Precisely because there
were millions of death to
come, states Mr. Rosen-
baum, "there is "all the
more reason to care about
this one. Particularly if what
[Hitler] learned from it was
precisely that, with a Big
Lie, he could get away with
murder. If he could kill
someone he 'loved,' and
escape the consequences,
how much easier to go- on to
kill those he hated."
Press Control
By Saudis
Not too many newspapers
have "guest editorials," so
when one is printed — and,
especially, when a Jewish
newspaper prints one that
had originally appeared in
an Arab-American news-
paper — eyebrows are bound
to go up.
Last month, the Boston
Jewish Times devoted its
editorial space to an 11-inch
editorial that had appeared
in the Feb. 22-March 6 issue
of the Arab American News,
a weekly paper published in
Washington, D.C. The edito-
rial alleged that there is
"general agreement among
the members of the Ameri-
can media establishment
that that institution took
this country to war" against
Iraq by "spoon-feeding to the
public what it was spoon-fed
by those who wanted the
war."
Priding itself on its in-
dependence and its opposi-
tion to the war, the Arab
American said the value of
an autonomous media voice
was to "speak with au-
thority and conviction on
what's good for the people of
both the United States and
the Arab world with respect
to U.S. policy in the Middle
East."
All this was to the good,
especially since diversity in
the press is central to a de-
cent democracy. But
somewhat peculiar was the
editorial's claim that repre-
sentatives of the govern-
ment of Saudi Arabia are
"approaching Arab Ameri-
can organizations . . ., at-
tempting to buy enough in-
fluence to suppress any in-
dependent thinking that
would contradict 'official'
policy . . . A Saudi-controlled
Arab American media is in
the immediate future . . . "
Stan Lukin, editor of the
Jewish Times, said he ran
the editorial because it
"showed a schism in the
Arab world" and because of
the "irony" of the Saudis
controlling the Arab-
American press in light of
frequent charges that the
Jews control the media.
For some people,
there just aren't
enough hours in a day.
• Even as we speak, 2,619 volunteers are helping with the Allied
Jewish Campaign, serving on Jewish Federation's 157 commit-
tees and sitting on Federation agency boards. That's roughly
90,000 hours per year.
• Last year, 199 volunteers spent another 22,375 hours provid-
ing a network of caring through Jewish Family Service and
Resettlement Service.
• 47 Jewish Vocational Service senior adult volunteers per-
formed 14,664 hours of service wherever they were needed.
• 13 JVS Project Outreach volunteers gave 10,296 hours to
isolated people, most of them elderly with mental disabilities.
• 340 Family-To-Family volunteers shared a part of their lives
with 340 new American families.
• 364 volunteers provided 2,328 kosher Meals on Wheels to
homebound individuals through the National Council of Jewish
Women-Jewish Family Service program.
• 12 Jewish Information Service telephone volunteers found the
answers to 6,688 questions and referred many of them for
financial and counseling assistance.
• Add to that the thousands of hours given by volunteers of all
ages to other service agencies, to synagogues and organiza-
tions throughout the community.
The Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit salutes the
individuals who devote their time, talent and heart to our commu-
nity and our people.
National Volunteer Week
April 26 - May 2, 1992
Lend a hand. Be a volunteer.
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