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any Jackier was leading a
group of Detroit communi-
ty leaders on a mission to Is-
rael. He'd done that before,
on numerous occasions.
This time, though, after taking
in Israel's beauty and meeting
with countless government offi-
cials, something didn't feel right
to Mr. Jackier.
He assembled the 17 or so on
the trip, all of whom had also been
to Israel numbers of times, and
asked them a question: "What are
you going to say to Helen Zucker-
man when you get back to De-
troit?" .
That one question, unusual as
it maybe, was the highlight of this
mission to Israel. Helen Zucker-
man, you see, is the widow of Paul
Zuckerman, the late United Jew-
ish Appeal chairman. The Zuck-
ermans had earmarked a special
endowment for Allied Jewish
Campaign training that sat dor-
mant for 12 years.
Last year, Jewish Federation
executive vice president Robert

Aronson reactivated the fund and
the training idea, turning over the
implementation responsibility to
former Campaign chairman and
Federation officer Jackier.
With implementation, Detroit
becomes the only major federation
in North America to train or even
select its Allied Jewish Campaign
chairmen years in advance. Why
is that important? Because, un-
til the Zuckerman training was
put into place, the Allied Jewish Lawrence Jackier: "A need to say bravo."
Campaign chairman was typical-
ly picked, cajoled and sometimes didn't want was a quick trip to Is-
coerced through friendly persua- rael as an automatic qualifier for
sion to take the post. Let's not for- leadership. Instead, the candi-
get that Campaign raises some dates were given areas of special-
$27 million annually, making De- ty to learn and to study —
troit consistently one of the na- everything from social service
tion's leading cities in fund raising. agencies to resettlement to De-
What Mr. Jackier did along troit's relationship with Israel and
with Mr. Aronson was pick some its ongoing lead in the Partner-
15 potential Campaign leaders. ship 2000 program.
Those who are participating in
These would have to be people
familiar with the goals of Cam- the Zuckerman training include
paign and Federation who would Peter Alter, Susan Citrin, who will
be willing to undergo extensive head the 1997 Campaign; Doug
training. Yet, what Mr. Jackier Etkin; Phil Fisher; Nancy Grand;
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Ronald Klein; Ira Mondry;
Mitchell Mondry; Ben Rosen-
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Victor and Paul Zlotoff.
`This is really an exciting pro-
gram," said Mr. Aronson. "I don't
think there's anything like it
happening anywhere else. We're
basically planning the course of
leadership with a generation of
leaders. It's so necessary. Fund
raising and putting together a
Campaign has so much to it that
needs to be accomplished."
What Mr. Jackier is helping
the participants understand are
the issues that will be facing De-
troit's Jewish community for per-
haps the next 10 years.
'e have to be more planful
in my opinion," said Mr. Jacki-
er. 'We need to understand the
human resource needs of our com-
munity. These leaders designed a
shared vision of what those needs
will be — education, social service
needs, needs for the continuity of
our community."
Mr. Jackier asked the ques-
tion about Mrs. Zuckerman in
Israel because he wanted these
leaders to take seriously what
their roles would be. This was
not about being named to an-
other board or simply an honor.
This was going to take years of
briefing and of study about their
own community.

Each participant was given an
opportunity to learn about an area
of Federation service. They were
ostensibly given portfolios rang-
ing from eldercare services to pro-
grams for families and children.
Their mandate was to learn how
these services are delivered by
Federation, the people affected by
them and the costs involved.
Mr. Jackier was one of several
mentors for the group. Others in-
cluded past Campaign chairmen
Joel Tauber, Jane Sherman, Max
Fisher, David Hermelin and Dr.
Conrad Giles.
There's also the issue of Israel.
Participants debate Israel's
needs, which have changed dra-
matically thanks largely to the
Jewish state's emerging eco-
nomic status.
"How do we define the rela-
tionship between Detroit and Is-
rael?" Mr. Jackier asked. "This
is something that we need to
work on. Especially when we've
come to a point in the relation-
ship where Israel is successful
and can do for itself.
"Instinctively, we've been
trained to find reasons to take
care of poor Israel. But now
there's a change in that rela-
tionship. Israel is a wonderful,
successful country. It used to
wear the clothes of a rneiskite, so
when it isn't in need, we need to
say bravo." El

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