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Israel Amitai, second from left, is greeted by Detroit Campaign leaders
Stanley Frankel, left, Paul D. Borman and Emery Klein.
Urged to "let the whole world
know where you stand," more
than 250 attendees at an Allied
Jewish Campaign progress report
meeting learned where Detroit
stands five weeks before the con-
clusion of the 1986 Campaign:
more than $20 million pledged by
13,000 contributors. They also
learned how far the community
has to go before it can call the
Campaign a success.
Israel Amitai, an Israeli jour-
nalist who is one of the United
Jewish Appeal's best known and
popular speakers, stepped in at
the last minute to replace an ail-
ing Daniel Schorr. The gathering,
at Adat Shalom Synagogue for
Campaign contributors of $500
and over, served as a midway
point in the final weeks of the
Jewish community's single
largest undertaking on behalf of
fellow Jews around the world.
The message of Campaign
Chairmen Paul D. Borman and
Stanley D. Frankel echoed
Amitai's own words: "What we
Jews don't do for ourselves, no one
will do for us." They urged volun-
teers in every division — whose
reports were heard that evening
— to redouble their efforts in the
next five weeks to reach 5,290 De-
troiters who have not yet made
their pledge. The Campaign clos-
ing is scheduled for . April 9.
Amitai chose the analogy of two
baskets of grapes one sour and
one sweet — to relate "the good
news and the bad news." The sour
grapes include the spectre of
anti-Semitism ("When I heard
Louis Farrakhan speak and
watched 25,000 people shouting
their approval, I was scared to
death. I understood then what
Nazi rallies looked like."). Other
"sour grapes" are the enormous
power, both economic and politi-
cal, of Arab petro-dollars; "vici-
ous" anti-Israel coverage by the
media; and the "total bankruptcy
of justice, morality and honesty"
demonstrated at the United Na-
tions, He described the suicidal
terrorism practiced by extremist
groups as evidence of a "world
gone crazy."
On the positive side — the
"sweet grapes" — Amitai told of
remarkable advances in Israeli
agriculture ("Did you know the
Israelis teach the Chinese how to
grow cotton, the Navaho Indians
how to plant crops and the
Nepalese how to,iaise fish?"). He
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described the creation of high-
tech industries ("Did you know
Time magazine is printed on com-
puters made in Israel?") and pro-
gress in medicine, like the de-
velopment of artificial skin for ac-
cident and burn victims and the
invention of a wheelchair that
provides greater mobility for the
disabled.
Despite the severe economic
impact of government reforms —
including wide-scale unemploy-
ment—Israel at age 37 continues
to provide a quality of life that
took Western nations centuries to
achieve, said Amitai.
He pointed to Operation Moses,
the rescue and absorption of
10,000 Ethiopian Jews, as one of
the finest examples of Israel's
sense of morality. "The whole
story will not be told for some
time; there are still 8,000 Jews
waiting to get out. But when if is
told, Operation Moses will make
EntObe look like a pussy. cat."
The Rabbinical Section of the
Allied Jewish Campaign will host
Amitai at 8:30 a.m.. March 21 at
the United Hebrew School's
Adolph Deutsch Building.
Amitai will also address the
Campaign's Israeli Section, 8 p.m.
March 22, at 5000 Town Center.
In Israel, Amitai's media activi-
ties range from print and broad-
cast journalism to television
production and media planning. A
producer and director of more
than 1,000 television programs,
he is former editor of the daily
newspaper Davar.
Rabbis Irwin Groner and Nor-
man Roman are co-chairman of
the Rabbinical Section. Shula
Fleischer is chairman of the Is-
raeli Section, and Amalia Poris,
Dr. Leo Eisenberg and Dr. Eliezer
Basse are associate chairmen.
JNF Plants
Military Forest
Jerusalem — Yaar Tzahal,
the forest of the Israel Defense
Forces, was inaugurated by the
Jewish National Fund in South
Jerusalem near Gilo. The cere-
mony was a central part of fes-
tivities celebrating Tu B'Shvat,
the Jewish New Year for Trees.
The first 350 saplings of the
forest's projected 25,000 trees
have been planted.
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OCCUPATION: Senior in
pre-law, University of Michigan
FOR STARTERS: Attended
Hillel Day School, was treasurer
of Michigan State Temple Youth
FAMILY AFFAIR: Together with
his family and those of four
friends, observed his Bar Mitzva on Masada.
POINT OF PRIDE: Helped reactivate and Was president of Alpha
Epsilon Pi Fraternity at U. of M., later was named national's outstand-
ing undergraduate of the year. "A lot of our members are Jewishly
involved — not wealthy or snobbish, just a bunch of regular guys."
WHEN HE'S NOT STUDYING: Skiing, tennis, running, graphic
design on his Macintosh. Plans to put the family tree on the computer.
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