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he was the girl I studied in high school.”
high school.
We talked on the phone
In every class we had
often. Even then I could feel
together, I’d look at her and
the warmth of her voice.
wonder how it would
She became ill.
be to have hamburg-
The surgeon said he
ers with her at Art’s
fixed the problem. Now
Tuxedo Junction.
she had to rest and one
Sharing an order of
day before long she
fries. Dipping into
could go home.
ketchup. Marveling
I reached over the
that I was with such a
railing of her hospital
grand person.
bed and held her hand. I
Norman Prady
What it would be
kissed her fingertips. We
like to hold her hand
talked about the things
while seeing a movie
people talk about 65
at the Avalon.
years after they graduate
I wanted so much to call
from high school. Much about
her for a date. But I somehow
continuing the friendship
didn’t feel worthy of her. I’d
we’d come to 65 years after we
look at her. Never spoke to her. graduated.
Just studied her.
She went home. Briefly. New
Time clicked on. Plans being pain. Back to the hospital.
made for the 65-year reunion
Never again back home.
of our graduating classes. I
I hear that a stage of grief is
wrote a story for the Jewish
anger. I’m angry that so com-
News naming people I remem-
pellingly wonderful a person
bered from Central High. She
was denied more life. I’m angry
was on the list. Kathleen Klein. that the connection we’d finally
Later, Kathleen Kanners.
made after 65 years was so cru-
At the party, she sought me
elly severed.
out and came to say hello. Her
I’m doing all I can to manage
voice was soft and warm. Her
my grief.
smile reassuring. I still didn’t
It’s very difficult.
feel worthy. But I stumbled out,
She was the girl I studied in
“Maybe we could have lunch
high school. •
one day.”
We had lunch one day a
Norman Prady of Berkley is a writer
number of days. We had dinner whose work has been published at
together.
several Detroit dailies, Hour Detroit
magazine, Crain’s Detroit Business, the
She said she’d like to read
Christian Science Monitor and the New
one of the books I’ve written. I
York Times Syndicate, among others.
gave her one. I inscribed it “To
His novels and story collections are
Kathleen, the girl I studied in
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Evangelicals Are
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Rev. John Hagee and
Christians United for Israel
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Israel. We could not ask for
better friends.
Berl Falbaum, in the Jewish
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attacked the Christian min-
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from the Obama campaign of
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in Jerusalem and, of course,
President Trump.
John Hagee is no anti-
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since Menachim Begin. He
has given millions of dol-
lars through his ministries
to Israel and has supported
numerous Jewish causes,
especially tourism. On many
trips to Israel — and I have
made more than 50 — I see
more buses from his groups
than any other organization,
including Jewish tourists.
The reverend’s remarks of
decades ago would have been
Falbaum
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Kudos to Eugene Greenstein
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Berl Falbaum in his commen-
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ping evangelicals.
Even though evangelicals
are extremely supportive of
Israel and friendly to Jews,
Falbaum has a problem with
them because they believe
that Jesus is their savior and
salvation. Compare that to
Muslim extremists who want
to subjugate and kill Jews and
other non-believers, who are
forbidden by the Koran to
take Jews for friends and who
aim to destroy Israel. Where is
his outrage regarding that?
Falbaum calls Trump mor-
ally bankrupt but gives no
evidence. Is the amorality
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