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Make a Difference
Much thanks to Mike Smith who
wrote in last week’
s JN praising
the Jewish Historical Society
of Michigan for honoring Peg
Finkelstein with the Judith Levin
Cantor Lifetime Achievement Award
for her work on the extensive archive
at Temple Emanuel in Grand Rapids
(June 27, page 46).
Peg received the award in person
from Risha Ring, president of
the Jewish Historical Society of
Michigan, and from Catherine
Cangany, the executive director, on
June 29, 2019. The temple in Grand
Rapids was filled with friends, family
and congregants.
For readers interested in learning
about other inspiring Jewish
women in Michigan, they can go
to the Jewish Historical Society of
Michigan website and click on the
Women Who Made a Difference
gallery. Peg Finkelstein will soon be
joining those extraordinary women
who have achievements in many
different fields throughout Michigan.
Jeannie Weiner
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letters
editorial
Federation Needs To Emphasize, Not
Downplay, Partnership2Gether Anniversary
P
artnership2Gether (P2G).
Ever hear of it? What about
Partnership 2000? They are
one in the same. But unless you
are a Jewish community insider or
Israel junkie, you probably haven’
t
… though it’
s likely you, your chil-
dren or grandchildren have been
touched by it.
Since 1994, the Detroit Jewish
community has partnered with
Israel’
s central Galilee region via
a Jewish Agency for Israel/United
Jewish Appeal initiative pairing
27 American Jewish communities
with socioeconomically challenged
areas. The intention was to create
a partnership of equals with broad
and deep people-to-people rela-
tionships. It would also serve as a
modest counterbalance to the high-
ly mechanized funding allocation
models that impersonally funneled
charitable dollars from Federation
annual campaigns to quasi-govern-
mental bodies in Israel for distri-
bution.
Twenty-five years later, the
Detroit/Michigan partnership with
the central Galilee region is the
initiative’
s most successful. It has
connected literally thousands of
Detroiters and Michiganders with
individual Israelis. From Tamarack
campers to host families, physicians
to breakthrough treatments, English
teachers to middle-school students,
mayors and council members to
legislators and governors, archaeol-
ogists to the ruins at Zippori, hos-
pice innovators to medical staffs in
need of end-of-life counseling capa-
bilities … teen musicians, Maccabi
game athletes, newspaper editors,
family bar/bat mitzvah trips, mis-
sions of almost every size and flavor
… and the list goes on.
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit leaders deserve our appre-
ciation for seeing the potential
of the Partnership 2000 initiative
and making the ongoing, though
largely quiet, investment of human
resources and dollars — likely
exceeding $25 million — in it.
At a time when hyper-charged
political atmospheres in Israel and
America are causing consternation
among many Detroit Jews, chipping
away at the once solidly bipartisan
support Israel enjoyed regardless of
political party affiliation, religion or
gender, the people-to-people rela-
tionships fostered by P2G are more
critical than ever.
Despite the successes, there
are no known plans here to com-
memorate the 25th anniversary of
Partnership2Gether … there have
already been celebrations in the
central Galilee by our partners.
Federation must seize the oppor-
tunity to more fully educate and
inform the community about the
impact this wise and noncontro-
versial investment of charitable
dollars has on those living in the
central Galilee region. It should
also lay out its vision for sustaining
and strengthening this program in
the coming years, assuring it con-
tinues to provide ways for Jewish
Detroiters to bypass political agen-
das and embrace the people of
Israel … those who have names,
faces, hopes, dreams, challenges and
will always treat you like family. ■