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Committee of Michigan
organized the rally.
Arbit made and brought a
sign which read “Jews Stand
with Ukraine” in English
and Hebrew. The sign gar-
nered a passionate response.
“People just kept coming
up to me, giving me hugs
and taking pictures with
my sign and saying thank
you for coming and show-
ing support,” Arbit says. “It
made me feel good as a Jew,
and I didn’t expect it, so I
was kind of taken aback by
how meaningful it was for
people.”
An older woman came up
to Arbit and told him she
lives in Kyiv and had only
recently come to visit her
son and daughter-in-law in
Detroit. The woman told
Arbit she was Jewish and
was so moved to see his sign
because her grandmother
was killed at Babi Yar during
the Holocaust.
“She broke down in tears
telling me how she fears it’s
happening again right now
in Ukraine,” Arbit says.
He said it’s hard being
a world away while caring
so much about something.
When attempting to help,
anything you do feels insuf-
ficient next to the people
who are actually on the
frontlines and bearing the
brunt of the violence, he
added. Arbit, though, said
people can’t sit idly by.
“This is something I think
really deeply impacts the
Jewish community, too. We
can’t deny the inspiration
of looking at (Ukrainian
President) Volodymyr
Zelensky, a Jewish head of
state outside of the Jewish
state, and I think there’s
something so moving about
that,” Arbit says. “These
people are fighting for their
ideals and their country.”
Arbit says attending the
rally was a manifestation of
his Jewish values, and the
entire situation is about those
values and Jewish history.
“Jews know how important
democracy is, how import-
ant self-determination is.
This is the entire struggle
for the state of Israel to be
created, and this is the exact
same struggle Ukrainians are
engaged in right now.”
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