AJCommittee Will Honor a Special Couple, Mildred and Lewis Grossman
into Jobs or schools, upon
completion of high school.
When this organization 'ran
into financial difficulty, it
was Grossman who person-
ally underwrote a loan to
them from the Hebrew Free
Loan Association.
The first man and wife seven states that comprise
team to be honored by the AJC's Midwest region.
Mrs. Grossman's involve-
Detroit Chapter of the Amer-
ican Jewish Committee, Mil- ment with the Jewish com-
dred and Lewis Grossman munity began when she was
will receive the AJC human very young. Iler parents,
Relations Award Oct. 21 at Mary and Alex Gerson. emi-
the third Midwest Regional grated from Czarist Russia
Conference at the Sheraton- to Detroit, and provided an
Or thodox, cultural atmo-
Cadillac Hotel.
The presentation will be sphere , for her brother Mel
made at a dinner as part of vin and herself.
a three-day meeting of the
Her Jewish education came
from a broad spectrum Sho-
lem Aleichem Institute for
Yiddish, United Hebrew
Schools, Temple Beth El and
Cong. Shaarey Zedek. She
has continued to take courses
in Jewish philosophy, history
and Hebrew. The Grosmans
are m embers of Temple
Israel.
During high school, Mrs.
Grossman was an award
winner of the Jewish Welfare
Federation for her speaking
and fund raising with youth
groups for relief of early
refugees. She attended the
University of Michigan on a
tuition grant, and worked
part of the time as associate
student director of Hillel.
She was the organizer of one
of the first student UJA cam-
paigns and helped in re-
orienting concentration camp
escapees assigned to Ann
Arbor.
The Grossmans were mar-
ried in August 1942. During
World War II, while he was
overseas, she managed their
fledgling real estate busi-
ness. Later, while their three
children were going to
school, she was president of
the Hampton School PTA
and a member. of the city-
wide PTA board.
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26—Friday, Oct. 6, 1972
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He is on the executive
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raise money for the pre-
Israel rescue of children.
She has been a member of
the Jewish Center board of
directors, Jewish Family and
Children's Service board,
Midrasha (College of Hebrew
Studies) board, executive
board of the United Hebrew
Schools and the Jewish Wel-
fare Federation education
budgeting division. She has
been chairman of the radio
and television division of the
Jewish Community Council
and vice president of the
women's division of the Jew-
ish Welfare Federation.
Nationally, she is a mem-
ber of the women's commit-
tee of the Council of Jewish
Federations a n d Welfare
Funds and in that capacity,
and for the UJA, she has
made over 50 trips in the
U.S. and Canada for fund
raising, worker training and
leadership training. For the
American Jewish Committee,
she has been a working mem-
ber of the national Jewish
communal affairs commis-
sion, national committee on
organization and chairman of
sessions at annual meetings
in New York.
She helped spearhead a
breakthrough i n Catholic-
Jewish relations by being an
organizer and chairman of a
series of dialogues between
Gesu Parish and AJC. She
has been secretary of the
Interfaith Action Council and
currently is co-chairman of
its church and synagogue
committee. During the Six-
Day War, the Grossmans
with Michigan legislators.
were in Washington, meeting
and during the '67 disorders
in Detroit, she acted as a
liaison between AJC mem-
bers working in the ghettos
and food suppliers outside.
arranging for quantities of
food to be sent into beleag-
uered areas.
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during World War II when
he served in the infantry.
He attributes his involve-
ment with the Jewish com-
munity to his wife's influ-
ence, to the effect of the
Holocaust and to the rise of
Israel.
Believing that "a viable
Jewish community is one of
the vital forces in the hu-
manizing of society," he is
pre-campaign chairman of
the Allied Jewish Campaign
and chairman of the com-
munity relations division;
chairman of the urban af-
fairs committee and federa-
tion vice president of the
Jewish Community Council;
member of the board of the
Midrasha; member of the
executive board of the Jew-
ish Welfare Federation; and
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The Detroit Jewish Educa•
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organizations. The Univer- Dr. Nathan Rotenstreich,
sity of Michigan accepted professor of philosophy and
her into their graduate pro- former rector at the Hebrew
gram. and in 1968 she re- University. g p.m. Tuesday
ceived an MA degree in at the LaMed Auditorium of
group development.
the United Hebrew Schools.
She has worked profession- lie will speak on "The Influ-
ally within the inner city on ence of Modern Culture and
school -community projects, Society on Jewish Thought,"
and her future schedule in- based on his latest hook,
cludes training of organiza- "Tradition and Reality," pub-
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Grossman, who is from The public is invited at no
Muskegon, held a scholar- charge. The Midrasha, Col-
ship to the University of lege of Jewish Studies, is
Chicago, where he earned a offering a course using Dr.
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Many trips to Israel have
helped to reaffirm the Gross-
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He was among the prime
movers in helping establish
the volunteer pla c e m en t
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black students get placed
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