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exacerbate the conflict.”
Rabbi Mark Miller of Temple Beth
El in Bloomfield Township said it’s
important to distinguish between the
philosophical question of Jerusalem’s
status and the pragmatic issue of the
announcement’s ramifications.
“America is taking the moral high
ground by confirming Israel’s funda-
mental rights in the face of a hostile
world. At the same time, I am more
than wary about how the Middle
East, not to mention the rest of the
world, will react to Trump’s procla-
mation,” he said.
Ameinu, a left-wing Zionist orga-
nization, took a similar position,
saying truth and wisdom are not
synonymous.
“President Trump’s assertion that
Jerusalem is the capital of Israel is
a true statement but unnecessarily
risks violence for no tangible ben-
efit,” said Kenneth Bob, Ameinu’s
national president. He called the
move a “pointless provocation” that
undermines peace efforts.
Detroit’s Jewish Community
Relations Council/AJC said Trump’s
announcement supported Israel’s
sovereign right to choose its capital.
“It is inexplicable that countries
throughout the world have failed to
acknowledge this reality,” said David
Kurzmann, executive director of the
JCRC/AJC.
The JCRC/AJC also supports
direct negotiations between Israel
and the Palestinians toward a two-
state solution, he said. “Bilateral
negotiations remain the best route
to resolving all final-status issues.”
Howard Lupovitch, director of
the Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic
Studies at Wayne State University,
said Trump’s promise to recognize

Jerusalem was part of a much larger
and more sweeping promise: to bro-
ker a peace deal between Israel and
the Palestinians.
“If he really wants to advance the
peace process, the president will
have to tweak his promise from
‘Jerusalem’ to ‘West Jerusalem’ as the
capital of Israel, so that he can offer
east Jerusalem to the Palestinians,”
he said.
Lupovitch suspected the
announcement, coming in the week
before a critical election in Alabama,
was intended primarily for Trump’s
base of Evangelical Christians. It
also diverted attention from other
issues dogging his administration,
including an unpopular tax bill and
various criminal investigations.
Rabbi Sasson Natan of Keter
Torah Synagogue in West Bloomfield
saw mystical significance in Trump’s
move. He believes the Talmud pre-
dicted the world would end in the
year 6000. In the 222 years until then
(on the Hebrew calendar), mankind
can resolve issues to ensure peace or
start another world war.
“I really hope and pray that what
President Trump is doing is another
action to expedite the coming of the
real Messiah and the redemption of
the world,” he said.
Brent Gutmann, rabbi of Temple
Kol Ami in West Bloomfield, worries
about the announcement’s poten-
tial to divide the American Jewish
community. “We must not allow the
polarizing winds of this moment to
threaten millennia of Jewish unity.”
Rabbi Aaron Starr of Congregation
Shaarey Zedek in Southfield called on
all Jews to heed the call of Psalm 122:
“Pray for peace in Jerusalem. May all
who love this city know peace.” •