frontlines >> letters How to Send Letters We prefer letters relating to JN articles. We reserve the right to edit or reject letters. Letters of 225 words or less are considered first. Longer ones will be subject to trimming. Letter writers are limited in frequency of publication. Letters must be original and contain the name, address and title of the writer and a day phone number. Non-electronic copies must be hand signed. Send letters to the JN: 29200 Northwestern Highway, Suite 110, Southfield, MI 48034; fax (248) 304-8885; e-mail, letters@the jewishnews.com . We prefer email. Editor's Note The Jewish News has received a hand- ful of objections to some political advertisements. Please note that politi- cal advertisers have paid for the space to express their views, and the JN does not necessarily endorse the content of those ads. Who Are Our Friends And Who Are Our Enemies? What we really have to understand is that the demonization of Israel is based in Islamic anti-Semitism. Not all of the Israel bashers hate Jews, but they have a willful blindness as to why they are being led to hate Israel and only Israel when there are countries actually committing the crimes Israel is falsely accused of. One local episode that demonstrates the hatred is of Jews while claiming to be excusable "anti-Zionism" is the Aug. 8, 2008, article from the Dearborn- based Arab American News that was widely emailed throughout the Jewish community previous to the Israel at 60 celebration at the State Fair Grounds. Remember? It was called, "Detroit Jewish Federation: Celebrating racism and making money at it." The article referred to the "apartheid fair!' The local Jewish community was condemned for being wealthy, as Jews who dare to prosper have always been denounced. The vitriol ran thick and deep. That, of course, is minor compared to the increasing frequency of violent attacks against Jews around the world. It is incumbent upon us to recognize West Bloomfield Hearing On Eagle School Land Use Plan The West Bloomfield Planning Commission will hold a public hear- ing at the West Bloomfield Township Hall, 4550 Walnut Lake Road at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 14. The meet- ing will consider the "Sketch Plan and Special Land Use Amendment Approval" for the planned Muslim Cultural Center of West Bloomfield. The official township announce- ment outlines the request as "Site plan, special land use and associated storm water manage- ment plan approval to construct a 4,427.5-square-foot mosque and who our friends are as well as who our enemies are. To reach out to our enemies while treating evangelicals who support Israel with suspicion because they're part of the dreaded "Christian Right" is self-defeating. Even if members of Christians United for Israel (July 26, page 35) support Israel because they believe in an end-of- the-world theology, so what? We don't. Their religious and political beliefs and whether or not they support Israel for the "right" reasons trouble me much less than the psychopaths who run Iran, a country actively working to create that end-of-the-world scenario. It also troubles me much less than some of what I've read by local imams in our local newspapers. Harry Onickel Ferndale A Silent Memorial To Munich Olympians In a minute of silence, me and you Remembered the victims of '72. And though they said, "No!" We did behave exactly so. Because it was the right thing to do. Rachel Kapen West Bloomfield lawsuit). Further, Chabad-Lubavitch of Michigan asserts that our congregation's families "are committing trespass!' What? We are trespassing? In a build- ing we bought and paid for with our own funds at least 35 years ago? We aren't authorized to use our own prop- erty as our shul? Why do they want to take away our shul and presumably fire our rabbis? Do they think we would want to pray at a shul that they would take away from us? Do they now expect us to move to another Chabad shul? Chabad Lubavitch of Michigan is spending thousands of dollars to pay expensive lawyers and a PR firm to take away our place to pray and learn. It is imperative that we raise the funds to defend our shul. How is it that Chabad- Lubavitch of Michigan, which asks for charitable donations to serve the spiri- tual needs of the Detroit Jewish com- munity, can spend its money for such a terrible purpose? What must their donors think of this? We don't want to move. Chabad- Lubavitch of Michigan: Please do the right thing and drop this terrible law- suit. Stuart Weiss Bais Chabad: We Are Not Trespassing At Synagogue Regarding the story "Bais Chabad Torah Center Seeks Legal Fund Donations" (July 19, page 5), Chabad Lubavitch of Michigan has sued our congrega- tion asserting that we "are occupying and using the property in a manner unauthorized by Chabad-Lubavitch of Michigan" (quoting directly from the 15,239-square-foot social area/ banquet center to the existing 39,052-square-foot building, creating a 58,718.5-square-foot place of wor- ship." The facility is to be located at the northwest corner of Middlebelt and 14 Mile Road, site of the former Eagle Elementary School whose sale by the Farmington Public School (FPS)board last June raised community concerns. The current zoning of the property is R-15, Single Family Residential, which would permit the building of the mosque. The Site and Sketch Plan Application received May 14 by the township describes the project as West Bloomfield Correction: • In "On The Move" (July 26, page 28) on Jewish Senior Life, renovation of studio apartments will take place at Prentis Apartments in Oak Park, not Teitel Apartments. "adaptive reuse of existing elementary school for a mosque!' A community legal briefing will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 8, at Congregation B'nai Moshe, 6800 Drake Road, West Bloomfield. Speakers will be lawyers Richard Thompson of the Thomas More Law Center and Robert Davis, who rep- resent citizens of West Bloomfield, Farmington and Farmington Hills in legal actions objecting to the no-bid sale of Eagle School by FPS to the Islamic Cultural Association. Seating is limited. RSVP with name, phone and number attending to care4eagle@gmail.com . Ask Attorney Ken Gross about... 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