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Cohen, Shelli Liebman Dorfman, Louis Finkelman, Stacy Gittleman, Esther Allweiss Ingber, Barbara Lewis, Jennifer Lovy, Rabbi Jason Miller, Alan Muskovitz, Robin Schwartz, Mike Smith, Steve Stein, Julie Smith Yolles, Ashley Zlatopolsky | Advertising Sales Director of Advertising: Keith Farber kfarber@thejewishnews.com Senior Account Executive: Kathy Harvey-Mitton kmitton@thejewishnews.com | Business Office Director of Operations: Amy Gill agill@thejewishnews.com Operations Manager: Andrea Gusho agusho@thejewishnews.com Operations Assistant: Ashlee Szabo Circulation: Danielle Smith Billing Coordinator: Pamela Turner | Production By Farago & Associates Manager: Scott Drzewiecki Designers: Kelly Kosek, Kaitlyn Schoen, Deborah Schultz, Michelle Sheridan 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 letters