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Meals On Wheels
To The Rescue
I was recently laid up and unable to pre-
pare meals for my husband and myself.
Thanks to the Kosher Meals on Wheels
program, we have been receiving nutri-
tious and tasty meals five days a week by
courteous and dedicated volunteers. We
are so fortunate to be living in a commu-
nity where this service is available.
Congratulations to Rick Emmer and
his wonderful staff of volunteers for a
job well done.
Etta Bernard
Farmington Hills
'Adopt-A-Kaddish'
Remembers Victims
In reading the Adat Shalom Synagogue
Voice newsletter, I became aware of the
"Adopt-a-Kaddish" program in which the
synagogue is participating, run by Otto
Dube from Hebrew Memorial Chapel.
In the program, Adat Shalom families
say Kaddish on the yahrzeit of a child
who was murdered in the Holocaust and
remember that child during Yizkor.
This is a good program for the com-
munity. [Its website is www.
hebrewmemorial.org/adopt-a-kaddish.]
Phyllis Grossman
Southfield
Arab Baptist Reports
Persecution In Bethlehem
Daniel Collins, the U.S. Representative
for the Holy Land Missions, spoke on
"Persecuting Palestinian Christians:
The Untold Story" on Sunday, March 2,
p.m. at the Corners in West Bloomfield.
Mr. Collins told us about the found-
ing pastor of Holy Land Missions, Dr.
Naim Khoury, who pastors First Baptist
Church in Bethlehem, which has been
firebombed 14 times.
We learned that, as a matter of policy,
there is a pattern of unlawful killings
and unwarranted injuries of Palestinian
Christian civilians.
We learned how a conversion to
Christianity would lead to the family
ostracizing the convert and possibly
killing him.
The program was sponsored by the
Friends of Israel, the Zionist Organization
of America-MI, StandWithUs-MI, ACT!-
MI and Walk for Israel.
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Ed Kohl
West Bloomfield
Jews Are Only A Small
Percentage Of Prisoners
In "Jews Behind Bars" (March 6, page
8), Rabbi Menachem Mendel Katz is
quoted as saying "there are approxi-
mately 4,000 Jewish inmates in the
United States, comprising about 1.5
percent of the total prison population of
1.9 million!' In fact, 4,000 is only about
0.2 percent of 1.9 million.
The "core" Jewish population in
the U.S. (total of those born with at
least 1 Jewish parent or converted to
Judaism, regardless of current affilia-
tion) is approximately 2.2 percent. One
would have been surprised to learn that
approximately a similar percentage of
the incarcerated population in the U.S.
is Jewish, had the incorrect figure of 1.5
percent been true — in contradiction to
oft-stated observations that Jews in the
U.S. are disproportionately not incarcer-
ated relative to the population in general.
Joel C. Seidman, M.D.
Bloomfield Hills
Corrections
• In "New York Bagel Man" (March 6,
page 34), the name of one of the origi-
nal owners of New York Bagel, Eugene
Meznek, was omitted.
• "Wrestling's Heyday" (March 6,
page 1), incorrectly mentioned the
name of wrestler Gentleman Jim Hady.
Tick
Purim
On Purim di gantze megillah* we
read
Of King Ahashverosh and
Mordechai der Yid.**
Un sheynike*** Esther the
queen
Un Haman so hateful and
mean.
Nu ess sheyn dayn hamantash,****
tayerer***** kid.
* di gantze megillah — the whole
megillah
** der Yid the Jew
*** Un sheynike — and beautiful
**** Nu ess sheyn dayn
hamantash So, eat your
beautiful hamantash
***** Tayerer — dear
—
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Wenger, who is spending this year
as a fellow at the Frankel Institute
for Advanced Judaic Studies at the
University of Michigan, is an expert
on American Jewish history. Her
book New York Jews and the Great
Depression won the 1998 Salo Baron
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Jewish women, says Wenger, expe-
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