Jewish Center to Get Under Way With Ground Breaking on Sept. 23
Three years of planning
and preparation by lay and
professional leaders w i 1 1
come to fruition Sept. 23 with
the ground breaking for the
new Jewish Center on Maple
and Drake Rds. in W. Bloom-
field Twp.
Richard L. Kux, Jewish
Center president, said the
community is invited to see
the project get under way at
the 1:30 p.m. ceremony. Con-
struction of the Center on a
120-acre site is scheduled for
completion in summer 1975.
The Center is to serve an
area within a radius of some
50 miles, including all of
metropolitan Detroit, Flint,
Ann Arbor and other local
communities.
The complex was designed
by the architectural firm of
Louis Redstone Associates.
Planning and coordination of
all construction details has
been handled by the Center
building committee, with
Samuel Linden as chairman.
"The master plan calls for
construction of a new main
building which will provide
much needed additional space
and more modern equipment
elude eight indoor-outdoor
tennis courts, an indoor na-
SAMUEL LINDEN
tatorium and outdoor swim-
ming pool, two platform ten-
nis courts, an indoor elevated
"The goal is to provide the
most diverse and the most
flexible and functional Cen-
ter building of its kind in the
country," said Center Execu-
tive Vice President Irwin
Shaw. "In this way. the Cen-
ter can expand its current
'high level of creative , pro-
graming and provide more
activities to meet the needs
of everyone in the commun-
ity," he said.
A significant departure
from the present Center will
be the addition of a large
area of surrounding land to
be developed for a wide
variety of activities.
and will accommodate the in-
creased demand for creative
indoor activities," according
to Linden.
According to Linden, the
adjacent land has flat areas
for such recreational activi-
ties as tennis, s o f t ball,
basketball and volleyball, as
well as social activities like
bridge , dancing, dramatic
presentations a n d starlight
movies.
"The large and rolling
wooded areas," Linden said,
"will include nature trails
and bicycle paths and will
ultimately be expanded into
a family recreation park and
day camp site."
"These areas will satisfy
hiking and nature-lore en-
thusiasts and serve as a kind
of ecological laboratory. But
over-all, the grounds are de-
signed to provide the oppor-
tunity for the family to ac-
tively participate as a unit
in a serenely natural envi-
ronment," said Linden.
Other new features of the
center will include a run-
fling track, additional hand- Frankel, Irving E. Goldman, Miller, Lester Morris, Rich-
ball and squash courts and Joseph Ho Jackie'', Milton J. ard Sloan and Joel Tauber.
more exhibition, meeting
room, lounge and lobby 6—Friday, August 17, 1973
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
space.
The new Center also will
include a studio theater that
not only will accommodate
normal seating arrangements
but can also be converted in-
to a cabaret-style setup for
special entertainment.
Provisions also have been
incorporated into the plan for
future additions to the build-
ing and grounds area.
The building committee un-
der Linden includes Samuel
Babcock, N. Brewster Bro-
der, Martin E. Citrin, Nelson
Dembs, Milton Dresner, Sam-
uel Hechtman, Michael Ke-
tai, Thomas Klein, Richard
L. Kux, Harold Morrison and
BUICK
Irving Pokempner.
On the capital fund com-
mittee are Louis C. Blum-
berg, N. Brewster Broder,
Martin E. Citrin, Samuel
Norway Orders Extradition to Lebanon
OSLO (JTA)—An unidenti-
fied 40-year-old businessman
told a Norwegian court that
he is the victim of false
charges fabricated by El Fa-
tah.
Norwegian authorities, act-
ing on a formal extradiction
request from Lebanon, last
weekend initiated proceedings
against the man, a former
American citizen now resid-
ing in Norway.
The businessman has been
sentenced in absentia by a
Lebanese court for allegedly
passing a false check for
$69,000 in connection with a
gold transaction.
The check swindle is al-
leged to have occurred in 1971
while the man headed a boat
rental firm based in Beirut.
The man told a magistrate
behind closed doors in Ber-
gen that he often passed in-
formation regarding Arab
raids on Israel to the Is-
raeli authorities.
Arab intelligence eventual-
ly learned of his activities,
and he was forced to leave
Lebanon to escape retalia-
tion, he said. El Fatah used
a check book he left be-
hind to fabricate the false
charges, the businessman
claimed.
The man also claimed to
have helped arrange the se-
cret removal in 1969 of five
French gunboats from the
French harbor of Cherbourg
to Haifa.
The Norwegian ship own-
er who arranged the gunboat
sailing, Martin Seim, said
Sunday that he did not rec-
ognize the businessman's
name.
The Copenhagen newspa-
per, "Politiken," speculated
that the gunboat sail may
have been arranged by the
same pro-Israeli group al-
legedly behind the July 21
murder in Lillehammer of
the Moroccan national, Ah-
med Boushicki.
One of the six men ar-
rested in connection with the
slaying, Dan Ert, formerly
owned a small freighter
which plied the Mediterran-
ean. This vessel was in the
area when the gunboats slip.
ped out of Cherbourg har-
bor, and may well have re-
fuered the small military ves-
sels en route to Israel, "Pol-
itiken" wrote.
It had been earlier estab-
lished that the gunboats had
to refuel several times be-
tween Cherbourg and Haifa.
The vessels which arranged
the refueling never have
been officially identified.
Records of the business-
man's court proceedings will
be turned over to the Nor-
wegian Ministry of Justice,
which will make the final de-
cision on the extradition re-
quest.
French Parents Seek Jewish
Education for Kindergarteners
NEW YORK—The increas-
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sistance in developing and
expanding kindergarten pro-
grams in France reflects the
growing interest of French
Jewish parents in Jewish
education for their children,
it was reported by Evelyn
Peters,. day care consultant
for the Joint Distribution
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Fonds Social Juif Unifie
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kindergartens, serving some
400 children, are located
mainly in Paris and near
Strasbourg. Some are either
full-time Jewish schools or
are located in community
centers. A few are connected
with yeshivot.
Miss Peters has visited all
eight kindergartens to study
their needs and make recom-
mendations . for improving
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