CONTENTS OPINION 14 FRONTLINES Holocaust Lessons ROBYN KLEEREKOPER Former Detroiter Lawrence Rudner won't let the images die. 24 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 42 DAVID HOLZEL Bracha Kupinsky and her family are living Jewish history. LIFESTYLES Educator To Archivist E 0 0 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 W 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- Continued on Page 20 46 52 DAVID M. ALPERN The heart of French Canada has a unique Sephardic flavor. 55 ENTERTAINMENT King Of Kvetches RITA CHARLESTON Audiences join in when Richard Lewis laughs at his fears. 77 MIDEAST Pitfalls Of Survival JAMES D. BESSER David Grossman's "The Yellow Wind" is a warning to both Israelis and Arabs. DEPARTMENTS 81 86 88 90 118 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 7