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The health kiosk in the Adams-Butzel Recreation Complex lobby
May 17, the Council set up a confer-
ence room for people to watch Israeli
election results on CNN and different
Web sites. A professor from Kalamazoo
College and an Israeli journalist gave
their thoughts via speakerphone. Two
dozen people, mostly Israeli, dropped
in. On the other hand, more than 160
people attended rwo Council-hosted
candidates' forums that explored state,
local and Jewish issues last year.
• On Sunday, May 23, the Council
concluded a year-long celebration of
what it called its 60th anniversary —
"Sixty Years of Working Together For
Justice & Harmony" — with a gathering
of 250 political and communal leaders at
the Detroit Historical Museum.
But its actual 60th birthday had
gone by without fanfare almost two
years earlier, on Sept. 29, 1997.
The commemorative celebration
was held up because "we were con-
sumed by other things that year,
Gad-Harf said, also citing poorly
maintained archives. "Instead, we cele-
brated it in the 1998-'99 year, starting
with our annual meeting last year
honoring our past presidents, and cul-
minating this May with our celebra-
tion at the Detroit Historical
Museum. It's better late than never."
To those who attended last month's
festivity, the delay didn't seem to mat-
ter. "So I guess they were a little late,"
said Alvin L. Kushner, former Council
executive director, shrugging.
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Where Next?
Gad-Harf says that Council is a dynam-
ic and adaptable agency and he wants it
on the cutting edge of identifying areas
of Jewish community concern.
On a national scale, bringing Jews
together should be a high priority, said
Brandeis' Sarna. "I've heard unbeliev-
able Orthodox bashing from the non-
Orthodox communities, and the
reverse is also true," he said.
"Much of what we learned from
inter-group relations needs to be applied
internally. Since we have been so busy
tending the one garden, the communi-
ty's garden if you like, our own garden
has developed many weeds."
Deborah Goldberg, president of
Labor Zionist Alliance Branch 11 and
a Council delegate, agreed.
"We have to find a way to resolve
those issues in a way acceptable to
everybody, because those of us who
don't belong to Orthodoxy believe that
they are acting like they are the only
one true faith," she said. "We don't
think there's room for that in Judaism."
Gad-Harf said that problem is not
easily cured locally because it is too
attached to Israel.
But he suggested encouraging people
from all streams of the Jewish commu-
nity to get involved in projects. "When
people work side by side in a project
like the literacy campaign, it's harder for
them to denigrate each other."
More fundamentally, Gad-Harf
said, "the Council believes that the
well-being of the Detroit Jewish
community is related to our rela-
tionships with the community
around us. If those relationships are
rotten, our position in the commu-
nity will suffer."
U.S. District Judge Paul D. Borman
echoed that thought. "There's not a
whole lot of people who grasp the
importance of community relations,
but they appreciate the importance of
it when things happen," he said.
"A lot of the establishment asks
what does it (the Council) do, that we
don't need it. The answer is they do a
lot, and they (the establishment) don't
know it because where they travel, it
doesn't impact them," he said. "When
things happen in a positive way, they
assume that it just happens. But it's
because groundwork has been laid (by
the Council) to allow it to happen."
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