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CJF Official Heads
List For JWF Post

invites the community to its

OPEN BOARD AND MEMBERSHIP MEETING

Tuesday, June 10, 7:30 p.m.

BY ALAN HITSKY

Zionist Cultural Center
18451 W. 10 Mile, Southfield

News Editor

Martin Kraar

Jewish Welfare Federation of-
ficials confirmed this week that
Martin Kraar, a former St.
Louis Federation executive vice
president who established the
Council of Jewish Federations
office in Israel two years ago, is
the likely successor to Wayne
Feinstein as executive vice
president of Detroit's Federation
(JWF).
Feinstein will leave Detroit at
the end of this month to become
head of the Jewish Federation-
Council of Greater Los Angeles.
Kraar, a native of Tennessee,
has worked for Jewish federa-
tions and community centers in
Houston, Memphis, Nashville,
and St. Louis. He was described
by a source close to Detroit's
selection process as "having
fabulous relationships on both
sides of the ocean. Everybody in
Israel is mad at us for taking
him. He's a real nice guy with
good viewpoints on the workings
of federations from inside and
out."
When asked by The Jewish

.

News this week, JWF President
Joel Tauber confirmed that
Kraar is the leading candidate,
but cautioned that "we are in
the final stages of negotiation.
We hope to have it firmed up by
the end of June."
Tauber described Kraar as a
"thoughtful, innovative, creative
thinker who will support Detroit
in its quest to continue as a
leading Jewish community.
There are those who are excel-
lent administrators who could
maintain what we have done.
But he can do that and push us
into new areas. In that respect,
he's very similar to Wayne
(Feinstein)."
Tauber said these new areas
include Jewish identity affilia-
tion and neighborhoods.
Thomas I. Klein chaired the
search committee, which was
lauded by Tauber for its
thoroughness, confidentiality
and having done "one of the best
jobs I've ever seen by a single-
purpose committee."
Kraar established the CJF
office in Israel in 1984, leaving
his post as executive vice
president of the Jewish Federa-
tion of St. Louis. He had prev-
iously served as head of the
Jewish Community Centers
Association in St. Louis, as head
of the combined federation, fam-
ily service and community cen-
ter in Nashville, and a 92-bed
residential center for emotion-
ally disturbed adolescents.
He was assistant executive di-
rector of the Jewish Community
Center in Memphis, and in the
late 1960s was city-wide youth
consultant and director of camp-
ing for the center and federation
in Houston.
Kraar did undergraduate
work at the University of Chat-
tanooga and Hebrew University
before completing a bachelor's in
psychology at Memphis State
University and a master's in so-
cial work at the University of Il-
linois - Chicago Circle.

Jewish News Honored
For Layout, Writing

The Jewish News has earned
two major honors in the annual
Simon Rockower Memorial
Awards in Jewish Journalism.
The Jewish News won first
place in the "Excellence in Lay-
out, Design and Makeup; News-
paper Page 1 Format" category.
Kim Muller-Thym, who handles
layout responsibilities for both
The Jewish News and the Bal-
timore Jewish Times, also won
first place in the "Magazine
Format" category for the Jewish
Times. She took third-place
honors in the same category for
the Jewish Monthly.
The Jewish News received a
second place award for "Distin-
guished Feature Writing" for
Alan Abrams' 1984 article,
"Highway Robbery," which dis-
cussed the impact of the 1-696
freeway construction on the

Jewish community in Oak Park
and Southfield.
The Rockower competition
covered the Jewish calendar
year from September 1984 to
September 1985. The competi-
tion was administered by Bran-
deis University and will be pre-
sented at the American Jewish
Press Association conference at
Brandeis June 17-20.

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