Hamtramck City Council Condemns Antisemitism

45,000 attendees in person, with 30% of attendees traveling from outside the U.S. and representing 119 countries.

“Innovation came to life this week at CES 2022 — with technologies that will reshape industries and provide solutions to pressing worldwide issues from healthcare to agriculture, sustainability and beyond,” said Shapiro. “The CES show floor buzzed with the joy of human interaction and a fivesense innovation experience with products that will redefine our future and change our world for the better.”

I am always eager to check out the latest and greatest televisions at CES. This year it was Sony with its A95K QD-OLED 4K TV that wowed the audience. Usually, new TVs at CES are not available to the public for a few years, but this beauty will be available for purchase later this year. It will combine an impressive display with Sony’s amazing speaker system so you will not need to add a soundbar. Sony’s new TVs will beat all current models in terms of overall brightness, color consistency and viewing angles.

The health and wellness category has seen some of the most impressive innovation in the past several years. Omron Healthcare announced its new remote patient monitoring tool called VitalSight. It comes with a connected blood pressure monitor and is designed to help people manage hypertension by sharing data to boost engagement and treatment.

Also, the connected health

tech company Withings unveiled its new body scan smart scale with features that can monitor segmented body composition, nerve activity and cardiovascular health. This technology uses a low-level electrical signal to measure body composition, including the composition of individual body parts like the torso, arms and legs. I was also very impressed with Garmin’s Vivomove hybrid watches. The less expensive entry-level Vivomove Sport is impressive and costs less than $200 even though it has all the bells and whistles of any of Garmin’s in-depth health and fitness tracking models. One of the coolest things I saw at CES was from a Tokyo-based Garmin Vivomove aero tech startup

Sport Watch called SkyDrive. They unveiled an ultra-light and compact flying vehicle, which already completed testing for a piloted flight. This flying car is designed to vertically take off and land with superb stability. It’s essentially a flying electric taxi that is emission-free and can be used for emergency rescue. It will obviously take more than new variants of a global pandemic to keep CES and the tech world from showcasing innovation. God willing, next year I’ll be back in Vegas to experience CES in person once again. Rabbi Jason Miller is a local educator and entrepreneur. He is the president of Access Technology in West Bloomfield and writes about technology for several publications. Follow him on Twitter at @RabbiJason.

COURTESY OF JCRC/AJC

JCRC/AJC Israel Associate Adar Rubin, Board President Seth Gould, Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib, Councilwoman Amanda Jaczowski and JCRC/AJC Executive Director Rabbi Asher Lopatin

The all-Muslim members of the Hamtramck City Council passed a resolution Jan. 25 condemning antisemitism.

The resolution reads in part: “Hamtramck City Council condemns all forms of antisemitism and declares its support for the Beth Israel Congregation in Texas, all members of the Jewish community in Hamtramck, the Metro Detroit area and beyond.” It said everyone “has the right to practice their faith and live their life free from intimidation, harassment and fear of violence.”

On Twitter, the American Jewish Committee thanked the Hamtramck City Council “for unequivocally condemning antisemitism in the wake of the #Colleyville synagogue attack. Our strength lies in the ability of diverse communities to unite in the face of hate.”

Rabbi Asher Lopatin, director of the JCRC/AJC, told the Detroit Free Press, “What I find so significant here is that the all-Muslim council have done this on their own, and also they point out the dangers of antisemitism and condemn antisemitism without needing to mix it up with all forms of hate, or with the situation in the Middle East or with any other cause.”

In late January, representatives from the Jewish Community Relations Council/American Jewish Committee met with Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib and Councilwoman Amanda Jaczowski to thank them for the resolution and calling out the dangers of the rise in antisemitism.