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Center Seniors Make AJC-IEF
Year-Round Fund Raising Effort
They are retired, and
many live on fixed in-
comes, yet the members of
the senior citizens' groups
which meet at the Jewish
Community Center's 10
Mile Rd. branch have for
years been staunch suppor-
, ters of the Allied Jewish
--Campaign-Israel Emergen-
und.
groups together do-
d almost $12,000 to the
Campaign last year, said
Bertha Chomsky, executive
director of the Metropolitan
Division for AJC-IEF. This
year's donations already
total more than $8,400, and
more is coming in.
"I've worked with these
people for 12 ye-ars, and I
know the depth of their per-
- sonal involvement," she
said. "They not only give fi-
nancially, but they give - of
themselves.
"The amount they raised
might not seem like much
compared to the Campaign
total of $17 million, but you
have to remember these
are all retired people," she
said. "They give out of a
► real sense of devotion."
The groups solicit their
donations in various ways.
The Center Businessmen's
Club's 70-75 members
raised most of their $8,000
contribution through indivi0-
ual donations, said presi-
dent Herman Levine.
"Our boys realize how
badly that money is needed
in Israel," he said. "Al-
though the Campaign
doesn't start till spring, we
start our drive in October,
to catch those members
who go away for the win-
ter."
The Friendship Club,
Golden Friendship Circle
and Social Service Club
raise small amounts in
many different ways. Many.
seniors belong to more than
one of the clubs and donate
to all.
"Our members bring in
articles they no longer
need, like clothing and jew-
elry, and sell them to other
members for. $1 here, 50
cents there, and the money
Hospital to Honor
Martha Griffiths
goes to the Campaign,"
said Anna Lewis, Social
Service Club president.
"Any profit from a lunch-
eon or other celebration is
contributed.
"When someone has a
birthday or anniversary, or
someone is sick, other mem-
bers will donate. • They use
any excuse to donate a dol-
lar or two."
Last year, the club,
which has only 30 active
members, donated $1,500,to
the campaign.
The Ben-Gurion Club,
which president Sam Fish-
man described as "Israel-
oriented," raises its dona-
tion by charging members
$1 every time they sit down
to • play cards.
Another club, the Senior
Citizens' Knitting Group,
sells the items made by
members and gives the
money to the Allied Jewish
Campaign.
The Senior Adult Council,
which represents all the
groups at the Center, spon-
sors several additional
fund-raising activities. "We
have flea markets, lunch-
eons, a New Year's affair
and a luncheon to honor the
Volunteer of the Year,"
said Council president Sam
DeSure. "All the profits we
give to the Campaign."
The residents of the Fed-
eration Apartments, a Jew-
ish Welfare Federation
member agency, has a
yearly bazaar to raise
money. Proceeds from the
sale of craft items and
baked goods made by the
residents are donated to the
Campaign.
Hebrew U. Team Aiding Fruit Harvests
REHOVOT—A research
team at the Hebrew Univer-
sity's faculty of agriculture
in Rehovot headed by Prof.
Raphael Goren has recently
made advances in under-
standing the physiological
process involved in the drop-
ping of citrus fruit from the
tree.
Fruit dropping is part of
a plant's life cycle. The
farmer interferes with this
process when he, wishes to
thin out the young fruit on
a full tree, or to prevent ex-
cessive dropping of fruit
from a low bearing tree.
While the grower is also in-
terested in preventing pre-
mature dropping of mature
fruit, to prolong his market-
ing season, on the other
hand he seeks ways to
weaken the connection be-
tween fruit and peduncle
(stalk) so that mechanical
harvesting methods, now
being developed, may be
employed.
The substance, 2: 4-D, a
synthetic plant growth,regu-
lator, has been in use to
delay citrus fruit drop since
the 1950's. Scientists in Is-
rael and the United States
have tested hundreds of
other materials to advance
fruit drop.
Prof. Goren's team has
been searching since 1967
ported by the World Bank
for the physiological basis ' and the Israel Ministry of
of the advancing and retar-
Agriculture.
dation of fruit drop by plant
hormones. Their aim has
been to understand the phys-
iological activity of these
materials and thereby im-
prove their use. In their re-
JEWISH COMMUNITY
search they have used fruit
CENTER young adult de-
explants as well as fruit
partment will have a drop-
still attached to the tree.
in lounge' and open stage
It turned out that the
8:30 p.m. Tuesday in the
dropping process is a result
main Jewish Center com-
of enzymic disintegration of
plex. There is a nominal
the primary cell wall
charge. For information,
(made mainly of pectin)
call Jay Silverman at the
and the secondary cell wall
Center, 661-1000, ext. 219.
(made mainly of cellulose)
of the cells in the separa-
MICHIGAN JEWISH SIN-
tion zone. In young fruit
GLES COUNCIL for Jewish
this break occurs between
singles 18-35 will have an
the branch and the pe-
open meeting 8 p.m.
duncle, while in mature
Thursday in the 10 Mile
fruit it is in the fruit's
Jewish Community Center.
calyx, (the connection be-
Jewish singles interested in
tween the peduncle and the
planning social, cultural
fruit).
and educational events are
This -research is sup-
invited.
Singles
Events
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Musical Entertainment
Israel Diamond
Exports Rising
Representatives of some of the senior citizens' groups
at the 10 Mile Rd. Jewish Community Center are standing
from left, Henry Carnick and Herman Levine, of the Cen-
ter Businessmen's Club; Anna Leopold and Josephine
Weinsweig of the Friendship Club Lounge; Anna Lewis of
the Social Service Club; Harry Daniel, Esther Fishman
and Sam Fishman of the Ben-Gurion Club. Seated, from
left, are Sam DeSure, president of the Senior Adult Coun-
cil; Murry Lieberman of the Golden Friendship Circle;
Abe Dishell of the Retired Men's Recreation Club; and Ed
Stark of the United Friendship Club.
U-M President Due at Beth El
Temple Beth El Men's
Club will observe Jewish
Chautauqua Society Sab-
bath at 8:30 p.m. services
today.
. The guest speaker will be
Dr. Robben Fleming, presi-
dent of the University of
Michigan. His topic will be
"The State of Higher Educa-
tion in Michigan — Its Chal-
lenges." Dr. Richard C.
Hertz and Rabbi Dannel I.
Schwartz will officiate; offi-
cers of the Men's Club will
participate in the service.
. Former Congresswoman
A highlight of the service
Martha W. Griffiths will m - will be the presentation of a
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e e the National Jewish collection of English-Ju-
ital and Research Cen- daica books to the library
t
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1977 National Human- of the University of Mich-
itarian Award at a dinner igan. An oneg Shabat will
in her honor May 16 at the follow.
At 11 a.m. services Satur-
Detroit Plaza Hotel in the
day, Rabbi Schwartz will
Renaissance Center.
Chairman of the dinner is speak on "The Freedom to
Robert M. Surdam, chair- Be Me."
The following members
man of the board, National
Bank of Detroit. Harold who have been affiliated
Marko, president, S.O.S. with the Temple for 50
Consolidated. Inc, and years or more will be pre-
- Edwin G. Robert, presi- sented with certificates by
Hertz: Clarence L. As-
dent, J.L. Hudson Co. are Dr.
cher,
Mrs. Philip Bloomgar-
-co-chairmen. --Man E. den, Mr.
and Mrs. John C.
Schwartz is dinner treas- Hopp, Sr., Mrs. Theodore
urer. ,
R. Kelter, Mr. and Mrs.
Maurice Klein, Mrs. Jules
R. Schubot, Mrs. Albert
Great is work, for it hon- Weisman. The kidush follow-
ors its master.. Idleness and ing services will be held in
laziness ruin a man.
honor of the above.
—Talmud
Friday, April 1, 1977 47
RAMAT-GAN — A
flurry of large orders dur-
ing the last few days of
1976 pushed Israel's
polished diamond exports
for the year past previ-
ously announced esti-
mates to a record $711.8
million — almost 30 per-
cent more than that of
1975. Last year's over-
seas sales of Israel's
largest foreign export in-
dustry were $548.5 mil-
lion.
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Seder Addition
for Arab Jews
Mishmeret, Detroit's
Vigil for Jews in Arab
Lands, has prepared a spe-
cial addition for the Seder
service. To identify with
Jews around the world, Mis-
hmeret urges families to in-
clude several special pas-
sages after . the third cup of
wine and immediately be-
fore opening the door for
Elijah.
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Chassidic Music
Israeli Rock
Yiddish Folk Songs
SUNDAY:APRIL 17 -8 P.M.
Congregation
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14601 West Lincoln
Oak Park
DONATION: Adults $4.00; Students and Senior Citizens $2.00