Yo u th th News ii 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. 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