Impending Dangers
- in Middle East:
Warnings by
U.S. Air Force
Intelligence Chief

Commentary, Page 2

Sinai at 25:
an Anniversary
in Focus

THE JEWISH NE
14 't

A Weekly Review

Diplomacy
Globally Fumbled

of Jewish Events

Editorials, Page 4

VOL. LXXII, No. 3 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year: This Issue 30 0 September,23,_1977

And there shall be a booth in the daytime
from the heat, and for a refuge and for a
covert from storm, and frown rain. Isaiah 4:6

Sukkot
5738

That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths
when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. -- Leviticus 23:43

Soble $1,0000 000 Fund Aids Medical Program

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Generous Gift Enhances Sinai Endowments for Communal Health Needs

A'Agift of $1 million from Harold and Goldie Soble in honor of their 50th
wedding anniversary has launched the -establishment of a $20 million medical
endowment fund in the United Jewish Charities.
Announcement of the gift was made by Sol Eisenberg, president of Sinai
Hospital of Detroit, and Milton J. Miller, president of the UJC. Miller explained
that the fund is being set up as part of the Jewish Welfare Federation-UJC
endowment program, under which donors play a role in the development of new
and vital programs within the Jewish community. Alfred L. Deutsch, who with
Samuel Schiff co-chairs the Federation endowment committee, also serves as
chairman of the Sinai Hospital .endowment program.
The Sobles' gift is not their first to benefit the Jewish
munity. In 1968, they celebrated their 40th wedding anniver-
sary by establishing the Harold Soble Family Foundation in the
amount of $1 million.
Soble, a semi-retired pharmacist and office building developer,
is active in communal affairs in Detroit and Hollywood, Fla.
Soble was president of Cong. Bnai David, as well as its building
chairman.
They have three •sons, Allen, an attending physician in
oncology at Sinai, Jerome and Kenneth, both pharmacists; and 12
grandchildren. -
Dr. Julien Priver, executive vice president of Sinai Hospital,
hailed the gift as "a magnificent beginning" for the medical
endowment fund, which will go toward sustaining and developing
programs in the areas of medical care,-research, development
and education. The fund "signals an important landmark in the
dynamic growth of Sinai as a medical institution," Dr. Priver
said.
Eisenberg said that Sinai's reputation as a medical institution
has been ehanced by innovative programs, such as the cleft
palate and low-vision - clinics- • research ro'eets, ineludine- laser

laboratory research and development; and advanced equipment, like the new
"CT" X-ray scanner.
"These 'plus items' that distinguish a medical institution from a hospital
attract the type of medidal talent that has made Sinai Hospital a prestigious
institution," he said. -
Because reimbursements from patient care do not cover these costs, he
added, "to just maintain the same level .of proficiency, much less improve on
the solid 'base that we have attained, we must -look for immediate - and future
financial support elsewhere."
Miller- explained that unlike a capital fund, where the final results are
usually in the form of a physical plant, an endowment
fund continues- to grow and expand with each passing year. He
called it "an investment in our present and in our future."
Deutsch added that endowment fund programs have contri-
buted substihtially to the development of experimental, innova-
tive programs in the community.

"In the area of Jewish education," he said, "we have seen pilot
programs for college youth; at the Jewish Home. for Aged, a
Reality Orientation program was facilitated; at Camp Tamarack,
there have been programs for emotionally disturbed youngsters;
as well as massive community screening to eliminate the scourge
of Tay-Sachs disease among potential carriers. And these are
only a few of the many exciting projects made possible through
the endowment fund program that enables us to break into areas
that otheiwise would be impossible in regular Federation
budgeting. -
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"Now," Deutsch continued, "the Soble gift has started us
toward yet,-another goal,rof Aervdce to the ,community,.-through
the.ME.,dical Endowment Fund.7