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The resettlement of so
and destruction, Detroit’s
featured
many Soviet immigrants
Jewish community needed
within such a short
a strong, unifying, trusted
“Top Stories”
period of time is “a really
voice who could rally it
throughout
great illustration of what
in the midst of its darkest
the year.
Jewish Family Service
days.
stands ready to do. We
Framed by the inter-
took a lot of people and
nationally disseminated
made them part of the American
anti-Semitic rants of locals Henry
Ford and Father Charles Coughlin,
dream,” CEO Perry Ohren said.
Detroit Jews had been feeling the
Jeannie Weiner of West
sting of bigotry for decades. It was
Bloomfield, a past president of
Slomovitz, a diminutive man with
the Jewish Community Relations
Coke-bottle-thick eyeglasses and a
Council (JCRC), who was very
passion for Zionism, who pushed
involved in the movement to free
back against these demagogues via
Soviet Jews, said there would have
his writing for the Detroit News and
been no Operation Exodus without
the Detroit Jewish Chronicle.
the international advocacy effort
Displeased with the editorial
that preceded it.
direction and business practices of
(Extract from “Mission Possible” by
the Jewish Chronicle, and convinced
Barbara Lewis, April 28, 2016)
it could not bring the community
together at a time of great peril,
75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DJN
key community leaders backed
The world was an exceedingly dan-
Slomovitz as he launched the com-
gerous place especially for Jews
peting Jewish News.
when Philip Slomovitz published
The Jewish News Slomovitz edited
the first issue of the Jewish News on
March 27, 1942. Coming just months was mostly serious stuff as was fit-
ting for the times. Huge headlines
after the Japanese sneak attack
and front-page stories told of the
on Pearl Harbor, and with Hitler’s
demise of European Jewry, and
war machine overrunning most
included Slomovitz’s calling out
of Europe and singling out Jews
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