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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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