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Eib ich zitz or eib ich shtay
Dos undzer rabbi has to say.
And oy, ich vil shayn essn
But hob ich shayn fargessn?
Dos iz Yom Kipper, friends, today.
Eib ich zitz — if I sit
eib ich shtay — if I stand
Dos undzer rabbi — This our rabbi
ich vil shayn essn — I want to eat already
hob ich shayn fargessn — did I forget already
Dos iz Yom Kipper — It is Yom Kippur
— Rachel Kapen
JN Should Discuss
Fascism
The loudest voice in our Detroit
Jewish community is the Jewish
News. I hope you will consider
focusing an upcoming issue on
fascism.
Fascism and its distortions
have deep roots in America.
Racism and white privilege
still run deep in this country.
America has a long fascist past.
Interestingly, our American
story was carefully studied
85 years ago by the National
Socialist German Workers'
Party. The American treatment
of Black people in this country
helped school those in Germany.
The threat of fascism, its dis-
tortion of reality and its conspir-
atorial fantasies live here today
and with members of our Jewish
community. That is why the
Jewish News must raise its voice.
There is a part of today's
Jewish society that has lost
the ability to connect with our
recent tragic history of just
85 years ago. They are willing
to trade their personal values
for a better embassy address
in Jerusalem and, even more
shamefully, for a lower income
tax rate.
I believe it's critical for every-
one's future that leaders like the
Jewish News shine a light of this
dark thinking which presents as
2020 fascism.
The manipulations of a fascist
voice must be countered with
history that cannot be denied,
and especially by Jews. Our
community needs to be remind-
ed of that twisted history that is
"fact" — not alternative fact. To
do otherwise denies the reality
of the Shoah.
— Irwin Danto
West Bloomfield
letters
CORRECTION: Last week’s issue listed the name of Rachel
Kapen’s latest book of poems incorrectly. The correct title is
“מרובעים חיים” and the book is now available on Amazon.
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