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Leon Cohan: "Let's take a fresh look at everything."

focus this year is on travel to
Israel. A travel fair is in the
planning stages, but the
Council has, until now, con-
centrated on sponsoring mis-
sions to Israel, or as close to
Israel as the Council could
get."
The Council recently sent a
group of U.S. labor leaders to
Israel. "Before I had money to
go to Israel, we did two Chris-
tian clergy missions to
Washington, D.C.," Kushner
says. Each group visited
Israel's embassy, AIPAC, had
briefings at the defense and
state departments and a
meeting at the Council of
Jewish Federations. "We
brought back friends from
these missions," Kushner
insists.
Is all the money worthwhile
for a goal as intangible as
making friends for Israel?
Council officials admit that it
is difficult, if not impossible,
to measure the success of
their endeavors. Assistant
Director Allan Gale hopes
that through "quiet
diplomacy and cultivating
friendships," Israel will find a
cadre of support from non-
Jewish Detroiters in a crisis.

T

he Jewish Community
Council was not al-
ways a "lethargic,
satisfied" institution as
critics — Cohan included —
complain. Back in the begin-
ning, in 1937, the men and
women who formed the
organization were lean,
hungry immigrants and
children of immigrants, look-
ing for an entry into Detroit's
Jewish establishment.
The landsmanshaften, Yid-
dishist, socialist and Zionist
organizations, made up of
mostly poor newcomers from
Eastern Europe, had been
frozen out of participation in
the Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion. "The Federation people
were afraid that in any new
organization, they would lose
the big guns or that the en-

trenched powers would be
dethroned," Dr. Shmarya
Kleinman, a Council founder,
said in a 1977 interview.
Nevertheless, with Federa-
tion support, 200 represen-
tatives of 155 local Jewish
groups met on Sept. 29, 1937
for the first delegate
assembly of the Jewish Com-
munity Council.
Fifty years later, the Coun-
cil and the Federation are
still interrelated, causing ten-
sions, some healthy, some not.
The Council is the only
Jewish agency in town total-
ly funded by the Federation.
And although the Council
has its own board and officers,
the two organizations are con-
nected by a "collegial
system," in which com-
munications can be as infor-
mal as a shout down the
stairwell of the Butzel
Building downtown which
both share.
Purse strings give Federa-
tion leverage over the Coun-
cil, a power which all insist is
not abused. "They act as
quite an autonomous
organization. We really do not
get into deep negotiations
with them," says Dr. Darryl T.
Goldberg, associate chairman
of Federation's national and
community relations agen-
cies committee, which reviews
the Council's annual budget
request.
"It's a challenging relation-
ship," remarks Federation's
president, Dr. Conrad Giles.
"Since [the Council] is an in-
dependent agency, it has the
ability to make its own deci-
sions. Since it is totally
dependent for funding, its
policies must be in concert
with Federation. There will
always be times when
nuances or differences may
exist."
Some say that Federation
"collegial influence" has
brought about some changes
for the better at the Jewish
Community Council. The
Long Range Strategic Plan,

