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Mr. Young's cousin, Claude Young
Jr. (son of Mr. Young's cousin, physi-
cian and confidante), made his own
ties with the Jewish community at
about the same time.
. Coleman Young
left lasting
contributions.
According to Irwin Shaw, former
executive director of the Jewish
Community Center, Claude Young
Jr. took three years of Hebrew ulpan
classes at the Meyers-Curtis JCC
beginning in 1967.
During the 1967 riots, he took a
taxi from his home in order to
attend class. He later was a frequent-
lyiequested Hebrew tutor at the
JCC.
During the Yom Kippur War in
the fall of 1973, Shaw received a call
from Claude Young Jr. from Grand
Valley State College. Young was seek-
ing money to fly to Israel so that he
could fight in the war.
Claude Young's interest in the
JCC, Shaw says, led to the purchase
of the building by the city in the
mid-1970s. It is now the Northwest
Activities Center.
Claude Young Jr. has gone on to a
distinguished career with the U.S.
State Department. He is presently
based in Kuwait. Shaw saw him at a
reception last year and the young
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The recently completed 66th General
Assembly of the Council of Jewish
Federations in Indianapolis was a
spectacular expression of Jewish life in
North America. It attracted over 4,000
Jews, primarily from the United States
and Canada, including others from
Mexico, South America, Argentina
and the former Soviet Union.
Traditionally the largest annual
Jewish gathering, this G.A. held in
America's heartland brought Jews from
all 185 member federations of the
Council. Jewish communal profession-
als and volunteers alike participated in
the over 200 meetings dealing with all
aspects of Jewish communal life.
For some it was difficult to under-
s tand the reasons underlying why this
became the largest G.A. in the
Council of Jewish Federations' history.
Jews in the world-wide Jewish corn-
munities (the new buzz word for
Diaspora) have become increasingly
focused on the threat to the "unity of
the Jewish people." These threats acted
as a magnet to a place where serious,
• open and occasionally heated dialogue
could and did take place.
It was not, therefore, surprising that
this item was a central focus of G.A.
activity. Prime Minister Netanyahu
received polite applause to a comfort-
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able solution. He also reiterated his
peace and security policy in a talk
which broke no new ground.
In a speech the following day, Ehud
Barak, leader of the opposition Labor
Party, urged reconciliation between
the religious streams and repeated his
stand against the conversion law cur-
rently before the Knesset. He pledged
a strong effort to move the peace
process forward with great speed
should Labor once again become the
party in power.
While formal presentations by
Rabbis Eric Yoffie (Reform), Jerome
Epstein (Conservative) and Jacob
Rubenstein (Orthodox) further high-
lighted the issue of pluralism, the con-
versations in the halls of the G.A.
underscored the importance of this
issue on the Jewish agenda.
After listening to the debate at the
G.A., it is clear to me that anything
less than an accommodation by the
religious streams in Israel that satisfied
Reform, Conservative and Orthodox
Jews worldwide will have a devastating
effect upon Jews everywhere.
While unity was a central focus, the
G.A. dealt with the full panoply of •
Jewish communal life. Most notable
was the presence of nearly 1,000 stu-
dents and young leadership track par-
ticipants who gave vibrancy, joy and
energy to this meeting. Next year, in
celebration of the 50th year of Israel's
existence, we will reconvene in
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