OPINION Losing your Hair? SIGNS OF THE TIMES ,,,, My Moment with the Doorman TR°Y I.: Editor's Note- This exchange was relayed to us and took place between the author and the respondent. Their interaction seems to capture the economic maelstrom many Detroiters find themselves living through; it speaks to our collective experience. • LOCATION/. NON - INVASIVE, PAIN - FREE, PERMANENT SOLUTION FOR 7 hen I went to the Jewish Federation building to teach my class one recent morn- , ing, the door guard pressed the buzzer to let me in, as always. I greeted him with a friendly"hi,"and asked after his well being, as always. TAYLOR \THINNING HAIR NO DRUGS, CHEMICALS, SURGERY/ - LOCATION OR SIDE EFFECTS' LASER FDA APPROVED! s He said: "I'm doing fine on my last day of work here. Wish me well." "Oh, what's happening?" "I got hired again." "Where?" "At Ford, where I used to work. I am a designer. I got laid off six years ago. They just hired me back to supervise the people who are doing the work that I used to do. The designers are all in India, and I will manage a designer shop from here." "The design work all got shipped overseas?" "Yes, my old job got shipped overseas. The folks who held on at my job a few years longer did much better than 1. When I got laid off, the government did not think things were bad yet. I had six months of unemployment. The folks who held on a couple of years later, got two years of unemployment. They also stayed on the job long enough to learn the newest computer design program, so they got rehired before me. I got laid off before the new program came in, so I have to learn it now." "You are an automotive designer and you work at this job?" "No complaints at all. This job enabled me to keep my house." "It must have been stressful!' "No kidding." "Well, good luck in the new job." 27 — By Louis Finkelman LOUIS FINKELMAN, PH.D., is a professor at Lawrence Technological University. He earned his doctorate in Com- parative Literature from City University of New York and ordination from the rabbinical school at Yeshiva University. SPEAKERS' CORNER J-bombs Obfuscate the Issue Continued from. the preceding page However, it turns out I was influenced by half-information that doesn't hold true upon greater scrutiny. Jewish communities in various cities are, in fact, an integral part of the protests. During Yom Kippur, Jewish OWS protesters in New York held their own Kol Nidre services and sukkahs. So, the real story is how Jews are, again, at the forefront of this reform and social justice movement despite attempts by opponents to paint the protests as anti- Semitic. For example, pan the camera out a bit from the"Google: Zionists control Wall Street"sign and you'll see a smiling OWS protester holding a sign with an arrow pointing to the anti-Semite that reads "Asshole." And what about that seemingly anti- Semitic clown berating the man with the kippah? Turns out, the clown's name is Danny"Lotion Man"Cline. And while nobody really knows what lotion" Danny is selling, exactly, we do know he is a locally known self-promoter who looked at the Occupy protests and saw an opportunity to — surprise — promote himself. "Lotion Man" is a Jew who makes a fool out of himself and posts his antics online to, I suppose, show the world how outrageous he is. So, telling a fellow Jew to "go back to Israel" is ... um ... self-mocking? Playing the part of an ignoramus? I don't know. I'm not enough of a hipster to dig through the various layers of irony at work here. Here's what I do know, though. Vigilance is still necessary because there will always be fringe elements that blame Jews for any financial crisis. But, in this case (for a change), those fringe elements are being denounced and marginalized. It's a pleasant surprise, actually, since my experience with these kinds of issues on the left comes with ready-made anti-Se- mitic assumptions that have forced me, at times, to keep my distance from causes that I would otherwise believe in. The generation to which my grandfa- ther, z"I, belonged intimately knew the consequences of leaving unchallenged the age-old myth of Jewish control over the levers of money and power. That is what anti-Semitism still looks like. Occupy Wall Street and its related protests across the country does not. nv STOP HAIR LOSS TODAY! Call for a FREE consultation at 2484783633 HOWARD LOVY is a freelance writer living in Traverse City, Michigan. How to Submit an Op-Ed Article Red Thread magazine welcomes editorial submissions on any topic. 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