Friday, July 16, 1982
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
DECLARATION OF SOLIDARITY
The undersigned officers of Jewish communal organizations and
spiritual leaders of synagogues and temples in metropolitan Detroit
express their solidarity and support for their brothers and sisters in
Israel. This is the hour when the years of terrorism which they have
suffered from the presence of the PLO in Lebanon appear about to
end.
We know and are anguished that many innocent people in
Lebanon have suffered death and injury in the process. We are
mindful that had prompt action been taken when the PLO first
occupied Lebanon and subverted the peace and freedom of that
country, the current military action would not have been
undertaken.
We are encouraged that our government is working hard to find a
fair and just solution to the problem. This will ensure for the
people of Lebanon the benefit of self-government and assure the
security of the people of Israel. We strongly endorse President
Reagan's call for the removal of all foreign forces from Lebanon, a
secure northern border for Israel and the restoration of Lebanese
sovereignty.
Such a solution to the current crisis offers, in our view, the best
hope for encouraging a continuation of progress in the search for
permanent peace in the Middle East.
Martin J. Adelman, Chairman
Internat'I Affairs, Mich. Region
American Jewish Congress
Rabbi Milton Arm
President
Akiva Hebrew Day School
Harold Berry,
President
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Michigan Chapter
American Friends of Hebrew University
Rita Bigman,Co-Chairman
Mizrachi-Hapoel Hamizrachi
of Detroit
Maurice Binkow, President
Detroit Chapter
American Jewish Committee
Norman Berkley,
David Lebenbom
President
Jewish Community Council
Susan Dubiri, President
Michigan Region
Women's American ORT
Rabbi Israel I. Halpern
Commander
Dept. of Michigan
_Jewish War Veterans
Dr. Arthur Feuer, President
Americans for Progressive Israel,
Hashomer Hatzair
Founding Rabbi.
Temple Israel
Dr. Melvyn Friedman,
President
Hillel Day School of Detroit
Rabbi Noah M. Gamze
Downtown Synagogue
Dr. Conrad L. Giles,
President
Detroit Men's ORT
Arnold Michlin,
Bernard Kent,
Metropolitan Detroit Council
B'nai B'rith
President
C.H.A.I.M..
Children of Holocaust Survivors
Margot Klein,
President
League of Jewish Women's Organizations
John Nemon,
President
Rabbi Leizer Levin,
League of B'nai B'rith
Young Israel of Oak Woods
Michigan-Ohio Region
Rabbinical Assembly
President
Israel Numismatic Society of Michigan
Dr. Sheila Lampert,
Detroit Zionist Federation
Ralph Levy,
Rabbi Irwin Groner
Benjamin Morris,
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Norman Naimark: President
Labor Zionist Alliance of Detroit
Rabbi James I. Gordon
Michigan Region
American Jewish Congress
President
Irving Laker, President
Detroit District
Zionist Organization of America
President, Cong. Beth Shalom
Steering Comm.
President
Michigan Region, American
Red Mogen David for Israel
President
United Jewish Charities of Detroit
President
Mich. Region, Anti-Defamation
Gerald S. Cook,
Dr. John Mames,
Joseph H. Jackier,
President
Council of Orthodox Rabbis of Detroit
Dr. Barbara Goodman
Elaine Block,
President
Greater Detroit Section
National Council of Jewish Women
Leon Halpern, President
Shaarit Haplaytah and
Cong. Shaarit Haplaytah
Temple Israel - Bay City
Rabbi Leon Fram,
Sonia L. Macey,
Michigan Region
Rabbinical Council of America
Rabbi Dov Edelstein
Congregation Beth Achim
Ronald F. Berman,
Avern L. Cohn
President
Jewish Welfare Federation
President
Labor Zionist Alliance
Youth Commission (Habonim)
Morris Lieberman,
Israel Histadrut Campaign
President
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Member
National Executive Committee
Jewish War Veterans
Dr. Alan Reinstein; Steering Comm.
Michigan Region
American Jewish Congress
Rabbi Milton Rosenbaum
Rabbi Emeritus '
Temple Emanu-El
Rabbi Stanley M. Rosenbaum
President
Rabbinical Commission of Detroit
Rabbi Charles Rosenzveig
President, Assn. of Hebrew Teachers:
Director, Holocaust Memorial Center
Jane Sherman,
President
Women's Division
Jewish Welfare Federation
Norma Shifrin, Chairman
Michigan Region
Jewish Labor Committee
Richard Sloan, President
Detroit Service Group
Rabbi M. Robert Syme
Temple Israel
Rabbi Shaiall Zachariash
Congregation Shomrey Emunah
Harold Zuker
Metropolitan Detroit Council,
B'nai B'rith
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