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THIS ISSUE 50°
SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY
OCTOBER 24, 1986 / 21 TISHREI 5747
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Is Auburn Hills a
spectator's dream or a
catalyst for higher prices
and an urban-suburban
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Eban Probes 'Mystery' $10 Million Pledged
f.
ewe History
at Fisher Meeting
The former Israeli diplomat stresses self-preservation
over political salvation in his Ann Arbor talk
DAVID HOLZEL
Staff Writer
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-Abba Eban is first and foremost
a diplomat.
"Diplomacy does net promise
salvation," he told an Ann Arbor
audience. Its minimal aim is self-
preservation."
This prospective guides Eban's
political views as well as his world
outlook, and particularly his histori-
cal view of the Jewish people from
its very beginnings until the present
day.
Eban addressed a standing room
only audience Oct. 15 at the Univer-
sity of Michigan's Rackham Lecture
Hall. The veteran Israel Labor Party
politician, cabinet minister, author
and diplomat spoke on The Jewish
Presence in Civilization," a lively
march through Jewish history,
which he peppered with personal
anecdotes.
While his Heritage television
series on the Jews was making its
first U.S. run in 1984, Eban recalled,
a woman approached him at the
Metropolitan Museum in New York.
"I don't approve of the way the Ro-
mans are treating your people," she
informed him in earnest. "I hope it
gets better next week."
Eban was reluctant to tell her
that in the following episode,
Jerusalem was to be razed by the
Roman Titus.
Heritage was created, Eban told
his Ann Arbor audience, out of the
conviction that the Jewish story had
never been told to a mass audience.
He believes that Jews should not
appear as merely the "victim of his-
tory. What about the Jew as creator
of values, as the originator of ideas?"
he asked.
It is "a story full of drama, and
when it is ended, the sentiment is
one of mystery."
There are four "mysteries" asso-
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Major Allied Jewish Campaign contributors boosted
their gifts by $1.2 million for 1987
. Detroit set a national standard
for philanthropy last week when
$10.3 million was raised for the 1987
Allied Jewish Campaign at the tra-
ditional "Fisher Meeting." The total
was $1,175,000 above what the same
individuals contributed last year.
Hosted by Max and Marjorie
Fisher, the annual pace-setting
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gathering drew four dozen commu-
nity leaders and their adult children.
It was the presence of the latter
that particularly moved Fisher,
whose own invol:vement in the De-
troit Jewish community goes back to
his young adulthood half a century
ago.
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On Campus
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Single Life
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Synagogues
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Women
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