 SEPTEMBER 12 • 2019 | 11

online comments

Readers reacted to the story 
“Anti-Israel Resolution 
Rejected in Ann Arbor,” 
published online at 
thejewishnews.com.

Marvin Sonne: Well, 
common sense prevails. 
AM ISRAEL CHAI: LONG 
LIVE ISRAEL

Daniel Kerin: WAKE UP
, 
AMERICAN JEWRY! 
#walkaway #neveragain 

Alex Bensky: And why should 
a city council be spending its 
time on this?

Irwin William Davis: It 
should never have been 
brought up.

Frances Swoish: Disgusting 
to think that there was an 
anti-Israel resolution in the 
first place.

Ellen VanSlyke: Thank God. 
These are bullies trying to 
force their world view. They 
have no experience and no real 
knowledge base.

Readers also had thoughts on 
“Take on Hate Rally Supports 
End of Hateful Rhetoric,” 
published on thejewishnews.
com.

Jonathan Schwartz: Unfortun-
ately, Congresswoman Dingell 
doesn’
t have a problem with 
the racist BDS movement. 

Eric Weiss: Tlaib is a rabid 
anti-Semite who supports 
BDS, which would render 
Israel unable to defend itself 
against its genocidal neighbors. 
Inviting her to speak is no 
different from inviting David 
Duke.

The JN welcomes comments online 
at thejewishnews.com. Letters can 
be sent to letters@renmedia.us.

you be willing to pick up 
a weapon and defend your 
country?” My Aunt Sveta, 
who had the most acute 
sense of humor in the family, 
laughed in response. She 
was lucky, however, and was 
granted citizenship after all. 
Jimmy was not so lucky; our 
system of immigration killed 
him.
Jimmy’
s story is just one, 
from our decades-long 
dysfunctional and increasingly 
inhumane immigration 
system. However, his life’
s 
worth cannot be measured. 
Moreover, immigration 
status does not affect the 
reality that each life is 
created “b’
tzelem Elohim,” in 
God’
s image, and, therefore, 
demands treatment of respect 
and dignity. So, last month, 
Jews gathered all over the 

country in commemoration 
of Tisha b’
Av and a call 
for action from T’
ruah: A 
Rabbinic Call for Human 
Rights, to protest the many 
inhumane dysfunctions of 
our immigration system. A 
week later we gathered at 
the Holocaust Memorial 
Center to mourn and call for 
humanity. 
I pray that we keep this up 
and wonder what it will take 
for us to continue to gather 
with people of conscience 
from every political party, 
religion and ethnicity to 
create humane immigration 
reform. 

Rabbi Moshe Givental is a local cli-
mate activist and works alongside 
clergy of all faiths and other com-
munity leaders on behalf on social 
justice.

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