1942 - 2022

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 Secretary: Robin Axelrod
 Treasurer: Max Berlin
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 Alene and Graham Landau Archivist Chair: 
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Arthur Horwitz
Founding Publisher 
 Philip Slomovitz, of blessed memory

 

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6 | NOVEMBER 17 • 2022 

MISSION STATEMENT The Detroit Jewish News will be of service to the Jewish community. The Detroit Jewish 
News will inform and educate the Jewish and general community to preserve, protect and sustain the Jewish 
people of greater Detroit and beyond, and the State of Israel.

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Detroit Jewish community, refl
 ecting the diverse views and interests of the Jewish community while advancing the 
morale and spirit of the community and advocating Jewish unity, identity and continuity.

PURELY COMMENTARY

Kudos to
Spencer Cherrin
Regarding “To The People 
Who Can Vote But Don’t, 
Shame On You” (Oct. 27, page 
10), Spencer Cherrin’s article 
would have been impressive if 
someone old enough to vote 
had written on this subject. The 
fact that it was a well written, 
thoughtful article about a most 
important issue written by a 
teenager is just wonderful. His 
parents must be so proud of 
him. 

— Judith Ancell

Via the web

‘Decision 2022’
 Thank you for your “Voter 
Guide” (Nov. 3), which I 
diligently reviewed before 
Nov. 8. I wish the Republican 
candidates for statewide 
office had responded. Your 
publication date — the week 

before Election Day — was 
both timely and traditional. As 
I began reading, two thoughts 
occurred to me.
First, the decline in 
traditional print media has 
made it harder to access 
this sort of information. 
Traditional broadcasters 
have never spent that much 
time on evenhanded analysis 
as opposed to “racehorse” 
coverage (who’s up, who’s 
down); political ads naturally 
are biased (though useful for 
telling us what candidates don’t
want to talk about); and, as for 
the internet? Misinformation, 
disinformation, exaggeration, 
the internet suffers from the 
absence of informed judgment. 
Your readers trust you to 
provide evenhanded editorial 
judgment. Would that there 
were more of you still around.
Second, this illustrates 

the problem of early 
voting. Whether by opening 
the polls early or by allowing 
at-will absentee ballots, tens of 
thousands of Michigan’s voters 
had already voted before they 
could read your Voter Guide 
or anything similar. For that 
matter, they had no idea what 
was happening over the last two 
weeks of a very volatile election 
season. 
In my opinion, that is why 
(with limited exceptions), 
Election Day should be just 
that, one day when we citizens 
collectively make known our 
preferences and choose our 
future leaders. Election Day 
should be a community event. 

— Roger H. Leemis

Southfield

letters

CORRECTION
The wrong photo was shown 
for Nancy Berman, who was 
appointed to the Commission 
for the Preservation of 
America’s Heritage Abroad 
by President Joe Biden, in last 
week’s issue (Nov. 10, page 
40).
We apologize for the error.

Nancy Berman

