Addressing Hebrew Free Loan
assembly, national communal leader
calls for helping "create a new destiny

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Metro Detroiter Joel
Tauber, chairman of the exec-
utive committee of United
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Jewish Communities, the New
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Joel Tauber lays out a plan
tion for the federated
for Detroit Jewry becoming
American Jewish community,
a national power as keynot-
was keynote speaker to more
er at the International
than 250 people attending the
Association of Hebrew Free
awards banquet at the annual
Loans' annual conference.
conference of the International
Association of Hebrew Free
Loans Sept. 18 in Troy.
Tauber assailed the pitfalls of assimilation as a threat to the future of
Judaism, and decried the "vitriolic debates" among ultra-Orthodox Jews in
the U.S. and Israel.
As proposed solutions to major Jewish problems, he supported sending
every Jewish child on a free visit to Israel, and suggested developing a core
curriculum to teach values and religion to Jewish children.
Tauber, who serves on many community boards and committees, kept the
audience in rapt attention as he emphasized the need for a united Jewish
community in the Detroit area that "could be as powerful as any group in
America." He added: "We have the opportunity to help build one Jewish
community as a legacy to our successors . . . and help create a new destiny for
Jews to be world leaders."
Tauber lauded the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit as the "best
in the nation." He said it always offers new and innovative ideas to help sup-
port families, education and the elderly, citing successful completion of the
$50-million Millennium Campaign for Detroit's Jewish Future. "The
United Jewish Communities set out to accomplish many changes in the
past six months, and we succeeded," he said.

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Joel Tauber, Hebrew Free Loan keynoter.

BILL CARROLL

Special to the Jewish News

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national communal executive praised Detroit Jewry for being "in
first place" among Jewish communities in the United States, where
Jewish groups are strong everywhere.

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