Q&A: Temple Israel Rabbi Hopes to Help Tigers' Young, Jewish Community Heal
Rabbi Joshua Bennett, of Bloomfield Hills, says Delmon Young is committed to show he's no bigot.
The Detroit Tigers' outfield slugger Delmon Young had some explaining to do. Following his arrest last month for scuffling with a panhandler and allegedly using anti-Semitic remarks outside the team’s hotel in New York City, the public’s perception about Young began to change, even among some of the most ardent Tigers fans. That was the case initially presented to Joshua Bennett, a longtime season-ticket holder who when he isn’t cheering on the Tigers, mentors youth, officiates religious ceremonies and tends to a large congregation as a rabbi at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield. But when the Tigers called looking for help, Bennett, a father of three from Bloomfield Hills, accepted the opportunity to counsel Young as he returns to the …
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3:10 am on Sunday, May 13, 2012
For the umpteenth time,yebusiy ppl r not semitic.they r from Canaan not Abraham.shem(Hebrew form) sem(Arabic form),was a original (black man)as the name suggests in any semitic language.Young can b accused of being anti jewish but not anti semitic because that would be like having a vegetarian lion.GEN 10:15 more ›