THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday; November 18, 1977 55
Israel Gets Gift of Gratitude From Detroit Christian Arab
By HEIDI PRESS
Detroiter Heidi
Brancheau, a Maronite
Christian Arab, returned
from Israel last week, -
where she paid gratitude to
the country for its aid to the
Lebanese Christians at the
border area and to Leba-
nese students studying in
Israel.
Mrs. Brancheau pre-
sented a gift of $5,000 to
Haifa University which had
developed programs to ben-
efit needy Lebanese stu-
dents who wished to study
in Israel.
She said that "leaders of
the Lebanese community in
Israel were afraid to speak
out" on Israel's behalf, and
she wanted to publicly
thank the country for its
humanitarian efforts toward
the Lebanese.
She said she was well
received by both Arabs and
Israelis in Israel, and her
biggest contributors to help
Heidi Brancheau, second from left, announced her $5,000
gift to Haifa University in Israel at a recent press confer-
ence in Detroit. Shown are, from left: Mrs. Brancheau's
son, Al Haddad; Mrs. Brancheauk Zeva Ben-Reuven,
national director of American Friends of Haifa University;
and Louis Golden, Detroit chapter chairman of AFHU.
the Lebanese were Israeli
Jews. She said Magen
David Adom, Israel's offi-
cial Red Cross agency,
donated 1,000 first aid kits to
a Maronite committee to
help Lebanese wounded.
Mrs. Brancheau praised
Israel for the help it has
given to Lebanese 'citizens.
Non-Jew of Holland Who Saved Detroiter
During' WWII will Be Honored Thursday
Yigal Antebi, consul gen-
family that was desperately
eral of Israel in Chicago for
seeking a hiding place, to
the Midwest, will present a • escape from the Nazis. At
Medal of Honor to Jan Dirk
great risk to his own safety
Moss in behalf of the Mar-
and that of his family, . the
tyrs' and Heroes' remembe-
Dutch policeman brought
rance Authority of Jerusa-
the Jewish family of six:
lem, at special ceremonies
two grandparents, a young
marking the occasion 10
couple, a little girl aged six
a.m. Thursday at Young
and an aunt, to a hiding
Israel of Oak-Woods.
place at the home of a rela-
tive of his. For almost three
In honor of that event,
full years, until the end of
that day has been pro-
the war, the family lived in
claimed "Jan Dirk Moss
secret behind a wall, under
Day" by the mayors of
constant threat of discovery.
Southfield and Oak Park. In
After the liberation of
addition, other representa-
tives of the state of Israel
Holland, the family
migrated to- the United
and of The Netherlands will
States. That little girl of six,
be present.
now Mrs. Irwin Posner, ulti-
In May 1943: a few days
mately settled in Michigan,
before the Nazi takeover of
where she and her husband
Holland, Moss, a Dutch
are residents of Southfield.
police officer, met a Jewish
The Posners will cele-
brate
the Bar Mitzva of
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they decided that it would
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the local municipalities
where these events. are
being markes.
Other participating in the
ceremonies are David H.
Shepherd, mayor of Oak
Park, Donald F. Fracassi,
. mayor of Southfield: Rabbi
David M. Lieberman, dean
of Yeshivath Beth Yehudah
of Southfield: Rabbi Samuel
H. Prero of Young Israel of
Metropolitan Detroit: and
Rabbi Jack Goldman, Cen-
tral States director of the
Union of Orthodox - Jewish
Congregations of America,
who will act as master of
ceremonies.
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"Sefer B. Isaacs, - the
recently published book of
stories by the late Bernard
Isaacs, is now available to
the general public. Advance
subscribers can pick up
their copies at the Midrasha
library in the United
Hebrew Schools building.
The volume is available for
purchase at Borenstein's
and Spitzers.
She cited the free medical
care given to the Lebanese,
the protection given to
small border villages and
the non-taxation of Leba-
nese citizens who work in
Israel. "Economically, the
Lebanese never had it so
good," she said.
Mrs. Brancheau will begin
a speaking tour for the
Canadian and American
Friends of Haifa University
on behalf of the university.
Asked if she will try to get
her remaining relatives out
of Lebanon, she answered
negatively. "If everyone
leaves Lebanon it will fall
into the hands of the PLO."
She said as long as Israel's
"good fence" exists at the
border, she will not try to
bring her family to the U.S.
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The Wayne State Univer-
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Moot Court Board have
named the annual fall Moot
Court competition in honor
of Wayne County Circuit
Judge Benjamin D. Bur-
dick. The finals were held
Sunday.
Judge Burdick was a
member of the WSU Law
School's first graduating
class in June 1928.
He has retained close ties
with his "-alma mater ever
since, serving several times
as president of the WSU
Law Alumni Association
and serving • on the univer-
sity's board of governors
from 1959 to 1963. He has
been on the circuit bench
for-more than a decade.
have been named members
of the Anthony Wayne
Society of Wayne State Uni- •
versity. The Anthony Wayne
Society honors those who
have made contributions to
the university.
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