THE JEWISH NEWS
THIS ISSUE 60(
SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY
JANUARY 22, 1988 / 3 SHEVAT 5748
400 Prepare For
Super Sunday Calls
Detroit will join 150 American
Jewish communities this Sunday in
the single largest one-day telephone
appeal on behalf of the Jewish people.
Detroit's Super Sunday telethon will
involve more than 400 volunteers
telephoning thousands of prospective
contributors to the 1988 Allied
Jewish Campaign.
Although Super Sunday
Chairmen Ruth Broder and Howard
Tapper are reluctant to set a dollar
goal, they hope to exceed last year's
total of $885,423. The overall Cam-
paign has a goal of $26 million to sup-
port 60 local and worldwide
beneficiaries of the Jewish Welfare
Federation.
Local needs include 350 Jewish
families living at poverty level who
are eligible to receive federal grants
to purchase food. In addition, Jewish
Family Service has clients receiving
emergency financial assistance, rent
subsidies, kosher Meals on Wheels
and other support services. With ris-
ing costs and a shifting economy, this
agency counts on increased Federa-
tion support in the coming year.
Some of the local agencies sup-
ported in part by the Allied Jewish
Campaign include Jewish Home for
Aged, Federation Apartments, Fresh
Air Society and the Jewish Communi-
ty Center.
In a few months, Federation's
budgeting divisions will be making
hard decisions about these and other
needs, including resettlement of Rus-
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GOP Caucus System
May Be Abolished
KIMBERLY LIFTON
Staff Writer
Larry and Elliot Chassin
WIPING
THE TEARS
The state's only elected Jewish
Republican legislator said he will
strengthen efforts to demolish the
state's caucus system by spring in the
aftermath of party turmoil during
Michigan's Republican county
caucuses last week.
David Honigman, R-West Bloom-
field, last June introduced a bill in
the state House of Representatives
that would bring back to the state "a
much more effective primary system!'
He will campaign to get the bill
— now pending in a House committee
— passed into law by the end of the
1988 session.
"We are going to have a presiden-
THE ISOLATION OF
BEREAVEMENT CAN BE
DEVASTATING. A TEMPLE ISRAEL
GROUP HELPS INDIVIDUALS
THROUGH THEIR GRIEF.
Door to door for seniors.
tial primary in 1992," Honigman
said, adding that the ruckus which
denied any Republican candidate a
clear-cut victory was "embarrassing,
confusing, convoluted and opaque."
Honigman so far has support from
33 co-sponsors and several Jewish
party activists. He does not expect op-
position to the bill.
"Now more than ever I am sure
the system will be changed,"
Honigman said.
All the candidates — Vice Presi-
dent George Bush, Pat Robertson,
Rep. Jack Kemp, Sen. Bob Dole, Peter
du Pont and Alexander Haig — have
publicly stated their opposition to the
system. Bush, Robertson and Kemp
are fighting for the state's 77
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