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better for the sake of the vulnerable.
We must take our lessons from the few
remaining Holocaust survivors enjoying
a kosher dinner with 1,200 other Jews, all
singing "Hatikvah." Let us not be bystand-
ers as the world's horrors roll by us. We can
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November 20 • 2014

Rabbis For Human Rights'
Focus Is 'Troubling'

Rabbi Arik Ascherman of Rabbis for
Human Rights' visit to Detroit and Ann
Arbor is troubling because he speaks
for issues that many of us find troubling
and dangerous for Israel and the Jewish
people.
His group's website states "Our work
expresses the view that as Jews, we are
obligated to protest against every injus-
tice enacted against any other person, a
view based on the belief that man and
women was created in God's image. We
believe that it is our obligation to inform
the Israeli public about human rights
violations, and that it is our role to pres-
sure state institutions to fix these injus-
tices. ... Rabbis for Human Rights serves
as a shofar for the distribution of infor-
mation about human rights in Israel and

in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
..." (http://rhr. org . il/eng/ab out/ )
We recognize that Israel is not perfect,
but there is no mention of Israel's right
to live in peace, the incessant call by the
Arabs for Israel's destruction, the killing
of Jews, the Palestinian president's asser-
tion that any Palestinian state will be
"free of Jews."
We are troubled that Rabbi
Ascherman will speak to vulnerable stu-
dents, attacked daily on their campuses,
sharing his views of events, without the
context of the complex situation.
We are troubled that his opinions
will be free of dissent from an oppos-
ing speaker that would refute his
views regarding "Occupied Palestinian
Territories:' "victims of home demoli-
tion," separation wall and other matters.
We are troubled that when Israel
and Jews are being assaulted by the
Europeans, the United Nations, some
agencies of the United States govern-
ment and the Arab world — an Israeli, a
rabbi, would fan the flames of anti-Zion-
ism, anti-Semitism and Jew-hatred.

Andre Douville, West Bloomfield; Eugene
Greenstein, Farmington Hills; Ed Kohl, West
Bloomfield; Annette Meskin, Sylvan Lake;
Tim Munger, West Bloomfield; Harry Onickel,

Ferndale; Bubba Urdan, West Bloomfield

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Carl Levin, Michigan's longest
serving senator, is retiring at the end of his
current term.
Born in Detroit, Levin attended Detroit's
Central High School and graduated from
Swarthmore College and Harvard Law
School. He began his political career when
he was elected to Detroit's City Council
in 1968. In 1978, Levin was elected to the
U.S. Senate and currently chairs the Senate
Armed Services Committee. He has shown
unwavering support for America and for
Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.
During his tenure, Time Magazine
named Levin one of America's top 10 sena-
tors. He was also awarded the Franklin
and Eleanor Roosevelt Foundation's Four
Freedoms Medal. In 2014, he received the
JCC Association of North America's Frank
L. Weil Award for his long and devoted
service to the country and the values of
Jewish tradition.

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