30—Friday, August 20, 1971
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Workers Mobilize for Annual
Balfour Concert on December 5
Mollie Goodman School Marks Its First Graduation
By YEHUDA GOLDENBERG
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Director, Department for High School
Education in Israel for the Zionist
Organization of America
(Copyright 1971,JTA, Inc.)
Had 16-year-old Grace Flisser of
Scarsdale, N.Y., decided to remain
a student at New Rochelle High
School, she would have graduated
last June with a class of 1,000.
Instead, Grace's graduating class
numbered 17. She received her di-
ploma—part Hebrew, part English,
on simulated parchment — some
5,700 miles away on a 480-acre
campus near Ashkelon, Israel.
Grace opted to spend her senior
year at the Zionist Organization of
America's Mollie Goodman Aca-
demic High School in Israel to see
if an extended stay would rein-
force her long-standing wish to go
Zionist Organization of Detroit workers for the annual Balfour on aliya.
Concert to be held at Ford Auditorium Dec. 5, with Vladimir
It has. Back in the United
Ashkenazy as guest artist, were mobilized at the kick-off held at
States only a few weeks, she's
the home of Dr. and Mrs. Sidney Z. Lieb. Detailed plans for the
"terrifically homesick" for Is-
attainment of a higher goal needed to fufill numerous Zionist cultu-
rael.
ral obligations were outlined by Dr. Jack R. Greenberg, concert.
Grace is one of nine girls and
chairman. Dr. Joel I. Hamburger gave a brief estimate of new
eight boys who are the first Amer-
obligations which must be met with Balfour Concert funds.
ican teenagers ever to graduate
Among active workers at the kick-off were, (from left) seated:
from a high school in Israel spon-
Mrs. Sidney Z. Leib, co-chairman of the women's committee; Dr. _sored by an American Jewish or-
Greenberg, Mrs. Greenberg, chairman of the women's committee; ganization.
Dr. Hamburger and. Mrs. I. Walter Silver, publicity chairman;
The school, at which 55 students
standing: Dr. Leib, sponsor chairman; Dr. Bernard Weston, gen-
were enrolled last year, is designed
eral committee co-chairman; Judge Michael L. Stacey, associate
to give youths "an exciting frame-
chairman; Walter S. Nusbau, Carmi M. Slomovitz, Dr. Alex S.
work for study in Israel, fully ad-
Friedlaender, sponsor chairman, and Mrs. Philip Slomovitz, wo-
justed to U.S. educational require-
men's committee co-chairman.
ments, in conjunction with mean-
Dr. Greenberg pointed to increasing need for support of Kfar
ingful work in Hebrew and Ju-
Silver and the Mollie Goodman High School in Israel, provision of
daica," said Leon Ilutovich, na-
means for public relations activities nationally and locally, and
tional executive director of the
assistance given youth movements with funds raised through the
ZOA.
Balfour Concert.
"The Mollie Goodman program
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adds a _new dimension to the
education of the American Jew-
ish teenager by strengthening
his identification with Israel and
the Jewish people," Ilutovich
said.
That there is significant realiza-
tion of that goal is seen in the
Dr. Joel I. Hamburger, ZOD determination of at least 10 of this
Delegates from the Zionist
Organization of Detroit to the 74th president, has been named co- year's graduating class to return
national convention of the Zionist chairman of the Sept. 4- public ses- to Israel.
Organization of Americ:a, to be held sion at which Rep. Gerald R. Ford
Eight of the students hope to
in Pittsburgh Sept. 2-5, will have of Michigan will be a principal enter the Hebrew University, Tel
roles in the chairmanships and as speaker.
Aviv University or the American
committee members.
Another speaker at the conven- I College in Jerusalem this fall.
tion will be Maj. Gen. Haim Las-
Two others have taken out Is-
kov, former chief of staff of the raeli citizenship and enlisted in
Israel army.
Israel's army.
More than 150 American teen-
Detroit delegates will serve on
important committees.
agers have attended the Mollie
Convention speakers include Dr. Goodman School—named in mem-
Mikhail Zand, who recently left ory of the late wife of Abraham
Russia and settled in Israel, where Goodman of New York, a major
he has been named to the faculty benefactor — since it was estab-
of the Hebrew University; Herman lished in 1967.
(Several Detroit students have
Weisman, ZOA president, and
Jacques Torczyner, past president studied at Mollie Goodman High
School on scholarships from the
of the ZOA.
Previously announced convention
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guest speakers are Israel Ambas-
sador Itzhak Rabin, guest of
Candy Centerpieces
honor at the convention's closing
banquet on Sept. 5; and Ehud
Personalized Party
Avriel, chairman of the Zionist
Mementos
Actions Committee of the World
Zionist Organization, who will par-
Invitations and Party Ac-
ticipate in an oneg Shabat dis-
cessories for all occasions.
cussion on American aliya on
Sept. 4.
Zionist Organization of Detroit.
Proceeds from the annual ZOD
Balfour Concert include alloca-
tions for the Mollie Goodman
High School).
The school is located on the same
campus as Kfar Silver, an agri-
cultural high school which the
ZOA founded in 1955 for Israeli
youths.
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The shared accommodations —
study rooms, athletic fields, a
clinic and kosher dining hall —
brought the Israeli and American
teenagers into daily contact. Still,
the Mollie Goodman students ini-
tially found it hard to gain accept-
ance by their Israeli peers.
The sociologists call it "culture
shock," psychological resistance
to being suddenly thrust into un-
familiar behavior patterns of a
new society. For the Mollie Good-
man students, it meant struggling
with a new language, getting used
to a strange diet, climate and set
of mores, and learning to cope
with such bureaucratic frustra-
tions — commonplace to Israelis,
often overwhelming to Americans
— as waiting an hour in several
lines to cash a check.
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Akiva Day School
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New officers of the Akiva He-
brew Day School P.T.A. board re-
cently were installed at a dinner
hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Herbert
Speiser of Oak Park.
The first P.T.A. meeting of the
school year will be held 8:30 p.m.
Monday at the home of Mr. and
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Park.
The slate of officers for the 1971-
72 school year are: president, Mrs.
Abraham Selesny; vice president,
Mrs. Burt Schreiber; secretaries,
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treasurer, Sam Ginsburg. Commit-
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