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Rejecting Hate Is
A Two-Way Street
I’d like to comment on two items
in the Jan. 21 JN: “Mother Slain In
Her Home, In Front Of Children”
(page 28) and Brenda Rosenberg’s
commentary “Standing Against
Hate: Jewish organizations’ mes-
sages rejecting hate are brought
to the Muslim community” (page
49).
“Standing Against Hate” states,
“We have the power to create
change. We must come together,
stand together and, most impor-
tantly, take action together.”
I would like to know if, just
as the 10 Jewish organizations
spoke out against anti-Muslim
discrimination, there are likewise
10 Muslim organizations that
condemn the attacks on Jewish
students at the University of
Michigan (see the Jan. 7 letter to
the editor “U-M Owes Pro-Israel
Student An Apology” on page 5)
and the dastardly murder of an
Israeli “Mother Slain in Her Home,
In Front of Her Children.”
We will be able to “come togeth-
er, stand together” and get along
better when we face and actively
“reject hate” — the real-time chal-
lenges of Jew-hatred existing right
now.
Ed Kohl
West Bloomfield
8 February 11 • 2016
FEBRUARY
In February, mir hobn* 28 teg** or 29.
Eib ir hot gekumen*** on 28, you will
be fine.
Ober eib**** in 29 you came in here,
Dahyn geburstog***** will some
times disappear.
But yung oder alt****** the same ir
velt zahyn.*******
* mir hobn — we have
** teg — days
*** Eib ir hot gekumen — if you
came
**** Ober eib — but if
***** Dahyn geburstog — your
birthday
****** yung oder alt — young or old
******* ir velt zahyn — you will be.
— Rachel Kapen