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JN Takes
Consistent Stand
I commend Robert Sklar’s essay “Resolved:
U.N. Vote Undercuts Israel” (Jan. 12, page
6). From his essay, we learn the contents
of U.N. Security Council Resolution 2334
and the views of the Detroit Jewish News, in
general, and of Mr. Sklar, in particular.
The JN, he writes, “ has never wavered
in its belief that Jerusalem must stay
united.”
In an age where there is so much fear
of not being politically correct, the JN has
staked out a consistent view on this mat-
ter even if in the eyes of some it was not
politically correct to do so.
The JN is to be commended for this
consistent position regarding Jerusalem.
Mr. Sklar concludes his essay with, “In
abstaining from the resolution, the
Obama administration unequivocally
undermined Israel.”
In the Talmud, it is written “whoever
has it within his/her power to protest but
who does not do so will be punished for
it.” Thank God we live in a free country
where we are protected by our govern-
ment even when truth is spoken in the
face of government’s power.
Rabbi Herbert Yoskowitz
Adat Shalom Synagogue
Farmington Hills
Obama’s
Punishment
Of Israel
I agree wholeheartedly with Robert
Sklar’s excellent essay, “Resolved: U.N.
Vote Undercuts Israel” (Jan. 12, page
6). But Sklar goes too easy on Barack
Obama and John Kerry.
Obama, who won the majority of
Jewish votes in 2008 and 2012, didn’t
just “unequivocally undermine Israel.”
He overturned 40 years of United States
policy to dramatically damage Israel.
Arnie Goldman
Farmington Hills
Where Are The
Torah-Observant?
I was very much looking forward to
reading about “36 Under 36,” until I saw
that not one single member of the Torah-
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Legal scholar Alan Dershowitz, who was
promised by President Obama that he’d
always have Israel’s back, said, “I didn’t
realize that what he meant was that he’d
have [Israel’s] back to stab them in the
back.”
Even the Simon Wiesenthal Center
announced the Obama administration’s
decision to abstain on the U.N. Security
Council resolution condemning Israeli
settlements as the No. 1 worst global
anti-Semitic/anti-Israel incident of
2016, even topping anti-Semite Richard
Spencer’s questioning whether Jews are
“people or soulless golem.”
Maybe Obama just wanted to hurt
Netanyahu and aggravate Trump. But
what he and his gutless team of Kerry
and Samantha Powers did was enable
more Palestinian terrorism, and push
Israel and Trump to fight back against
the U.N., further negating any possibility
of peace.
We have witnessed so many horrors
in the last six years from ISIS and other
terrorist organizations and have felt
the incredible devastation across the
Middle East, culminating in the destruc-
tion of Syria. Yet, this is the legacy that
Obama and Kerry wanted to leave, to
help tiny Israel become even tinier and
to give more power to Fatah and Hamas.
American Jews should not just be
disappointed but infuriated that Obama
and Kerry cared so little about saving
Syria and cared much more about pun-
ishing the only free and liberal democ-
racy in the Middle East.
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observant community was included in
your selection. How did the JN promote
these submissions? Is it possible that
the JN did not reach out to these 1,400+
families for nominations, excluding our
strong and vibrant sector? There are
numerous amazing “under 36” Torah-
observant individuals who give back on a
daily basis to our localities, state, country
and beyond.
Also, for the last several decades I have
opened the Jewish News to the contents
page for the Shabbat candle-lighting
time. Could you kindly put it back to
where it was?
Aviva Gordon
Oak Park
EDITOR’S NOTE
The JN solicited nominations for the 36
Under 36 in our paper and on our social
media for several weeks last fall. Torah-
observant people were not excluded.
All nominations were sent to an inde-
pendent panel of judges who chose our
inaugural class of 36 Under 36.
We reached out to Mrs. Gordon, who
has agreed to help us spread the word
in the Torah-observant community later
this year when we once again begin
accepting nominations for 36 Under 36.
As for the candle-lighting times, we’ve
heard you. Look for Shabbat Lights back
on this week’s table of contents.
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my guess is that JFS will need to
scratch its head, reach out to our
partners and figure out whether
Project Chessed 2.0 makes sense
or whether another solution is
better.
This situation is not unique
to Detroit, of course. Across the
country, Jewish organizations are
deeply concerned about the needs
of their communities as the politi-
cal landscape changes. In fact, we
are joining forces to meet the chal-
lenges ahead with a new organiza-
tion, the Network of Jewish Human
Service Agencies, which will ini-
tially combine some 140 members
of the Association of Jewish Family
and Children’s Agencies and the
International Association of Jewish
Vocational Services. While we know
there’s strength in numbers and a
unified voice, we cannot predict the
future.
All I know is that while Jewish
Family Service is in the middle
of the service-delivery stream,
responding to individuals’ and fami-
lies’ challenges every day, we are
surrounded by an amazingly caring
community with our Federation
in the middle of it. We are ready,
nimble and resourceful.
Whether it’s an economic down-
turn, a refugee crisis, a flood, a
housing foreclosure emergency or
repeal of the ACA, we will respond
and we will, as always, need the
Detroit Jewish community to sup-
port us. •
Perry Ohren is the CEO of Jewish Service
of Metropolitan Detroit and is on the inau-
gural Board of Directors of the Network of
Jewish Human Service Agencies, which is
launching this week.
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