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June 01, 1990 - Image 71

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1990-06-01

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Not content to simply educate and advocate, Council sponsors a variety
of programs which in some way improve the lives of others.

• When Council sent out a call to action at a Community Assembly on
behalf of Soviet Jewry, more than 500 people responded, signing
1,200 letters to Soviet officials and members of Congress.

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• Always at the forefront in efforts to increase understanding of other
ethnic and religious communities, we began to build relationships
with two new groups of common interest: American Citizens for
Justice, an Asian/American organization, and leaders of the
organized Chaldean community.

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• We helped to coordinate a rally to promote understanding and
sensitivity when avowed racist and anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan
spoke in East Lansing.

• We are proud that Council fed thousands of hungry people this year
through several projects. The World Food Day "7% Solution"
campaign to raise funds for feeding Michigan's hungry grew by 25
percent this year, netting more than $10,000 in donations by area
restaurants. Aided this year by the United Hebrew Nursery School
students who decorated the collection boxes, Project Chametz,
Council's joint effort with The Jewish News, collected several tons of
food for the hungry in our area. And Council acted as advisor in the
formation of a new hunger effort: Yad Ezra — Feeding the Jewish
Hungry.

• Council enabled many other area service agencies to take care of
more people. Through the Urban Progress Allocations, $4,900 were
distributed to almost twenty agencies which provide direct service to
community residents.

• Several area Jewish youth groups were encouraged to increase their
social action programming with youth grants. Other groups received
recognition through the Walter E. Klein Youth Awards.

• Council answered a plea on behalf of Ethiopian Jews who urgently
needed packaged first-aid supplies, collecting several cases of
bandages, antibiotic creams and pain reliever at our September
Community Assembly.

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