In collaboration with parents, school
administrators, teachers and consultants,
JARC's School Inclusion coordinator devel-
ops and implements a plan of action for
every student.
This allows each child to develop social
and academic skills at his or her own pace
while remaining a vital member of the class.
Families with a child in the program are
asked to contribute to the cost of the sup-
ports on a sliding scale basis, but the vast
majority of the cost is paid by JARC through
private fundraising.
Unfortunately, we cannot serve all the
families who are on our waiting list because
of funding. However, with increased finan-
cial support from our community, JARC will
be able to continue offering — and even
expand — vital services to children and
their families and reach out to parents to
make their dreams of full day school inclu-
sion a reality.

— Laurel Berger, MSW, Director of JARC's
Harris Children and Family Division

OUR BAD:

In the feature "Meet the Man Who Women

Want, etc: (March 2011), we inadvertently
wrote that Alan Markovitz's father, Max, had
passed away. We are pleased to report that,
in fact, the elder Mr. Markovitz is alive and
well, and enjoying the Florida sunshine; we
regret the error.

"The reports of my death are greatly
exaggerated."
— Mark Twain

DISCRETION WOULD BE NICE
RE: The March 2011 Issue
As a rabbi, a young Jewish professional
and a former (college) magazine editor, I
loved the first few issues of Red Thread. I was
impressed by the diversity of content, the
edgy, hip feel and the production. It seemed
like the perfect publication to hook young
adults who are still finding their place in the
Jewish community. .
—.-
The current issue, however, deeply
troubled me. It had three pieces that were
degrading to women, corrosive to men and
demeaning of marriage and marital fidelity.
The article on the strip club magnate was en-
tertaining, and even though I am convinced
that strip clubs are guilty of each of those
offenses, I would not have written you had
this article been published in isolation.
But the Man on the Street column was
also entirely about lap dances and strip
clubs, again casting a gratuitous spotlight
on the objectifying of women. This pattern is
disturbing.
Worst of all was the feature titled "Single
Men and the Married Women They Know ...
Biblically!" It glamorized casual, adulterous
sex. Strip clubs may argue that they are busi-
ness ventures involving consenting adults —
though I still believe they are objectionable
— but the behavior glorified in the Single
Men column was hurtful, becauseinfidelity
often destroys marriages.
The values expressed in these pieces are
utterly antithetical to Jewish values. Jewish
Detroit really does need Red Thread, and Red
Thread needs to be hip and edgy, pushing
the margins of the conventional. But it is pos-
sible to be edgy and unconventional without
paying apparent respect to misogyny and
family-destroying infidelity.

— Rabbi Jonathan Berger,
Rabbi-in-Residence, Hillel Day School,
Rabbi, B'nai Israel Synagogue

RE: The Februry and March 2011 Issues
Last month when I got my Jewish News, I
read the Red Thread, which was stapled in-
side. I was appalled at the contents: one story
about juicy farts, another about being peed
upon [inadvertendly by a dog on a balcony].
These stories belong on the playground
or an alley, not in the _Jewish News — childish
dirty humor not worthy of a religious paper.
This month, Red Thread devoted an entire
page to a notorious thug. Was this a reward
for his full-page advertising? He admired his
fathers "b*Ils.""1 don't take any sh"-t." He refers
to his establishments as "t*tty bars."
Shame on the Jewish News for printing
such utter crap. Please note my e-mail is
rabbi tears. How apropos!

— rabbitears63, via e-mail,
name and residence unknown

Editor's Response: RT's Mailbag policy
requires emailed submissions to include
the author's name and city of residence.
However, we also believe it necessary to
include all points of view — and made
an exception here.
Secondly, neither Red Thread nor its
sister publication, the Jewish News, are
"religious" periodicals. Both cover issues
affecting Detroit's Jewish community
but are published by a secular media
company; it is a critical distinction.

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