Friday, April 10, 1981 19 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Rebirth and Homecoming ek„ Throughout Jewish history, our People has known the pain of departure, of homeless wandering, of being strangers in lands where we wanted desperately to be "at home". Pesach and the retelling of the Exodus from Egypt remind us of that special sadness which has been part of our historical experience. But Passover also reminds us that after every Exodus we have undergone a rebirth. So it is with the Jews who have recently come to us from the Soviet Union — a contemporary exodus which touches our communal life in Detroit. In search of freedom, they risk everything to leave. Whether they choose Israel or America, their exodus becomes our own.-It is as though, as the Hagada tells us, we took the journey ourselves. Many have found haven in our community, where we are blessed with a long memory and where the assistance given to our parents'-generation is repeated in our own time. While continuing their support of our aged, our youth, our troubled and our handicapped at home and overseas (growing needs intensified by recession and inflation), the Jewish Welfare Federation and its local agencies are working valiantly to care for our newcomers. Our institutions cannot do it alone, however. They need the money to continue vital programs of resettlement here and in Israel. They also require the personal commitment of time and dedication that each of us is duty-bound to make toward the cultural and spiritual absorption of these Russian Jews. Therefore, we, the Rabbis of Metropolitan Detroit, call upon the members of our congregations and upon-every Jew, to make his or her best contribution to the 1981 Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Emergency Fund. And, further, we urge every Jewish household to reach out to our newcomers to help them become one with us. By opening our homes and our hearts to them at Passover in the true spirit of community, we will show that we remember our past and that we have learned its lessons. We will create a new rebirth and a new homecoming. We will let no Jew remain a stranger among us. RABBI MILTON ARM Congregation Beth Achim RABBI HAROLD LOSS Temple Israel acQ or`t--\ RABBI PHILIP BLACHORSKY Congregation B'nai Israel ABBI ALAN LUCAS Congregation Shaarey Zedek RABBI DAVID A. NELSON Congregation Beth Shalom RABBI ERNST J. CONRAD Temple Kol Ami RABBI LEON FRAM Temple Israel RABBI NOAH M. GAMZE Downtown Synagogue RABBI SAMUEL PRERO Young Israel of Greenfield RABBI MILTON ROSENBAUM Temple Emanu-EI RABBI STANLEY M. ROSENBAUM Congregation B'nai Moshe. . RABBI A. IRVING SCHNIPPER Beth Abraham Hillel Moses RABBI LEO Y. GOLDMAN Congregation Shaarey Shomayim RABBI DANNEL I. SCHWARTZ - Temple Beth El RABBI JAMES I. GORDON Young Israel of Oak Woods W mt.e."-.V..gtze,c2 RABBI EFRY G. SPECTRE Adat Shalom-Synagogue RABBI MARTIN D. GORDON Livonia Jewish Congregation (// RABBI JOSHUKSPERKA Young Israel of Greenfield. RABBI BENJAMIN GORRELICK Congregation Beth Achim RABBI LANE STEINGER Temple Emanu-El RABBI BETZALEL GOTTLIEB Congregation Mishkan Israel "?1't RABBI M. ROBERT SYME Temple Israel RABBI IRWIN GRONER Congregation Shaarey Zedek' RABBI FEIVEL WAGNER Young Israel of Greenfield ) RABBI CHASKEL GRUBNER Congregation Dovid Ben Nuchim RABBI RICHARD A. WEISS Temple Beth Jacob RABBI JOSEPH GUTMANN Congregation Solel (Brighton) k-t-t I RABBI SHERWIN T. WINE- The Birmingham Temple ( • RABBI ISRAEL I. HALPERN Beth Abraham Hillel Moses_ RABBI MORTON F. YOLKUT Congregation B'nai David 1981 ALLIED JEWISH CAMPAIGN- ISRAEL EMERGENCY FUND 163 Madison Avenue Detroit, Michigan 48226 965-3939 RABBI RICHARD C. HERTZ Temple Beth El 7 RABBI LEIZER LEVIN Beth Tefilo Emanuel Tikvah RABBI SHAIALL ZACHARIASH Congregation Shomrey Emunah