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JN ‘
Deterioration’
I am most upset by what I 
regard as the deterioration of 
the Jewish News into a social net-
work and a mortuary column.
What happened to the intel-
ligent columns of thoughtful 
Jewish ideas — political, social, 
religious? Where are we going 
as a group, a nation, a religion? 
What would Phil Slomovitz 
think of today’
s paper?

—Gerald Loomis

Farmington Hills

No Moral Equivalence
I am perturbed by the bal-
anced tone of Yael Aronoff’
s 
essay (“The Abraham Accord 
Between Israel and the UAE: 
Curb Your Enthusiasm,
” Aug. 
27, pg. 24). There is no moral 
equivalence between Israel and 
the Palestinians. Israel has made 
proposals for the establish-
ment of the first-ever-to-exist 
Arab State of Palestine, even 
ceded land. The Palestinian 
leaders, even during the brief 
periods when they have come 
to the negotiating table, have 
announced that they do not 
need to make concessions and 
that the signing of a peace treaty 
will not end the conflict. 
 The insistence that Israel 
must take in millions of 
Palestine refugees is a clear 
indication that the Palestinian 
leaders do not seek a state 
co-existing, peacefully, with the 
nation-state of the Jews. Rather, 
the Palestinian leaders want an 
Israel that has been converted 
to a Muslim-majority state in 
which Jews will be reduced to 
dhimmi status if they are toler-
ated at all.
Israel should take the stance 
that the disputed land is of reli-
gious and historic importance 
to Jews and of strategic impor-

tance to Israel. The Palestinians 
should be showing gratitude 
for Israel’
s willingness to share, 
instead of maligning Israel in 
international forums.
Sunni Arab states, wanting 
Israel’
s help in facing Iran’
s 
hegemonic threat, should do 
their part to break the deadlock 
by apologizing to the Palestine 
refugees for having kept them 
in limbo for generations, admit-
ting to them that they will not 
be given the homes they claim 
their parents, grandparents, 
great-grandparents lost in what 
is now Israel, and telling them 
they will be welcomed for 
citizenship in the Arab nation 
of their choosing; that choice 
should include any Palestinian 
state that emerges, with aid 
from Arab nations being care-
fully monitored to ensure that 
it actually goes to the people’
s 
benefit.

—Toby Block

Atlanta, GA

Traverse City Has Great
Jewish Community

The article on Bubbie’
s Bagels 
in Traverse City (Sept. 3, pg. 41) 
was beautifully done, and all the 
laudatory comments about the 
bagels are true indeed. And Sam 
is a fine addition to Traverse 
City and the Jewish community.
 There was one sentence that I 
consider erroneous. In fact, the 
Jewish community is significant 
and active. Congregation Beth 
Shalom averages more than a 
hundred attendees for holiday 
celebrations and services and 
counts 90 households as mem-
bers. I estimate at least twice 
that number of Jews live in the 
vicinity of Traverse City. The 
shul, built in 1885, has monthly 
services, a religious school and 
adult education. I am honored 

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