THE SWISH NEWS THIS ISSUE 50c SERVING DETROIT'S METROPOLITAN JEWISH COMMUNITY MAY 23, 1986 Jews and Blacks: `Natural Allies' Detroit Mayor Coleman Young traces the history of cooperation between blacks and Jews. BY HEIDI PRESS Local News Editor Detroit Mayor Coleman A. Young last week called Jews and blacks "natural allies" in the • fight against racism, bigotry and oppres- sion and added that the city of De- troit can't survive without the coop- eration of the suburbs. Speaking to nearly 300 persons at the Jewish Community Council's delegate assembly at Cong. Shaarey Zedek, Young said, "The parallels between blacks and Jews in America are so direct that we are natural al- lies." • He said the "threat of oppres- sion" was common to Jews and blacks. Coleman Young Young pointed to the Jewish migration in a northwesterly pattern out of Detroit and how the black community followed closely behind. "There's an affinity here," he said Continued on Page 26 Politics Snag State HMC Grant BY ALAN HITSKY News Editor Whether the Republicans . are playing politics or the Democrats made a mistake appears to be im- material to state approval for a sec- ond $50,000 grant to the Holocaust Memorial Center in West Bloom- field. The appropriation became in- Births anal Mitzvah Business Classified Ads Editorials Engagements Obituaries Purely Commentary Danny Raskin Singles Synagogues Women 70 58, 48 73 4 54 86 2 40 72 64 49 volved in a dispute this week during the budgeting process in Lansing, but both sides have assured The Jewish News that the HMC will be granted state funding when the political wrangling over the drawn- out budgetary process is concluded in June. Last year, the Legislature appropriated $50,000 toward the HMC's 1986 budget of $600,000 as an historical preservation grant. The same request for 1987 was nixed in a Senate subcommittee last week. Sen. William A. Sederburg (R- East Lansing), chairman of the Se- nate Appropriations Committee, told The Jewish News that the Governor recommended the $50,000 grant in a category we decided last year would be limited to one-time grants. So we did not include it this time, but we will probably include it somewhere in the appropriations bill." Seder- burg gave the same assurance Wed- nesday to Rabbi Charles H. Continued on Page 26 Is the Jewish Agency meeting the changing needs of Israel and the Jewish world?