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tive action, the Council convened a
task forCe to study the issue. Its seven
meetings brought together legislators,
African American pastors, university
professors and administrators.
Last December, the Council issued
its position: yes on affirmative action,
no on quotas.
The statement affirmed the status
quo, breaking no new intellectual or
public policy grounds.
Because it represents so many affil-
iate groups with a variety of causes,
the Council is designed to be more
coalition building than ground break-
ing. Discussing the consensus-form-
ing makeup of the Council, Sharona
Shapiro, Michigan area director of
the American Jewish Committee,
which deals with interfaith issues and
is a Council affiliate, said:
"The Council must come together
as representatives for a consensus on
an issue and, therefore, it cannot
speak out on a variety of issues nor
can it take stands on things that are
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necessarily specific to the purview of
Jewry as opposed to American issues.
On the other hand, it achieves a lot
because it has really studied at length
so many different issues. It has so
many individuals on so many corn-
mittees. It has to see every issue at
every angle, and see if there's some-
thing that directly relates to the
Jewish community."
She said the organizations that
make up the Council divide resources
to attack an issue, using Israel as an
example. "As the Jewish Community
Council speaks out for the Detroit
community from a wide variety of
sources, the American Jewish
Committee will work with the inter-
faith community.
"Perhaps the ADL will be dealing
with it from the perspective of moni-
toring hare crimes or anti-Semitism
relating to anything dealing with the
Middle East or Israel. So we divide
where our strengths are."
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Working with the senator to obtain
basic health care for rural Americans
led Gad-Harf to earn a public health
degree at the University of North
Carolina. Then in 1981, the couple
settled in St. Louis while Nancy stud-
ied social work at Washington
University.
When public health jobs began
diminishing under President Ronald.
Reagan, Gad-Harf took a job at the
Jewish Community Relations Council
in St. Louis. There he found his niche.
David Gad-a1 right, with
"I fell in love with the job because I
Gov. John Engler in Israel.
was able to combine my
interests in politics, pub-
lic policy and work in a
cause that I really
believed in — the Jewish
community," he said. "I
felt that it was meant to
be, it was beshert."
Detroit recruited him
in 1988.
Past presidents of the
Council use the same
glowing adjectives to
describe Gad-Harf:
Cardinal Maida, David and Nancy Gad-Harf at an
upbeat, optimistic, capa-
ecumenical dinner in 1997.
ble,-dependable.
U.S. District Judge
get the job done, but not in.a way
Paul D. Borman, Council president
that it leaves bodies, or frayed feel-
from 1988 ro 1991, said about Gad-
ings."
Harf, "It was a continuing pleasure to
Now 45,with a son who will go to
work with a professional who has
Washington
University in the fall,
good smarts and great judgment. He's
Gad-Harf
is
running for the West
internally aggressive with an agenda to