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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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