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FIFTH ANNUAL MAX KAPUSTIN
MEMORIAL SYMPOSIUM
THE CHALLENGES TO ZIONISM IN THE PRE-STATE ERA:
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
I. THE CHALLENGES TO MODERN ZIONISM
Opening Address
DAVID VITAL
Klutznik Professor of Jewish Civilization
Northwestern University
Nahum Goldman Professor
Tel-Aviv University
CO-HOST: TEMPLE BETH EL
Sunday, November 19, 8:00 P.M.
Temple Beth El
7400 Telegraph Road, Birmingham
II. REVOLUTIONIZING JEWISH HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS:
EUROPE & AMERICA
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY
McGregor Memorial Conference Center
Monday, November 20
9:00 - Noon
"Zionism & Anti-Zionism in Europe:
The Early Years"
JEHUDA REINHARZ
Koret Professor of Modern Jewish History
Brandeis University
"Zionism & Anti-Zionism in America"
ARYE GOREN
Columbia University
Respondents
Todd Endelman, University of Michigan
Jonathan Sarna, HUC/JIR
III. LAYING THE GROUND FOR FUTURE STATEHOOD
THE ZIONIST DEBATE
1:30 - 4:30 P.M.
"The Jewish National Fund in the Early 1940's"
KENNETH STEIN
Emory University
"Conflicting Visions of Jewish Settlement"
SELWYN TROEN
Oxford University
Response From The Panelists
ADVISORY BOARD
Sanford N. Cohen
Eugene Driker
Arthur Evans
Martin Herman
Evelyn Kasle
Jacob Lassner*
Miriam Mondry
Jack A. Robinson
Mark. E. Schlussel
Claude Schochet
Guy Stern
Stanley J. Winkelman
George M. Zelter*
Lawrence Ziffer
*co-chairs
The Center is a cooperative venture of the University and the United Jewish Charities
in cooperation with the Jewish Welfare Federation of Metropolitian Detroit.
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Hunger
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tors, convinced Temple
Israel officials to give them a
free temporary office once
the project gets off the
ground, and are trying to
raise enough money to buy
the van, she said.
Forgotten Harvest, which
will be funded through dona-
tions and grants, has not col-
lected any money yet.
Organizers hope to get a
grant to pay for rent and
salaries and are trying to
think of ways to get dona-
tions.
When the project takes off,
Detroit will be one of 26
cities around the country
which collect leftover food
from big celebrations, res-
taurants, bakeries and
hospitals and give it to the
hungry.
Although Forgotten
Harvest has not yet sent food
to a shelter, the group has
received calls from people
who have leftovers and don't
know what to do with them,
Fishman said.
Once Forgotten Harvest
gets under way, it will have
a network telling organizers
which shelters need what
kind of food and can bring
the food directly to the
shelter, she said. For now,
people who want to give
their leftovers to area
shelters have to drop it off
themselves.
Although Forgotten
Harvest is an offshoot of
Mazon Council, the two enti-
ties are separate.
"The two groups are doing
completely different things,"
Fishman said.
Mazon Council, which now
has 14 member congrega-
tions and organizations con-
cerned about feeding the
hungry, is a think tank.
Unlike Forgotten Harvest,
the council does not raise
outside funds.
Instead, Mazon - the
Hebrew word for food - asks
Jews to attach a three per-
cent "tax" to the cost of their
celebrations and give the
additional money to the na-
tional organization in
California. Mazon then gives
grants to Jewish and non-
Jewish groups and soup
kitchens fighting hunger.
In the past two years, eight
Detroit-area organizations
received over $50,000 in
grants from Mazon, in-
cluding $10,000 to Mother
Waddles for a new soup kit-
chen.
"Through Mazon we fulfill
an ancient tradition of re-
membering the hungry dur-
ing our celebrations,"
Fishman said. ❑
Political Conference
Teaches Activism
KIMBERLY LIFTON
Staff Writer
D
avid Victor says he
will make an attempt
to be politically active
following a grass-roots polit-
ical action workshop last
Sunday.
The five-hour session,
sponsored by the Jewish
Community Council and the
American-Israel Public Af-
fairs Committee, stirred new
emotions for Victor, a 30-
year-old businessman who
has never been involved in
the political structure.
"Now I have a stronger in-
terest with getting involved
with AIPAC," Victor says.
"Grass-roots political ac-
tion: a workshop to
strengthen the U.S.-Israel
relationship" focused more
upon methods of gaining po-
litical clout and becoming
part of the process than
building foreign relations
with Israel, participants say.
During the day, politicians
and party leaders shared
tales of their rising within
respective organizations.
Nearly 150 people — from
Republican and Democratic
parties, the Zionist
Organization of America,
the New Jewish Agenda,
Hadassah, Michigan State
University, the University
of Michigan and Wayne
State University —attended
the forum.
Also on hand were:
Elizabeth Schrayer, AIPAC
political director; Spencer
The good people
have to act;
otherwise bad
people take control.
Abraham, Republican state
party chair; Tom Lewand,
Democratic state party
chair; U.S. Rep. Bob Carr;
state legislators and other
political activists.
Open dialogues on state
and local opportunities to
further the pro-Israel agen-
da also took place.
"They were trying to show
that it is very easy to get po-
litically involved," said
Morrie Baker, a busi-
nessman who attended the
session. "The good people
have to act; otherwise bad
people take control. ❑
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