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Letters from page 5

F. Kevin Browett

Chief Operating Officer

I choose. I carefully selected my words and
style, writing in a manner consistent with
my secular humanistic commitments while
taking care to avoid offense. If you had a
problem with this, you were free to call me
and allow me the opportunity to consider
altering or withdrawing my column. Your
decision to unilaterally modify my work
is unacceptable. It implies a fundamental
disrespect for my point of view.
By approaching rabbis from different
movements you have indicated that it is
your goal to provide readers with a spec-
trum of understandings and interpreta-
tions. If this is your objective, I suggest
that you publish solicited contributions as
written or, at the very least, discuss revi-
sions with your contributors before you
change their work

Jeffrey L. Falick

Secular Humanistic Rabbi
The Birmingham Temple Congregation

for Humanistic Judaism
Farmington Hills

Editor's note: The JN regrets misapplying its
rules of journalistic style to Rabbi Falick's
commentary. We welcome his criticism and
respect his secular humanistic point of view.

ZOA Attorney Outlines
Campus Anti-Semitism

Congratulations to the Zionist
Organization of America-Michigan
Region president Eugene Greenstein and
Sandy Rosen, chair of the Adat Shalom
Israel Advocacy Committee, for cospon-
soring attorney Susan Tuchman, direc-
tor of ZOM Center for Law and Justice.

She made an excellent presentation on
anti-Semitism on college campuses on
Wednesday evening, April 15, at Adat
Shalom Synagogue.
Ms. Tuchman began her presentation
with a segment of the video Crossing
the Line 2 showing graphic anti-Semitic
attacks on students and Israeli officials
by faculty and other students at univer-
sities across the country, including the
University of Michigan. She discussed
the inaction of college administra-
tors when Jewish students' rights were
threatened compared to other groups
and how Title VI of the Civil Rights Act
could now be applied to protect Jewish
students due to ZOM efforts.
Dr. Greenstein noted that although
U-M has a large Jewish student body and
80 percent of its donors are Jewish, these
donors, like others at other universities,
do not typically speak up to the university
administration to counter the intimida-
tion from hard anti-Semitism and anti-
Zionism displayed by anti-Israel groups.

Ed Kohl

West Bloomfield

Corrections

• In "More Than A Centerpiece," (April
16, page 18), the photo of mother and
daughter should have been identified
as Ava Goldberg, 9, and mother, Alana
Strager.
• In the profile of Rabbi Robert
Dobrusin ("Most Inspiring," April 16,
page 12), the photo on page 14 should
have stated that it was taken at Beth
Israel Congregation in Ann Arbor.

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FULFILLMENT

W

ith Pesach now past and
Shavuot on the horizon,
here's an interesting tid-
bit of information about this feast of
unleavened bread happening where
you might not expect a Pesach seder to
take place. A plane; a submarine? No!
The correct answer is in a Michigan
prison!
In March 1942, the Detroit Jewish
News published an article on the first
kosher seder to be held in Jackson
prison. For the first time in the history
of Michigan State prisons, kosher food
was supplied to the Jewish inmates of
Jackson State penitentiary for Passover.
The prison's first Jewish chaplain,
Rabbi Joshua S. Sperka, who gained
special permission to bring in kippot
and prayer books, as well as several
kosher Passover delicacies, made this
possible.
This historic first kosher seder,

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held on April 5, 1942, was offici-
ated by Cantor Abraham Singer of
Congregation B'nai David.
So next year, when you sit down
and once again embark on the journey
that is the feast of unleavened bread,
remember that seders are taking place
all over the world in some very not-so-
common places. ❑

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