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A Worthy Kitchen
I was very happy to see the refer-
ence to the Jerusalem soup kitchen
Carmei Ha'ir in Special Writer Ethel
Hofman and Story Development Editor
Keri Guten Cohen's article about The
Holocaust Survivor Cookbook ("Cooking
Up Memories;' Nov. 29, page C42).
When I was in Israel for my daughter
Amy's wedding, she took me to Carmei
Ha'ir, in the historic Nachlaot neighbor-
hood where she has lived while learn-
ing at Yeshivat Simchat Shlomo.
Amy asked me if my husband and
I would be willing to make a dona-
tion to Carmei Halr in honor of her
wedding. And so, on the night of Nov.
21, dinner at Carmei Ha'ir was served
as part of the wedding of Amy Fay
Kaplan and Oren Benyamin Benoff
at the biblical nature reserve Neot
Kedumim, near Modi'in.
It probably is no surprise to anyone
that the number of Israelis who live in
poverty and need help to meet basic
human needs — shelter, food, cloth-
ing, medical care — is high and grow-
ing. Not nearly enough is being done
by the government to provide a safety
net for them. They also live in terrible
social isolation. Many of them are
elderly survivors of the Shoah.
Non-governmental organizations
such as Carmel Ha'ir are doing their
best to fill the gap. But Israel must do
much more to fulfill its Torah respon-
sibilities: Lift up the fallen; clothe the
naked; feed the hungry. In the mean-
time, we can contribute directly to this
and other social private agencies.
The Carmei Ha'ir address is :
Carmei Ha'ir, P.O. Box 6084,
Jerusalem 91060 Israel.
Phone: +972 2 500 4222
Fax: +972 2 500 4220
E-mail: info@carmeihair.org.il
Web site, www.carmeihair.org.il
An informational CD is available.
Work With Israel
I certainly agree that the Detroit
Jewish community needs to rebuild
itself (Publisher's Notebook, "Jewish
Detroit Must Save Itself:' Nov. 29, page
5). However, I believe it should be
done in collaboration with Israel and
not at its expense.
Our community can utilize the inge-
nuity of Israel to incubate new local
businesses and create jobs for the next
generation of Jews and non-Jews alike.
The Jewish community can begin by
inviting Michigan's institutions of
higher learning to work with Israel's
innovative universities.
Why should the University of
Michigan and Michigan State only
have formal relationships with insti-
tutions in the Arab world? As our
community is perhaps the largest
benefactor of the U-M, we should use
our influence to help it, and also MSU
and other institutions, build bridges to
Israel in renewable energy and medi-
cine, in addition to building elaborate
structures with Jewish names on them.
Florida is building partnerships
with Israel, as is Ohio, among others.
What are Michigan and local govern-
ment doing to leverage the technology
gold mine in Israel? What is our gover-
nor doing in this regard?
The Jewish community leadership
should use its influence to do the right
thing for our people here and for our
brethren in Israel. It should not be an
either/or option.
We also need to know how we have
squandered precious resources in the
past, even if unpleasant, so we don't
continue to squander both our political
capital and our hard-earned dollars.
Let's have thoughtful and enlight-
ened leadership and not a simple-
zero-sum-game perspective toward
greater Jewish long-term communal
interests and needs.
Nancy F. Kaplan
Eugene Greenstein
West Bloomfield
Farmington Hills
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Riverdale, N.Y., Hebrew Home for the Aged, accomplish
recently?
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