THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
10 Friday, May 31, 1985
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Though small in number just a dot
Followers of Abraham the Patriarch
Constantly in the midst of great world events
Over four thousand years of our existence
Driven froi-n the promised land
With the laws of Moses spread over continents
When fear and darkness surround us
Then faith in the guidance of providence strengthens us
Like pillars of light overpowering the shadows of darkness
So is our faith in the future fulfillment
This is the legacy of creation bestowed upon us
To play in the drama of mankind
Glorification in all God's creation
Our way of life a civilization.
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Members of the six local con-
gregations comprising the Met-
ropolitan Detroit Federation of
Reform Synagogues will jointly
sponsor a dinner 6 p.m. June 12,
at Temple Beth El.
The dinner, on behalf of the
Fund for Reform Judaism, will
honor five members of the Re-
form community who have held
positions of leadership in their
respective congregations.
The program culminates a
local campaign to raise $100,000
to maintain and create pro-
grams, services and materials
for the advancment of Reform
Judaism.
Honorees at the dinner in-
clude James Fuller, past
president of Temple Kol Ami
and a past president of the Re-
form Federation; Walter Stark,
past president, Temple
Emanu-El; Mae Steinman, past
Sisterhood president of Temple
Beth Jacob; Leonard H.
Trunsky, past Brotherhood
president, Temple Israel; and
Trunsky
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Flora Winton, president, Temple
Beth El.
The Troy Jewish Congrega-
tion, newly-accepted as one of
the 760 Reform Jewish congre-
gations in the United States and
Canada, also will be represented
at the dinner.
Guest speaker will be Rabbi
Sanford Seltzer,' director of re-
search and development for the
Union of American Hebrew
Congregations, the umbrella
organization for Reform
Judaism.
Rabbi Seltzer is also co-
director of the UAHC Commis-
sion on Reform Jewish Out-
reach, head of the newly-
established task force on inter-
faith marriage and coordinator
of programs on aging for the Re-
form movement.
Rabbi Seltzer is a member of
the Boston Society of Geron-
tological Psychiatry, and serves
as a vice-president of the Na-
tional Interfaith Coalition on
Aging.
AJCongress Closes
Detroit Regional Office
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The Detroit-area office of the
American Jewish Congress,
which had gone unstaffed since
February, was officially closed
this week by the organization's
parent office in New York.
The closing was the result of
budgetary problems at the na-
tional level, according to Ruth
Rosenbaum, former regional di-
rector of the AJCongress in De-
troit. "The money situation
forced them to re-evaluate their
situation and retrench at a
number of local offices," Rosen-
baum said.
The Detroit bureau was the
only office to be completely shut
down by the Jewish organiza-
tion, however. The Detroit AJ-
Congress office was located at
21550 W. 12 Mile in Southfield.
There are some 400-500 AJ-
Congress members in the De-
troit area, according to Rosen-
baum. The organization, which
works to foster the creative,
religious and cultural survival
of the Jewish people and to
eliminate racial and religious
bigotry through various local
programs, has notified Detroit-
area members that they can ob-
tain AJCongress services and
materials from the Chicago
office.
"The Jewish Community
Council will also help to pick up
the slack now that our office is
closed," Rosenbaum told The
Jewish News.
Others in the organization
voiced disappointment over the
closing of the Detroit-area office.
"I didn't think it was a good
idea," former AJCongress secre-
tary Ann Goldberg said. "If I
was a member of an organiza-
tion, I would want to do things
within my own region, I would
have to be able to participate in
its activities.
"I think this way, a lot of De-
troit members will leave the
AJCongress for other groups."
Film Program
On Human Rights
The Workmen's Circle Par-
ents' and Younger Adult group
is organizing a program around
"Guatemala, Central America
and Human Rights: A Jewish
Concern" 7:30 p.m. June 9 at
the Workmen's Circle Center,
26341 Coolidge, Oak Park.
The video "Hidden Holocaust"
depicting living testimonies of
Guatemalan Indiands on human
rights abuses by military gov-
ernments will be featured.
Emirene Mendoza of the De-
troit Guatemalan Committee
will introduce the film and lead
a discugsion. Arts and crafts
made by Guatemalan refugees
living in Mexico will be on dis-
play and available for purchase.
The program is open to the
public.
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