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he Detroit chapter of the
Society of Professional
Journalists held its 2018
Excellence in Journalism Awards
banquet April 18 in Troy, and Jewish
News contributors walked away with
several honors.
During the event, Walter
Middlebrook, former assistant man-
aging editor of the Detroit News, and
Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press
columnist, were presented with life-
time achievement awards. Robert
Snell of the Detroit News was named
Journalist of the Year, and Hasan
Dudar of the Detroit Free Press was
named Young Journalist of the Year.
Three scholarships were awarded to
rising college student journalists.
The banquet also lauded the best
journalism produced the prior year

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by local media. For the first time,
the JN was competing against larger
daily newspapers: the Detroit News,
Oakland Press and Macomb Daily.
Despite the tough competition, the
JN collected seven awards.
JN Contributing Writer Alan
Muskovitz won first-place honors
for his monthly column, beating out
Ingrid Jacques and Nolan Finley of
the Detroit News. “Witty and funny,
these columns were a welcome
reprieve from the daily grind of poli-
tics in 2017,” said the judges. Alan did
his best Sally Field impression to his
colleagues. “You like me. You really
like me!” he said to the table after he
received the award.
JN Contributing Writer Stacy
Gittleman took first place in the
Feature Story category for her

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experts talking over each other during
ired of all the crazy news mak-
ing headlines today? You haven’t a one-hour program. The new rule
also prohibits consecutive programs
seen nothin’ yet!
from talking about the same topics ad
Let’s jump ahead 1,000 years to see
nauseam.
what 3017 has in store for us in a fea-
Meanwhile, grocery shoppers
ture I call Tomorrow’s News
have reason to celebrate. The
Today.
National Grocers Association
It took centuries of nego-
has announced that by 3018 it
tiating, but Democrats
will be mandatory for all super-
and Republicans have
market produce departments to
finally agreed to a bipartisan
offer plastic bags that take less
healthcare bill that will pro-
than two minutes to open.
vide inexpensive coverage to
Back to political news … After
everyone — except if you’re
being cryogenically frozen for
a politician; which under the Alan Muskovitz
the last 900-plus years, Hillary
new law is considered a pre-
Clinton was thawed out today,
existing condition.
And in an ironic turn
where upon she announced
of events, on the same
she’ll run for president in 3020.
day the new healthcare
Her opponents are already mak-
ing Hillary’s age an issue, claiming
plan was unveiled, the Federal Drug
the former senator will be 1,069 years
Administration rocked the world of
medicine by announcing the immedi-
old in October. But Clinton’s camp
maintains that a defrosted Hillary is
ate availability of a cheap, super drug
that researchers say will prevent and
“technically” the same age as the day
she was frozen.
cure every known medical malady,
Asked if her husband, Bill, will also
thus eliminating the need for health-
care. Go figure!
be thawed, Mrs. Clinton reminded
the press that “Bill was not cryogeni-
Meanwhile, the FDA added that the
cally frozen but, quite the contrary,
new super drug could conceivably
allow people to live forever. Upon hear- is actually residing in a much hotter
location.”
ing that news, lawmakers amended
the one-day-old 3017 healthcare pro-
By coincidence, a cryogenically
frozen Prince Charles has also been
gram to allow children to stay on their
thawed. However, upon awakening,
parent’s insurance until they turn 826.
In other government news … The
“the man who would be king” had
Federal Communications Commission another “meltdown” of sorts when
has issued a new regulation limit-
he learned that his mother, Queen
Elizabeth, was still alive and well and
ing news shows to a maximum of 30

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on the throne; which is a Guinness
World Record in two categories.
In consumer news … There were
celebrations across the country today
as people who have lost one shoe on a
highway over the past 50 years learned
they will be reunited with their miss-
ing shoe. Kudos to the world’s shoe
manufacturers who began implanting
identification chips in their footwear
over a half century ago, but only
today activated the technology. Gym
shoe, work boot and flip-flop wearers
from coast to coast have been seen
hopping up and down on one foot in
celebration. Though the big news was
little consolation for those millions of
Americans who are still missing one
sock.
Finally, in the biggest space news
since the moon landing, NASA has
confirmed the arrival of our first visi-
tors from outer space. The flying sau-
cer, which landed in Roswell, N.M., was
greeted by thousands of nerdy UFO
researchers screaming “I told you so!”
The interplanetary guests announced
their primary mission was to bring
Donald Trump back to his home
planet. (Hey, don’t forget I did a Hillary
joke earlier.)
That’s Tomorrow’s News Today. And
remember, you can’t spell “Alien” with-
out “Al.” •

Alan Muskovitz is a writer, voice-over/acting tal-
ent, speaker, emcee and a regular guest host
on the Mitch Albom Show on WJR AM 760.
Visit his website at laughwithbigal.com and
“Like” Al on Facebook.

Coming Out Of Egypt

Amidst the sight of the filled-to-the-
rim Elijah’s cup, a Passover Seder tra-
dition, the sweet sound of the young-
est child asking the Four Questions,
and the singing of the beautiful and
spirited hymns of the Hagaddah,
another seder must be remembered, a
seder that never had a chance.
It was on seder night of 1943 that
the Warsaw Ghetto uprising began,
to become known as the ultimate in
human struggle for freedom and dig-
nity. But, unlike the Hebrews, the for-
mer slaves under the great leadership
of Moses, the heroic fighters of the
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising could not
hope for freedom, not even for mere
survival. For them, the redemption of
Jewish honor, so outrageously tram-

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Lori Lutz, Detroit Jews for Justice, holds up a sign bearing a quote from Exodus at an anti-deportation protest on June 21
ahead of the ACLU lawsuit aimed to slow the deportation procedures of Iraqi Christians living in Metro Detroit.

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“I’m now a single mom with five
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pled by the Nazis, was good enough
reason to fight to the bitter end, as
they surely did.
Among the readings we do during
the seder, the festive celebratory meal
during the first two nights of the eight
days of the Passover celebration, there
is a powerful statement we all say in
unison: In every generation, a person
should regard himself as if he person-
ally came out of Egypt.
I regard this declaration as the
most important among the various
Hagaddah readings. It tells us that we
do not only celebrate the exodus from
slavery to freedom of our ancestors,
the Hebrew slaves. It tells us that we
should celebrate the redemption from
all the other Egypts each one of us
has suffered.

Indeed, the festival of Passover is
not only the Jews the world over cel-
ebrating the exodus from Egypt so
many years ago. It is a celebration for
all us, no matter what our religion or
ethnicity. We all have our own Egypts,
now more than ever, to celebrate our
exodus from.

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of David Freidman as ambassador
to Israel, the moral stature of Sen.
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hen news broke on June 11 of the Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE) roundup of 114 Iraqi
Christian immigrants with fears of deportation,
the phones at the Jewish Community Relations Council/AJC
lit up. Executive Director David Kurzmann said his agency
received fearful calls from rabbis and other leaders in the
Jewish community asking what they could do to help.
“As soon as the arrests happened, we received dozens of
phone calls asking how to support our Chaldean neighbors,”
Kurzmann said during a phone interview and again reiter-
ated at a June 21 anti-deportation rally held outside the U.S.
District Court Clerk’s office in Detroit.
“As Jews, it is very distressing to hear about this,” he said.
“We recently commemorated the anniversary of the return
of the St. Louis to [Europe], where Jews seeking refuge in this

Jewish community
stands together
with Chaldeans
over deportation
issue.

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PHOTOGRAPHER

country were turned away and sent back to their deaths. The U.S. risks
repeating this same dark mistake. The Jewish community knows the
tragic consequences of shutting down pathways to safety for people in
harm’s way. We must not let this happen again. ‘Never Again’ is as appli-
cable today as it has ever been.”
On June 21, U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith listened to a class-
action lawsuit filed by area attorneys and the American Civil Liberties
Union designed to postpone deportations to Iraq, where Christians
have faced brutal persecution, torture and death in recent years
because of the rise of ISIS. Goldsmith concluded the detainees would
not be deported to Iraq until at least June 28.
Inside and outside the courthouse, and in the days leading up to the
filing of the lawsuit, Jews and other ethnic minority groups reached
out to the Chaldeans with legal, moral and social support. But until the
deportation ruling is appealed or reversed with reopening of individual

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