THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, September 28, 1984

YEAR IN IR E. V 1 E.

ANDROPOV died and was
buried in Red Square but
the Soviet leader served
too short a time to make a
lasting impression on world
affairs.

SEN. HENRY JACKSON, shown here with his wife Helen,
died in September and was mourned in Israel as well as
the U.S. as a stong and true friend of the Jewish state
and Soviet Jewry.

an Israeli leader since the Yom Kippur war .. .
West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl visits Is-
rael . . . Increasing numbers of Jewish poor in the
Detroit area are documented in a Jewish News
feature article . . . Super Sunday telethon nets
$500,000 for the Allied Jewish Campaign . . . De-
troit communal leader Louis Blumberg dies .. .
The Rev. Jesse Jackson secures the release of U.S.
Navy flier Robert Goodman Jr. from the Syrian
government. Goodman was shot down over Leba-
non during a bombing sortie following the truck-
bomb attack on the Beirut base of the U.S. Marines
. . . Syrian Jewess Lilian Abadi and her two young
children are found dead in their home in Damas-
cus, the murder to remain unsolved . . . The United
States formally anounces its intention to with-
draw from the United Nations Educational, Scien-
tific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) .. .
The Israeli police arrest a suspect in the murder of
Emil Grunzweig, who was killed by a hand gre-
nade in a 1983 Peace Now rally.

FEBRUARY

BENARD MAAS, Detroit
Jewish communal
philanthropist, died at the
age of 88 in May.

MAJOR HADAD, Israel's
ally in Lebanon, died at
the age of 47, a further
blow to Israel's ties to
Lebanon.

YIGAEL YADIN,
archaeologist-general-
politician, died at 58, a
true symbol of Israeli
leadership.

LOUIS BLUMBERG, active in
Federation and
philanthropic projects for
the aged, died at age 82 in
January.

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Youth Aliyah celebrates its 50th anniversary
with a jubilee celebration that includes a confer-
ence in Israel . . . The Karp Report, named for .
Assistant Attorney General Yehudit Karp, is re-
leased. The controversial report puts forward
recommendations for the role of law in Judaea and
Samaria . . . Spurred by the virtual collapse of the
Lebanese government and the take-over of west
Beirut by Moslem militia, President Reagan or-
ders the phased pullout of U.S. Marines from Be-
irut . . . Representatives of Jewish groups criticize
the Rev. Jesse Jackson after disclosures that two of
his organizations received contributions totaling
$200,000 from the Arab League . . . Rabbi Philip
,Rabinowitz of Kesher Israel Congregation in
Washington D.C. is found murdered in his home
. . . A letter to the editor in The Jewish News
criticizing the Lubavitch movement raises a storm
of protest in Detroit's_ Orthodox community .. .
more than 500 participate in the "Step Up to Is-
rael" conference at the Jewish Community Center
. . . President Amin Gemayel of Lebanon, under
pressure from Syria and Saudi Arabia, abrogates
the May 17, 1983 pact with Israel, which estab-
lished various ties between the two countries .. .
Twenty-one persons are wounded when two hand
grenades explode outside a clothing shop in
Jerusalem.

MARCH

MORDECHAI KAPLAN, the
father of the Reconstruc-
tionist movement, died at
102 and was praised as
one of the major forces in
American Judaism this
century.

Three Israelis are killed and nine are
wounded when a bomb explodes on a bus in the
port city of Ashdod . . . Ezer Weizman, former gen-
eral and now a politician, announces his intention
to form a new party to run for the next Knesset .. .
The Rev. Jesse Jackson admits to referring to Jews
as "Hymies" and to New York as "Hymietown" in a
conversation with a Washington, D.C. reporter : . .
Jewish leaders are disappointed at the U.S. Sup-
reme Court's ruling upholding the use of govern-
ment funds to pay for Christmas Nativity scenes.
The decision came in a case involving the Pawtuc-

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