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JN Endorses Clinton For President
I
n only the third time since the
Atlantic’s founding in 1860,
the magazine has endorsed
a presidential candidate. In its
endorsement for Hillary Clinton in
the November issue, the editors of
the Atlantic write that Republican
candidate Donald Trump “might
be the most ostentatiously unquali-
fied major-party candidate in the
227-year history of the American
presidency.”
We agree.
The JN recommends our readers
cast their votes for Hillary Clinton
for president on Nov. 8. *
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Strong Detroit
Schools Needed
Thank you for your excellent article on the
Jewish presence in Detroit Public Schools
(Oct. 13, pages 12-19). A strong DPS is
essential to this region’s future as well as
maintaining a strong Jewish Detroit. Toward
this end, in 1998, I started the Detroit
College Promise, a nonprofit to provide
scholarships for DPS students. My goals were
to promote DPS enrollment, to motivate DPS
students to do their best and to support tax-
payer control of public K-12 schools.
Our “Jewish connection” was the com-
position of our board, the large number of
Jewish donors and the help of the Jewish
News. Recently, we merged with the DPS
Foundation, which has a greater capacity to
raise funds. I hope the Jewish community
will continue to support a taxpayer-con-
trolled DPS and will provide the same level
of parental and community support for DPS
that led to great school systems in Oak Park,
Southfield and elsewhere.
Nat Pernick
Huntington Woods
Wrong Word Choice
I don’t believe Rabbi Aaron Starr really
meant “say Kaddish for Tikkun Olam” (Oct.
13, page 20). I do believe his was a poor
choice of words. Kaddish is a significant
prayer said at a time of remembrance for
loved ones.
There are many ways of holiness. Very
few, if anyone, practices every ritual. Are
those who daven daily or twice a day holier
or more ethical than those who serve at a
soup kitchen, provide shelter for the home-
less, visit the ill, protect the weak, restore a
neglected cemetery or stand up for the rights
of others? It is a commandment from God to
take care of others and stand up for justice
for all people.
We need Torah. We need tikkun olam.
We each find our way to holiness, and we
shouldn’t say Kaddish for either.
Micki Grossman
West Bloomfield
Misleading ‘Non-
Partisan’ Panel
The Jewish community of Metro Detroit is
not a monolithic voting bloc and to represent
us as such is simply disingenuous. It is there-
fore, disturbing that the Jewish Federation,
the JCRC and the AJC co-sponsored a com-
munity forum on the presidential election
whose keynote and, in fact, sole speaker, Dr.
Ralph Nurenberger, (apart from the modera-
tor) had just donated thousands of dollars
to the Hillary Clinton campaign and is a
contributor solely to Democrat candidates.
What is even worse and shamefully unethi-
cal — going against the very tenets of honor
and integrity espoused by Judaism — is
their failure to disclose this information in
promoting what was laughably not a “non-
partisan event” at the Berman Center on
Sunday, Oct. 23.
Sylvia C. Fleshman
Farmington Hills
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but they are not victims of genocide;
they are victims of a religious civil war.
Muslim refugees can be protected using
safe zones.
ISIS, which, like Hamas, has ties to
the Muslim Brotherhood, has stated it
will infiltrate the U.S. using refugees.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s creed war-
rants dire concern. “Allah is our objec-
tive. The Prophet is our leader. The
Qur’an is our law. Jihad is our way.
Dying in the way of Allah is our highest
hope. Allahu akbar!”
A memo uncovered by the Holy Land
Foundation investigation (t he Holy Land
Foundation was a money laundering
scheme to fund the likes of Hamas,
which was investigated and brought
to trial in 2008 after an FBI investiga-
tion) states that the goal of the Muslim
Brotherhood is to “present Islam as a
civilization alternative and support the
global Islamic State wherever it is.”
Hillary Clinton supported the out-
spoken Muslim Brotherhood member
Mohamed Morsi, former president of
Egypt, during her time as secretary of
state.
While the Syrian/Middle East situ-
ation is very complex, then Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton was a major
player whose views on Libya, Iraq and
Syria had a significant impact on the
chaos that resulted in the refugees and
ISIS. Her top policy aide Jake Sullivan
credited her with the “leadership/owner-
ship/stewardship of this country’s Libya
policy from start to finish,” according to
the New York Times.
She and Syrian Ambassador Robert
Ford also convinced President Barack
Obama to declare the Syrian opposition
was “the legitimate representative of the
Syrian people.” The U.S. then secretly
funneled arms from Libya to the Syrian
opposition, which was dominated by
what eventually became ISIS. By their
actions, Clinton and Obama thus helped
to facilitate the founding of ISIS.
In short, Hillary Clinton wants to
dramatically increase the number of
Syrian refugees coming to the U.S. even
though they cannot be rigorously vetted
and even though some 13 percent of
refugees hold positive views toward ISIS;
and she has also stated she supports
open borders.
Donald Trump is for both securing
borders and the legal immigration of
well-vetted refugees because he recog-
nizes the threats coming from drugs,
crime and radical Islam. Like Former
President Bill Clinton, Trump recognizes
that American citizens and legal immi-
grants have to have priority on jobs and
benefits.
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