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SI-I NEWS

APRIL 26, 1985

SERVING DETROIT'S METROPOLITAN JEWISH COMMUNITY

THIS ISSUE 50c

Detroit Marks
Israel's 37th

open to children of all ages will be held
at 1:15 p.m.
From 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., a special
children's. program will feature the
cutting of Israel's birthday cake and a
magician.
At 1 p.m., the Jewish War Vete-
rans will parade the American and Is-
raeli flags to open the day's main pro-
gram. Stuart Rogoffs piano accom-
paniment of Had/moth and the Star
Spangled Banner will be followed by a
welcome by David Hermelin, emcee
for the day. Rabbi Kenneth L. Cohen of
Cong. Shaarey Zedek will offer the
Prayer for Israel.
Joel Tauber, Jewish Welfare Fed-
eration president, will introduce
Emanuel Zippori, Israel's consul gen-

Activities for young and old
highlight the day-long Yom
Haatzmaut celebration at
the Jewish Center.

A taste of Israel will be offered in
more than 50 booths featuring infor-
mation and Israeli-made goods at the
annual community-wide Israel Inde-
pendence Day celebration 9:30 a.m.-
4:30 p.m. Sunday at the main Jewish
Community Center.

The celebration is sponsored by
the Jewish Community Council in
cooperation with the Jewish Center
and Jewish Welfare Federation.
An El Al paper airplane contest

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Unabated Storm

The President's planned
visit to Bitburg arouses the
Jewish and non-Jewish
communities.

Staff Report

Criticism of President Reagan's
West German itinerary mushroomed
this week as rabbis, Jewish lay lead-
ers, veterans organizations and minor-
ity groups in Detroit and throughout
the country voiced opposition to the
President's planned stop at a Bitburg
military cemetery where a number of
SS soldiers are buried. Reagan will

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visit West Germany next month to
help commemorate the 40th anniver-
sary of the end of World War II.
"Honoring Germans in the spirit
of reconciliation should be devoted to
honoring those Germans who had the
courage to stand up to Nazism," Alvin
Kushner, executive director of the
Jewish Community Council of Met-
ropolitan Detroit said Tuesday at a
press conference convened by the De-
troit branch of the NAACP to address
the now controversial trip. "A brief
look at history would remind anyone
that the SS were an elite group of Hit-
ler murderers involved in the genocide
of six million Jews and millions of
others," Kushner said. "Those whose
memory should be honored are the
young people who gave their lives to
liberate Europe from the Nazis and not
those who served as tools of Nazi brut-
ality."
The President's planned visit to
the cemetery at Bitburg is "embarras-
sing to this entire nation and a rude
effrontery to moral conscience," ac-
cording to Rev. Charles Adams,
president of the Detroit NAACP. Rev.
Adams called the President's remark
last week that some Nazis were vic-
tims of their own movement a "per-
nicious revision of history and an un-

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D THE WORD
SHALL GO FORTH
FROM ZION

Sidney Zion is no prophet, but this
brash and colorful maverick reporter
has an instinct for truth and a soft
spot for underdogs, from
Menachem Begin to Meyer Lansky.

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