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Bloomfield Southfield - - Serving the Community for 34 Years n Time Productions Brian Krinek Scott Stern 960.9503 When you think you've heard it all Advertising in The Jewish News Gets Results Place Your Ad Today. Call 354-6060 100 FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 23. 1990 Mack Pitt AND HIS ORCHESTRA 358-3642 Combo • Big Band.} .. ON CAMPUS 1"1 ""'"'''''' Christian Zionist Continued from preceding page the kind of organization that never hosts a bagel breakfast where we sit around saying how awful everything is," he said. In- stead, Tagar takes an ac- tivist posture. Among Mr. Blow's first projects with Tagar was con- structing a display on the campus Diag to publicize the Palestinians' attack on an Israeli bus that left tourists and citizens dead. He also wrote numerous letters to the Michigan Daily when the student paper began running anti-Israel editorials. Among the pieces to which Mr. Blow objected were those comparing Israel's treatment of Pales- tinians to the Nazi hatred of Jews, and an editorial claim- ing Israel had resettled E- thiopian Jews only to displace Palestinians. Mr. Blow and other mem- bers of Tagar made weekly appearances at the Michigan Daily offices, where they complained about the edito- rials. "We chewed them out," he said. Last year, Mr. Blow joined a Tagar counter-protest, cre- ated in response to a Pales- tinian demonstration against a Jewish National Fund speaker. The Arabs "didn't give a rip about the JNF," Mr. Blow said. "They were there to protest Israel." In response to the Palesti- nians, Tagar members "stood out in the snow, sing- ing Zionist songs." Then members devised a plan to counter anti-JNF demon- strations and answer, at the same time, editorials in the Michigan Daily: Every time the paper ran a factually in- correct or anti-Semitic letter, Tagar would plant a tree in Israel. In the fall of 1989, Tagar planted 60 trees. Mr. Blow, who keeps a notebook to record his thoughts on his regular Torah and New Testament readings, also is responsible for preparing materials for Tagar's educational workshops. These include a recent presentation on cur- rent Arab anti-Israel pro- paganda, which Mr. Blow said closely reflects tradi- tional European anti- Semitism. He is a contributor to Pro- spect: A Jewish Student Journal at U-M. A recent piece was called "Christian, Zionist and Proud." With 32 active members, including several other non- Jews, Tagar makes a point of not becoming involved in Israel's political decisions, Mr. Blow said. '' "We're not Israeli citizens. We don't fight in the Israeli army nor do our children fight in the Israeli army," he said. "Our lives are not on the line." But it is, in part, politics that drives Mr. Blow's dedication to Israel. He be- lieves Israel is an important strategic ally for the United States, "and it's painfully clear the Arabs would wipe it off the map if they could." He's also passionate about Zionism for moral reasons. Mr. Blow said that during World War II President Franklin Roosevelt "knew exactly what was going on in Eastern Europe, and he didn't lift a finger. "Can I condemn that? Yes, because I can say I would have done differently, and I can prove it." As part of his work with Tagar, Mr. Blow is keeping a close eye on beleaguered Jewish communities like Yemen and Ethiopia. He said he will never forget reading the first account of Operation Moses, when E- thiopian Jews were airlifted to Israel. "It was so vivid," he said. "I could almost see the planes coming in in the bright Mediterranean sun and the dust kicked up by the engines. "I could feel the quiet on the airplane as it neared Israel and see the welcoming committee after it landed — the uprising and the jubila- tion. Many of the Ethiopian Jews kissed the earth when they arrived in Israel. When I read this, I wanted to be there to see it." ❑ MSU Hillel Hosts Ida Nudel Ida Nudel will speak on "My Years as a Refusenik" 7 p.m. Nov. 25 in the MSU Union Gold Room. Ms. Nudel was a sixteen year Soviet refusenik and was known as the "Guardian Angel" of other dissidents. She also is the author of A Hand in the Darkness: The Autobiography of a Refusenik. There is a charge for non-students. This event is sponsored by the Greater Lansing Jewish Welfare Federation, B'nai B'rith Hillel Jewish Student Center, ASMSU Funding Board, Congregation Kehillat Israel, Congregation Shaarey Zedek, MSU Women's Studies Program, ASMSU Women's Council, James Madison Col- lege and the MSU Graduate School. For information, call Jen- nifer Epstein, 332-1916.