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8 | OCTOBER 24 • 2019
1942 - 2019
Covering and Connecting
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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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