Remember When • • • From the pages of The Jewish News for this week 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 1989 Anti-Semitism tally rises; $500, 000 for the Campaign; Knollenberg on teaching hate. For the third straight year, Michigan reported an increase in anti-Semitism, according to the Anti-Defamation League's Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents. The 57 incidents recorded in 1998 were 17 more than in 1997. Acts of harassment, threat or assault jumped from 33 to 45, and acts of vandalism rose from seven to 12. Michigan had the highest numbei- reported in the 14 Midwest region states. "The increase in Michigan inci- dents is due to better reporting and the increased activity of hate groups," said Don Cohen, Michigan ADL director. Nationally, 42 states and Washington, D.C. reported 1,611 anti-Semitic incidents — nearly half of them vandalism cases. That was up from 1,571 in 1997 and ended a run of three straight years in which such incidents declined. The Allied Jewish Campaign's annual Days of Decision phon-athon raised more than $500,000 last week, Was (Not Was), the rock band of native Oak Parkers Don Fagenson and David Weiss, has moved from cult status to popular success. It began in 1980 when music producer Fagenson persuaded L.A. jazz critic Weiss, son of actor Rube Weiss, to return to Detroit and cut an album. according to Campaign director Laura Linder. New gifts have been a major focus in this year's Campaign, she said, and of the 845 new gifts collected so far, the majority came from the Days of Decision event. So far, the Campaign has generated $26.5 million of its $29.6 million goal, Linder said. When the West Bloomfield-based Mothers Against Teaching Children to Kill and Hate (MATCKH) visited Washington and asked U.S. Rep. Joe Knollenberg of Bloomfield Hills to fight the Palestinian Authority's incite- ment of children to be hostile toward Jews and Israel, they were kicking on an open door. In a March 18 letter, the Appropriations Committee member urged President Clinton to raise the )) "incitement as an obstacle to peace issue with Yasser Arafat during the PA chairman's visit to the Capitol this week. "Most disturbing," Knollenberg wrote, "is the anti-Israel brainwashing of Palestinians at their most impres- sionable — as children." Citing the 1998 Palestinian media broadcast of a "Sesame Street"-style children's program that encouraged youth to regain their land by violent means, Knollenberg wrote: "Palestinian textbooks still work to further the indoctrination of a whole generation to hate Western society and Jews. Good-faith negotiations on the part of the Israelis are simply impossible when the PA regularly defiles and depicts Jews in reprehensi- ble ways. He may be kicking on an open door also. The Wye peace agreement that Clinton brokered included specif- ic steps to combat incitement through educational curricula and TV pro- gramming. The hope, said MATCKH's Molly Resnick, is that the U.S. will hold up financial aid to the PA and its agencies until they demonstrate "a sincere desire to live in peace and co-existence with Jews and Israelis in the State of Israel." 33 Marking 100 Years Of Detroit Jewry 1979 In the wake of the Camp David peace agreement, The Jewish News editorially praised "Jimmy Carter, the Peace-Maker," 'Anwar Sadat, the Fearless Leader" and "Menachem Begin, the Israeli Patriot." Acknowledged for prevent- ing a collapse of the talks behind the scenes are Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Ambassador to the U.S. Ephraim Evron. to w\ Southfield Mayor Norman Feder, opposed to building a domed stadi- um in his city, said, The psycho- logical, economic and physical damage resulting from the exodus of Detroit's major athletic organiza- tions may prove more costly to the Southeast Michigan complex than the immediate ... economic gains to any one suburban area." 1959 As Hawaii becomes the 50th state, an old speculation that Hawaiians were the lost tribes of Israel is recalled. Although island natives practiced circumcision and the Polynesian word for the God of Love, Aloha, resembles the Hebrew Elohim, a report to the American Jewish Historical Association in 1903 called such evidence too slight. 1949 Classes for new Americans were held at the 12th Street Council Center in Detroit. In this photo, circa 1947, a new American is learning English. Photo courtesy of the Leonard N. Simons Jewish Community Archives/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit. If you have information about this photograph. please call Heidi Christein, Jewish community archivist, (248) 642-4260. 3/26 1999 26 Detroit Jewish News In a stirring address at Temple Beth El, Israeli U.N. representative Abba Eban appealed for Jews to aid Israeli immigrants — "the battered rem- nants of disaster who are separated from their final redemption by finan- cial difficulty. If you shared in our military glory, do not hesitate to share in the pain of national rebirth."