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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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