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You’ve built your business by
serving your clients’ best interests.

So have we.

You’ve built your business by being part of the community and earning your
clients’ trust. You’re there when they need you. It’s challenging, but gratifying.

We understand, because while you’re there for them, we’re here for you.

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Fickler Continued from Page 15
To illustrate, each additional
person included in the 2000
census resulted in an annual
additional Medicaid reimburse-
ment to most states of between
several hundred and several
thousand dollars, depending
on the state. Our legislative
advocacy eff orts will be multi-
plied by our success in making
sure that everyone in our
geographic area is counted.

Th e census form can be found
at 2020census.gov and can be
completed online. Th e deadline
for submitting the forms online
or mailing them is now Sept. 30.

Over the High Holidays, we
will be repeatedly inspired by
our liturgy and our clergy’s
sermons to make every day
count, rather than counting
our days. Our communal
eff orts to assure that everyone
residing in the fi ve-county
Philadelphia area responds to
the census is one way that we
can make our days over the
next few weeks count.

As Jews, we have a long
tradition of valuing every soul.

Please do what you can to
make sure that everyone living
in the greater Philadelphia area
gets counted in this decennial
American census.

Th ank you in advance for
your eff orts. L’Shanah tovah
u’metukah. ●
Arlene Fickler is the chair of the
Jewish Community Relations
Council of the Jewish Federation of
Greater Philadelphia.

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L’Sh anah Tovah
Wish ing you a
swe et New Ye ar.

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What-Aboutism Doesn’t Acknowledge Facts
Binyamin Rose purports to carefully weigh both sides in
concluding that he will vote for President Trump (“Many
Orthodox Jews Support President Trump. I’m One of Th em —
Here’s Why,” Sept. 10). He instead unevenly evaluates the two
candidates. To give one example: Rose freely acknowledges
the “major uptick” in anti-Semitism from Trump’s “divisive
rhetoric,” yet fi nds this matched by the support by “Democratic
progressives” of the BDS movement. He then asks: What’s the
bigger threat for an Orthodox Jew: “A far-right extremist in a
distant rural town or a looter in a Jewish neighborhood?”
Th is what-aboutism approach is factually outrageous. White
supremacy is excused by Trump; there is no similar pro-BDS
statement from Biden, whose decades-long support for Israel is
well-known. Secondly, looting (anywhere) has been roundly denounced by
Biden, even as he supports free speech protest.

Last, I do not view the shooting at the Tree of Life complex in
Pittsburgh to be in a “distant rural town.” ●
Marc Schneier | Dresher
www.jewishexponent.com www.jewishexponent.com
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