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A LIVING
MEMORIAL
After two decades of
debate over how and
where to build it,
Detroit's Holocaust
Memorial Center is about
to become a reality.
BY TEDD SCHNEIDER
Staff Writer
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The Holocaust Memorial Center's initial corridors offer a prelude to the tragedy that befell European Jewry.
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Rabbis cancel Kahane site
BY ALAN HITSKY
News Editor
The continuing controversy over
what to do about Rabbi Meir Kahane
was given a strong response Wednes-
day evening at an emergency meeting
of the board of directors of Young Is-
rael of Greenfield.
Kahane, whose aim of expelling
all Arabs from Israel, Judea and
Samaria has received increasing pub-
lic attention since he was elected a
member of the Knesset in July, had
been scheduled to speak next Tuesday
evening at. Young Israel of Greenfield,
at a fund-raising meeting sponsored
by the Jewish Idea.
But the rental agreement was
canceled and Kahane will speak in-
stead at Roma Hall in Bloomfield Hills
at 8 p.m. Tuesday.
The board of the synagogue held
an emergency meeting Wednesday
evening to discuss Kahane's impend-
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The local Jewish
community comes
to grips with
whether or not
he should be given
a forum here.
See Story on Page 14
Meir Kahane: Exhorting for an exodus of
Arabs from Israel.
ing visit. More specifically, they were
reacting to an advertisement in last
week's Jewish News which failed to
identify the Jewish Idea as the sponsor
of the program. The Jewish Idea is
sometimes described as an educational
organization of Kahane supporters,
less well-known than the militant
Jewish Defense League.
Synagogue leaders insisted before
the meeting that they would not cancel
the rental agreement. But they had
not reckoned with the three rabbis of
the Metropolitan Council of Young Is-
rael.
The rabbis, James I. Gordon of
Young Israel of Oak-Woods, Reuven
Drucker of YI-Greenfield, and
Elimelech Goldberg of YI-Southfield,
issued an Halachic ruling which forced
cancellation of the rental agreement.
A source close to the rabbis said the
ruling was based on concern that
Rabbi Kahane's appearance could lead
to demonstrations or rioting.
Although
YI-Greenfield
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FOR ISRAEL?
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