1942 - 2022

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| Board of Directors:
Chair: Gary Torgow
Vice President: David Kramer
Secretary: Robin Axelrod
Treasurer: Max Berlin
Board members: Larry Jackier,
Jeffrey Schlussel, Mark Zausmer

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Mark Davidoff
Alene and Graham Landau Archivist Chair:
Mike Smith
Founding President & Publisher Emeritus:
Arthur Horwitz
Founding Publisher
Philip Slomovitz, of blessed memory



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Contributing Writers:
Nate Bloom, Rochel Burstyn, Suzanne
Chessler, Annabel Cohen, Shari S.
Cohen, Shelli Liebman Dorfman, Louis
Finkelman, Stacy Gittleman, Esther
Allweiss Ingber, Barbara Lewis, Jennifer
Lovy, Rabbi Jason Miller, Alan Muskovitz,

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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