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Flint Basketball Players to Get Awards

Bruce Smock, youth director of the Flint Jewish Community
Council, shows players from the FJCC intermediate and senior
boys teams the trophies that will be presented at the annual council
basketball awards banquet 7 p.m. Thursday at Whittier Community
Junior High School. With Smock are (from left) Michael Leavitt,
Robert Kaplan, Marc Kippelman and Eddie Kirsbaum.
* * •
The Flint Jewish Community
Council's second annual Basketball
Awards Banquet will be held 7
p.m. Thursday at Whittier Com-
munity Junior High School.
Guest speaker at the banquet
will be a member of the Michigan
Three young Bible "experts" State University basketball team.
from Detroit will take part in the
The banquet will honor the
national finals of the eighth an-
council's teams who participated
nual National Bible Contest May 1
in the YMCA Church League,
in New York.
and highlight of the evening will
be the presentation of t h e
They are David Garlock of Tem-
council's sportsmanship and ath-
ple Beth El Religious School, Paul
letic awards to the two out-
Weisswasser of the United Hebrew
standing players from the inter-
Schools high school and Irving
Mandelbaum of Hillel Day School. mediate and senior teams.
City and district champs on the
Each placed first in his respective
division—English, intermediate He- intermediate team who will re-
ceive
awards are Michael Leavitt,
brew and advanced Hebrew—in
the regional finals Sunday at the Brad Velick, David Schupack, Gil
Himelhoch, Robert Kaplan, Mary
Esther Berman Building.
Boren, Dan Gotlib, Alan Bragman,
Other winners were:
Brian Hirsch, Gary Voight and
Laurie Lechner, second place, Scott Brooks. The team was
from Cong. Bnai Moshe, and Marc coached by Danny Rittman.
Diskin, third, from the Jewish
Receiving awards for the senior
Center, both in the English Divi- boys team will be Eddie Kirsbaum,
Marc Kippelman, Mark Mitskun,
sion;
Michael Silberschein, second, and Paul Krause, Richard Gordon,
Morris Holtz, third, both UHS high Sandy Koffman, Harold Steinman,
school students, in the intermediate Rick Harris, Jerry Silberman and
Ami Ranani, Carl Rittman was
Hebrew Division; and
Mark Goldsmith, second, from coach.
The men's team consists of Ron
Hillel Day School, and Simon
Kresch, third, independent, in the Hartman, Carl Rittman, Danny
Rittman, Jim Carswell, Barry
Advanced Hebrew Division.
Simen, Mark Saipe, Bruce Smock,

3 Students to Vie
for National Bible
Contest Honors

They Made
the Grade

CHARLES IRA BASSIN, son of
Mr. and Mrs. George Bassin of
Kentucky Ave., competing in the
Ford Open Chess Tournament
March 31-April 2, won first prize
in his category and second place
in the over-all tournament. Charles
has been playing chess since he
was 10 and has played in many
cities throughout the U.S.A. and
abroad. He has won many cash
awards and possesses more than a
dozen trophies, earning titles of
Michigan Junior Champion, West-
ern Junior Champion and Central
Michigan Champion and many
others. A senior at Cass Tech High
School, Charles, 17, works part-
time for the Wayne State Univer-
sity Medical School in the science
research department. He hopes to
enter the University of Michigan
in the fall.
• • •
HOWARD SHAPIRO , son of Mr.
and Mrs. Howard Shapiro Sr.,
19313 Hartwell, a student at Henry
Ford High School, will attend the
Detroit Economic Club luncheon
11 a.m. Monday at the Veterans
Memorial Building. Howard, a
member of Junior Achievement,
will be the guest of Vernon C.
Johnson, vice president of Manu-
facturers National Bank of Detroit.
• • •
MELVYN MEYER ROM, son of
Mrs. Jack Rom of Cranbrook Dr.
and the late Dr. Rom, was re-
cently elected to membership in
Phi Beta Kappa at the University
of Michigan. He was also selected
as a James B. Angell Scholar,
having completed seven semesters
with an all-A record.
• • •
GARY FRIEDLAENDER, Uni-
versity of Michigan Medical School
sophomore, has been elected to
membership in the Galens Honor-
ary Medical Society. Friendlaender,
son of Dr. and Mrs. Alex Friedla-

ender of Lincoln Rd., Huntington
Woods, was one of eight students

chosen for the honor. He is secre-
tary of Phi Delta Epsilon medical
fraternity. Honors are nothing new
to Friedlaender; at the first Detroit
Science Fair in 1958, he won first
place in the biology division.

ner, and quizmasters were Rabbi
Jay Braverman and Menachem
Glaser. Hyman Safran, president
of the Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion, distributed prizes to the win-
ners.
Rabbi Braverman, principal of
the UHS high school, coordinated
the contest, and Albert Elazar,
superintendent of the United He-
brew Schools, was district chair-
man. The contest is sponsored
nationally by the department of
education and culture of the Jew-
ish Agency.

David Letvin Editor
of Oakland U. Paper

David Letvin, Oakland Univer-
sity sophomore has been chosen
by the university's• board of pub-
lications to serve as editor of the
student newspaper, The Oakland
Observer, for the 1967-68 school
year.
The 19-year-old English major
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Letvin, 17585 Parkside.
A January 1966 graduate of Cass
Technical High School, Letvin
served as editor of the high school
newspaper and has been on the
editorial staff of the Observer this
past year.

under which Russian Jewry suffers ing more signatures to the petition
religious and cultural discrimina- to be sent to Premier Kosygin.
That campaign is to be culmin-
tions, was signed here by 600 per-
sons within a few days after ated with paid advertisements in
organized Jewish youth in this the local press by May 1.
community started circulating the
Bible Theme in Art Show
petition on Purim, March 26.
The petition, spelling out the by Jewish School Pupils
various anti-Jewish discriminations
NEW YORK — The 24th annual
against Russian Jewry in the re- art exhibition by children in Jew-
ligious and cultural fields, calls ish schools and centers will open
on Premier Kosygin also "to Sunday and continue through May
provide a climate whereby anti- 28 at the Jewish Education Com-
Semitism will be ended and dis- mittee Building here.
Using as its theme the biblical
crimination and propaganda
against the Jews be stopped."
verse "Let There Be Light", the
exhibition
will show the art work,
Politics and Kibutz
The petition Is one of four
in a program mapped on in various media, made by children
Closing Topic of Series points
the Russian Jewish issue by the from over 85 Jewish schools in
At the next meeting of Ameri- youth here under the auspices of Greater New York, Long Island
cans for Progressive Israel —
the Savannah Jewish Council and and Westchester.
Hashomer Hatzair, 8:30 p.m. April
the local Jewish Educational
15 at the Jewish Center, Naphtali Alliance.
Inter-City Program
Golomb, director of the Kibutz
The other points are:
to
Draw Tweens
Management Center in Israel will
1) Erection of an eternal light
speak on the political aspects of in front of the JEA premises, to From 3 Cities
the kibutz.
call attention to the plight of the
The De t r o i t-Toledo-Cleveland
Golomb is presently in Ann Ar- USSR's 3,000,000 Jews.
Inter-City program will be held
)2
Request
for
all
Jewish
organi-
year
as
the
guest
of
the
today
through Sunday at the Jew-
bor for a
University of Michigan's Institute zations and heads of families here ish Center. Some 150 tween-agers
for Social Research. This final lec- to include in this Passover's seder will attend.
The dance to be held 8 p.m.
ture was postponed from the earli- services special prayers on behalf
Saturday is open to all tween Cen-
of Russian Jewry.
er scheduled date.
campaign
among
all
non-
3) A
ter members and their friends in
A coffee hour is planned. The
Jewish as well as Jewish organiza- grades 7-9. Nominal charge,
meeting is open to the public.

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qualifying exams were based on
the books of Leviticus and Kings
I. Judges were Walter Farber Savannah Youth Start Drive
and James Levbarg, In English;
and Rabbis Leonard Cahan, Yu- for Rights of Russian Jewry
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SAVANNAH, Ga. (JTA) — A tions and leaders here, including
ano and Messrs. Michael Michlin petition
addressed to Soviet Prime churches, synagogues, civil rights
and Jay Rosenshine; in Hebrew.
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