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We “poor mortals” are often buffeted about by fate and damaged accordingly.

Through all of this rough handling, items may get nicked or scratched. However, that does not stop us from using those terms in other ways in our conversations. Here are some instances.

Men who are not caught up in the annual Movember craze (growing beards and moustaches) should practice extreme caution when shaving so as not to nick themselves.

If you are in Britain and try to nick something from a store, you may find yourself locked up in the nick. (Your lack of knack was not worth taking the nick-nack. Yes, that spelling is an acceptable one!) Then a lawyer may be hired to save you in the nick of time.

We would hope that when we move our lodgings, the moving men will not nick any furniture.

The term even is used to apply to colorful figures. At Christmas, there is jolly old St. Nick. One popular name for the devil was Old Nick. He was also called Old Scratch. (How is that for a segue?)

If you are up to par in your well-being or your work or any endeavor, you may be described as being up to scratch.

Seeking a quick win? You may find good results when you scratch off a lottery card. That may earn you a sizeable amount of scratch, or not. The real gambler may stake a bet at the track by using a scratch sheet and then hope that his horse does not get scratched. If it does, he will have to start from scratch seeking his fortune.

If you wish to get a favor from someone, you may have to employ the strategy of “you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.” A literalist, however, may suggest this phrase if he has recently encountered a swarm of mos-

quitoes. Sy Manello A famous person’s hand-

Editorial Assistant writing may be described as chicken scratchings. Well, that certainly makes it harder to forge, I suppose. Trying to read it, however, may lead one to scratch his head. He may then decide to scratch the idea of trying to sell the famous signature since it cannot be read at all. I suggest you use these terms sparingly if you wish to minimize the damage in your life.

My dad worked hard to raise four kids, moving us from an African American neighborhood on Detroit’s Eastside to the Northwest side, which was predominantly Jewish back then. One day, as I was walking home, I saw one of my neighbors with whom I enjoyed talking and especially liked. Sometimes she would make tea and we would sit in her living room and talk. She was always interesting, and I liked her accent as she spoke.

On this particular day, I was about to learn just how interesting she really was. This day, she was standing in her front yard near the sidewalk, which may be where she’d been when I’d first met her. She could have been 75 years old; she was short, stout and wearing a dark blue dress. It seemed that she always wore dark dresses. I can no longer remember her name, as the conversation took place over 40 years ago, but I can remember what she had told me — as if it was yesterday.

I will call her Miss Anna. You see, Miss Anna told me of her travels all around the world. I was filled with wonder and could only think and say, “Wow, wow and wow.” I should mention that I was in my mid-teens and was already much taller than Miss Anna.

I must have said “wow” one too many times because she suddenly grabbed me by the

shoulders and began shaking me. Her eyes locked onto mine and she screamed in my face, “It was no pleasure trip! We were running from Hitler!” I felt confused. She quickly released me and backed away. Then she proceeded to pull up her sleeve to reveal dark green numbers tattooed on her arm. She’d been a prisoner Judy Hall in a concentration camp. I don’t remember exactly what happened after that. My heart began to pound, and the rest of the visit was a blur. I do

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remember how it scared me. Later that day I told my family what had happened.

One day after that, Miss Anna said, “I have some things for you. Do you want them?”

The two things that stood out to me were a kitchen stove and a super-big bag of canceled postage stamps from around the world and across time.

Later, I found out that Miss Anna had moved to Southfield. I went there to try and find her but was unsuccessful. All these years later, I decided to celebrate Miss Anna’s life and her sacrifices using the postage stamps she’d given me to retrace the steps she and her family had taken to escape tyranny and oppression.

When I called my sister to ask to borrow her drill for my art tribute, she asked me, “What are you building — a robot?” I laughed and said I was attempting to tell Miss Anna’s story, which had such a big influence on me. My sister cut me off and simply said, “I remember when you shared that experience with the family.” And I understood that I was not the only one who had been impacted by Miss Anna.

Judy Hall grew up on Indiana Street in Northwest Detroit and never forgot “Miss Anna.” She currently lives in Midtown Detroit.

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Ilove music. From listening to music, to singing and writing songs, music has always been there to help me enjoy the good times and cope with the bad times. As I reflect on the soundtrack of my life, I realize that music with a Jewish influence has been a big part of the melodies that sustain me.

My first musical memory was when I was very young, sitting on a piano bench with my mom, listening, as she played and sang a song with some very strange funny words. “Oh, Jeffrey sits on the chairella and plays on the fortisch piano, and Sheila dance the dancella, Ay yai yai yai yai yai! Oy the Shayna maidele, kinderle klain, kinderle klain…”

I had no idea what she was singing. But it was sweet and funny and usually ended with us laughing together. We would go on to more familiar songs and show tunes, often, I later found out, written by Jewish composers like Irving Berlin, Richard Rodgers or Sammy Cahn. By then, a sense of

Jewishness had been embedded as a central element to the songs I began to sing and love. My mother had started to teach me how music could make you laugh and soothe your soul.

My wife recalls her mom singing Yiddish lullabies to her at bedtime. And many years later, when she sang “Oyfn Pripetchik” to our children and then our grandchildren before a much-needed nap, she recalled her mom’s sweet voice helping her to fall asleep.

Jewish holidays often are filled with music (as well as with food!). For my mom’s family, the Eisenbergs, the family seder was the most significant Jewish event of the year. From very early on, each child would be asked if he or she was ready to ask the Fir Kasches (Four Questions). I remember how proud my parents were when each of their three children sang to the whole mishpachah, showing off that we had been practicing our Hebrew. And when my own children reached the age when they felt ready to sing for their supper, I also would smile and kvell at their youthful attempts at the Ma Neshtanah.

Fast forward to my teen years … to folk music and to AZA and BBG. While these groups had many purposes, AZA provided a way to meet Jewish girls, other than the girls from my school. Parties and Oneg Shabbats provided an opportunity, but I quickly learned the truth: In order to meet girls,

you had to talk to girls. Not so easy. About that same time, my friend Eddie suggested we take a group beginner’s guitar class at the JCC. Eddie lasted about two weeks; I’ve been learning guitar for about 60 years.

I quickly learned that a guitar was a wonderful ally at parties. I could meet girls without having to talk to girls. Singing folk songs with them was so much less painful. And this plan led to the January day in 1966, when I found myself strumming along with a younger girl named Leslie who also had brought her guitar to an Oneg Shabbat involving my chapter and hers.

And, although she was less than happy with my “way too loud” guitar playing, she forgave me enough to agree to a date, which eventually led to our singing together (mostly in harmony) through our 50-plus year marriage. And songs like “Dona Dona,” “Sunrise Sunset,” “Homeward Bound,” “You’ve Got a Friend” and “Happy Together” (all composed by Jews) have been a constant source of strength and support for our relationship, through all of life’s ups and downs.

As our kids grew, we taught them our favorite songs and kvelled when they knew all the words. We joined Temple Emanu-El and then Temple Israel. We got involved at both temples, in the best way we knew how … through singing.

I have always been adept at writing song parodies for birthdays, holidays and anniversaries. And my parodies found a (usually) welcome audience at both temples with such “hits” as “The People Are Always Friendly at Temple EmanuEl” (to the tune of “Under the Sea”), “Super Challah Matzoh, Tzimmes, Liver and Charosis” and “The Totally Uplifting Yom Kippur Mind Shifting Parking at the Temple Blues” and brilliant silly lyrics like “You must remember this, a bris is just a bris, a chai is just a chai;

pastrami still goes best on rye, as time goes by.”

We also began creating some new traditions in our home. At a talk for parents of bnai mitzvot, a rabbi gave some simple but great advice about creating a more Jewish home on Shabbat: “Just do something.” So, we started singing a few prayers and lighting Shabbat candles. Bim bom, Shabbat shalom, and prayers over wine and challah made a difference.

My wife and I joined a Temple Israel chorus, lovingly led by Cantor Neil Michaels, giving us something we could do together, she as an alto and I as a baritone. Singing cemented our involvement at temple and helped make Kabbalat Shabbat services feel more meaningful and spiritual. And even when COVID prevented us from attending services, we could still listen and sing on Zoom from our kitchen table.

Skipping ahead many years, I recall how singing helped us feel connected with our aging parents. Leslie’s father and my mother had passed away, which left my mother-in law, Eileen, and my dad, Leon, as the matriarch and patriarch of our family. And when we got together, after dinner, we often got out song sheets from their era, and I improvised the chords and we found out what “oldies but goodies” really meant! And when Leon and then Eileen each gradually reached the waning days of their lives, we sang with them and to them at their bedsides.

So, what goes around does come around. Leslie singing to our grandchildren and at her mom’s bedside. My mom, instilling the joy of singing within me, which I then passed forward to my kids and grandkids (and anyone else who will listen to my songs). Singing at the seder with those old tunes to maintain the family traditions. My grandson learning to play the guitar and singing Beatles songs with me. My granddaughter singing sweetly in musicals and in the temple youth choir.

Hopefully, next Pesach, Papa and Grandma will kvell as one of our younger family members dares to ask the Four Questions for the first time. And, many years from now, I can only hope that my grandchildren will remember their papa singing songs I wrote especially for them on each of their birthdays. And when they recall our family singing together at the seder table, maybe at least one of my grandchildren will show one of their children the only proper (Eisenberg) way to sing “Adir Hu” (after the men finish washing the dishes)!

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In a logical world, the United Nations — and especially the United States — would be loudly celebrating the first anniversary of the Abraham Accords. This momentous agreement marked the first peace deals between Israel and any Arab nation in 26 years. The Accords between the Jewish state and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain — followed by normalization agreements with Morocco, Sudan and then Kosovo — have spurred massive increases in trade, diplomacy and tourism.

After 73 years of Arab war and calumny against Israel, we see the promise of an end to hostilities. A warm peace. You’d think such a miracle might deserve a Nobel Peace Prize.

Indeed, the new Middle East peace has opened up phenomenal economic opportunities. Comparing the full year of 2020 with the first seven months of 2021, trade between Israel and Arab countries grew by 234%.

UAE-Israel trade skyrocketed from $50.8 million to $613.9 million — an increase of 1,208%. Trade with Jordan jumped from $136.2 million to $224.2 — 40%. Egypt’s trade shot up from $92 million to $122.4 million — almost 25%. Morocco’s trade with Israel increased by 28 percent. UAE economy minister Abdulla Bin Touq projects growth of economic ties to Israel to reach $1 trillion over the next decade. In the

James last year, more than 200,000 Sinkinson JNS.org Israelis visited the UAE — most flying direct to Dubai, where kosher food is readily available. So why is the Biden administration now virtually ignoring this earthshaking breakthrough and its potential to realign Middle East geopolitics — particularly the formation of a bloc opposing nuclearbound Iran? The resistance seems to stem from Team Biden’s overriding determination to a) fashion a new Iran disarmament deal and b) restore support to Palestinian statehood. The additional fact that the Abraham Accords were initiated by the Trump administration, of course, doesn’t help their digestive tracts.

As for Iran, Biden’s State Department seems at pains — as was President Obama — not to exert too much pressure on Iran or ruffle its feathers.

But in the hands of the right negotiators, a growing front of Middle East — and Muslim — countries opposed to U.S. arch-enemy Iran should be good news. It only strengthens the American hand in attempting to bring the Islamic Republic to heel.

Given this momentum to ally with Israel — the Middle East’s strongest military power — Saudi Arabia may soon join the alliance, especially with a bit of U.S. prodding. Surely, if Iran acquires nuclear weapons, Saudi Arabia will want them, too. In short, the Abraham Accords provide every reason for Iran to negotiate peace sooner rather than later.

Likewise, the Biden administration apparently wants to make nice with the Palestinians — who have roundly condemned the Abraham Accords. Palestinian president-forlife Mahmoud Abbas called them “a stab in the back.” No wonder, since this agreement killed the Palestinians’ ability to hold an Arab peace hostage to their maximalist demands.

Indeed, the U.S. argument for the obstinate Palestinians to give up their sacred ambitions of expunging Israel from the region should only be fortified by fellow Arabs abandoning that mission after seven long decades. That war is over.

Unfortunately, despite the harmony of these foreign policy leverage points with Biden administration priorities, neither seems to resonate.

Instead, the United States is trying to woo Iran with offers to cancel crippling sanctions.

It’s trying to regain credibility with the Palestinians by restoring funding halted by the previous administration because Palestinian leadership uses the money to incentivize terrorists with its “Pay-for-Slay” program.

In fairness, Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a Zoom reception for the parties to the Accords at the State Department earlier this month to mark the anniversary of the diplomatic breakthrough. While Blinken mouthed commitments to “foster” ties and “deepen” relationships among Middle East nations, in truth, the administration has announced no specific plans to seize the opportunities.

Perhaps the biggest surprise among those rejecting the

Abraham Accords were the progressive and liberal intellectuals, as well as some so-called experts.

One would think that those who criticized Israel for “creating obstacles” to peace for so many years would embrace the Abraham Accords for creating unprecedented agreements in the region.

Rather, these naysayers were worried that their darlings, the Palestinians, were being sidelined, so they created all manner of excuses to slam the agreements. First, they tried to attack promises the United States made to the Arab side of the agreements, like the sale of F-35 fighter jets to the UAE, taking Sudan off the sanctions list and recognizing Morocco’s control of the Western Sahara. Then they tried to attack the very nature of these states as autocratic and undemocratic — while ignoring their own longstanding, full-throated support for kleptocrat Abbas.

Nonetheless, it’s clear that the Abraham Accords are flourishing despite pockets of opposition. While momentum has certainly diminished — largely a result of America’s disengagement — the train has already left the station.

Perhaps this explains Blinken’s recent lip service, albeit low-key, in acknowledging the agreement’s anniversary: “This administration will continue to build on the successful efforts of the last administration to keep normalization marching forward.”

It’s time for Biden and Blinken to put these words into action. The United States should press for more Arab countries to join the Accords, starting with Saudi Arabia and Oman, two countries that were reportedly on the verge of agreement before the Trump administration was voted out of office. They should also be pushing for other American allies, like Indonesia, the largest populated Muslim country in the world, to join the circle of peace and cooperation with Israel. All such movement would support U.S. interests.

Clearly, those who oppose the Abraham Accords are enemies of Israel and peace. The United States has to pick a side — by putting its full diplomatic weight into continuing the momentum built by (in Blinken’s words) “the last administration.”

Such a strategy would be good for the United States, good for peace and security and good for the U.S.-Israel relationship. It is a simple win-win situation, and on its one-year anniversary, there is no better time to reverse policy, put politics aside and insert U.S. diplomacy firmly back into this successful process.

James Sinkinson is president of Facts and Logic About the Middle East (FLAME), which publishes educational messages to correct lies and misperceptions about Israel and its relationship to the United States.

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The Detroit Jewish News urges the community to fight for the release of Huntington Woods native Danny Fenster — a journalist who has been held without cause and without specified charges for 137 days

by a military junta in a gruesome prison in Myanmar (Burma).

The family is looking for people to create portraits of Danny that can be shared on social media at https://bringdannyhome.com/pages/gallery.

The American Jewish Committee (AJC) announced in August a “Disrupt antisemitism” initiative offering funding “for new ideas to combat antisemitism, locally, nationally or virtually.” The initiative is to be commended both because it may produce new approaches and in launching this effort, the AJC is acknowledging that existing strategies may not be able to reverse the alarming increase of antisemitism underway. The rabbinic sage Rav Nachman is oft quoted: “The endpoint of knowledge is to know that we don’t know.”

Fighting antisemitism is now one of the highest priorities of virtually every North American Jewish federation and many national Jewish organizations. Community security systems are being strengthened and there are continuous calls for bold new initiatives to combat antisemitism. Determining the most effective strategies for the North American Jewish community to respond to increased antisemitism requires clarifying our understanding of what is taking place, assessing what has and is being done, and developing strategies for the most effective ways to move forward.

“Naming and shaming” has been the Jewish community’s primary strategy to combat antisemitism for decades. Acknowledging that hate, racial stereotyping and antisemitism are part of the human condition, multiple efforts were forged including litigation, legislation and arguably most important, successfully creating a broad public consensus — among elites and the media — that expressions of antisemitism were simply unacceptable.

When we read or heard of an antisemitic speech, statement, article or book, Jewish leaders called it out and pressed political, cultural and religious leaders and the media to denounce those responsible and insist they be shamed, censured or removed from leadership positions. These efforts were, and remain, impactful and no doubt deterred unknown numbers of purveyors of hate from expressing their antisemitic views. That said, “naming and shaming” is clearly not sufficient on its own to halt, let alone reverse, the growth of antisemitism.

Local and national Jewish organizations have also long sponsored dialogues with leaders of other ethnic, racial and religious groups. These efforts created valuable relationships essential when crises occur, strengthened partnerships to advocate for Israel, and enabled collaborative endeavors to work on a range of issues nationally and locally. That said, such dialogues have been almost always limited to relatively small elite/ leadership groups.

As a community, we instinctively understand reports of attacks on Jews as being part of the centuries-long history of Jew hatred that led to attacks on Jews and Jewish communities, pogroms and, ultimately, the Holocaust. While understandable, we might ask whether this is the wisest, most strategic way to frame our collective response. As but one example, in 2018 when the horrendous attack took place at Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, there were over 320 mass killings in America defined by four or more people being killed. After most mass killings, media and public officials primarily focused on the promiscuous availability of guns and mental illness. After Tree of Life, the public focus — with the active participation of Jewish leadership — was overwhelmingly on combating antisemitism. And we ought to note while the murderer uttered vile antisemitic statements, he focused on the role of Jewish organizations, HIAS in particular, for sponsoring its Refugee Shabbat program and related work.

The Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) conducts annual dialogues of community leadership in the Jewish world. JPPI’s eighth Jewish World Dialogue, in 2020, focused on the rise of antisemitism and how it is understood principally by Jews in their 20s, 30s and 40s. Eleven dialogue sessions were conducted by my colleague Dr. Shlomo Fischer and me, nine in North America and two in Israel, with 154 participants.

While we ought to be cautious generalizing from the limited number of Dialogue participants, what emerged from JPPI’s 2020 Dialogue may be helpful. “Most participants attributed the increase of antisemitic views and acts to the increase of racism broadly and pointed to the growing role of social media” in disseminating hate, racism and antisemitism.

In terms of how to respond most effectively, “most believe the Jewish community should develop coalitions with other racial and ethnic groups to combat racism broadly — even with groups that hold views on Israel and other issues (such

as abortion) that vary from the consensus views of North American Jewry.”

As one Dialogue participant asked in a breakout session, “does anyone really believe that there is greater hatred for Jews in America than African Americans, Latinos, immigrants or Native Americans?” The room fell eerily silent.

The young Dialogue participants understood these attacks as part of the larger context of what is underway in America while most Jewish organizations often frame what is taking place more narrowly, i.e., about antisemitism. Which prompts the question: Is the Jewish community well served primarily framing such attacks as part of the long-continuing history of antisemitic hate and attacks, or would it be better served by viewing the increase of antisemitism as a component of the increased racism and hate impacting the whole country?

The latter would position Jewish leadership to join with other racial and ethnic groups to combat racism, hatred and antisemitism. This issue also flared recently in Israel following Foreign Minister Lapid’s July 14 speech on antisemitism. Lapid argued that antisemitism should be understood as part of wider spread racism and hatred; Netanyahu argued for its uniqueness (see Haviv Rettig Gur’s Times of Israel analysis “A Hatred that Dwells Alone?”).

In recent years, there has been an increased awareness of the long history and complex multiple sources of hatred, racism and antisemitism in the United States. A range of contemporary factors behind the explosion of racism are cited, including changing demographics, the economic stagnation of the middle and lower classes, and perceptions of advantages provided to “others.” David Brooks, in an article published in The Atlantic in August, “How the Bobos Broke America,” discusses resentment against the “creative class,” and it should be noted that Jews are overrepresented in the creative class.

The explosion of social media in the past decade has enabled racial hatred and antisemitism to be widely disseminated. Add exploiting racial fears for political gain and the alarming increase of mental illness, isolation and depression, particularly among the young, and this is a volatile mix that has produced elevated enmity against various demographic groups. And while unique factors contribute to the antipathy toward each group — African Americans, Hispanics, Asians, immigrants and Jews — critical views about nationalism, ethnonationalism, Zionism and/or Israeli government policies can, and no doubt do, contribute to the growth of antisemitism in America.

Beyond “naming and shaming,” what might be effective? Truth be told, we do not know. In recent conversations with seasoned professionals who have devoted decades to leading efforts against antisemitism, racism and hatred, a plethora of ideas surfaced. In addition to strengthening security in our communities and reassessing what can be done to resurrect the “firewall” in this new environment, new ideas proposed included exponentially expanding the numbers of young and old who participate in inter-group dialogues; developing mandatory intergroup community service projects for teens; requiring inter-group curriculum in high schools; stepping up regulation of social media; and undertaking a global review of empirical studies of initiatives with demonstrated success in mitigating hate, racism and antisemitism, and more.

These are big ideas that will need to be tested, and if proven effective, will require substantial public/government funding to bring to scale. That said, these ideas are far more likely to generate the needed support from political, corporate and civil leaders if the broadest coalition of ethnic, religious and political leadership is aligned behind one or more, Jewish leadership and organizations included.

In strategically contextualizing the growth of antisemitism in the larger context of intensified racism and hate, we communicate both within the Jewish community and beyond the readiness of Jewish leadership to join with other ethnic and religious groups to heal the social fabric of America. Equally important, this strategy heightens the potential of successfully mobilizing the public opinion, political support and resources required for such initiatives to be tested and potentially brought to scale.

Let the generation of new ideas, experimentation, and testing begin!

John Ruskay is a senior fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute. This essay was posted by eJewishPhilanthropy on Sept. 27, 2021.

Jewish Family Service will be holding its 25th Annual Fall Fixup Sunday, Nov. 7. Invite your family, friends or community groups to this outdoor, family-friendly volunteer event. Help rake leaves and winterize homes (outdoor only) of older adults served by Jewish Family Service.

All ages are welcome. Supplies are provided, but you may bring your own leaf blowers.

Drive-thru contactless supply pickup by prior appointment starting at 9 a.m. at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield.

To register, visit jfsdetroit.org/ fallfixup. Worksites are preassigned. Register by Oct. 29.

For more information, call (248) 592-2267 or fallfixup@ jfsdetroit.org.

State COVID protocols will be followed for this event.

On Oct. 10, the ADL is on the move to fight hate across the country.

It’s “Walk Against Hate” is not just a walk — it’s an opportunity to move as an individual, family or community toward a future without antisemitism, racism and all forms of bigotry.

However you move, register for the 2021 ADL Walk Against Hate today. Join an in-person walk in your community or sign up to participate virtually. Engage friends, family, neighbors and coworkers, and set a fundraising goal to make a difference in your community.

The walk starts at 9 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 10, at the Southfield City Center, 2600 Evergreen Road. Register or support a walker at walkagainsthate.org/ michigan.