This Week
`Shalom Street'
Ford Motor Company Fund's $2 million
gift to ICC is designed for children.
HARRY KIRSBAUM
Staff Writer
fficially, it's called the Center
for Exploration and Discovery,
under the umbrella of the
Henry and Jeanette Weinberg Judaic
Enriclunent Center in the D. Dan
and Betty Kahn Building on the
Eugene & Maricia Applebaum Jewish
Community Campus in West
Bloomfield -- but the kids will call it
"Shalom Street."
The 4,500-square-foot interactive
children's museum, to open this year,
Representative James Goodman will be here on Thursday & Friday
Representative Mike Steveson
will be here on Thursday & Friday till Noon
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is the result of a $2 million gift from
the Ford Motor Company Fund.
"Shalom Street would not exist
were it not for the gift from the Ford
Motor Company Fund," said Patti
Aaron, the Weinberg Center co-chair
with Penny Blumenstein. "That was
the impetus, when that gift was
received, we could begin the con-
struction and the real planning for
this museum, which we hope will
have a definite impact on this coin-
mimity for many years to come."
Shalom Street, located directly to the
right of the entrance on the first floor,
In fact, Ford Centennial officials
STILL PUZZLING from page 15
were so irritated that Brinkley spent
colleagues were shocked to learn he is
so many pages reiterating the anti-
Jewish.
Semitism subject, rather than devot-
Zimmerman, of Ann Arbor, with
ing more space to the recent Ford
degrees from Dartmouth and the
years, that they're not going all out
Massachusetts Institute of
to publicize the book. Brinkley's
Technology, joined Ford in 1987 as
book presentation at last week's
the company's chief economist.
Centennial celebration was canceled.
Before that, he was chairman of the
This is along the lines of the same
Business Economics Department at
paranoia that has gripped Ford deal-
the University of Michigan's
ers in the heavily Jewish sections of
Graduate School of
New York and Miami Beach through
Business
the years. Embarrassed by the anti-
Administration.
Semitism reputation, some over the
"Anti-Semitism is
years dropped the word "Ford" from
a non-issue at Ford
their advertising, simply trying to sell
now," he said. "The
vehicles as Model T's, V-8's,
company does not
Thunderbirds and Mustangs.
care about a person's
This type of thinking also has cre-
ethnicity or religion,
ated
the "closet Jew" syndrome
but looks for talent, Zimmerman
among a number of Jews at the com-
and promotes peo-
pany. Like many movie and music
ple on the basis of
stars today, they just won't admit
performance. Ford
they're Jewish, fearing it will affect
has a high record of diversity without
their career.
rival in the automotive business."
Today, Ford's impact on the state is
enormous. The company generates
about 10 percent of southeast
Hard To Erase
Michigan's $197 billion economy,
The latest book about the Ford
according to Crain's Detroit Business.
Motor Company — Wheels for the
The average annual pay for hourly
World: Henry Ford, His Company and
workers is $52,624 — compared to
a Century of Progress (Viking,
23 cents an hour when Ford was
$24.95) by historian Douglas
founded in 1903.
Brinkley — was commissioned espe-
cially for the Centennial. It really
sheds no new light on the Jewish
What's Next
issue, mostly citing author Baldwin's
Amidst the excitement and splendor
book as the authority on that sub-
of last week's Centennial celebration,
ject.