CONTENTS

OPINION

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FRONTLINES

Holocaust Lessons

ROBYN KLEEREKOPER
Former Detroiter Lawrence Rudner
won't let the images die.

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CLOSE-UP

More Than 3 Rs

DAVID HOLZEL
The day schools' role,
and the community's,
continue to be the
topic of debate.

Alone Sharon, Sarah Novetsky

LIFE IN ISRAEL

Patriarchal Footsteps

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DAVID HOLZEL
Bracha Kupinsky and her family
are living Jewish history.

LIFESTYLES

Educator To Archivist

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CARLA JEAN SCHWARTZ
Marilyn Schlain has left education
and is concentrating on the art world.

Jewish dollars given to the United Jewish Appeal add up to little sense.

TRAVEL

Combatting The Crisis
In Jewish Philanthropy

Jewish Montreal

ELIEZER JAFFE

hen I was young, my
parents were very proud
of the fact that_ they donated
money to Israel, even during the hardest
economic times. I remember, too, standing
with my friends from youth groups with my
pushke in hand, soliciting donations "for
Palestine Jews." I still know how hard it is
today to solicit funds to get those pledges,
and to campaign for Israel, and my
relatives always remind me.
This is why, after immigrating to Israel
in 1960, and having spent three decades
working, teaching, and researching in
social welfare, I feel a need to shake peo-
ple into understanding that the bulk of
their charity going to the Jewish Agency
is not being handled right, is taken for
granted, and is certainly not doing the
most it could for Israel.
Since the creation of the State of Israel,
there has never been a serious general
discussion regarding new roles for Diaspora

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Eliezer Jaffe is a professor of social work at the
Hebrew University in Jerusalem. This is excerpted
from an article that first appeared in the
September-October 1987 issue of Tikkun, a bi-
monthly Jewish critique of politics, culture and
society, published in Oakland, Calif.

charity in Israel, new options for
distributing these funds, accountability for
them, and relative needs. in both Israel and
the Diaspora. Layers of jobs, institutions,
and premises that were valid more than 50
years ago at the Agency still thrive today,
due to inertia, self-interest, and lack of will
and imagination to change things. The
federations and the United Jewish Appeal
dread telling their constituents what they
already know, hoping to stem a potential
tidal wave of discontent and lack of con-
fidence in their own leadership and in the
appeals for funds.
But the crisis has arrived, and neither
Israeli nor Diaspora defenders of the status
quo can put it off. This is an emergency
situation for world Jewry requiring a
search for new options for Jewish philan-
thropy and its most effective use in help-
ing Jews in America, in Israel, and around
the world.
Strange as it seems, the representatives
of organized world Jewry, among them the
most respected UJA and federation donors
and lovers of Israel, have created a well-
rooted philanthropic monstrosity that is in-
efficient, politicized, and archaic. Its major
vehicles, the Jewish Agency and Keren
Hayesod, are expensive, top-heavy relics of
the early Zionist movement. Israeli politi-

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DAVID M. ALPERN
The heart of
French Canada
has a unique
Sephardic flavor.

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ENTERTAINMENT

King Of Kvetches

RITA CHARLESTON
Audiences join in when
Richard Lewis laughs at his fears.

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MIDEAST

Pitfalls Of Survival

JAMES D. BESSER
David Grossman's "The Yellow Wind"
is a warning to both Israelis and Arabs.

DEPARTMENTS

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32 Inside Washington
36 Synagogues
39 Seniors
48 Sports
68 Cooking

Engagements
B'nai Mitzvah
Births
Single Life
Obituaries

CANDLELIGHTING

June 3, 1988

8:44 p.m.

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

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