Linda Pollard Betrothed Delegates to Hear to Mr. Puner of NY JNF's,Dr. Aron MISS LINDA POLLARD Dr. and Mrs. Ray Pollard of Stratford Rd., announce the en- gagement of their daughter Linda Jane to Nicholas Walker Puner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Paul Puner of Ossining, N.Y. and New York City. A June wedding is planned. Miss Pollard was graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA degree in English literature. Mr. Puner was graduated from Wesleyan University with honors in economics and from the Harvard Law School. Group to Discuss Set-Up of Collective in Israel Dr. Milton Aron, executive vice president of the Jewish National Fund of America, will be guest speaker at the JNF Council of Rep- resentatives meeting 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Zionist Cultural Center, Southfield. Aron, who was in Israel during the height of the Israel-Lebonon crisis, will bring a message regard- ing Israel's present situation and the challenge facing JNF. "Towards the Third Decade," a new film recently received from Israel, will be shown for the first time. JNF Month will be observed, and since the meeting will be held only two days after Tu b-Shevat, holi- day refreshments will be served. Everyone is welcome. Publishers Believe Book by Iraqi-Born Writer is Moderate Robert R. Luce, Inc., publishers of "The Arab-Israeli Impasse" by Majdia Khadduri, Iraqi-born writ- er, to be published Feb. 17, believe that in this book "the collective viewpoint is a moderate one, from the Arab position." The publishers announce that the author, who is married to the writer Majid Khadduri and who now lives in Washington, empha- sizes the need of recognition of the common problems of Arabs and Jews. Local Farband to Honor Founders at Gathering Friday, January 31, 1969-41 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS GREEN-8 ONLY! Suburban SHOP SUNDAY 12 TO 5 P.M.! AND SATURDAY 9:30 TO 9! COSTUME CLEAN UP! In connection with the proclama- tion by the Farband National Board of "The Year of the Foun- ders," the Farband City Commit- tee announces a celebration to honor the founding members of Farband in Detroit will take 8:30 p.m. Feb. 15 in the Labor Zionist Institute. The series of lectures on "Living Aaron Alpern, co-editor of the in Times of Tension," presented by New York Tog-Morgen Journal, the Adas Shalom Adult Study Insti- will be guest speaker at the melave tute, will feature Dr. Morton Siegel, malka. A special musical program director of the department of edu- will be featured along with a cere- cation, United Synagogue of Amer- mony honoring the "Rishonim" ica, 9 p.m. Tuesday. founders in the presence of their Dr. Siegel is also director of the families. The public is invited. United Synagogue commission on Jewish educa- tion. He is editor of Our Age, Syna- gogue School and Your Child,as well as instructor of the Seminary School of Teach- ers' Institute, Jewish Theologi- cal Seminary of Dr. Siegel America. Dr. Siegel received his under- graduate degree from Yeshiva Uni- versity and his PHD from Columbia University. He is a founding mem- ber of the Educators Assembly, a member of the Ndtional Council on Jewish Education and former di- rector of the department of youth activities of the United Synagogue of America. EducatortoDiscu. e `Can Generations Communicate ?' An informal meeting will be held 7 p.m. Sunday at the home of Bruce Kutnick, 19831 Monte Vista, to discuss Shaal, the urban collec- tive in Israel. Last September, a group of Americans and Canadians estab- lished an urban collective in the development tower of Carmiel. Shaal has adapted many of the social and economic institutions of the kibutz to an urban setting. Its members are now integrating well into Israeli society. Over the next several years, a second group, Shaal Bet, will join the founding settlers in Carmiel. Kutnick's group hopes to grow in the months ahead, so that it can His topic Tuesday will be "Can become a significant force in Is- rael and in the American Jewish the Generations Communicate?" The community is invited. Rabbi corn munity. COAT CLEAN Leonard S. Cahan will moderate. Arlazaroff to Observe VIP Committee Works Abraham Liessin Yarzeit to Keep Schools Open The 30th yarzeit of Yiddish poet Abraham Liessin will be observed by Arlazaroff Branch, Farband Labor Zionist Order, 8 p.m. Wed- nesday at the Labor Zionist Insti- tute. Wolf Snyder, educator and his- torian, will evaluate the writer's contributions to Yiddish literature and Jewish national thinking. The public is invited at no charge. Re- freshments will be served. `Hadrian the Seventh' The swift and astonshing eleva- tion of an unknown, penniless Brit- ish writer to the Papacy of the Church of Rome is the story of "Hadrian VII," this season's Broadway play based on the ori- ginal novel now available from Dover. It is impossible to separate "Hadrian VII" (Dover paperback reprint) from the life of its author, Frederick Baron Corvo (Frederick W. Rolfe) (1860-1913). His life, his failures, his suffering, his genius, and his bitterness are thoroughly woven into its fabric. Common Councilman Mel Ravitz, businessman Stanley Winkelman and Mrs. Kathleen Straus, assist- ant director of the Mayor's Com- mittee for Community Renewal, are members of a blue-ribbon committee concerned about the financial plight of the Detroit Pub- lic Schools. The 40-member Citizens Action Committee on Financing Detroit Public Schools, formed a few weeks ago, will help find ways to get funds to keep the Detroit Pub- lic Schools operating. A plan will be taken before the Michigan State Legislature. Chairman of the committee is Wayne County Audi- tor Richard A. Austin. Were $50 to $150 ! NOW EXACT[ CHARGE IT ! Mich. Bankard Security Juliet Berkowitz Leaves Post as Mackenzie Principal Mackenzie High School Principal Sidney Berkowitz announced he would take a "leave of absence" from the Detroit School System be- cause administration pr oblems were proving detrimental to his health. Mackenzie has been the site of protests by teachers over a lack of discipline among students. They Jews, Arabs Cooperate MODI'IM — Jewish forest la- have complained of vandalism and borers working west of the former assaults, but insufficient adminis- armistice line, and a team of trative response to the situation. Arabs, working on its eastern side, Moray Kutzen Conducts have recently completed the plant- ORT Members Enrollment ing of a 150,000-trees forest on the Moray Kutzen of Ypsilanti, who steep banks of Nahal Modi'im along the old border. The two areas have was elected a member of the board of the Detroit Men's ORT now merged into the new Modi'im Chapter two weeks ago, is con- Forest. - The Arab laborers from the new ducting a membership campaign for ORT in his community. Kut- regions who were working on the eastern side were given profession- zen also is enrolling ORT mem- bers in Ann Arbor. al instructions by JNF foresters. PRICE! GREEN-8 ONLY ! SHOP SUNDAY 12 TO 5 P.M.! AND GREEN-8 ONLY ! SATURDAY 9:30 TO 9!