Youth
News
Art Instructors
to Meet With
Future Campers
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
36—Friday, May 22, 1970
Three Optometric Center Scholarships Young Israel Teens
Offered Again to High School Seniors to Devote Weekend
The Detroit Optometric Center's 12th grade students in the tri- to Soviet Jewry
College Foundation Scholarship county area are eligible. There
Awards are entering the third will be one winner selected from
year. each county.
Students are advised to contact
Dr. Donald L. Golden, founder
and director of the centers, said their principals or counselors for
applications are being accepted details and applications. Applica-
for the 1970 awards, for which all tion deadline is June 15.
They Made
The Grade
Ali those interested in Camp of
the Arts. a Center creative camp
program for 7th-11th graders, are
invited to a meeting 8 p.m. Satur-
New members of the Junior Na-
day at the Center.
tional Honor Society at West Maple
Junior
High School, Birmingham,
The program will include enter- .
tainment by Phil hlolby and a -include Dave Copeland, Nancy
Golby,
James Klein, Bruce Kuh-
panel discussion with last year's
lik, Naomi Ragins and Errol Shif-
participants.
man (grade 8); and Barbara Ep-
Instructors in the arts that are stein, Rick Gottesman, Francis
to be offered this summer will be Leader, Mark Milgrom, Ron Rick
available for information regard- and Bruce Wenokur (grade 9).
ing program content.
Current members are Fred Hirsch-
Refreshments will be served. man, Meg Jacobsen, Lauren Kauf-
For information. call Ralph Sirot- man, Jeff Levine, Gina Nessel and
kin, group services division, DI Rhea Rosenbusch.
1-4200.
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Cheri Adinoff, 16-year-old pianist
Albert Colman, chairman of the
who attends Southfield High
Jewish Center's summer program
School, will be presented in recital
committee, announces that Beth
White has been added to the Camp by her teacher
Rebecca Froh-
of the Arts staff.
man 2:30 p.m.
Miss White, a student at the ! Sunday at the
New York University School of • Detroit Institute
Performing Arts, dance division, of Musical Art.
is studying under choreographer- , Cheri, daughter
teacher, JANE ERDMAN. She has of Dr. and Mrs.
studied modern dance with such Bernard Adinoff
instructors as Judith Dunn, Eric of Goldwin Ave.,
Hawkins and Harret Berg; ballet Southfield, w o n
with Jody Krashin; and Yemenite- first place in the
Israeli dance with Hadassah Grinnell Brothers Cheri
Badoch.
Junior Division piano competition
A graduate of Cass Technical last year. She will play works by
High School in the performing Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy,
arts curriculum, Miss White was Barber, Respighi, Ben-Haim and
a member of the Jewish Center's Mozart.
Young Dancers Guild and choreog-
raphed several dances. She also
was a teaching assistant in the Ann Weisswasser to Play
Center's dance department for Mame in Cass Production
several years.
Anne Wiesswasser, performing
arts student at Cass Technical High
Hillel Music Festival
School, will bring back the Roar-
ing '20s as the lead in "Auntie
for Independence Day
Mame" 8 p.m. today and Satur-
Hind. Day School will present a day at the Detroit Institute of
music and drama festival 3 p.m. Arts Theater.
Sunday, at Adas Shalom Syna-
Among the students from the
gogue. Students from grades I9 area in the Robert E. Lee musical
will participate.
are Lois Wein, Robb Rod, Stuart
To coincide with Israel's Inde- Shevin, Darius Greene and David
pendence Day celebration, the 3rd Stoller. Mrs. Frances Hamburger
and 4th grade chorus will present is head of the Cass performing
a salute to Israel. A short open , . arts department.
"David and Goliath," will be of-
Anne is the daughter of Mr. and
fered in Hebrew and English by hIrs. Emanuel Weisswasser, 17360
the 2nd grade.
Greenlawn. She is a senior at Cass
The 7th and 8th grades singin;., who will spend the summer in
group will present selections from Europa after graduating in June,
"Hair" and other rock sounds. The and then major in theater arts at
9th graders will present a skit in Wayne State University.
French.
For tickets call Joseph Taormina,
963-1950, ext. 11.
The community is invited.
Hillel Happenings
world. Any Jew who goes to Is-
By DANNY SCHNIPPER
rael is accepted as an Israeli
Hillel teaches us about our Jew-
citizen. If Jews are ever perse-
ish heritage and instills in us a
cuted any place in the world,
love for Israel through our study
they can always go to Israel. The
of Torah, the Prophets, Talmud,
existence of Israel insures Jews
Israeli history and geography. On
everywhere of a homeland.
the other hand, Hillel does not
neglect its responsibility to teach
However, I am also responsible
us to be knowledgeable and proud to the United States. It has been
citizens of the United States.
good to me all my life. I can go to
The occasion of Israel's 22nd an- any school I want, and I can go
niversary is a good time to discuss into any profession I want. Here I
our feelings regarding Israel and can live freely as a Jew. Many
the United States and the nature people complain about how bad
America is. I wouldn't trade it for
of our responsibilities to each.
any other place in the world.
Many times people mistake an
If there were ever a war be-
Israeli for a Jew. There is a dif-
ference. An Israeli is a person tween the United States and Is-
rael,
I would have to fight for the
who is a citizen of the state of
Israel. A Jew is a person who is United States in view of all it has
given
me. When Israel is at war
born to Jewish parents or who
converts to Judaism. I am an with other countries, I am eager
to
help
Israel.
American Jew.
Being an American Jew, I have
Because I am a Jew, I feel
some responsibllity to Israel. It
a dual responsibility to both the
is the home for all Jews in the United States and-Israel.
Specializing in
COLORED MOVIES
Young Israel Teens, under the
direction of Itz Weisberg, will dedi-
cate this weekend to the theme of
the plight of Soviet Jewry.
Members will lead services at
Young Israel of Oak-Woods with
Dennis Eisenberg, president of the
Teens, delivering the guest sermon
at 9 a.m.
Following kidush and luncheon,
Seymour Kaplan, coordinator nf
Al Tidom (Let Us Not Be Silent),
will speak about this organization
A panel discussion and break- and its work on behalf of Russian
fast are planned by the Michigan Jewry. The afternoon session will
Association of Jewish College feature Rabbi Yitzhak Kagan
Students for 10:30 a.m. May 31 at speaking on "Hasidism in Russia."
the Jewish Center.
An Oneg Shabat will be held at
The panel, on "The Organized Oak Park hlunicipal Park, fol-
Jewish Community," will be mod- lowed by discussions, dramatic
erated by David Bale from hlich- readings and sketches at the syna-
igan State University, who is gogue.
executive editor of the MAJCS Re-
The shalosh seudot speaker will
porter.
be Moses H. Berlin, who re-
turned from Israel this week and
Panelists include William Avru-
will indicate how Israel is ab-
nin, Samuel Lerner, Irwin Shaw
sorbing the trickle of immigra-
and Joel Altus, executive directors
tion from Russia.
of the Jewish Welfare Federation,
Jewish Family and Children's
After a special Havdala, service
Service, Jewish Center and Amer- prepared by Itzy Weisberg, Jay
ican Jewish Congress, respectively. Masserman and Karen Goren will
Students can attend both the present slides on their experiences
in the Soviet Union, which will be
catered brunch and discussion
followed by an action workshop.
or come at 11 for the discussion
only. There is no charge for the
On Sunday, Young Israel Teens
program, but breakfast reserva-
will hold a Lag b'Omer outing at
tions are required by calling the
Kensington Park. Horseback rid-
MAJCS office, DI 1-4200.
ing and a barbecue will be fea-
The possibility of assembling a tured.
Housing will be provided for
Michigan Jewish student guide is
being discussed by association those beyond normal walking dis-
tance of the synagogue. The group
members.
The third issue of the Reporter will meet at 1:30 p.m. at Young
will come out during the first week Israel of Oak-Woods.
of June. Students who are not on
the mailing list may call the Mystery Bagels Putting
MAJCS office.
College Students
to Find Out How
Community Ticks
`Outreach Project'
Motivates Campus
Activist's Efforts
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A 27-
year-old Orthodox activist is car-
rying out a one-man "Project
Outreach" assignment at the Uni-
versity of Maryland by going to
where the Jewish students are in
an effort to combat apathy and
antagonism to any Jewish com-
mitment.
New York-born Monty Penkower
is also student counselor of t h e
Hillel Foundation at the university
but he is more likely to be found
at the student union or the cam-
pus cafeteria than at the Hillel
house. Wearing a skullcap and a
Shalom peace button, he actively
seeks out the students. His objec-
tive is to make himself and h i s
ideas known to a maximum num-
ber of the 4,000 Jewish students
and the more than 100 Jewish
faculty members on the campus.
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Pompidou in Hard Mood
PARIS (JTA) — An apple a
day may keep the doctor away,
but a bagel a day for more than
10 weeks is only keeping French
President Georges Pompidou ir-
Hy
SPOT OF
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FOR THE
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ritated. Packages containing sin-
gle bagels have arrived by mail
at the Elysee Palace every day
since the French leader returned
Booklet featuring questions and
answers on traditional Jewish life
and law.
from his visit to the United
States following his denial of
pre-paid jets to Israel and his
approval of jet sales to Libya.
Adding to the mystery is the
postmarking of each package
from a different part of Paris
and the fact that bagels are not
available in the French capital.
For free copies for you or your or-
ganization (limited to 75 copies)
Write:
Mr. Charles LeMaster
KRAFT FOODS CO.
99 Park Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10016
Bnai Moshe USY
to Install Officers
Rabbi Moses Lehrman will in-
stall officers of the senior United
Synagogue Youth group of Brim
Moshe Saturday morning in the
main sanctuary.
The new officers are president,
Michael Silberschein; vice presi-
dents, Chuck Kelman, Maurice
2 American Girls Place
Klein, and Sandy Sussman; treas-
urer, Gary Youra; and secretaries,
in World Bible Contest
Debbie
Brooks and Sally Horowitz.
JERUSALEM — Two American
girls, Debbie Lander of Forest
A gentleman is a man, more
Hills, N.Y. and Flora Muslpeah of
Philadelphia, took third and fourth often a woman, who owes nothing
places in the 11th annual Inter- and leaves the world in debt to
national Bible Contest for Jewish him. It is better to die a gentle-
Youth held here on the occasion man than a martyr.—George Ber-
of the 22nd anniversary celebra- nard Shaw.
tion of the founding of the Jewish
state in 1948.
The two American teen-agers
placed behind two Israelis, Shlomo
Friedman of Tel Aviv, who answer-
ed all questions for a perfect score
to take first place, and David
Brinker, another Israeli, who took
second place.
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Center Calls for Teen Aid
Applications are now being ac-
cepted for the 1970 Center Teen
Volunteer Corps for teen (10th-12th
grades) Center members to work
with various Center programs. For
information call the group services
division of the Jewish Center, DI
1-4200.
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