viewpoints » S end letters to: letters@thejewishnews.com DETROIT JEWISH NEWS continued from page 5 editorial 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. * letters 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 Letters to the Editor: We prefer letters that relate to articles in the Jewish News. We reserve the right to edit or reject letters. Brevity is encouraged. Letters published will include the name and city of residence of the writer. Letters submitted must contain the name, address, title of the writer (if applicable) and a daytime phone number. We prefer emailed letters. Please email to letters@ thejewishnews.com. (Letters sent by U.S. Postal Service must be hand-signed and mailed to the Jewish News, 29200 Northwestern Hwy., Suite 110, Southfield, MI 48034.) Funny Jewish Tweets @andylassner @shalomshuli @JewishComedians Took a puck to my eye playing hockey. It’s cut & swollen. If you know anything about Jews, you understand that I’m sure I’m going blind. You kids have it so easy these days with social media. When I was growing up, people would take the time to call me a dirty Jew to my face! Milton Berle: Anytime a person goes to a delicatessen & orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies. 6 October 27 • 2016 guest column 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. theJEWISHNEWS.com Arthur M. 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