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FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1989
• Every
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Orc hard Lake at 14 Mile Rd.
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Herzl Slept Here
Continued from preceding page
and used by the family and
visitors: There is the sym-
phonium, the music box that
played metal disks that Herzl
listened to in his room. There
is Yachat's coffee grinder. On
one occasion, Herzl took the
device from Yachat's hands,
insisting he would grind the
coffee himself. "He was such
a gentleman," Meir Stern
says. Upon high shelves rest
the waterpipes the Sterns of-
fered their guests. A 400-year-
old carved wooden chest,
seven feet high and four feet
wide, that the Sterns brought
from Germany, vies with
Herzl for dominance in the
room.
Meir says he doesn't mind
living in a museum. A
modern man living side by
side with family tradition and
national history doesn't seem
particularly extraordinary to
him.
"Tradition in families
comes naturally," he says.
"One feels it only when one
wants to destroy it."
In the 1970 plan for
Mamila, the Stern House was
to be destroyed. In 1987, the
Jerusalem District Planning
Committee ruled the house
should be preserved and in-
corported into the building
plans as a museum.
A year earlier, the family
was ordered to evacuate the
house and turn it over to the
city. The Sterns refused. Meir
Stern says he fears the com-
mercialization of his in-
heritance. The high court of
appeals upheld the eviction
notice, and the Sterns are
paying fines rather than
leave.
"Any realist would say I'll
better myself financially (by
accepting compensation) and
forget the 'hole thing,"
Sterns says.
But, he says, he and his
sisters are not interested in
money. They have no plans to
profit from possible higher
property rates caused by the
neighborhood's redevelop-
ment.
The Sterns says they just
want to preserve an old fami-
ly traditition: the memory of
an obsessed Hungarian Jew
who visited the land of Israel
for a little more than a week
a long, long time ago, to plead
the cause of his people.
"It's the atmosphere of the
time that contributes to the
understanding of history,"
Stern says. "We're trying to
continue that atmosphere
here. We're very stubborn
about it."
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(News 1
Smaller-City Bond,
JNF Offices Closing
ALLISON KAPLAN
Special to The Jewish News
T
wo organizations that
raise millions for
Israel are trimming
down this summer.
Both the State of Israel
Bonds Organization and the
Jewish National Fund are in
the midst of reorganizations
that include shutting offices
in a number of smaller U.S.
cities.
The Detroit offices of the
two organizations will not be
affected, spokesmen said.
"Detroit is one of our most
supportive areas in the na-
tion," said Stuart Paskow,
spokesman for JNF in New
York. "The whole idea of
regionalization is to make the
JNF more efficient. Detroit is
one of our most productive
areas and has been for years."
Hershel Wais, director of
Detroit's Israel Bonds office,
said his office has "totally not
been affected" by the
closures, which were aimed at
(Craig Degginger of the
Seattle Jewish Transcript
contributed to this report.)
"satellite offices." No staff
cutbacks are planned.
"Everything here is status
quo," he said, although he
noted the June campaign
figures were about three pre-
cent behind what they were
last year. However, he said,
the $17.5 million campaign
should end up on target.
The cutbacks in the Israel
Bonds Organization are
substantial. Israel Bonds, a
major source of investment
capital for Israel, is laying off
at least 70 employees
throughout the United States
and planning to close 12
regional field offices. An
Israel Bonds spokesman said
the offices would close in
autumn, after High Holiday
campaigns are completed The
decision to restructure was
due to "serious budget con-
straints," Israel Bonds Chair-
man Julian Venezky said in a
statement released recently.
"We deeply regret the im-
pact that this painful situa-
tion may have on those af-
fected staff members and
their families," Venezky said.
Inflation and cost-of-living
increases were cited as the