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For more good advice, call or write your local unit of ARC, the Association for Retarded Citizens. Jewish Association for Retarded Citizens 11288 W. 12 Mile Rd. Smithfield, MI 48016 (313) 551-1650 6253 ORCHARD LAKE RD. NORTH OF MAPLE RD. In Sugar Tree • West Bloomfield Shop Daily 10 to 6:30 • Thursday 10 to 8 • Call: 855-3180 22-D FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1987 Help build the'arc Association for Retarded Citizens J Tensions between lay and professional leaders at the na- tional Jewish organizational level seem to be increasing. Dr. Daniel Thursz is retir- ing in December after 11 years as executive vice presi- dent of Bnai Brith International. Thursz told The Jewish News that he has found the job fulfilling but very deman- ding. "It has taken its toll," he said, and he is considering returning to teaching or go- ing into the consulting business. Prior to his appoint- ment at Bnai Brith, he was dean of the School of Social Work and Community Plann- ing of the University of Maryland. Thursz said the decision was his and that he had been considering it for some time, but observers say it has been an open secret that the 58-year-old Thursz was on the losing end of a power clash with Seymour Reich, the lay president of the international organization. Insiders say that Reich wanted an executive who would follow his directives; a key issue was Reich wanting greater involvement in the discussion of salaries of Bnai Brith employees. In recent months Reich, who was elected this year, has also pressured the organiza- tion's publication, The Bnai Brith International Jewish Monthly, to focus more on Bnai Brith news and activ- ities, and less on stories of general Jewish interest. The Bnai Brith turnover comes close on the heels of a- more public power struggle at the American Jewish Com- mittee where the executive vice president, Dr. David Gor- dis, was fired by the lay presi- dent of the organization. Tensions between lay and professional leaders have always existed in American Jewish organizational life, but these recent episodes — the American Jewish Com- mittee, once a bastion of stability, has now had four ex- ecutive vice presidents in as many years — call into ques- tion the very nature of lay-professional relationships. The old axiom has been that the stronger the profes- sional staff, the stronger the organization. Dr. Michael Berenbaum, who teaches at Georgetown University, re- cently noted that three of the most effective national Jewish organizations in the country — AIPAC, the Simon Thursz: victim of a power clash? • Wiesenthal Center, and the Union of American Hebrew Congregations - — are run by, and most identified with, their powerful professional leaders, Tom Dine, Rabbi Marvin Hier and Rabbi Alex- ander Schindler, respectively. "Lay officers exercise an im- portant but clearly secondary role," said Berenba -ura. But it was not always so. Prior to World War II, na- tional Jewish organizations were best known for their -forceful lay leaders, from Jacob Blaustein of the American Jewish Committee to Rabbi Stephen Wise of the American Jewish Congress. The emergence of trained social work professionals after the War saw Jewish organizations taking a more low-key, less confrontational stance. Trained to develop and promote lay leadership, the professional staffers played a behind-the-scenes role while helping to build their organizations. In recent years, some profes- sional leaders were taking a more public role as spokes- persons for their organiza- tions, leading to tension when lay presidents saw this as their domain. Dr. Irving Levine of the American Jewish Committee, a seasoned observer of Jewish communal life, says we may be witnessing now a byprod- uct of "the fact that Jewish action has become more public, and lay leaders want to compete for the limelight." He sees in the growing popularity of Jewish PACs, for example, "a return of high- powered lay people to Jewish life.