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corporation that operates The 
Henry Ford and its constituent 
programs and institutions, 
including the Rouge Plant 
Tour. Demanding that it “must” 
rename the museum “The 
Ford Museum” (not much of a 
pseudonym, really) is not the 
hill anyone should want to die 
on. 

— Cynthia Brody

Beverly Hills

It’
s about time someone told 
the true story of Henry Ford. 
At Yad Vashem, his name 
and exploits are prominently 
mentioned in regards to 
antisemitism. A story is written 
in the Jewish News. It seems 
to me that all the negative 
information about Mr. Ford 
is presented to predominately 
Jewish people. Somehow, the 
information in your article 
needs to be disseminated 
globally.

— Milton Dzodin 
 

Southfield

Response from Reform 
and Orthodox Rabbis
Although it is an ancient Jewish 
practice to argue and disagree 
about many points of Jewish 
law, it is also undeniable that 
we are one community united 
in our covenant with God. 
Two weeks ago, there was an 
unfortunate letter published in 
the DJN (“
Abortion and Jewish 

values,
” Aug. 6) claiming that 
Reform Judaism’
s “value system 
is the antithesis of Orthodox 
Judaism.
” As a Reform rabbi and 
an Orthodox rabbi, we could 
not disagree more.
Jews from across the religious 
spectrum read from the same 
Torah, learn from the same 
Talmud, observe the same 
holidays and do our best to put 
the same core Jewish values into 
practice. Certainly, there are 
differences in how we approach 
this, how we interpret the text 
and how we prioritize various 
elements of a vast tradition. 
But our passionate arguing 
about these differences has only 
demonstrated how unified we 
are as a people, how much we 
share the same identity. 
Nearly 20 years ago, the State 
of Israel had a campaign to help 
its citizens understand this very 
concept. You could find posters 
across the country reading 
“There is more than one way 
to be Jewish” — a celebration 
of our diversity of opinion. 
In much the same way, our 
tradition emphasizes the classic 
phrase, “
All Jews are responsible 
for one another.
”
As rabbis, we agree far more 
often than we disagree. And we 
state unequivocally that we all 
share the same system of Jewish 
values.

—Rabbi Asher Lopatin

Rabbi Mark Miller

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