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lege (including even charter secu-
lar private schooling with religious
services in the afternoon), as I see
it, must be geared to the develop-
ment of a Jewish identity and af-
filiation by the next generation of
non-Orthodox Jews.
If not, given current demo-
graphic trends, Conservative and
Reform Judaism, as now prac-
ticed, most likely will disappear in
the next several decades.
Howard L. Green
West Bloomfield
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I read with regret and disap-
pointment your article on Leah
Arm Kleinfeldt's dismissal from
the Jewish Community Center
(an oxymoron if there ever was
one). The decision of the "leader-
ship" to save over $100,000 by the
elimination of Ms. Kleinfeldt's po-
sition was, in my opinion, strict-
ly an economic one without any
sufficient thought to its broader
effects upon the JCC as well as on
the Jewish community.
No doubt, one could make an
argument that $100,000 saved is
a significant amount of money;
and if the JCC were a "for profit"
organization and run strictly as a
business, the decision would be
much easier to accept. But the
JCC is more than just any busi-
ness.
I thought that the Jewish Com-
munity Center was supposed to
be different than the alternative
clubs around town. I thought that
our Center was intended to help
the people of our community by
providing a place where Jewish
ideals and values were on display.
Not merely in the form of art, but
in real life.
I can think of no other person
who better represents the values
and morals of Jewish life than
Leah Ann Kleinfeldt. Ms. Klein-
feldt solicited my husband for a
donation to the JCC when he was
branch manager of a Dean Witter
office in Southfield; Ms. Kleinfeldt
called to ask if he would be willing
to donate Dean Witter's used of-
fice furniture to the JCC since she
had learned that the company was
relocating to Livonia. Many mov-
ing vans later, the JCC had pro-
cured tens of thousands of dollars'
worth of office furniture and sta-
tionary supplies all due to Leah
Ann Kleinfeldt's hard work and
salesmanship.
When Ms. Kleinfeldt found out
that my husband's secretary had
just relocated to Michigan from
Florida, she went out of her way
on many occasions to help accli-
mate her to the Jewish commu-
nity by opening up her heart as
well as her home. It is this kind of
compassion that the JCC is giving
up for its administrative down-
sizing.
Show the community a mistake
has been made and reappoint
Leah Ann Kleinfeldt to her posi-
tion and find other ways to make
up for that "savings."
Judith S. Fogel
Bloomfield Hills
Whose Side
Are You On?
How good of The Jewish News to
finally come out with a clear-cut
editorial policy discarding all pre-
tense of balance.
Up until now, the reader has
been subjected to the totally left-
wing declarations and opinions of
just about all of the News' colum-
nists. Now management itself
steps forward.
As a result, between The Jew-
ish News and the widely heard
voices of other "friends" of Israel
— such as Mike Wallace, Evans
and Novak and Peter Jennings —
presenting only one brand of facts
and opinions, is it any wonder that
even the Jews are confused as to
their own best interests and those
of the State of Israel?
And what became of the basic
canard that we all heard when Ra-
bin-Peres were still in power as
a result of just one vote in the
Knesset: 'We must all support the
democratically elected govern-
ment of Israel." Has The Jewish
News forgotten that convenient
dogma?
Last week, the paper came
out strongly against the develop-
ment of the communities of Judea
and Samaria. It accused the
Netanyahu government of bring-
ing Israel to the "brink of disas-
ter."
The paper is in very good com-
pany making these accusations.
Fellow accusers include James
Baker and Zbigniew Brzezinski.
Refusing to sign on to this one-
sided maligning of Netanyahu
were such respected figures as
George Schultz, Henry Kissinger
and Alexander Haig — all former
secretaries of state.
Every country in the world is in
a constant battle to defend its cit-
izens and its right to exist and to
grow and prosper. The great pow-
ers of the world have understood
that concept for centuries.
The United States, the British,
the French, the Russians, the
Arabs and all others spend billions
of dollars and put the lives of their
citizens on the line every moment
of the day in order to defend vi-
tal interests. There is no free lunch
from one's enemies.
If Israel is to continue to exist,
some Israelis and some Jews of
the Diaspora will have to come to
this stark, not at all profound, re-
alization.
Jerome S. Kaufman
President,
Metro Detroit Chapter,
Zionist Organization
of America
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