As Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar approaches, arriving tomorrow, The Detroit Free Press had this sub-headline on their front page today:
Clicking on it however changes the headline: The Detroit Free Press: After tense year, Michigan Jews mark holidays with resilience and faith.
Why the change? Perhaps because then they would need to explain right up front exactly why the extra security is required these days.
The article does eventually get around to explaining this in part:
On the same evening, a few miles away at the largest synagogue in Michigan, Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, about 1,000 people packed the sanctuary for their first services since a terrorist struck the house of worship six months ago, in March.
It only takes another 7 paragraphs down past that statement in the article to find out the terrorist attack was not in fact by the Amish, but was "Hezbollah-influenced" and the I-word doesn't appear even once.
Meanwhile, we still have to have extra police presence at synagogues here due to the Muslim's habit of attacking people on their religious holidays or indeed on Islamic holidays.
How often does your house of worship require a police presence to have presence and hopefully deter a terrorist attack?
In any case, and completely aside from the Detroit Free Press' obfuscation, I wish my readers G’mar chatima tova, and that you be sealed in the Book of Life.
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