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for this week 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50
years ago.
1989
Bound for Israel; bound
for Poland; seeking
survivors; recognition
for an art historian.
On the heels of Michigan Miracle
Mission III to Israel, Oakland County
Executive L. Brooks Patterson is
embarking on his own sojourn to the
Jewish state.
The New York-based American
Jewish Congress is sending the out-
spoken Patterson, along with seven
other United States municipal leaders,
on a free trip to Israel May 9-15.
Once there, they will join colleagues
from 45 countries (no Arab ones are
invited, however) for the 19th Annual
Jerusalem Conference of Mayors, a
week of sessions and touring.
"This is a very practical conference.
It's not a junket just to visit Israel," said
AJCongress Executive Director Phil
Baum. "Jerusalem has problems in
common with mayors across the world,
and this is a useful format for address-
ing the similarities and differences."
Among the conference's aims: pro-
moting greater global understanding
of Israel and, according to a press
release issued by the AJCongress,
affirming to the mayors that
"Jerusalem must remain the undivid-
ed, eternal capital of Israel."
Patterson, who has never been to
Israel before and is a self-described "his-
tory buff," said he is looking forward to
seeing the historical sites of Jerusalem
and Nazareth, as well as witnessing the
Israeli elections and meeting his coun-
terparts from other countries.
Working through the United States
Conference of Mayors, the AJCongress
selects participants it believes "would
profit from the experience," said Baum.
While Patterson is in Israel, Governor
John Engler will be visiting Poland.
With his eyes possibly cast on a
vice presidential nomination on the
Republican ticket next year, he
embarked on a five-day trade mission
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What makes politicians smile? Left: Brooks Patterson;
center, John Engler; right, Spencer Abraham
to Poland on Wednesday, including a
tour of Auschwitz.
Ten percent of Michigan's residents
are Polish-Americans, according to the
Governor's Office, while 85 percent of
the 100,000 Jews living in the Detroit
area have Polish roots, said Michael
Traison, an attorney at Miller
Canfield. He has offices in Poland and
works on restitution issues.
Traison suggested the visit to
Engler and set up a tour of Auschwitz
with Jerzy Buzek, prime minister of
Poland, and other officials. The gover-
nor will also visit Poznan, the GM
plant in Katowice and Warsaw.
Now that Sen. Spencer Abraham has
introduced legislation to create a tax
exemption on settlement payments to
Holocaust survivors by organizations
cooperating with the Nazis, he is
looking for help to get the bill passed.
In order to make the strongest
case possible — to get this legislation
passed, I intend to take stories of
metro-Detroit survivors to the United
States Senate," he said.
According to the Holocaust
Memorial Center, Michigan is home to
approximately 2,000 survivors; a major-
ity of them live in Oakland County.
Any affected survivor interested in
giving testimony to the Senate, should
contact Rachael Bolander in
Abraham's office, (202) 224 6550.
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An art historian from Wayne State
University is being honored by
Hebrew Union College next week.
Joseph Gutmann will receive an hon-
orary degree from the New York-based
college, a seminary for Reform rabbis,
cantors and educators.
Gutmann, a Huntington Woods
resident, is Art History Professor
Emeritus at WSU. He is a widely
respected and prolific author of 18
books and hundreds of articles in
journals and encyclopedias. Gutmann
writes a monthly column on Jewish
art issues.
Marking
100 Years
Of Detroit
Jewry
Fanny Levin and Chana
Michlin were trained in
first aid to work in Palestine
with the Palestine Legion,
June 26, 1918.
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.
The B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundations
of Metropolitan Detroit hosted a
reception honoring U.S. District
Court Judges Avern Cohn and
Bernard A. Friedman.
Downtown-Fox 1, Class A
League champion during the regu-
lar season, also won the B'nai B'rith
Men's Basketball League Playoff
championship.
19'19
Israel agreed to a cease-fire in south
Lebanon after its artillery delivered
the heaviest bombardment of
Palestinian strongholds since Israeli
forces invaded that territory a year
ago.
The freighter Ashdod became the
first Israel-flag vessel ever to navi-
gate the Suez Canal.
1969
Arthur Robert Gralla, a 35-year
Navy veteran, has been promoted
by President Richard Nixon to vice
admiral and was named navy
inspector general. He is the fourth
Jew to attain this rank.
Max M. Fisher, head of New
Detroit Inc., was named by the
president to mobilize a coordinat-
ing committee of volunteers.
1959
Former Detroiter Dr. Morris Weitz,
a professor of philosophy at Ohio
State University, is the recipient of
a Guggenheim Fellowship for a
year's study in Europe.
Planes sprayed chemicals to assist,
labor gangs on the ground fighting
an invasion of yellow locusts. The
problem is in the Jordan Valley and
at Ein Gedi on the Dead Sea.
1949
Gov. G. Mennen Williams was
enrolled as an honorary member of
the Zionist Organization of
America.
The Women's Division of the
Sholem Aleichem Institute spon-
sored a "Restaurant Day" at the
Workmen's Circle Center on
Linwood with home-cooked meat:\