6 | JUNE 30 • 2022
1942 - 2022
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PURELY COMMENTARY
Israel is Now Fully Open
to Volunteers for Israel
International travel is much easier as
most Israel and USA exit and entry
requirements have ended.
You can now return to Israel and get
back onto those IDF bases that have
been starved for our help.
Since 1982, thousands of VFI
volunteers have worked arm-in-arm
with IDF soldiers boosting morale,
saving the armed forces money, freeing
soldiers up to do important work and
more.
Volunteer experiences have
consistently offered untold personal
satisfaction and sincere appreciation
for missions well done.
If you have been putting off your
Volunteers for Israel/Sar-el experience,
then now is the time to start your
planning by visiting vfi-usa.org.
For additional information, contact
Carol Kent or Ed Kohl at (248) 420-
3729, michigan@vfi-usa.org or visit
vfi-usa.org.
— Ed Kohl
West Bloomfield
Remembering
Sen. Carl Levin
The beautiful article in memory of
Sen. Carl Levin (June 16, page 22)
who served our state of Michigan for
36 years, a most meaningful number
in Judaism, meaning double life, albeit
a bit overdue. Yet as the adage goes:
better late than never.
My own encounter with Sen.
Levin was extremely short, no more
than a few minutes, yet it was quite
memorable and worth sharing.
It was a few years ago when the
two of us happened to exit together
the Henry Ford Hospital in West
Bloomfield, when suddenly the swivel
door stopped with the two of us the
only two people there. We looked
at one another, I knew who he was
whereas he didn’t know that I was
Rachel Kapen whose claim to fame was
writing Yiddish limericks in the Detroit
Jewish News. Yet he said to me: “I must
have done something wrong.” To which
I replied: “No, you didn’t do anything
wrong.”
In a couple of minutes, it was all over,
and we both went our own ways. This
was one of these instances that I wished
I had said something else, but it was
too late.
Often, when I exit this door, I think
of this short encounter, which was
indeed short yet significant. In a time
when many politicians are in a hurry to
blame others for their own misdeeds,
this politician took responsibility for
something that was not his doing in the
least. Sen. Levin was a great politician
and even a greater mensch.
— Rachel Kapen
West Bloomfield
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