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SOUL
OF BLESSED MEMORY
KENNETH
SHULAK, 87, of
West Bloomfield,
died Oct. 25, 2020.
He is survived
by his beloved
wife, Eve Shulak; daughter and
son-in-law, Cindy and Dan
Shulak Rome; sons, Dr. Jeffrey
Shulak, Dr. Barry Shulak and
Alan Shulak; grandchildren,
Elana (David) Rome Cutler,
Ben Rome, Sam (Chelsey)
Shulak and Will Shulak;
great-grandchild, Gabriel;
brothers, Fred Shulak, Carl
Shulak; many loving nieces,
nephews, other family mem-
bers and friends.
Mr. Shulak was the brother
of the late Corrine Schwartz.
Interment took place at
Adat Shalom Memorial
Park Cemetery in Livonia.
Contributions may be made
to any Jewish organization.
Arrangements by Dorfman
Chapel.
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CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
Dutch Chief Rabbi
Says ‘No Need’
for Churches’
Mea Culpa over
Holocaust Inaction
AMSTERDAM (JTA) —
Six Dutch churches issued
what they called an acknowl-
edgement of guilt for not hav-
ing done more to save Jews or
protest their murder during the
Holocaust.
Dutch Chief Rabbi Binyomin
Jacobs told the CIP news site
that while he “appreciates” the
gesture from the Protestant
Church of the Netherlands and
five other church bodies, it’
s
also unnecessary. “Children
needn’
t profess their parents’
guilt or take responsibility for
it,” Jacobs said.
“We failed in speaking out
and in keeping silent, in deeds
and inaction, in attitude and
thoughts,” said an Oct. 28
statement from the Protestant
Church of the Netherlands, the
second-largest church in the
country with 1.6 million mem-
ber. The statement also said the
church wishes to “acknowledge
unequivocally that the church
prepared the soil where the
seed of anti-Semitism could
grow,” Reformatorisch Dagblad
reported.
That sentiment was echoed
in a separate statement by five
other denominations.
The statements came ahead
of the Nov. 9 anniversary of the
1938 Kristallnacht pogroms.
Three-quarters of Dutch
Jewry died in the Holocaust,
the highest death rate in occu-
pied Western Europe.
Dutch
Chief Rabbi
Binyomin
Jacobs at
Westerbork
Memorial
Center, May
14, 2017.