THE NEXT CHAPTER Joint Resolution of the Congregational Rabbis of Metropolitan Detroit As Jews, we often take our history for granted. Our past is filled with events of such great consequence, we forget that each day brings it own quiet turning points. We forget that history is still in the making and that we have the power to change its course. On the centennial of David Ben-Gurion's birth, we recall a man, small in stature but grand in vision, who guided a reborn Jewish nation through its first decades. And, yet, his last days were spent on a farm in the Negev where another kind of history was being made: the grinding, day-to-day task of conquering the desert. Who can forget Israel's dramatic rescue of 12,000 Ethiopian Jews? For a brief moment, each of us took pride in helping Israel write a new chapter in Jewish history. And, yet, the daily victories that take place in the lives of these courageous souls, many of them orphaned, have more to do with survival in the land of their yearnings. Several weeks ago, a self-taught scholar with the moral force of the thousands he left behind in the Soviet Union spoke in Detroit. He told how every year the number of practicing Jews mounts in the USSR. Each one represents an individual choice to be a Jew, at whatever the cost to career and to family. For most of us, the American Dream is a birthright. Our parents and grandparents made the often heart-wrenching decision to leave behind families and friends to make a new life here. Their gift to us was a great community, whose institutions heal the sick, comfort the aged, nurture the young. That is how they made history. But they didn't finish it. They left the next chapter for us to write. Federation/Campaign Sabbath January 30-31, 1987 We have the choice of making that chapter a proud moment in Jewish history. We can enable our children to remain Jewish by providing a strong education. We can ease the loneliness and physical impairment of our aged by creating new and exciting programs. We can help our people throughout the world meet hardship with dignity. And yes, David Ben-Gurion, we can help Israel conquer the desert and bring new hope to a hungry world. We, the congregational rabbis of Detroit, urge every man, woman and child in our community to support the Allied Jewish Campaign in these efforts to upbuild the lives of our people. We call upon every individual to pledge his or her best gift to the 1987 Campaign when a volunteer calls on Super Sunday. Make history. Choose life. RABBI MILTON ARM Congregation Beth Achim RABBI CHAIM BERGSTEIN Bais Chabad of Farmington Hills RABBI MARC S. BLUMENTHAL Temple Beth El RABBI ELIEZER COHEN Young Israel of Oak Woods RABBI REUVEN DRUCKER Young Israel of Greenfield Young Israel of Oak Woods RABBI NOAH M. GAMZE Downtown Synagogue RABBI ELIMELECH GOLDBERG Young Israel of Southfield RABBI LEO Y. GOLDMAN Congregation Shaarey Shomayim RABBI MARTIN D. GORDON Livonia Jewish Congregation RABBI BETZALEL GOTTLIEB Congregation Mishkan Israel RABBI IRWIN GRONER Congregation Shaarey Zedek RABBI CHASKEL GRUBNER Congregation Dovid Ben Nuchim RABBI SHERMAN KIRSHNER B'nai Israel of Bloomfield 71"-TM E Super Sunday February 1, 1987 PARPNEiRS FOR L1FE RABBI LEIZER LEVIN Beth Tefilo Emanuel Tikvah RABBI DOV LOKETCH Congregation Mogain Abraham RABBI HAROLD S. LOSS Temple Israel RABBI DAVID A. NELSON Congregation Beth Shalom RABBI NORMAN T. ROMAN Temple Kol Ami RABBI STANLEY M. ROSENBAUM Congregation B'nai Moshe RABBI A. IRVING SCHNIPPER Beth Abraham Hillel Moses RABBI DANNEL I. SCHWARTZ Temple Beth El RABBI MEILECH SILBERBERG Bais Chabad of West Bloomfield RABBI EFRY G. SPECTRE Adat Shalom Synagogue RABBI LANE STEINGER Temple Emanu El RABBI M. ROBERT SYME Temple Israel RABBI RICHARD A. WEISS Temple Beth Jacob RABBI SHERWIN T. WINE Birmingham Temple RABBI PAUL M. YEDWAB Temple Israel RABBI MORTON F. YOLKUT Congregation B'nai David RABBI SHAIALL ZACHARIASH Congregation Shomrey Emunah - CHAPLAIN (Dr.) ALLAN M. BLUSTEIN President, Rabbinical Commission of the Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit 13