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No Profit
In Holocaust
I am responding to the letter
written in The Jewish News by
Mr. Martin Shlanger on Jan. 9
("A Price On The Holocaust?")
In the letter, Mr. Shlanger
states: "Unfortunately, David
Bergman is the only local sur-
vivor who is not willing to par-
ticipate without monetary re-
muneration . . . It ill behooves
David Bergman or any sur-
vivor to turn a profit from our
Holocaust experiences." The
above are very serious accusa-
tions.
During the last 25 years, I
have given up hundreds of
hours from my business profes-
sion when I could have earned
thousands of dollars, in order
to go to schools to make stu-
dents and teachers aware of
what happened during the
Holocaust. I've also spent
thousands of dollars from m3,
own personal savings to de-
velop educational programs
that are in use in high schools
and other educational institu-
tions. Many of these materials
were distributed freely and
others at only a fraction of my
personal cost.
While the monetary sac-
rifices were indeed extremely
costly, the biggest sacrifice was
in giving up so much time
away from -my family. That
time can never be replaced and
I hope that my wife and chil-
dren will forgive me for this.
With all those costly sac-
rifices, both personal and fi-
nancial, to have Mr. Shlanger
so maliciously and slander-
ously try to destroy everything
that I've dedicated myself to in
the last 25 years is reprehensi-
ble . . .
David Bergman
Southfield
Dialogue With PLO
Not Peaceful Pursuit
I read with interest the letter
signed by the New Jewish
Agenda (Jan. 2) on the quest
for amity, quoting: "Seek peace
and pursue it. This must be the
guideline." I wholeheartedly
/3 agree with the expanded com-
ments of the letter writer that
"what Israel needs is to achieve
peace with its neighbors, and
dialogue even with our
) enemies is essential."
Up to this point I am in full
> accord. However, when the
Agenda followers favor
dialogue with the PLO, they
seem to ignore the current
covenant that aims to disman-
tle the State of Israel. Any dis-
cussion would then amount to
determining Israel's suicide by
stages. Whatever the issues in
most national quarrels may be,
as Iran and Iraq, the continued
existence of either combatant
is rarely in dispute. Not so the
PLO: Their goal is to remove
the State of Israel from the
\ world map. It is therefore quite
/' understandable for the Israelis
to regard anyone negotiating
their demise as tantamount to
treason. Peace also reigns in
' the graveyard.
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One is forced to conclude
that the New Jewish Agenda is
neither new nor particularly
Jewish and offers no real
agenda other than ultimately
weakening and dismantling
the State of Israel.
Milton J. Steinhardt
Southfield
Open Our Hearts
To The Retarded
I applaud The Jewish News
and Dr. Gary A. Tobin for
bringing to light the impor-
tance that personal relation-
ships play in normalizing the
lives of mentally retarded in-
dividuals (Jan. 2). His article
helps to show that if we are to
help make developmentally
disabled people a true part of
our community, then it is up to
us as individuals to open our
hearts to these people when
encountering them in
synagogue, at the Jewish
Community Center, at the
grocery store or wherever it
may happen to be.
As Dr. Tobin points out, it is
also necessary for the or-
ganized Jewish community to
open its heart. While it may be
true, as Dr. Tobin states, that
social services for developmen-
tally disabled Jews is "fully in-
adequate" in most com-
munities, we in Detroit can be
proud of the fact that this is not
the case in our community. For
18 years the Jewish Associa-
tion for Retarded Citizens has
been in the forefront as a pro-
vider of services to mentally
retarded persons. JARC cur-
rently operates ten group
homes for mentally retarded
adults, all of which observe
Kashrut, and which provide a
warm atmosphere, with
Jewish content, in which the
residents have a new quality
and sense of dignity added to
their lives.
JARC also provides services
for clients who are able to live
more independently through
the DeRoy Independent
Apartment Program and pro-
vides ongoing counseling and
assistance through its Family
Assistance Program to over
200 citizens and their families
who are awaiting placement in
a JARC home.
Dr. Tobin is correct in point-
ing out that these services are
expensive, but we in Detroit
are fortunate. Due to the
generosity of the community
and the support of the Michi-
gan Department of Mental
Health, JARC is able to pro-
vide services which are not
only adequate, but which are
outstanding.
None of these services, how-
ever, can take the place of the
personal interactions to which
Dr. Tobin refers. True ac-
ceptance of mentally retarded
Jews into the Jewish commu-
nity will only occur when each
of us, as individual Jews, make
a visible effort to include them
in our personal lives.
Michael S. Feldman
President, JARC
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