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Breathtaking: It must be Jose Hess. 30400 TELEGRAPH RD., BIRMINGHAM, MI 48010, SUITE 134 Established 1919 HOURS 20 Daily FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1988 Project Renewal Continued from Page 5 Savings of 15% to 50% on manufacturers such as Oxxford, Norman Hilton, Southwick, Linett and Ralph Lauren Polo may be realized on men's winter suits, fancy sportcoats, topcoats, and winter Burberrys. Other areas of "untraditional" markdowns will be fancy dress shirts, ties, slacks, sweaters and accessories. AWARDED CERTIFICATE BY GIA IN GRADING & EVALUATION Jackier explained. The city's revitalization was begun without Project Renewal seven years ago by the city's "Young Turk" leadership. "They developed an urban plan. The social planning is all in place." Jackier, who visited Yavne in November, paints a bright picture of the city. The cession of some municipal property to the Israel Defense Forces resulted in the creation of a residential neighborhood populated by army officers which "helped upgrade the overall city." Yavne has three major industrial employers and a "very effective" ORT vocational school. The Neot Shazar neighborhood has a "campus plan [for community services] similar to the Maple-Drake Jewish Community Center," Jackier said. The plan calls for a senior citizen center, a tipat chalav (mother and child) center and a kids club, he explained. "All they need is the money and the help." Jackier estimated that, if approved, Detroit's commit- ment to Neot Shazar would range between $2 million and $3.5 million over a five-year period. The precise figure will depend on the scope of the project, according to Martin Kraar, Federation executive vice president, who just returned from a visit to Israel, including Yavne. "The scope will depend on the board [of governors' deci- sion]." Last summer, Jackier told The Jewish News that Detroit had pledged to raise $1 million for the "Renewed Vi- sion Campaign" to complete some Project Renewal com- mitments left unfinished by other communities. What steps has the community taken to make good on that pledge? "That issue has not surfaced yet," Kraar said. Detroit has not severed its ties with Ramle. "It is evolv- ing from a primarily financial relationship to a people-to- people relationship," Jackier said. Several local groups visited the city in the past few months. Recently, most of Detroit's Project Renewal funds were raised during these Israel missions. Jackier said there has been "no great push" for Project Renewal by the Allied Jewish Campaign. Recent missions raised some $200,000 for the new and as- yet undesignated Project Renewal fund. An additional $500,000, the unused remainder of funds raised for Ramle, was transferred to Federation's $82 million endowment fund. Revenues generated by that half-million dollars will be us- ed to maintain buildings erected in Ramle by Detroit. Jackier estimated the revenues will be between $35,000 and $50,000 annual- ly, "an adequate sum to do the job." Jackier has recently receiv- ed several phone calls from Yavne's leadership. "They're waiting," he said. Yavne's ancient Jewish leaders, working pragmatical- ly in the shadows of the destroyed Jerusalem, shifted Judaism's emphasis from priest to rabbi, from animal sacrifice to prayer. They created a portable religion which allowed Judaism to survive in the Diaspora. Detroit may soon be in the position of repaying Yavne for its foresight in the form of a Project Renewal partnership. West Germany Searches Soul Bonn (JTA) — Spurred by a spate of anti-Semitic in- cidents and the recent revela- tions of the alleged Nazi pasts of some public figures, West Germany struggled to deal with the Nazi period. The soul-searching also was triggered by the initia- tion of legal proceedings against 4,000 suspected Nazi war criminals whose dossiers were obtained from the recently opened United Na- tions war crimes files in New York. The files contain infor- mation on about 40,000 war crimes suspects of all na- tionalities, and were compil- ed by the Allied War Crimes Commission and placed in UN custody in 1947. Legal authorities in West Germany said that while criminal proceedings against Nazi suspects have been in- itiated, it is doubtful that more than a few will be brought to trial because of their advanced age or state of health. The same obstacles stand in the way of finding witnesses to testify against them. Nevertheless, the fact that Germans are being made to face a past they have long tried to bury could have a salutary effect. Dieter Schroeder, of the Munich- based daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung, wrote last week that 1988 has opened a new "remembrance drama" in this country. "The temptation to suppress will always be with us, but we should resist it," Schroeder said.