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18 Friday, April 1, 1977

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

$13,633,000 Opener Augurs Success for AJC- I EF

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opening dinner meeting of pares favorably with the
the 1977 Allied Jewish Cam- $13,119,288 initially raised
paign, held at Adat Shalom and announced at the open-
Synagogue Wednesday eve- ing meeting of the 1976
ning, are giving encour- Campaign.
Daniel Honigman, chair-
agement to the volunteer
army of workers that last man of the 1977 Allied Jew-
year's total of $16,450,000 ish Campaign, sounded the
will be more than matched. r keynote at the dinner, with
The pre-Campaign total an analysis of comminal as-
announced Wednesday corn- pirations and the urgency

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for generous responses to
the current drive in a peri-
od of economic stress for Is-
rael.
Honigman lauded his
Campaign leadership team
for making the record in-
itial total possible.
Campaign co-chairmen Ir-
ving Seligman and Phillip
Stollman introduced the 11
Campaign division leaders
who announced their totals
for the pre-Campaign phase
of the 1977 AJC-IEF. Jeiv-
ish Welfare Federation Ex-
ecutive Vice President Sol
Drachler announced at the
end of the meeting the re-
cord total figure.
Drachler said the initial
total was $750,000 more
than pledged by the same
individuals in 1976 and the
14,130 pledges represented
1,000 more covered than at
the same time one year
ago, allowing for increased

efforts during the five
weeks of the Allied Jewish
Campaign.
As president of the Jew-
ish Welfare Federation,
under whose sponsorship
the Campaign is conducted,
Martin Citrin commended
Honigman and his Cam-
paign organization and ex-
pressed confidence that the
tradition of generosity will
be continued by Greater De-
troit' Jewry during the cur-
rent drive.
In his opening remarks,
Citrin mentioned that he
and other large city Jewish
federation leaders met last
week with President Car-
ter's national security advis-
er Zbigniew Bzrezinski, and
briefly with the President.
Citrin expressed con-
fidence That the new Admin-
istration understands the
human rights problems, the
unique role of Israel and

other concerns of American
Jewry. "A good Campaign
is a clear signal to all of
the commitment of Ameri-
can Jewry," he said.

The guest speaker, Sen.
Donald Riegle, brought an
important message from
Congressional ranks with
an assurance. that Israel's
fate will continue to merit_
fullest American support
and that the nation's legisla-
tors are aware of the duty
to protect Israel's security.
Riegle, introduced by
Campaign co-chairman Phil-
ip Warren, pledged that as
a member of the Senate
Banking and Commerce
Committees he would con-
tinue to battle for anti-boy-
cott legislation.
"People in Con-
gress who have been unam-
biguous in the past on these
issues will be unambiguous
in the future

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An original art rendering by the Israeli-.French artist, Nissan Engel, depicts the
Morranos observing Passover in secret during the Spanish Inquisition. This also
serves as a reinnder of the oppression of three million Soviet Jews during the
coming Passover season.

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At the Allied Jewish Campaign opening dinner Wednesday at Adat Shalom Syna-
gogue were, from left, Philip Stollman, Paul Zuckerman, Martin Citrin, Irving Selig-
man, Daniel Honigman, Sen. Donald Riegle, Philip Warren, Arthur Howard, Milton M.
Miller, David Handleman and Rabbi Seymour Rosenbloom.

The National Bank
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'Extends best wishes to
a happy and joyous

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Seattle's Jewish Community
Goes Back to th e City's Roots

By AVRAHAM
FEINGLASS

(Copyright 197'I, JTA, Inc.)

SEATTLE—The Seattle
Jewish community has
grown with the city from
its very beginnings. Seattle
was first settled during the
-great gold rush of 1849 and
among those first settlers
were Jews from Poland
who had originally come to
the gold fields to find their
fortunes. The gold strike re-
sulted in a strong pull to
the western part of the U.S.
Jews were attracted to
Seattle for its growing . fur,
fish and lumber industries.
Gold strikes in British Co-
lumbia in the 1850s, '60s
and '70s helped keep Seattle
active as a- port city serv-
ing the Pacific Northwest.

With the arrival of the rail-
road in 1884 the city began
to grow rapidly, finally
booming with the Alaska
gold rush of 1897. Two
years later, in 1899,
Seattle's first congregation,
the Reform Temple De
Hirsch, was founded. The
temple was named for
Baron Maurice De Hirsch,
a wealthy German Jewish,
philanthropist who encour-
aged Jewish settlement in
the Pacific Northwest.
The second wave of Jew-
ish settlers came to Seattle
at the turn of the century.
They were primarily Seph-
ardic Jews from Turkey
and the island of Rhodes ..
whO were attracted to
Seattle because it offered
them an opportunity to use
their knowledge of fishing
and the _fish business to
earn a good livelihood.
Today their descendants

make up America's largest
Sephardic Jewish commu-
nity. This second wave of

settlers founded three Ortho-
dox congregations which
were eventually consoli-
dated to two congregations.
The third wave of Jewish
settlers began coming to
Seattle after World
on
I
and has continued on
to the
present day. This wave is
composed of Jews of East-
ern European origin and of
first and second generation
Americans who came to
Seattle -attracted by the
quality of life available in
the city. They have come
for the mountains and lakes
and forests of the Pacific
Northwest and they work at
Seattle's huge Boeing plant
or at the University of
Washington or at one of the
city's hospitals or at any of
a number of academic and,
professional occupations. It
was this group that founded
Seattle's first Conservative
congregation in 1932.
Of Seattle's 500,000 citi-
zens, 15.000 are Jews.
There are 10 congregations,
including the older, more es-
tablished ones and a num-
ber of smaller Reform and
Conservative congregations
founded to meet the needs
of a Jewish population that
has moved away from the
central part of the city and
out to the suburbs. There
are no -Jewish neighbor-
hoods" in Seattle: Jews live
in all parts of the city
among the general popu-
lation and Jewish life is con-
centrated in activities cen-
tering around the various
congregations and Jewish
organizations.

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