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is slated for elimination as a
grant giving agency.
In January, Gov. John
Engler put a freeze on
grants, leaving the Holo-
caust Memorial Center, the
Jewish Community Center
and the Jewish Ensemble
Theater — all waiting for
pre-approved grant money —
in the lurch.
"Government has an im-
portant role to play in the
arts," said Leon Cohan,
chairman of the Michigan
Council for the Arts. "If the
steps recommended are
adopted, Michigan will be
the only state in the entire
nation which does not sup-
port the arts. We will be a
cultural wasteland. What
kind of message will that
send around the country and
the world about the
character of our state?"
The Holocaust Memorial
Center was scheduled to
receive $13,000 for the
December production of
Brundibar, a children's
opera written in Thereisen-
stadt, a death camp in
Czechoslovakia, that was per-
formed at Wayne State Uni-
versity and Temple Israel.
Rabbi Charles Rosenz-
weig, director of the Holo-
caust Memorial Center, said
he is optimistic the grant
will come through, but said
he doesn't know how they
will recoup the losses if the
funds remain frozen.
"This is just unbelievable,"
Rabbi Rosenzweig said.
Also from the Arts Coun-
cil, the JCC's cultural arts
department is waiting for a
$9,600 grant for the Let Us
Entertain You series.
JET fared a bit better, re-
ceiving $4,000 of a promised
$9,900 from the ArtsCoun-
cil.
"We take a lot of things for
granted; we can no longer
take this for granted," said
Bunny Goldman, Michigan
Council for the Arts executive
director. ❑
NEWS
Eilat's Winter Boom
Was Very Brief This Year
Jerusalem (JTA) — The
beauties of Eilat are going to
waste this winter.
Israel's sunny resort on
the placid blue waters of the
Red Sea is no longer host to
the throngs of northern Eu-
ropeans who would tan
themselves on the pearly
white beaches and cavort in
the local nightclubs and
disCotheques.
The Persian Gulf war and
attendant terrorist threat
have wrecked the foreign
tourist trade.
And the Israeli "refugees"
from the population centers
in the north were a big dis-
appointment; now they have
left, too.
The "refugees" have to be
distinguished from the usual
quota of Israeli tourists who
normally spend a winter
weekend in Eilat. They came
here to escape the nerve-
wracking ordeal of Scud
missile attacks, which have
struck mainly the densely
populated Greater Tel Aviv
area.
To remain here in safety as
long as possible, they
counted their pennies, a
disgruntled hotelier ex-
plained.
"People have used up most
of their savings to come to
Eilat, away from the
dangerous north," he said.
"Some of them stay for
weeks. But they did not
come to waste money, so
they ignore the restaurants,
the discotheques and other
attractions."
Hotel owners who are suf-
fering their worst season in
memory were initially
delighted by the unexpected
influx. They offered rooms at
lower than off-season prices
and enjoyed a 70 percent oc-
cupancy rate, not seen since
before Saddam Hussein
marched his troops into
Kuwait.
But then disillusionment
set in. The refugees, relieved
to be out of danger, made
themselves too much at
home. They paraded through
plush lobbies in bathrobes
and slippers. They hung
laundry from their balconies
to dry.
Worst of all, they didn't
spend.
Most of them went home
last week, having run out of
cash or because the lull in
missile attacks gave a false
sense of security.
Ironically, the worst at-
tack to date in terms of
damage hit Greater Tel Aviv
in the early hours of Feb. 9.
Another missile, the 32nd,
struck on the evening of Feb.
11.