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When do you compromise?
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JEWISH SECRETS

To Self-Improvement

Heritage Boost

A long-time dream to celebrate
Jewish achievements is nearing fruition.

ALAN HITSKY

"How To in An
Argument"

With Noted Lecturer Rabbi Shmuel Irons

Tuesday, April 7, 1998
7:30 P.M.

Jewish Community Center
D. Dan & Betty Kahn Building

There is no charge for this program.

Please call (248) 661-7649 to register for the lecture.

Jewish Secrets will be held on the first Tuesday of every month.

Sperber's North Kosher Restaurant, located inside the JCC,
will be serving dinner until 8:00 p.m.

For the hearing impaired, an Infrared Sound System is available. With reasonable
notice, we can provide a sign language interpreter for any speaker upon request.

3/27
1998

10

Associate Editor

nn Barnett believes most
people, including many
ews, don't understand the
role Jewish Americans have
played in making America a better
place.
For 25 years, she's been working on
a plan to celebrate Jewish Heritage
Week in the Detroit area. With the
help of WTVS-Channel 56, the
Agency for Jewish Education (AJE),
the Jewish Historical Society of
Michigan, the Jewish Community
Council and the Jewish Federation,
next month she'll see her dream ful-
filled.
Ch. 56, Detroit
Public Television, was
more than happy to
oblige Barnett after it
weathered a storm of
criticism from Jewish
organizations for air-
ing a pro-Palestinian
"Point of View" pro-
gram last August.
Barnett, this year's
president of the
Detroit chapter of the
American Zionist
Movement, said sta-
tion officials "were so
wonderful and so anx-
ious to mend fences."
She spent 4 - 5 hours
with station President
and General Manager
Steve Antoniotti and
Program Director
Robert Scott and his
staff to review a series
of programs in the sta-
tion's library that will
air next month.
In addition, the AJE is finding
homes during Jewish Heritage Week
(April 27-May 3) for Barnett's posters
and displays featuring Jews who have
made great contributions to American
life.
Displays have tentatively been
scheduled for the Jimmy Prentis
Morris and Kahn Jewish community
centers, the Wayne State University
Student Center through Hillel of

Metro Detroit, and at several Jewish
schools.
Federation's Neighborhood Project
is asking area merchants to establish
raffles in conjunction with Jewish
Heritage Week, to call attention to the
event.
Barnett said Jewish Heritage Week
was introduced in America's bicenten-
nial year, 1976, along with Black
History Week.
(—\
"Look at how the Afro-American
community has turned that into Black
History Month," she said. She would
like Detroit Jews to sponsor Jewish
Heritage Week every year, like the
New York Jewish community, in an
effort to acknowledge Jewish accom-
plishments.
Ch. 56 has scheduled three Passover
programs, two
c
Holocaust remem-
brance programs and
three broadcasts for
Jewish Heritage Week
during April. Barnett
said the station "was so
eager to please the
Jewish community."
Berl Falbaum told
The Jewish News that it
is up to individuals and
organizations whether
they should support
Ch. 56.
Falbaum's La'Asote
group, the Zionist
Organization of
America - Detroit
District, the Jewish
War Veterans of
Michigan, and
8 .8
Americans for a Safe
Israel, called for a boy-
cott of the station last
year after it aired
"People and the Land."
"In all our communications with
WTVS," Falbaum said, "we've seen
some sensitivity. We differ not over
(_/
being critical of Israel, but over
defamation and libel. We leave it up
to the individual to decide when they
should contribute again [to the sta-
tion].
"If the Jewish community believes
the station is being sensitive, they
ought to contribute." ❑

