THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, January 20, 1978 37
Jacobo Kovadloff Will Give Lecture
at AJCommittee Meeting at Temple
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JACOBO KOVADLOFF
ish community center,
whose 25,000 members in-
clude many non-Jews. He
was director of the Youth
Department and the Culture
Department, and general
secretary of the library, the
most important Jewis-h li-
brary in Latin America.
He was founder and first
general secretary of the
Hebraica's School for Jew-
ish Community Leadership
Training and helped set up
its Documentation Center,
which is co-sponsored by the
American Jewish Com-
mittee. He "was president of
the Hebraica from 1965 to
1969.
Kovadloff is a member of
Bnai Brith and of the In-
stituto Judio Argentino do
Cultura e Informacion, AJ-
Men's Clubs
BETH SHALOM Men's p.m. Tuesday in Handleman
Club will host a brunch 11 Hall of the temple. The
a.m. Sunday • in the syna- trampoline team of Larry
gogue. Aviva Mutchnick, a and Bill Beno will entertain.
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student at the University of
Michigan, will speak on the
Probus Club
"Palestinian Question." The
public is invited at a nomi- to Offer Awards
nal charge.
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The Probus Club of De-
BETH ACHIM Men's Club troit, a service club compos:
will have a "Sunday Morn- ed of Jewish business and
ing Happening" 9 a.m. Sun- professional men, is offer-
day in the synagogue. Serv- ing its annual awards for
ices and breakfast will be academic achievement at
followed by a talk by L. Wayne State University for
Brooks Patterson, Oakland the 16th consecutive year.
County Prosecutor. There is
Two awards will be given,
a charge. For reservations, each consisting of a $1,000
call Dave Goldis, 626-1181, grant without restrictions.
after 7 p.m., or Leonard One will be for a faculty
member in the natural sci-
Mitz, 544-7449,- after 7 p.m.
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ences (and related profes-
BETH EL Brotherhood sions) and another for a
will hold a special breakfast representative of the hu-
in honor of the Jewish Chau- manities (including social
tauqua Society 9:30 a.m. sciences and allied fields).
Sunday in the temple. The
Criteria for the selection
film, "The Truth Will Make of winners will include their
You Free," will be present- academic and professional
ed. Rabbi Richard C. Hertz background and exceptional
will present the Jewish scholastic and research
Chautauqua Fellow plaque k,work.
Each c011ege, school
to John L. Gaylord, first
recipient of the plaque. The and /or department of the
brotherhood will hold its an- university will have an op-
nual Fahter-Son, Mother- portunity to submit its nom-
Daughter, Grandma-Grand- inee to the office of A.T.
pa Sports Night Dinner 6 Bharucha-Reid, Dean and
Associate Provost for Grad-
uate Studies, 356 Mackenzie
The Technion — Israel In-
Hall. Deadline for nomi-
stitue of Technology at
nations is Feb. 9. Awards
Haifa has awarded more
will be made at a Probus
than 21,00,0 degrees since
Club Award reception to be
1927, including 114 medical
held May 5 at the McGregor
doctors in the last four
Memorial Conference Cen-
years.
ter on the WSU campus.
Committee's sister organi-
zation.
He was a charter member
of the Delegacion de Asocia-
ciones Israelitas. Argentina
(DAIA), which officially
represents the entire Argen-
tine Jewish community. He
has served as vice president
of the Friends of the He-
brew University of Jerusa-
lem in Argentina. For sev
eral years, he has been a
member of the consultative
committee for AJC's Com-
munity Service Program in
Argentina.
In January 1969, Kovad-
loff was one of the Argen-
tine representatives at Pre-
mier Levi Eshkol's
Leadership Conferences in
Jerusalem. He also partici-
pated in meetings of the
Institute of Contemporary
Jewry of the Hebrew Uni-
versity in Jersualem and
was a major delegate to the
International Conference on
Jewish Communal Service
in Jerusalem in 1975.
Kovadloff has played a
leadership role in informing
Christians in both the reli-
gious as well as the aca-
demic spheres, to the prob-
lems of Jews in the Soviet
Union and Syria, and has
helped marshal their sup-
port. He acted as consultant
to community groups in
their efforts on behalf of
Soviet Jews.
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AJCongress Has
Young Adult Tours
The American Jewish
Congress announces a new
travel concept for Jewish. .
young adults called "Accent
on Youth Tours" for persons
age 18-39.
This new concept features
action-oriented tours to Is-
rael for 10 and 16 days.
Extensions are available
covering visits to "Rome,
Athens and the Greek Is-
lands and an East African
safari. In addition, the new
program offers tours to
Spain and M aly, a "big city"
tour of London, Copenhagen
and Rome, and an eight-day
"quickie - tour of Mexico.
There will be special
tours set aside for singles
only.
Ruth Rosenbaum is re-
gional .director for the -AJ-
Congress in Michigan. For
information and a copy of
the "Accent on Youth" trav-
el brochure, call the AJCon-
gress, 357-2766.
Forest in Israel
for King .Finished
WASHINGTON (JTA)—
The Committee for the Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. Me-
morial Forest in Israel has
- announced that its first for-
est in honor of the slain civil
rights leader has been com-
pleted.
The forest, consisting of
10,000 trees in the Galilee,
was planted in , time for
King's birthday. He would
have been 49 years old Jan.
15.
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Jacobo Kovadloff, former
director of the American
Jewish Committee's South
American office in Argen-
tina, will address the De-
troit Chapter of the AJCom-
mittee 7:30 p.m. Sunday at
the Birmingham Temple.
The public is invited.
Kovadloff held his post
until last June when after
terrifying letters and tele-
phone calls threatening him
and his family, they left the
country. Kovadloff now
heads the AJCommittee's
Latin American Affairs De-
partment in,New York.
His topic will be "Terror
in Argentina : Jews Face
New Dangers."
Kovadloff is the grandson
.,of Russian Jewish immi-
grants who settled in Argen-
tina in the late 19th Century.
His grandfather was a pio-
neer in the Jewish agricul-
tural colonization program
sponsored by Baron de
Hirsch in Argentina.
He attended public, He-
brew and technical schools
in Argentina and did post-
graduate work in Jewish
history, sociology and
political sciencee.
For more than 20 years,
Kovadloff held major volun-
teer posts in the Sociedad
Hebraica Argentina, the
country's outstanding Jew-
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