THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, January 20, 1978 37 Jacobo Kovadloff Will Give Lecture at AJCommittee Meeting at Temple • 1 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. * * * . 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. • 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. A BARGAIN IS WORTH SMILING ABOUT! 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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- W117 MAPI I 2842 West Maple Troy, Michigan 26400 12 Mile Road Southfield, Michigan 643-0855 358-0710 Mon.. Thurs. & Fri. 10-9: Tues.. Wed. & Sat. 10-6