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Wonderful Women
We were so pleased to read
about Lisa Lis in your Oct.
3, 2019, publication (on
page 21). She received the
Josephine S. Weiner Award
for Community Service. Her
involvement in Jewish and
women’
s activities and support
of Detroit is remarkable. As
many people know, Lisa is
the daughter of Florine Mark,
who in her own right, has
supported the above causes
over the years. Both women
are icons in our midst. Kudos
to both of them.
— Sam and Judy Weiner
Huntington Woods
Women’
s March
Still Anti-Zionist
I wonder if Emily Shire
has considered that the
Judeophobia within the
Women’
s March goes deeper
than just a few Jew haters
at the top (“The Women’
s
March,
” Oct. 10, page 8).
With their willingness to
tolerate leaders like Linda
Sarsour, Tamika Mallory and
Bob Bland, and their use of
weasel words to avoid admit-
ting anti-Semitism when
having to remove the new
anti-Semites that replaced the
old anti-Semites, they have a
problem.
Shire and other prom-
inent Jews have shown a
self-destructive willingness
to overlook anti-Zionism in
the guise of anti-Semitism as
a mere difference of opinion
in order to strike a “proper”
political stance and join causes
that have no place for Zionist
Jews. There can be no polite
debate with the International
Women’
s Strike when they
honor Rasmea Odeh. They are
toxic and Jews should strongly
protest them.
Any organization that
claims to be for human rights
or against hate while denying
Jews the right to our home-
land is dishonest and should
not be granted legitimacy. We
Jews should not be placing our
politics ahead of our Judaism.
Anti-Zionism is anti-Sem-
itism. Shire, politely asking
that Anti-Zionists be removed
from leadership positions, is
engaging in the wrong tactic.
Instead, she needs to be a
“loud, explicitly Zionist voice”
and encourage more Zionists
in the Women’
s March and
in all the other causes that
hypocritically deride Israel
and Zionism. The weak-kneed
approach has never worked
well for Jews.
— Harry Onickel
Ferndale
Correction
Val’
s Delicatessen (Oct. 17,
page 53) will be opening
in early November, not late
October as stated in the arti-
cle. Also, Val’
s correct family
name is Iz
railov.
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