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rights of Michigan residents 
against discrimination based 
on religion, race, color, national 
origin, age, sex, height, weight, 
familial status or marital status. 
If Hate Won’t Win coalition 
members’ efforts are successful, 
ELCRA will soon be amended 
to prevent discrimination based 
on sexuality, gender identity or 
gender expression. 

This will be a huge win for 
LGBTQIA+ Michiganders, and 
a strike against homophobia 
and transphobia throughout 
the state. Businesses will no 
longer be able to deny ser-
vices to LGBTQ customers by 
using religion as an excuse for 
homophobia. Schools will have 
to uphold the rights of students 
to use the facilities and play on 
the sports team that match their 
gender identities. The transfor-
mation of ELCRA, as simple as 
it sounds, will be a foundation 
for a profound statewide trans-
formation in our rights as queer 
and trans people in Michigan. 

So, on Sunday, March 5, from 
4-6:30 p.m., Detroit Jews for 
Justice will be partying. We’ll 
be singing and dancing and 
shaking our groggers, cheering 
our queer version of Mordechai 
and booing the homophobic 
Haman. We’ll hear from Hate 
Won’t Win representatives and 
have a chance to cheer them on 
and thank them for the work 
that they’re doing to keep all of 
us safe. 
I will be there too, feeling 
grateful to be part of a Jewish 
community that loves and sup-
ports me for my whole trans 
self. I know that the same God 
that has protected us as Jews for 
all of these centuries will pro-
tect us as trans people. Why? 
Because we, too, are holy. 

Elijah Silver is the communication 

and education coordinator at Detroit 

Jew for Justice and owner of Ovnayim 

Ceramic Art. If you’re interested in join-

ing DJJ for its annual Purim extrava-

ganza, go to www.detroitjewsforjustice.

org/purim_2023.

Yiddish Limerick

PURIM
Hey, Purim kumt, a groyser fargenign
Ich hob azay lib di Megilah mit der nign.
 A shalach manot ich vel give
 un ich also will receive,
Dos iz alles emet, nisht a lign.

Purim kumt: Purim is coming
a groyser fargenign: a big satisfaction
Ich hob azay lib: I like so much
di Megillah mit der nign: the Megillah 
and it’s tune 
shalach manot: a gift of food 
ich vel give: I will give 
un ich: and I 
Dos is alles emet: it is all true 
Nisht a lign: not a lie.

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