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Community-Wide Phase Climaxes Campaign

Allied Jewish Campaign volunteers will seek to reach
all major contributors prior to March 4, the date of a report
meeting and brunch with actress Tovah Feldshuh. The
March 4 event, which opens the final phase of the 1984
Campaign, will take place 10:30 a.m. at Adat Shalom Syn-
agogue.
Jack A. Robinson, chairman of the Campaign, said
that more than 2,000 workers will be intensifying their
efforts in the coming weeks to reach every member of the
Jewish community. "If we don't ask, who will answer?" he
said. "The poor, the aged and the infirm of Detroit, of Israel
and elsewhere around the world can't do the asking. So, we,

WSU President
David Adamany
Defines Values
Inherent in
Building
Communal Unity

the volunteers, have to ask for them."
He added that Detroit has a well-deserved reputation
nationally, and even overseas, for its generosity. "And this
year, when so many of our people are still in want, we're
going to take this Campaign right over the top," Robinson
said.
Campaign workers will be focusing on the theme
of Renewal — "renewal of our spirit and our commit-
ment to our fellow Jews." Fund-raising meetings are
scheduled by every division, with a Women's Division
Phonogift planned for March 25-April 1, and a
Campaign-wide telethon April 8.

AT HOME • OVERSEAS • IN ISRAEL

A community-wide closing celebration is scheduled
April 12.
Members of the Allied Jewish Campaign Social Serv-
ice Section will meet at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at Adat
Shalom. Addressing the group will be Wayne L. Feinstein,
executive vice president of the Jewish Welfare Federation.
Feinstein was previously director of long-range plan-
ning for the Council ofJewish Federations in New York. He
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No Change for Soviet . Jewry
ls,...ExpectectUnder.CheOnenko....

Jewish Calendar,
Jewish Survival

By IRVING GREENBERG

National Jewish Resource Center

NEW YORK — In the current year, 5744, an
extra month is incorporated into the Hebrew calen-
dar. It is called Adar II because it is inserted after
Adar, the 12th month. Why is the Jewish leap year a
full extra month? The calendar sheds light on the
relationship of Judaism and the culture around it.
The main function of the Jewish calendar was to
communicate the fundamental events of Jewish his-
tory and to make them a living force in Jews' lives.
The basic Jewish vision — that humanity will be
freed and the world made perfect — flows from the
great events of Jewish history such as Exodus. This
optimistic vision is tested or supported by later
events in history, such as Destruction and Exile or
salvation from suppression or genocide.
The later events, too, were commemorated and
taught through the calendar, viz. Tisha b'Av,
Hanuka and Purim. Thus, the calendar became a
primary teaching source ofJewish values and vision.
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch wrote, "The calendar
is the Jew's catechism."
The general calendar is solar; the Jewish
calendar is primarily lunar. The solar year is
longer and focuses on the seasons caused by the
sun's angle to the earth; the lunar year is shorter
and reflects the rhythm of the moon's waxing
and waning in a monthly cycle. Thus dates, an-
niversaries, time locations came out differently
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By DR. WILLIAM KOREY

(Editor's note: Dr. Korey is the director of policy research of the Bnai
Brith International Council and an expert on Soviet policy and the situation
of Soviet Jews.)
NEW YORK (JTA) — The death of Yuri Andropov and the accession of Konstan-
tin Chernenko as the top leader of the Soviet Communist Party is unlikely to bring
any basic change for the immediate future in policy toward the Soviet Jewish com-
munity.
During the course of the past year, it is now clear, basic Communist Party
decisions have been largely taken by the Politburo as a collective group and it is more
than likely that the forthcoming transitional period will also be marked by the
collectivity of decision-making. Each key member of the Politburo represents a
crucial and major interest group in Soviet society.
Caution in terms of decision-making and especially in terms of changes in the
existing policy line with respect to most areas is certain to be the prevailing mode.
This flows from the collective character of decision-making, the predominantly
DR. WILLIAM KOREY
gerontological feature of the leadership, and the fact that, in. the current state of
American-Soviet sharp tensions, no one will be in-
clined to seek a hasty and significant modification of
the party line.
Moreover, it is probable that the entire party
leadership of the Politburo, given its awareness
of Andropov's long and terminal illness, care-
The latest maneuvers, a Saudi Arabian proposal whose
fully considered and very likely planned all
major plank is the abrogation of the Israel-Lebanese-May
17,1983 treaty, is judged as another evidence of a caving in
possible steps to take account of a variety of
to terror. There is, in Israel, particular irritation over the
changing circumstances. While clashing inter-
U.S. hesitancy to stand firm against that proposal.
ests and struggles for power were undoubtedly
Israeli officials are also seriously disturbed by the re-
occurring, they were carefully shielded from
marks of President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, after a lunch-
public
view.
eon meeting with President Reagan and King Hussein of
With reference to Soviet Jewry, party policy as
Jordan at the White House on Tuesday.
elaborated by the collective leadership under An-
Mubarak urged the United States to open a dialogue
dropov and, no doubt to be continued for the time
with the Palestine Liberation Organization through Yasir
being under Chernenko, comprises four areas:
Arafat, and blamed the troubles in Lebanon on Israel's

Beirut Horror Judged
`Caving in to Terror

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Prussian Exhibition
A Broad Spectrum

Jewish Education Is
Changing in Detroit

Jewish Welfare Federation

When the Talmud Torah Institute held its first classes on
Division Street in 1898, Jewish education was the aleph-bais,
taught row on row in a no-nonsense fashion.

When the Institute merged with the Wilkins Street Talmud
Torah in 1919 to form the United Hebrew Schools of Detroit, no
one had heard of lessons in Hebrew calligraphy or teaching with
Hebrew card games. Teenagers were not encouraged to discuss
such touchy subjects as intermarriage in an open forum.
Now, every institution that deals with Hebrew education —
from the UHS, its high school and Midrasha College of Jewish
Studies, to the synagogue schools, day schools, Jewish Commu-
nity Center and camping programs of the Fresh Air Society — are
all in search of innovative ways to reach young people and teach
them the joys of being Jewish.
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This 16th Century painting, part of the
"Jews in Germany Under Prussian
Rule" exhibition, shows Jews being
burned at the stake.

The exhibition "Jews in Germany Under Prussian Rule,"
which will be presented by the Holocaust Memorial Center
March 4-28 at the main Jewish Community Center, was pro-
duced by the Prussian Cultural Archives of Berlin. Dr. Roland
Klemig, director of the Archives, became interested in producing
this major exhibition as a by-product of the exhibition "Prussian
Year."
In 1979, the Prussian Cultural Foundation allocated $5 mil-
lion to produce one comprehensive and 19 smaller exhibitions
relating to Prussian culture. The Jewish component of the "Prus-
sian Year" was originally limited to Moses Mendelsohn (1729-
1786) who advocated the acculturation of Jews to the European
way of life, and Rachel Wanhagen who, following the French
Revolution, considered herself a world citizen.
In the process of production, Dr. Klemig was struck by the
wealth of material on German Jews and their great contributions
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