The Jewish National Fund
Council of Greater Detroit
NIXON page 1
requests the honor of your presence at their
Annual Dinner
honoring
EDYTHE JACKIER
MULIVOR
TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1994
Congregation Shaarey Zedek
27375 Bell Road, Southfield
tax deductibility for gifts to UJA,
American Jewry's pipeline to so-
cial welfare programs in Israel.)
Mr. Fisher, who also worked
on behalf of Mr. Nixon in his un-
successful 1960 campaign
against John Kennedy, was one
of Mr. Nixon's few early Jewish
supporters.
Although he would later at-
tract a number of Jewish confi-
dantes and supporters and
appoint America's first Jewish
secretary of state, Henry
Kissinger, Mr. Nixon was re-
garded with skepticism by much
General Chairman
Lawrence S. Jackier
Associate General Chairpersons
Eleanor Folbe
Dr. Martin Jackier
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jackier
Frank Mulivor
Honorary Chairpersons
Rabbi David Nelson
David & Andrea Page
Norman & Susan Pappas
Erwin & Marjorie Simon
Joel & Shelley Tauber
Rabbi Irwin Groner
Honorable Carl Levin
Rabbi Harold Loss
Robert H. & Anita Naftaly
Cantor Chaim Najman
Louis & Vivian Berry
Judge Avern Cohn •
Samuel & Jean Frankel
Rabbi William G. Gershon
Dr. Conrad & Dr. Lynda Giles
Dinner Co-Chairpersons
Dean & Laura Gould
Irwin Green
Dr. John & Zivia Grekin
James & Nancy Grosfeld
John & Rita Haddow
David & Marion Handleman
Diane Hauser
David & Doreen Hermelin
Irving & Florence Hermelin
Arthur & Gina Horwitz
Rochelle Komer Jackier
Herbert & Babs Kaufman
Emery & Diane Klein
Tom & Linda Klein
Lauren Kogan-Liss
Graham & Alene Landau
Edward C. & Julie Levy
Jack & Esther Liwazer
John & Judy Marx
Louis & Thelma Milgrom
Albert & Phyllis Newman
Irving & Barbara Nusbaum
Norman Allan
Peter Alter
Eugene Applebaum
Dr. Harry & Helen August
Mandell L & Madeline Berman
Mrs. Robert H. (Jule) Berman
Harold & Barbara Berry
Dr. James & Louise Bittker
Harold & Penny Blumenstein
Paul D. Borman
Tillie Brandwine
James & Connie Colman
Michael & Susan Curhan
Hiram & Lucille Dorfman
Ann Eisenberg
Sue Ellen Eisenberg
David & Lynn Engelbert
Arnold Faudman
Walter & Lea Field
Stanley & Miriam Friedman
Joel Gershenson
Rabbi E. Goldberg
.
Dr. Terry & Meryl Podolsky
Dale Rands
Sylvan Rapaport
Jack & Aviva Robinson
Ben & Marta Rosenthal
Dr. Morris & Rosalyn Rubin
Barbara Sachse
Dr. Hershel Sandberg
Emma Lazaroff Sbhaver
Robert & Bluma Schechter
Eli A. Scherr
Sam & Roz Schiff
D. Larry & Jane Sherman
Dr. Milton & Lois Shiffman
Grant & Betty Silverfarb
Edie Slotkin
Sidney J. & Melba Winer
Stanley & Margaret Winkelman
Neal F. Zalenko
George & Pearl Zeltzer
Howard Zoller
Jack Zwick
Arrangements Chairperson
Nanci Rands
Dinner Committee
Alan T. Ackerman
Henry & Harlene Appelman
James & Doris August
Guy & Nora Barron
Dr. Murray & Linda Baruch
David & Mine Bittker
Ivan Bloch
Douglas & Barbara Bloom
Herman & Dina Brodsky
Robert & Rhea Brody
Dr. David & Ilene Chait
Allen & Franka Charlupski
Les & Miriam Colbum
William Morse Davidson
Leonard & Delores Farber
Oscar & Dede Feldman
Bruce & Dale Frankel
Pola Friedman
Dean & Aviva Friedman
Louis & Paula Glazier
Hugh & Carolyn Greenberg
Dr. Martin & Sharon Hart
Dr. Alberto & Nancy John Hodari
Joel J. Jacob
Harold S. Jaffa
Andrea Kahn
Bernard & Agnes Klein
David Kruger
Michael D. Langnas
Roger & Terran Leemis
Barry & Nancy Lefkowitz
Dr. William & Beverly Leuchter
Dr. Dan & Dottie Levitsky
Donald & Leah Lewis
Myron Milgrom
Sandra Moers
Dr. Coleman & Shirley Mopper
Lewis J. Nedelcoff
Samuel & Lillian Oaks
Joseph & Suzanne Orley
Dr. Morton & Judie Plotnick
David & Blanche Pollack
Edith Resnick
Mimi Ida Robbins
Rabbi Norman T. Roman
Bruce Rosen
Janis Roszler
Mark & Rosie Schlussel
Alan S. & Sandy Schwartz
Jack & Miriam Shenkman
Herb Sillman
Norman & Sylvia Gershenson
Sloman
Ida Snider
Jerry Spero
Phillip Stollman
Howard K. & Hermie Stone
George M. Stutz
Rabbi M. Robert Syme
Nathan Upfal
Dottie Wagner
Beryl Winkelman
Harvey Yates
Rabbi Paul M. Yedwab
Rabbi Morton F. Yolkut
Paul & Linda Zlotoff
Helen Zuckerman
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Eli A. Scherr
Edward Rosenthal
Laurie Nosanchuk Blum
President
Regional Director
Assistant Executive Director
Richard Nixon
of the Jewish community in the
1950s and '60s.
Many were concerned by Mr.
Nixon's fervent anti-commu-
nism, especially as Sen. Joe
McCarthy was bringing careers
and lives to an end by labeling
everyone from actors to jour-
nalists "communist."
Others took issue with the
Eisenhower administration's
cool attitude to Israel — a con-
cern that followed the former
vice president when he cam-
paigned in 1968 for president
against Hubert Humphrey.
Although four of every five
Jews voted for Humphrey, Mr.
Nixon was the first presidential
candidate to note Israel's need
for military superiority.
"Israel must possess sufficient
military power to deter an at-
tack," he said while campaign-
ing in 1968. "Sufficient power
means the balance must be
tipped in Israel's favor."
Mr. Nixon hadn't been in
office for more than a year
when he initiated the Rogers
Plan, a peace proposal for Israel
and Egypt. Israeli leaders
rejected the plan outright, say-
ing it demanded territorial com-
promises with nothing in return.
The basis of the Rogers Plan
would, however, surface again,
serving as the basis for the
Camp David Peace Accords.
In 1969, Mr. Nixon welcomed
to the White House a woman for
whom he held great respect.
Golda Meir, then Israel's prime
minister, was a leader of "ex-
treme toughness and extreme
warmth," he said. The two main-
tained a close friendship for
years afterward.
Mr. Nixon's shining, and most
telling, moment as far as Israel
and Mr. Fisher are concerned
came during the Yom Kippur
War.
On Yom Kippur in 1973,
Egypt and Syria launched a sur-
prise attack on Israel. Mr. Nixon
quickly authorized an American
airlift of weapons to the
Jewish state — a move
without which Israel like-
ly would not have survived.
"Israel was running low
on supplies, and the
European countries would
not even allow the
American planes to fly
over," Mr. Fisher recalled.
"But Nixon told Kissinger
to get those planes over
there. He insisted that this
happen."
This was, Mr. Fisher
said, typical of the presi-
dent's approach toward
Israel.
"He had great admira-
tion and respect for Israel,"
Mr. Fisher said. "People al-
ways wanted the United
States to give them soldiers
and money. But Israel just
wanted economic help.
Israel told him, We'll fight
our own wars.'
"Following the Yom Kippur
War, Mr. Nixon provided Israel
with a major economic boost.
The annual $3 billion econom-
ic subsidy he authorized was the
first major aid offered by the
United States.
Yet the president would not
lend his support to what ulti-
mately would become the
Jackson-Vanik Amendment, ty-
ing U.S. trade with the Soviet
Union to Soviet improvements
in human rights and immigra-
tion.
Many in the Jewish commu-
nity were troubled by Mr.
Nixon's decision on Jackson-
Vanik.
"But he intervened with the
Russians and made Soviet-
Jewish immigration an issue,"
Mr. Fisher said. "He had
(Attorney General) John
Mitchell issue the visas.
"He believed in quiet diplo-
macy. He didn't want to rub the
Russians' noses into the
ground."
Mr. Fisher said time and Mr.
Nixon's accomplishments will
erase some of the stigma of
Watergate, which eventually
forced the president's resigna-
tion in 1974.
"Richard Nixon had a
broad range of knowledge on
foreign policy," Mr. Fisher said.
"That will have to balance his-
tory.),