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He has remained hopeful among the
skeptics. He said, "If an agreement is
achieved with Syria, it creates even
more momentum for the Palestinians
to come to an agreement."
He spoke at a joint meeting of the
American Israel Public Affairs
Committee and the Young Adult
Division of the Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit at Knollwood
Country Club in West Bloomfield.
Sen. Lieberman told the crowd of
400 that Iran is the greatest threat to
Israeli security.
"It reminds us that in this technolog-
ical whirlwind, where more and more
warfare is fought from stand-off posi-
tions, firing missiles with chemical, bio-
logical or nuclear weapons, the previous
strategic calculations we make about
borders relating to security are not as
powerful as they used to be," he said.
Syria continues to be the greatest
threat to the adjoining states, he said,
as it still devotes half its gross domes-
tic product to the military, and con-
tinues to acquire ballistic missiles.
"If you can imagine keeping secu-
rity on the Golan Heights, with an

international presence, in return for a
genuine peace with Syria, including
an exchange of ambassadors, then I
think it's a tremendous step forward
and truly historic for Israel," the sena-
tor said, also giving kudos to AIPAC.
This country [U.S.] guarantees us
opportunities, but does not guarantee
us outcomes," he said.
Sen. Lieberman said the foundation
of Israel's security has been the country's
relationship with the United States. He
added that such a relationship doesn't
happen automatically, in a body as
"pluralistic and diverse" as Congress.
It comes, he said, "as the result of
an organization like AIPAC to create
what is ultimately the great guarantor
of a strong Israeli-American relation-
ship." AIPAC has helped foster "a
bipartisan, pro-Israel majority in both
houses," he said.
U.S. Rep. Sander Levin (D-Mich.)
called "appropriate Lieberman's empha-
sis on the peace process in his talk.
"Peace and security for Israel is a
potential blessing of immense propor-
tions, but it has to be both," Sen.
Levin said. 1-1

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Bronfman said he had an
"epiphany" when he visited Moscow
years ago, trying to gain release for
Jews living in the Soviet Union.
When he saw thousands of Jews
openly milling around the street after
Simchat Torah services in Moscow,
he said he thought to himself, "If
these people can endanger their free-
dom by outwardly admitting that
they're Jewish, then there must be
something about this religion —
about these people — that I have
missed."-
He said he began to study the
Talmud, quit eating treif (not kosher
food) and became a "proud Jew.
Bronfman said Hillel is "the center
post" of what he called the Jewish
renaissance. His Michigan visit
included a speech to a group interest-
ed in the Michigan State University
Hillel's $3 million capital campaign
and renovation, launched Dec. 8. He
also spoke with Hillel lay leaders and
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit officers.
"Renaissance is not just about
Hillel and it's not just about college
students; it's about everything," he
told students from Hillel of
Metropolitan Detroit and Eastern
Michigan University. "It's about syna-
gogue renewal, summer camps. It's
about any way we can, to get at young

people and try to teach them about
Judaism so they become proud Jews."
Joel of Hillel told the students
that his and Bronfman's trip to
Michigan was a "particularly joyous"
visit. "Wherever we look, we see both
success and challenge and opportuni-
ty," Joel said. "This is a community
that has to figure out how to model
itself for the rest of the Jewish com-
munity, both as a model of local
community and kind of like a micro-
cosm of what we are sorely in need of
on a national and global level."
What's needed is both a vision of
leadership and the determination to
have implementation strategies that
successfully make the vision come
alive, he said.
Jewish renaissance will come only
by giving the next generation its own
memories, Joel said.
"We're at a point in Jewish history
where we realize it's not about my
dream, but a panoply of connected
Jewish dreams that we can make real.
That is what renaissance is all about,"
he said. "They will exercise their
option to be Jewish if Jewishness to
them offers added value in their
quest to build a life that makes sense.
If we can work with them to offer
them a vision of building their mem-
ories, not transferring our memories,
then there can be an extraordinary
and proud future." ❑

PRIDE

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