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mediate family.
rIbday, according to a May
1987 census, 696 Grand
Rapids Jews belong to the
temple and 429 people attend
the synagogue. About 300
people are not affiliated with
either congregation.
Identifying the city's
Jewish members was the first
step to unifying the com-
munity, Kagan says. She says
she has the ingredients —
people, energy, time — to
make her plan work.
She has looked to Schwartz,
Rosenzweig and Ahavis Israel
President Judy Joseph for
support.
"If there were mare Judy
Josephs, Joe Schwartzes and
Bev Kagans, we'd have been a
unified community a long
time ago," Rosenzweig says.
"They will pull us together."
In her 14 years of living in
Grand Rapids, Joseph has
seen several changes — most-
ly in leadership.
"The numbers are the same
— the leaders are different.
And the Jewish Community
Fund now is nvohred in com-
munity life rather than being
just a conduit for fund-
raising" she says.
"Bev is inspired," she says.
"She is one of a kind."
When Kagan wanted to
know a more exact count of
Jewish residents within the
city, she single-handedly com-
piled the census.
When she decided that an
on-again, off-again temple-
run summer camp should be
an annual event, she took
charge. It now is completely
filled for this summer's se-
cond consecutive year.
"When Bev Kagan makes
up her mind to do something,
it gets done," says Stuart
Rogoff, who spent two weeks
in Grand Rapids last summer
as camp director before begin-
ning his current job as
Michigan region assistant
director for the Anti-
Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith.
Most recently, Rabbi
Rascoe, Rabbi Lewis and
Jewish Community Fund
President Schwartz hired
Kagan to find better ways to
meet the needs of the elderly
within the Grand Rapids
Jewish community.
The community's age group
is mixed, yet a great deal of
the population appears to be
older. The study shows that
25 percent of the affiliated
Jewish community members
are over age 60.
Rabbi Lewis, Rascoe and
Schwartz now are re-examin-
ing programming for the
elderly. Down the road, Rab-
bi Lewis says, the group may
consider retirement housing.
In the meantime, they will
consider opening an emeritus
center for classes, hosting
joint adult education courses,
starting workshops geared
toward seniors, and launch-
ing social clubs and an exer-
cise program.
Like other small cities,
Grand Rapids suffers from
what parents call the going
away syndrome. Few job op-
portunities are available in a
small city, so many young-
sters move elsewhere after go-
ing away to college. Grand
Rapids, some say, is often a
transient spot for corporate
climbers en route to the big-
ger cities.
Its Jewish population has
remained fairly stable over
the years. People leave, yet
others move in And its
leaders figure it will remain
that way.
Kagan knows that. She's
not looking for growth — just
closeness, Jewish education, a
Jewish way of life.
"Grand Rapids is holding
its own," Grodofsky says. "It's
not aging out, it is replacing
itself. It needs to build on its
inner resources, its inner
strengths.
"Bev's trying to see what's
good for the Jewish communi-
ty and not what is good for
the Jewish institution. Bev
Kagan and Joe Schwartz have
made a difference. She wants
things done now, and she will
do them herself if she doesn't
have help."
Kagan has no plans to quit
— at least not until she is
satisfied that the upcoming
Jewish generations will have
a place to call home in Grand
Rapids. ❑
NEWS
Israelis Close
Arab Paper
Jerusalem (JTA) — Israeli
authorities closed down the
Palestinian weekly Al-Awda
Monday on grounds that it is
guided and funded by ter-
rorist organizations.
The magazine, published in
east Jerusalem, is known to
reflect the views of the
mainstream Palestine Libera-
tion Organization headed by
Yassir Arafat. It appears in
both Arabic and English.
Al-Awda is edited by the
same people who ran the
Palestinian Press Service,
shut down by the Israelis last
month. Asked if the closure
was not anti-democratic, the
Jerusalem district commis-
sioner who gave the orders
said, "It is our duty to protect
democracy against those who
work against our democracy?'
Several weeks ago, the
Israeli authorities closed
.