40B Friday, September 28, 1984

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

R

R EV I E

A year of
heartening glory

BY PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Editor Emeritus

The Jewish News is sold in March to a Baltimore group. Editor Gary Rosenblatt, Editor Emeritus
Philip Slomovitz, Business Manager Carmi Slomovitz and Publisher Charles Buerger cement the
deal.

Genuine glory in Detroit communal achieve-
ments has been recorded in a year marked by pro-
gressive action for the benefit of Jewry and man-
kind.
It is far from boasting to assert that the past
year was filled with important attainments cre-
dited to the record of Metropolitan Detroit Jewry.
The major achievement was the retention of a
spirit of unity which enabled the dedicated con-
stituents to fulfill the duties that link this impor-
tant Michigan factor with world Jewry.
Israel was given great encouragement in the
manner of Michigan Jewry, mainly centered in
Metropolitan Detroit, responded to the needs ur-
gent in assuring proper functioning of Israel's Uni-
versities — Technion, Bar-Ilan, Hebrew Univer-
sity and the several other schools of higher learn-
ing; the assistance given in integrating newcom-
ers to the Holy Land and the care provided for the
less fortunate there.
In the philanthropic sense, the past year was
another landmark in Detroit functions. It was a
year of marked success on that score.
It was not limited to philanthropy, although
the charitable and the philanthropic concern also
is ascribable to the establishment here, adjacent to
the Jewish Community Center, of the Holocaust -
Memorial Center.
If it were only for this achievement, the past
year would be rated among the very important on
this century's Detroit Jewish calendar.
There were the many other notable achieve-
ments. The Maccabiah Games set a record for glory
for American Jewry via its Detroit constituents. It
pointed to the commencement of renewed efforts to
strengthen the physical elements in building a
dutiful activity in behalf of the youth.
These games symbolized the elemental in
communal obligations in making educational pur-
poses priorities in community planning.
It was an important year, and its achieve-
ments surely introduce another era of great
achievements by Metropolitan Detroit Jewry.

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The U.S. General Assembly adopts five anti-Israel
resolutions calling for sanctions against Israel.

JANUARY

Lighting the torch at the opening ceremonies for the U.S. Maccabi Youth Games.

Ariel Sharon, Minister Without Portfolio, be-
comes a candidate for the aliyah chairmanship
vacated by Raphael Kotlowitz. His candidacy stirs
a lively debate at the Zionist General Council,
which votes him down . . . Major Sa'ad Haddad,
commander of the Christian militia in southern
Lebanon and an ally of Israel, dies at the age of 47
. . . President Chaim Herzog travels to Liberia and
Zaire on an official visit, the first visit to Africa by