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hree generations of philan- fessor Hartman passionately de-
thropic leadership helped fended the law as "the soul of Is-
bring the Allied Jewish rael," a cornerstone of the state's
Campaign to the highest to- vision of itself as the Jewish
tal ever announced at the annu- homeland.
With this law, "homelessness
al "Fisher Meeting," held Nov. 3
at the home of Max
Fisher.
Addressed by
Professor David
Hartman and host-
ed by Max and
Marjorie Fisher,
the annual gather-
ing of the Fishers'
friends and ,col-
leagues concluded
with the an-
nouncement of
$15,066,000 raised
to date for the 1995 Max Fisher and Professor David Hartman at the annual
Allied Jewish Cam- meeting.
paign. (The sum in-
cludes funds raised
is no longer a category of Jewish
prior to the Fisher meeting.)
The total announced that history," he said. "Israel has cre-
evening was $908,000 more than ated the sense of a people who
the amount raised last year from has come home ... It took 45
years, but Israeli tenacity and
the same contributors.
Several participants in the Jewish tenacity have trans-
meeting increased their gifts in formed Jewish consciousness."
To his listeners — including
tribute to the late Sol Eisenberg,
who served as Campaign chair- donors who have attended the
man in 1964 — 30 years before Fishers' annual Campaign meet-
his son, Ken, assumed the co- ing for more than two decades, as
chairmanship. Ken Eisenberg well as their children and grand-
presided at the Fisher meeting. children — Professor Hartman
Professor Hartman, founder said there must be no polariza-
and director of the Shalom Hart- tion in deciding allocations for
man Institute, a think-tank and overseas versus local needs.
"Israel is the focal point of
center for higher Jewish learning
in Jerusalem, addressed sever- a people reborn ... We need
al critical issues facing Israel and you. We're one people with an
identity of 3,000 years," he said.
Jews today.
Responding to critics of Israel's "Israel doesn't belong to the Is-
"law of return," which guarantees raelis. It belongs to the Jewish
free immigration to all Jews, Pro- People." 0

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n official of the Michigan
Jewish Sports Hall of
Fame hopes the organi-
zation struck a blow
for improving black-Jewish
relations by presenting a fa-
mous boxing glove to Mayor
Dennis Archer and the City of
Detroit.
In a public dedication cere-
mony last week attended by
nearly 1,000, the Hall of Fame
handed over the right-hand box-
ing glove Detroit's- Joe Louis
wore when he knocked out Nazi
Germany's
Max Schmeling at
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2:04 of the first round in a June
22, 1938 world heavyweight
championship defense in New
York.
The glove, now bronzed, is
housed in an eight-foot glass-en-
closed display case next to the
Joe Louis statue in the main
atrium at the Cobo Conference
Exhibition Center.
By pushing a button on the
display, visitors can hear Clem
McCarthy's live radio broadcast
of the fight.
They also can listen to an in
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Annual Fisher Meeting
Raises Record Amounts