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agree with their entire agenda, you
are not considered a good feminist; Sophie Ellman-
Golan and
it feels like they are railing against
Linda Sarsour
men and oppressiveness by men,
but I think they’re being oppressive at Kabbalat
Shabbat ser-
to women.”
vices.
Canvasser, a nursery school
assistant at Temple Israel, said she
found Sarsour’s past comments
about Zionism’s incompatibility
with feminism offensive, but “this
is bigger than that. We have to pro-
tect our children, our reproductive
rights, our health care and more.
It’s so much bigger than ourselves.”
“There’s a groundswell of activism, of
Diane Orley of Bloomfield Hills,
women’s voices” over issues that are
who attended the first day of the con-
interconnected — women’s reproduc-
vention, agreed.
tive choices, affordable health care
“In the back of my mind, I know
and funding for children’s health pro-
that she did support BDS. But you
grams — “all of which are under attack
know, there is a much bigger picture
by the current administration.”
going on. That’s a different subject,
Added Halprin, a social worker,
a different place. This woman has
“I
need
to be empowered. I need to
apparently done a lot of great things. I
know
that
women are being empow-
wasn’t going to not go because of that,”
ered.
I
need
for my sons to know there
she said.
is
a
world
for
them.”
What bothered Orley more was the
Sue
Simon,
chairperson of the
high ticket price — $300 for three days
Courts
Matter
— Michigan project
— which limited the number of peo-
for the National Council of Jewish
ple who could attend (Ellman-Golan
Women, Greater Detroit section,
said a third of the attendees qualified
for a scholarship that reduced the cost helped to run a workshop at the con-
vention on influencing appointments
of the event).
to federal judgeships.
“It left me with a bad taste,” Orley
“If you look at the headlines about
said. “It wasn’t inclusive because of the
immigration
and you see what’s hap-
ticket price.”
pening
in
our
Chaldean community,
Nor was the convention “earth shat-
you realize how important judgeships
tering,” she added.
are to maintaining civil liberties in our
“I think it’s preaching to the choir.
country,” said Simon, a retired teacher
Everyone seemed very passionate in
from West Bloomfield.
there, but what did they walk away
Photographer Joan (Altman) Roth,
with? That’s what I’m interested in;
75,
came to Michigan from New York
what did we walk away with that will
a
few
days before the convention to
make a difference in the midterm
see
Hillary
Clinton in Ann Arbor. Roth
elections? I didn’t walk out with any
grew up in Detroit in the 1940s and
tools I could use personally to influ-
1950s, noticing very little outside of
ence the outcome of the midterms,”
her “bubble,” she said. She graduated
said Orley, 57, a supporter of Planned
from Mumford High.
Parenthood.
She said the Women’s Convention
Carole Caplan of Ann Arbor, who
was
a “real move forward for a new
joined Orley for a session run by the
generation.
I need to learn from them.”
Natural Resource Defense Council,
Roth
attended
a Kabbalat Shabbat
offered a philosophical view of things.
“In a time of deep isolation and fear, service led by Rabbi Alana Alpert of
Congregation T’chiyah in Oak Park
the easy thing to do is draw inward.
and Rabbi Barat Ellman, a biblical the-
This event is about looking outward,”
ology professor at Fordham University
she said.
in New York City and the mother of
Caplan, who operates an organic
Sophie Ellman-Golan.
farm, said she liked Sarsour’s call for
The room turned out to be too
“unity, not uniformity,” because, “We
small
to comfortably accommodate
may not agree on every issue but
everyone who wanted to join, but for
we as a group know things need to
those who found a seat and those who
change.”
stood, the chanting and the drum-
Nina Robb and Miriam Halprin,
ming were soothing after a full day of
both of Bloomfield Township,
rousing calls to action.
spent three days at the convention.
A few minutes into the service,
They were at the Women’s March
Sarsour
walked in. A siddur was
in Washington a day after Donald
handed
to
her and she, like everyone,
Trump’s inauguration.
fell quiet.
“We didn’t want it to be a one-day
The kosher meals on a table in the
thing,” said Robb, a former emergency
back?
Ellman-Golan said Sarsour
room doctor who recently opened a
had
them
ordered in case anyone
medical marijuana certification clinic
•
needed
one.
in Southfield called Integrity Medicine.

