44 | NOVEMBER 5 • 2020 

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.

