MITZVAH
2018
DAY
The tradition continues.
Tuesday, December 25
Together we will celebrate the
strength of our community.
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Select and participate in a volunteer service project
at one of many locations in metropolitan Detroit.
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Registration:
November 14 - December 20
mitzvahdaydetroit2018.eventbrite.com
Questions?
Call the Mitzvah Day Hotline:
248-642-2656 or
email: nlevine@jfmd.org
Mitzvah Day Co-chairs:
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Policy and Understanding.
• The co-chairs of the Woman’s
March, Linda Sarsour, Tamika
Mallory and Carmen Perez, support-
ers of Farrakhan, refuse to disasso-
ciate themselves from him and have
called for a “one-state solution” in
Israel, which translates to the end of
a Jewish Israel. Mallory was present
when Farrakhan referred to Jews as
“satanic,” yet she remained silent and
has never condemned him for that
remark.
• In July, a woman beat a Hispanic
man with a brick in Los Angeles
and told him to “go back to his own
country.”
Hate crimes are spiking in
America, across the board, whether
it’s anti-Semitism, racism, anti-His-
panic, anti-Arab, anti-LGBTQ and so
on. All are vile and unacceptable. No
moral code allows Jews to condemn
some instances of hate and then turn
a blind eye to others.
Farrakhan is just another Jew
hater; Jews have dealt with guys like
him for centuries. He will continue
to spout off, just as surely as it’s going
to rain again. When he does, and
when there are future words and acts
of anti-Semites (which indeed there
will be), we Jews will once again be
demanding outrage and carefully
assessing whether the non-Jewish
world is sufficiently vocal.
But in our outrage, we can remem-
ber a broader message. We can be
reminded that hate is hate in what-
ever form it appears, regardless of
whom it targets and whether that
person is black, white, red, brown
or yellow, or wearing a yarmulke, a
saree or a burka.
It’s all equally vile, unacceptable
and offensive and must be con-
demned by every single American.
Period.
Isn’t that the whole lesson of
Pittsburgh, and shouldn’t that be the
permanent focus of our new post-
Oct. 27, 2018, lens? ■
CORRECTIONS
• In a Sept. 9 Faces & Places story,
the program was the Sherrill Berman
Shofar Factory at the JCC.
• In the “No Place Like Home for
Windsor Reunion” (Nov. 1, page 34),
co-chairs Karen Rosenbaum Moness
and Amy Whiteman Shafron were
not identified correctly. Also, 375
people attended the event, which had
many sponsors, including the Freed
family.
• In “As News Spread” (Nov. 1, page
12), JN Senior Arts Consultant Gail
Zimmerman also contributed to the
report.
Mark Jacobs is the AIPAC Michigan director
for African American Outreach, a co-director
of the Coalition for Black and Jewish Unity,
a board member of the Jewish Community
Relations Council-AJC and the director
of Jewish Family Service’s Legal Referral
Committee