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STEVEN VICTOR and Henrietta Hermelin Weingarten were among the 900 Detroiters at the Washington
Mobilization for Soviet Jewry.

DETROIT

OCTOBER
Detroit Jewish leaders mourn the death of Henry
Ford II, citing his work in civic affairs and his con-
tributions to the Jewish community . . . University
of Michigan President Harold Shapiro accepts a posi-
tion with his alma mater in Princeton, New Jersey.
He is the first Jewish president of U-M and moves
on to become the first Jewish president in Princeton
University's 241-year history . . . A professional
demographic study of Detroit-area Jews is planned,
to determine the needs of Detroit Jewry and assess
if those needs are being met . . . The Jewish Associa-
tion for Retarded Citizens begins operation of the
Benard L. Maas Supported Independence Program
that allows developmentally disabled adults to live
in their own apartments while continuing to receive
support services and training from staff to increase
their independence . . . Demolition of the building
that has housed the University of Michigan Hillel
Foundation since the early 1950s begins following
groundbreaking ceremonies for a new $4.6 million
structure.

NOVEMBER
The Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan
Detroit chartered three jet aircraft to take 900
Detroiters to the Washington Mobilization for Soviet
Jewry . . . Former Soviet Jewish refusenik Natan
Sharansky visits to mobilize more Detroiters for the
rally . . . Detroit's Holocaust Memorial Center begins
a project to compile an encyclopedia that will serve
as a reference work of the Holocaust . . . Sue Ellen
Eisenberg is elected the first woman president of
Detroit's Jewish National Fund Council.

OFRA FISHER was named to head the United Hebrew
Schools, while her husband Sam was named to lead
the Fresh Air Society.

MANDELL BERMAN of Detroit was elected
president of the Council of Jewish Federations.

DECEMBER
One thousand Michigan residents, wearing red
and white painter's caps, were part of the 200,000
people to attend the Soviet Jewry rally in
Washington D.0 ... A local effort to discuss the pro-
blem of "Who is a Jew?" was sponsored by the
American Jewish Committee as part of a year-long
effort to encourage dialogue between the different
Jewish movements . . . Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel
spoke in Detroit for the opening of the Allied Jewish
Campaign.

JANUARY
The Michigan Department of Agriculture agrees
to a consent judgement in which it acknowledges its
responsibility to enforce the state's 1966 kosher food
statute . . . Jewish and Arab students in Ann Ar-
bor clash in a not-so-peaceful protest sponsored by
groups opposing Israel's policy toward the Palesti-
nian people and the violence in the West Bank and
Gaza . . . Alvin M. Kushner, executive director of the
Jewish Community Council for the last 14 1/2 years,
announces his retirement . . . Eighty-five recent

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