> letter to the editor

Dear Facebook Friends:

am speaking out on a very sensitive subject. This
I'm sorry to break your streak of happy-go-lucky
is a result of my life experiences. If it makes you
vacation pictures and inspirational quotes, but I
feel better, get rid of our friendship, don't talk to
need to break something down, and now.
me, let others know what you think about me,
I am sure I am not the only one. And I didn't
whatever you need to do. Just know you are not
think I would do this here.
helping the situation.
I am tired of being hated. I am tired of know-
If you want to talk, please; those who know me
ing — not just thinking — that there are people
know I love to listen. There are too many facets of
out there who want me dead for the
this situation for just one post.
simple reason that I am Jewish. I am
Bias is a terrible thing — it makes us
tired of the Holocaust being denied;
angry when others don't understand,
that's where my grandparents' fam-
even though true understanding seems
ily perished. I am tired of war and I
impossible nowadays. I am so sorry for
am tired of intolerance. I am tired of
the violence in this world; war is never
rockets being fired upon my family and
the answer.
friends. I am tired of synagogues being
To my Palestinian, Muslim and Arabic
shot at and peaceful protesters being
friends: I am so sorry you are misrepre-
Noah Kra sman
beaten.
sented. It is not fair. I always have had,
This is greater than the current
have and always will have open arms
Israeli-Gazan conflict that the media
and ears. I am sorry there is tension.
purges to the public 24/7. I see that people are
There shouldn't be. Our society dictates that we
being killed, and it kills me. There's no way to
must take sides. It is what fuels this war. I am
describe how tragic it is.
angry and so are you. I try so hard not to be. I am
But I will not watch this wave of anti-Semitism
sure you do, too.
fly by as other conflicts infect our human race
I am sorry for the madness. I am sorry for the
with not nearly the same caliber of media atten-
brutality. I am sorry for those who have lost loved
tion.
ones.
I am not uninformed and I am not radical, nor
But I am not sorry to be Jewish. @
ignorant nor isolated. But I am Jewish and I am
proud of it, and I am upset that hatred exists.
Noah Krasman, Farmington Hills, Sophomore,
If you do not like this, I am not sorry. I realize I
University of Michigan

JNF Breakfast Features
Professor's Talk On Israel
The Jewish National Fund Michigan
Community Breakfast will be held
Sunday, Sept. 14, at Young Israel of Oak
Park.
Jonathan Adelman will speak on
"Israel Among the Nations: Israeli
Relations With Its Neighbors and
Other World Powers:' Adelman is a
professor at the Josef Korbel School of

International Studies at the University
of Denver.
Registration is at 9:30 a.m., and the
program is 10-11 a.m. There is no
cost to attend. Dietary laws observed.
Breakfast co-chairs are Steve Katz and
Milt Neuman.
Register at jnf.org/mibfast or (248)
324-3080 by Sept. 2. For information,
contact Marissa Schiff, campaign exec-
utive, Midwest, at mschiff@jnf.org .

Israel Advocacy

Allan Gale of the Detroit Jewish Community Relations Council leads a mid-August
session on Israel advocacy with Israeli and American counselors at Camp Tamarack
in Ortonville.

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