YEAR IN REVIEW 5746 YEAR N REVIEW
PAUL ZUCKERMAN, a world leader in
United Jewish Appeal and Jewish Agency
affairs, died in January.
HANK GREENBERG, the first Jewish
major leaguer to be named to the Hall of
Fame, died at 75. He once hit a ninth-
inning homer to win a key game for the
Detroit Tigers on Rosh Hashana after
attending synagogue services in
the morning.
YEHUDA HELLMAN died suddenly after
serving as executive director of the
Conference of Presidents of Major American
Jewish Organizations for 25 years.
HYMAN RICKOVER, the controversial
father of the nuclear Navy, died at 88.
similar projects in Cleveland and Balti-
more.
At the same time, the Jewish Welfare
Federation is experiencing a change in ad-
ministrations. Wayne Feinstein announced
that he was leaving his post as executive
vice president of the Federation to become
head of the Jewish Federation Council of
Greater Los Angeles. Martin Kraar,
former federation executive in St. Louis
who established the Council of Jewish
Federations' office in Israel, was named
to succeed Feinstein. This month, Joel
Tauber completed three years as president
of the Detroit Jewish Welfare Federation
and Dr. Conrad Giles was elected to suc-
ceed him.
A negative note was sounded in the
Michigan Senate over a request for fund-
ing for the outreach programs of the
Holocaust Memorial Center. State Sen.
Gilbert DiNello publicly apologized a week
later to HMC officials and the Jewish com-
munity for his remarks inferring that Jews
have enough money to pay for the HMC
programs themselves. Ultimately, the
HMC was granted $100,000 for its pro-
grams. Kashruth was also in the news this
past summer after the Council of Orthdox
Rabbis accused a local butcher shop of
having non-kosher meat in its store.
Another butcher filed suit against Sinai
Hospital, the Council of Orthodox Rabbis
and the Kollel Institute over Sinai's
refusal to use him as a supplier.
Attacks on local Jewish institutions
were few, but the community was shocked
by vandalism to Yeshivah Beth Yehudah
in Southfield. Thousands of dollars in of-
fice equipment and glass windows were
destroyed in the attack. At the Jewish
Community Center, police removed a pipe
bomb discovered at the outdoor swimming
pool.
On a more positive note, ground was
broken last November for the new Jewish
Vocational Services building on Southfield
Road, and clients and staff began using
the new facility this month. The Jewish
Welfare Federation, the Jewish Commun-
ity Center and several other agencies are
also marking milestone anniversaries this
year, leading to reflection on the good
work of the past and the tasks of the
future.
But 5746 may best be remembered in
Jewish history for the transition one man
made from imprisonment to freedom. The
memory of a pale but elated Anatoly
Shcharansky telling his fellow Jews not to
give up the struggle for Soviet Jewry was,
in reality, the most profound message of
the human spirit, and it recalled the clos-
ing words a defiant Shcharansky spoke at
his 1978 trial for treason in Moscow: "For
more than 2,000 years the Jewish people,
my people, have been dispersed. But
wherever they are, wherever Jews are
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