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1970-1990

uiet
Diplomat"
Max Fisher at
a meeting with
Israeli amabas-
sador Yitzhak
Rabin and
President
Richard Nixon
in the Oval
Office, 1970.

Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir meets
in 1973 to discuss Yom Kippur War con-
sequences with UJA executive vice presi-
dent Irving Bernstein, UJA General
Chairman Paul Zuckerman of Detroit
and UJA President Edward Ginsberg.

U.S. Sen. Phil Hart (7)
speaks at a Soviet Jewry

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• 1970-1980: In the decade of the '70s,
no cause captivated American Jews like
that of Soviet Jewry. With the advent of

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Kincheloe of the Detro .'-'catk
of Churches and Jewish
Community Council
Hubert Sidlow.

New Detroit, the concept of a Detroit
renaissance emerged but, despite the par-

Children enjoy the summer attending the
Jewish Community Day Camp, 1976

ticipation of leading Jewish businessmen,

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the decade. Someone noted that in

Detroit, "the Renaissance would precede
the Dark Ages." Israel lost some of its

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fairy-tale aura of invincibility as it near-
ly lost the Yom Kippur War in 1973:

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regained in 1976, with the daring raid

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on Entebbe Airport in Uganda to success-

fully rescue the passengers of a plane

hijacked by Palestinian terrorists.

• 1980-1990: These difficult years for
Israel's political, military and ethical

direction caused significant controversy

Efforts to bring freedom to the mas-
sive Jewish community in the Soviet
Union required energy, and Detroit
had plenty of it in the late 1980s,
when the city led the nation in
fund-raising for "Passage to
Freedom."

among American Jews as well. For the

first time since 1967, questions of level of

support for Israel arose in this country.

Those questions mirrored troubling con-

rocks at Israeli soldiers and authority fig-

ures in the late '80s and early '90s —
further complicated Israel's public image

and its policy. In Detroit, Jews and Arabs
began to reach out to each other, forming

what is currently known as the National

Conference for Community and Justice,

which sponsors a Christian-Jewish-Arab

trialogue.

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cerns over Jewish identity and continuity
in America. The Intifada — the "upris-

Ardent history fan Leonard
Simons is honored on his 85th.
da with a dedication at The
o Old Detroit at the Detro
Historical Museum. Simon
ident emeritus of the Detro'' ''"
Historical Commission.

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nity boasts two Jewish community campust
es. In 1997, the Oak Park campus was
named for benefactor A. Alfred Taubman;
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