This
That

Last of the litter case;
a job for Carville;
a job for Jacobs.

The 16-month-old case of a distribu-
tor of anti-Semitic literature in Hunt-
ington Woods has finally come to an
end.
Michelle Wilson, 27, of Detroit,
will serve 100 hours of community
service at both the Holocaust Memor-
ial Center in West Bloomfield and the
African American History Museum in
Detroit. She also will have a meeting
with Rabbi Stephen Weiss of Congre-
gation Shaarey Zedek and Pastor Mil-
ton Henry Christ Presbyterian
Church in Southfield.
Wilson was ticketed for littering in
Huntington Woods on July 13, 1997.
She had been distributing a pamphlet
entitled "FACTS That The Govern-
ment and the Media Don't Want You
To Know," written by the anti-Semitic

group World Church of the Creator.
"I thought it was a little on the
heavy side," said Wilson's court-
appointed attorney Keith Sirlin.
"Hopefully, she'll learn from this.'
Since the event happened, Sirlin
said Wilson has renounced her
involvement in
the church.

In a letter thank-
ing her support-
ers, Gilda Jacobs,
freshman state
representative in
the 35th District
of Berkley, Fern-
dale, Oak Park
and Southfield,
wrote she has
been appointed
Assistant Minori-
ty Floor Leader.
She calls the post
Rep. Gilda Jacobs
"a rare honor" for
a freshman. Her
responsibilities include helping to sec
the House Democratic agenda and
leading the heavily outnumbered
Democrats when they caucus during
House debates.

Man-for-all-nations James Carville
seems to have carved out a new place
for himself on the world stage — as a
political adviser to Israeli Labor Party
Chief Ehud Barak.

Barak is cranking up his campaign
to unseat Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu and has already brought in
two other spin-meisters, including a
pollster for South Africa's Nelson
Mandela and a consultant to Ger-
many's Gerhard Schroeder.
Carville climbed into the lime-
light in 1992 as a key cam-
paign adviser to then-presiden-
tial candidate Bill Clinton and
stays there by working the lec-
ture circuit with his wife,
Mary Matalin, who was an
adviser to President George
Bush. Both, who continue to
work as political consultants,
were in West Bloomfield on
Sunday to tell a Temple Israel
Speakers Forum crowd of
1,000 about the fall Congres-
sional elections.
Matalin conceded that the
GOP loss of five seats in the
U.S. House was "a disap-
pointment, but not a disas-
ter." Her husband said Clinton "is a
good man who did a bad thing. I can't
defend the bad thing he did but I can
defend the good man he is."
Barak, who has fewer acknowl-
edged bad things on his record, may
need Carville sooner than planned.
With a no-confidence vote on
Netanyahu likely later this month in
the Knesset, the campaign could start
in earnest in January.

Marking
100-Years
Of Detroit
Jewry

During the Depression, com-
munity leaders gathered to
provide basic necessities, such
as coal, food and clothing, to
Jews who were homeless and
out of work. The Jewish Wel-
fare Federation, forerunner to
the Jewish Federation of Met-
ropolitan Detroit, eventually
absorbed the Detroit Jewish.
Emergency Relief Fund.

Photo courtesy of Leonard N. Simons Jewish
Community Archives/Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit.

12/11

1998

24 Detroit Jewish News

Remember
When • •

From the pages of The Jewish News
for this week 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50
years ago.

1988

United Jewish Appeal celebrates its
50th anniversary.
The Palestinian National Council
has recognized Israel and renounces
terrorism, according to a joint state-
ment by Yassir Arafat and a group of
American Jews meeting in Sweden.

1978

Direct flights from Detroit to Israel
will now be possible early next Feb-
ruary. Passengers will fly on either a
DC-10 or DC-8 aircraft operated by
Trans International Airlines. Fares
will range from $479 in the off-sea-
son to $659 in the peak season;
vacation packages will begin at $599.

1968

A special hovercraft, a vehicle that
"floats" above the ground on a
cushion of air, has been developed
by Prof. Arthur Slotter and Chaim
Dror of the Technion-Israel Insti-
tute of Technology. The craft will
be used to transport 330 pounds of
agricultural produce, such as
bananas. The idea to develop the
craft for agricultural purposes came
at the request of Kibutz Ein Ham-
ifratz, near Haifa.

1958

President Dwight D. Eisenhower
proclaims Dec. 10-17 Human Rights
Week. The week commemorates the
10th anniversary of the United
Nations' adoption of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights. It
affirms that "recognition of the
inherent dignity and the inalienable
rights of all members of the human
family is the foundation of freedom,
justice and peace in the world."

1948

Windsorites are invited to attend a
community rally in which Lt. Col.
David A. Croll, a former Windsor
mayor, will report on his recent tour
of Israel. He is speaking on behalf
of the Jewish Welfare Fund Drive,
which is well on its way to raising
$156,000 for the United Jewish
Appeal and also seeks to help in the
resettlement here of 15 DP families.

