10 April 18 • 2019 jn views accepting Putin’ s statement that Russia didn’ t interfere in the 2016 election, after having just been told by 17 American intelligence agencies that Russia did interfere … Dayenu — surely this should have been enough to show Trump’ s allegiance! His immigration numbers obsession and his despicable policy of separating children from their parents, many of whom will never be reunited again! Dayenu — this action has to be enough! Recently Trump’ s harangues voicing his dislike of John McCain (deceased seven months ago) a war hero and ultimate patriot (while Trump never served in the armed service due to “bone spurs”). Dayenu — surely this outra- geous behavior should be enough! If all this is not enough, what could be? Ron Lowy West Bloomfield How to Spot a Jew-Hater A leading right-wing national weekly newspaper in Poland recently published an article on its front page, “How to recognize a Jew. ” The Tylko Polska ran the story that recognizing a Jew involves “ names, anthropological features, expressions, appearances, character traits, methods of operation” and “ dis- information activities” that might mark a Jewish person. “How to defeat them?” the headline added. “This cannot go on. ” Nowadays, Jews all over the world have a much more urgent task: How to spot Jew-haters. Every day, there is evidence of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic words and actions in Europe and in the United States. There are so many exam- ples, including a photo shared over the internet of a Ruth Bader Ginsburg post- er in Brooklyn with a swastika covering her face and the words, “Die, Jew bitch!” On the same day, Norway’ s Attorney General ruled that Norwegian rapper Kaveh’ s exclamation, “F*** Jews, ” in front of families with children at a food fes- tival, “ could be understood as criticism of Israel, targeting the state of Israel and showing dissatisfaction with its policies. ” Ten days earlier, a float in a Belgium carnival paraded two caricatures of Orthodox Jews with large crooked noses and suitcases of money, as if this were just some funny innocent cartoon. The New York Times, often guilty of reports and essays blatantly critical of Israel, just published “ Anti-Semitism is Back, From the Left, Right and Islamist Extremes, ” (Patrick Kingsley, April 4, 2019). “ Anti-Semitism has become a sec- tion of today’ s political Venn diagram, ” Kingsley writes, “where the far right can intersect with parts of the far left, Europe’ s radical Islamist fringe and even politicians from American’ s two main parties. ” One of those politicians, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, questioned American Jews’ allegiance to the United States and said that Jewish organizations like AIPAC were buying Jewish support, tweeting, “It’ s all about the Benjamins, baby. ” The Democratic Party offering mild criticism/enabling of Omar is similar to the Republican Party quietly criticizing President Trump’ s defense of some white nationalists as “very fine people, ” many of whom chanted “Jews will not replace us. ” As Kingsley writes, “bigots have seem- ingly become more brazen, creating a climate that has made anti-Semitism far more permissible and dangerous. ” I have never seen so much blatant anti-Semitism in my 62 years of life. Yet, it often seems so ordinary and common that I begin to wonder, what can I do about it? We need to keep our eyes and ears open to Jew-haters everywhere, whether it’ s in the guise of poisonous BDS sup- porters, politicians questioning the legit- imacy of Israel or universities enabling blatant prejudice against Israel. It’ s easy to forget that extreme criticism of Israel is more than just politics … it can turn into swearing against Jews or essays about how to spot Jews and defeat us. We cannot stay quiet, naïve or apa- thetic. Accepting Jew-hatred as normal and the way it’ s always been is the first step toward accepting a terrible fate that should never be tolerated. We used to proudly say, “Never again!” We should never accept anything that could lead to the tragic words of “well, here we go again. ” Arnie Goldman Farmington Hills Correction Shirlee Wyman-Harris took photographs for articles on Charles Silow and the Program for Holocaust- Survivors and Families/Jewish Senior annual benefit on March 28 and April 4, respectively. Yiddish Limerick PESACH Di shtub azay Pesachdik, di tzimern will shine Der tish azay shain mit di glezlakh of vine. Mir essn un trinken, the Haggadah we read Mir zingen di zmiros, ich bin hayzerik un mid. It’ s Pesach, mein Pesach, so please kum arayn. Di shtub - the house Azay Pesachdik - So Pesach ready Di tzimern - the rooms Der tish azay shain - the table so beautiful Mit di glezlakh of vine - with the little glasses of wine Mir essn un trinken - we eat and we drink Mir zingen di zmiros- we sing the hymns Ich bin hayzerik un mid - I am hoarse and tired Kum arayn - come inside. By Rachel Kapen continued from page 5