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in Cincinnati and founder of the
American Jewish Archives.
"On Wednesday, Leonard was
making calls, setting up meet-
ings and getting everyone to
work on his New Year card," said
Mr. Zieve. "And on Thursday, he
was gone."
Mr. Simons is survived by his
daughters and son-in-law, Mary
Lou and Morton Zieve of Bloom-
field Hills and Susan Simons of
West Bloomfield; brother and sis-
ter-in-liw, Gerald and Dawn
Rashall of Los Angeles; grand-
children, Robert Zieve, Melissa
Zieve and Michael Miller, Kathy

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enburg, Michael Nagler; and
great-granddaughter Sara
Miller. Interment was at Beth El
Memorial Park, with arrange-
ments by Ira Kaufman Chapel.
Contributions can be made to
the Leonard Simons Research
Library Fund at Michigan Can-
cer Foundation, 18831 W. 12
Mile Rd., Lathrup Village, MI
48076; to the Detroit Historical
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r. Conrad Giles has been
going to the Council of
Jewish Federations' Gen-
eral Assemblies since
1973. But never in his experience
has he run into a feeling that
hung over this year's Boston edi-
tion like a fog.
"I didn't go to any event where
I didn't end up with a wet eye,"
he said. "This wasn't sentimen-
tality. We were dealing with a
tragedy that transcends the
death of a single man, and which
causes Jews to look at themselves
as a people and wonder where we
are going."
Dr. Giles, CJF treasurer, said
that every event and workshop
he attended touched upon the
killing of Israeli Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin.
"If you were in a session relat-
ed to continuity, there were
thoughts and quotes of the late
prime minister," said Dr. Giles.
"Each of the plenaries were
changed in view of his death. You
couldn't greet anyone or ask how
anyone felt without sensing that
the death of the prime minister
was on the minds of everyone. I
cannot remember a single event
like this, and we've been through
wars and tragic events in the
past."
Scheduled sessions on Jewish
continuity and identity were
packed to overflowing, as young
and old unburdened their hearts.
Other institutes explored finan-
cial resource development, Israel-
Diaspora relations and the
social-policy and human-services
agenda.
Organizers restructured the
evening plenaries following Ra-
bin's murder, replacing a
Wednesday evening celebration
of 100 years of the federation

movement with a memorial ser-
vice for the slain leader. Rabin
was to have been featured at the
gala.
A second evening of remem-
brance was added Thursday
evening. A cavalcade of political
leaders, including former Secre-
tary of State Henry Kissinger, at-
tended. Eitan Haber, close
confidante and speech writer for
Mr. Rabin, offered a eulogy di-
rected at Rabin, as if he had an
open line to a speaker phone in
heaven.

"If you were in a
session related to
continuity, there
were thoughts and
quotes of the late
prime minister."

— Dr. Conrad Giles

Perhaps the most moving ex-
pression of grief and recommit-
ment to the cause of peace took
place Thursday evening in chilly
Copley Square where an esti-
mated 2,000 college students,
many from the Brandeis Uni-
versity Coalition for Peace, staged
a stirring rally.
Before Rabin's murder, a main
focus of the G.A. was to have been
the rapidly moving merger talks
between the CJF, the Jewish
Agency for Israel and the United
Israel Appeal, as well as the fund-
ing crisis of all three causes due
to a downswing in federation
campaigns. Critics claim the
agencies duplicate efforts and
waste communal dollars. ❑

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