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SHABBAT, HOLIDAY LIGHTS

Last Night of Chanukah: Sunday, Dec. 13.

Shabbat: Friday, Dec. 18, 4:43 p.m.
Shabbat Ends: Saturday, Dec. 19, 5:49 p.m.*

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Shabbat: Friday, Dec. 11, 4:41 p.m.
Shabbat Ends: Saturday, Dec. 12, 5:47 p.m.*

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his past Nov. 29 marked 29 years since
one of Michigan's great labor leaders and
member of Detroit's Jewish community
passed away: Sam Fishman.
In this age of declining union membership in
the state and America at large, we sometimes for-
get that for most of the 20th century, Detroit and
Michigan could rightly claim to be the capital of
the nation's labor movement. And, that people like
Fishman, along with Michigan trade unionists like
Walter Reuther and Iry Bluestone, did a lot of good
for working folks, whether negotiating contracts or
promoting civil rights, women's rights and other pro-
gressive causes.
Fishman was a transplant from New York City,

raised in a union family. When he died in 1986,
Fishman was president of the Michigan AFL-CIO
and a nationally known labor leader. Depending
on one's point of view, he was either a brash, defi-
ant hard-nosed unionist, or an honest, outspoken
and staunch defender of the rights of labor. Bland,
however, was one term that was never used to
describe Sam Fishman.
Shortly before his death, the IN did an extensive
interview with him in its Dec. 5, 1986, issue. It is
good reading, with great insights regarding labor
and politics in Michigan and the United States. *

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