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1942 - 2019

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I did learn that I’
m capable of 
being shamefully superficial, so 
at least I did get some insight 
into my soul.
A few days after Yom 
Kippur, I was telling a Muslim 
friend about the holiday and 
how I spent the day fasting 
(I didn’
t tell him I’
m the “Ice 
Man”). I was boasting about 
my self-discipline and how 
going without food for one 
day isn’
t easy but that we do it 
because of our religious con-
victions. He smiled politely and 
reminded me that every year, 
during Ramadan, Muslims fast 
all day for 30 days, and only eat 
after sunset. 
“No water, no nothing,” he 
said.
“Oh yeah, that’
s right.” I nod-
ded, realizing that I had just 
been fairly one-upped.
But I bet he doesn’
t get to 
eat kugel and seven-layer cake 
each night. 

Mark Jacobs is the AIPAC Michigan 
chair 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.

Jacobs from page 5
guest column

One Year Aft
 er Pittsburgh
L

ast October, the world 
watched in horror as an 
armed gunman, fueled 
by hatred, opened fire inside 
Pittsburgh’
s Tree of Life 
Synagogue. He murdered 11 
worshippers and wounded 
many more. Earlier this 
month, High 
Holidays 
services for 
many Jewish 
families began 
with new 
announcements 
and instructions 
about how 
congregants 
should exit the synagogue 
in the event of a similar 
emergency. Local police 
departments stationed 
officers outside many of 
these houses of worship, 
acknowledging the very real 
threats these congregations 
face. 
 On Oct. 27, as Pittsburgh 
families are observing the 
first yahrzeit of friends 
and families lost in this 
senseless act of violence, our 
nation must reflect on the 
deadliest attack on the Jewish 

community in the history of 
the United States. 
Sadly, the threat of 
violence inspired by anti-
Semitism is all too familiar 
to Jewish communities in 
Michigan and across the 
country. Earlier this month, 
as families gathered to mark 
the first night of Sukkot, a 
Grand Rapids synagogue 
was vandalized with anti-
Semitic posters including 
white supremacist logos and 
a photo of Adolf Hitler. From 
bomb threats called on Jewish 
community centers and day 
schools — to the massacre at 
Tree of Life and the attack six 
months later at the Chabad 
of Poway (Calif.) — Jewish 
institutions have long been 
the target of domestic 
terrorism. 
The hate behind these 
attacks is not the only threat 
of this kind our nation faces. 
In recent years, we have also 
seen white supremacists 
burn mosques and churches, 
run down protestors in 
Charlottesville and shoot 
churchgoers in Charleston.
All Michiganders 

deserves to feel safe in their 
community. But tragically, 
as these threats and attacks 
on religious and racial 
minorities continue to rise in 
the United States, they leave 
communities in Michigan 
and across the country 
living with the reality that 
their houses of worship 
and community centers are 
potential targets for domestic 
terrorists.
As Ranking Member of the 
Senate Homeland Security 
Committee, I’
m working to 
help religious institutions 
and nonprofit organizations 
access the resources they 
need to invest in their 
security and keep their 
communities safe.
Earlier this year, I joined 
with my colleague Sen. 
Rob Portman, R-Ohio, to 
introduce the Protecting 
Faith-Based and Nonprofit 
Organizations from Terrorism 
Act. Our bipartisan bill, 
which advanced in the 
Senate earlier this year, 
increases authorized funding 
to $75 million annually 
for nonprofits and faith-

Sen. Gary 
Peters

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