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Rabbi Alana Alpert

For A Just Society

Detroit Jews for Justice has
presence at SEIU convention.

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ore than 3,000 people
came together in late May
at the Cobo Center for
the Service Employees International
Union (SEIU) Convention, which
occurs every four years.
The group’s vision is to work
toward a “just society where all work
is valued and all people respected;
where all families and communities
thrive; where we leave a better and
more equal world for generations to
come.”
Detroit’s Jews for Justice, led by
Rabbi Alana Alpert, shares the same
goals. Alpert was invited to give the
invocation at the event.
“It was such an honor to speak
at the event, which also included
Democratic presidential candidate
Hillary Clinton,” Alpert said. “One
reason for this honor is that Detroit
Jews for Justice has been participat-
ing in the local Fight for 15 cam-
paign, known as D15.”
SEIU members, inspired by people
in fast food who first went on strike
less than four years ago, have been
linking arms with people across the
country calling for $15 minimum
wage and a union so that every fam-
ily can succeed. As a result of the
Fight for $15, 18 million Americans
have won wage increases since 2012,
the group says.
Alpert’s remarks included a reflec-
tion on the mezuzah. “The mezuzah
is a paradox. It forces us to notice
separation and transition, and yet,
inside is the Shema — a meditation
on one-ness,” she said.
“I offered a prayer that, though
they would be dispersing soon,
members would remember the con-
nectedness of their various struggles.
That the struggle of the janitor is the
same as that of the caregiver is the
same of that as the fast-food worker.”
Jews for Justice member Andy
Levin also attended the event. “As a
Jewish boy who started organizing
nursing home workers out of college
for SEIU — it is such a thrill to have
my rabbi, the rabbi of Oak Park’s
Congregation T’chiyah, give the
invocation at the SEIU convention,”
he said.

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