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Each month, the JN will let you know the stories that 
were read most often online. If you missed any, you 
can go to thejewishnews.com and search for them by 
title. Here’
s what was most popular in October.

TOP 10 ON THE WEB 
1. Friendship Circle Buys Dakota Bread Company from 
Retiring Owners
2. 2020 Election Guide: Lorie Savin
3. Dating During a Pandemic: Local Matchmaker Has Created 
More Than 300 Successful Love Stories
4. 2020 Election Guide: Clarence Dass
5. JCC Health Club to Permanently Close 
6. Michigan Rabbi Hilariously Runs Through Ann Arbor 
Blowing the Shofar
7. Kidney Donor Found on Facebook
8. 2020 Election Guide: John James and the Jews
9. “Devastated and Heartbroken:” Detroit’
s Jewish 
Community Reacts to JCC Health Club’
s Closing
10. Jewish Economist with Detroit Roots Awarded 2020 
 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

 
TOPS ON FACEBOOK
1. Dakota Bread is Back in Business
2. Friendship Circle Buys Dakota Bread Company from 
Retiring Owners
3. Publisher’
s Notebook: A New Era Begins
4. Essay: JCC Memories
5. Danny Raskin: From Siberia to Southfield

TOP 5 ON INSTAGRAM:
1. Friendship Circle Buys Dakota Bread Company from 
Retiring Owners
2. High Schooler Creates Fancy Bakery Business While Stuck 
at Home
3. Kidney Donor Found on Facebook
4. Michigan Rabbi Hilariously Runs Through Ann Arbor 
Blowing the Shofar [VIDEO]
5. Dating During a Pandemic: Local Matchmaker Has Created 
More Than 300 Successful Love Stories

The Palestinian Authority 
grants hundreds of thousands 
of dollars to those who kill 
Israelis in terror attacks, and 
deems land sales to Jews “high 
treason,
” punishable by death. 
According to Israel’
s Ministry 
of Foreign Affairs, “1,360 
people have been killed by 
Palestinian violence and terror-
ism since September 2000.
” 
Accordingly, many Israelis 
fear that “ending the occupa-
tion” of the West Bank would 
invite a Hamas takeover of the 
territory as it did in Gaza fol-
lowing Israel’
s 2005 withdrawal, 
and with it an increased risk of 
violence toward Israelis. Such 
a situation would likely lead to 
further Israeli efforts to defend 

its citizens, thus worsening 
Palestinian life. 
The piece doesn’
t acknowl-
edge Israeli security concerns, 
likely because doing so belies 
the superficial caricaturizing of 
Israel’
s actions as unjustifiably 
militaristic and “racist.
” 
Any analysis that character-
izes this conflict as an Israeli 
Goliath mercilessly oppressing 
a Palestinian David does not 
tell the whole story. Sadly, it 
seems that Driker-Ohren and 
Witus would like acceptance of 
such a narrative to become a 
“progressive” value within the 
Jewish community. 

Zac Schildcrout is the Managing 

Editor of CAMERA on Campus and a 

Huntington Woods native. 

political rights while the other 
deserves none, and without 
the notion that Jewish security 
can only be achieved through 
force, it could not continue. 
Since in our Jewish community 
we aim to be anti-racist and 
anti-militarist, we must there-
fore withdraw our communal 
support for the Israeli occupa-
tion and instead back liberty 
and equality for all Israelis and 
Palestinians. 
 
A BETTER WORLD 
As polls repeatedly show, the 
vast majority of American Jews 
support a two-state solution. 
Studies also reveal that more 
and more of us believe that 
the end of the conflict requires 
the evacuation of Jewish-only 
settlements in the West Bank. 
All this indicates that American 
Jews wish to end the occupa-
tion. 

We know a better world is 
possible. Trailblazing Jews and 
Palestinians have already been 
laying the foundation, both in 
Metro Detroit and in Israel/
Palestine. We now challenge 
our communal institutions to 
align its policies with the will of 
American Jews. 
In July 2015, BLM co-found-
er Alicia Garza said, “We want 
to see a world where Black 
lives matter, in order for us to 
get to a world where all of our 
humanity is respected.
” Today, 
in 2020, courageous Jews and 
Palestinians are building a 
world where Palestinian lives 
matter, in order to get to a 
world in which all Israelis and 
Palestinians have the right to 
self-determination in the place 
that they call home. 

Rebecca Driker-Ohren and Zak Witus 

are members of IfNotNow Detroit. 

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MATTER from page 12

Correction
In “Young Detroiter Gains Success in Hollywood” (Nov. 5, page 
31), the high school should have been identified as Frankel 
Jewish Academy.

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