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with his hateful speech and 
growing number of followers, 
including rappers and the 
Women’
s March’
s Tamika 
Mallory. 
In May of this year, the 
Philadelphia branch of the 
Muslim American Society 
(MAS) had an event where 
young children from a MAS 
school sang and read poetry 
about killing Jews. 
Then, there is the BDS 
movement on college 
campuses, which speaks to 
anti-Zionism, which, in reality, 
is anti-Semitism as its goal 
is the destruction of Israel. 
Recently, Oberlin College 
students erected a memorial 
to Palestinian Islamic Jihad 
terrorists. 
Clearly, we have a bigger 
problem than just white 
supremacists. However, 
even in recent testimony to 
Congress, ADL
’
s focus was on 
only white supremacists. Why 
the silence on the breadth of 
the problem?

— Eugene Greenstein, Ph.D.

Farmington Hills

Clover Hill Grounds
With respect to the recent 
article “
A Place to Gather” 
(Nov. 28, 2019), how nice it 

was to read that both Clover 
Hill Park Cemetery and 
Congregation Shaarey Zedek 
saw fit to develop the Berman 
Shiva Center. I am sure that 
there is a need for the center 
since many family members 
come from out of town. 
According to Rabbi Aaron 
Starr of Congregation Shaarey 
Zedek, “The cemetery 
seeks to fulfill the values of 
kavod hamet (honoring the 
deceased) and nichum aveilim 
(comforting mourners) 
within the bounds of Jewish 
law.
” However, the grounds 
of the cemetery leave much 
to be desired. Many of the 
gravestones have rust water 
stains on them and are not 
properly maintained.
While my family pays to 
have our family gravestones 
cleaned, many are not taken 
care of because there is no one 
to advocate for their deceased 
love ones. The cemetery board 
bears the responsibility to 
maintain the cemetery with 
dignity. I do not find visiting 
the cemetery comforting in its 
present condition.

— Robert Stoler

Farmington Hills

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