 SEPTEMBER 17 • 2020 | 13

to be their rabbi year-round, 
one weekend a month.
Come visit us!

—Rabbi Arnie Sleutelberg 

Traverse City

Don’
t Take Sides
I’
ve subscribed to the JN for 
over 25 years, and it’
s becom-
ing more clear to me that not 
only is the paper leftist but 
looks like it’
s now going out of 
its way to prove it. Whatever 
happened to reporting on the 
Jewish events and ideas going 
on in the Detroit community? 
The article about the JN and 
the post office stood out to 
make two points. One is that 
it’
s Donald Trump’
s fault that 
the paper may arrive late, and 
two: an excuse should the JN 
mail out late. I recall a handful 
of times that my paper arrived 
late or I never got it, but now 
there’
s an easy excuse out.
Back to the political issue. 
I’
ve run a business all my 
adult life and always had a 
policy to never put a political 
sign outside my door. When 

asked, I answered, “It’
s not 
store policy,
” because even if 
I agree with the candidate or 
issue, I know there are always 
two sides and half my cus-
tomers will be pro and half 
will be against. I don’
t want 
to offend my customers and 
possibly lose some because I 
don’
t agree with their political 
stance. Nonprofits also have 
the same policy.
So why should the paper 
take a political side? Should 
it want to try to please all its 
customers? I hope one day 
the JN can go back to its roots 
and focus on the news of the 
Jewish community. Even if the 
paper’
s writers and producers 
do take a political side, please 
don’
t show it in the paper.

—Gil Stebbins

Southfield

CORRECTION
In “Detroit-Made Fresh Salsa 
is Back” (Sept. 3, Page 45), 
it should have said that Dan 
Aronson and Jack Page are 
brothers, not stepbrothers.

Eib tzu shul ich can nisht gayn
Ich vel daven doe alayn.
 If you daven mit kavana
 You’
ll be heard on Rosh Hashanah
Got vel hear you eer vet zayn.

Eib tzu shul — if to synagogue
ich can nisht gayn — I cannot go
Ich vel daven — I will pray
doe alayn — here alone
daven mit kavana — pray with intention
Got vel — God will
eer vet zayn — you will see.

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