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Friday, March 10, 1918
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Israel Culture Unit, Concert, Purim Festival at JCCenter
The Jewish Community
Center of Metropolitan De-
troit, in cooperation with
the Israel Aliya Center and
Habonim and Hashomer
Hatzair, announces the
formation of the Israel In-
formation and Culture
Center to be housed in the
library of the Jewish
Center.
The culture center will
operate four days a week at
the Center with one of four
Israeli emissaries available
to dispense material on liv-
ing, studying, working and
traveling in Israel, as well
as to provide assistance for
research projects and
studies on Judaica, Heb-
raica, and Israeli matters,
LENNY
LIEBERMAN
Orchestra
399-1301
Shimon and Ilana Gewirtz, right, and their
daughters will perform in concert at the Jewish
Community Center 3:15 p.m. March 19 as part of the
Center's Purim activities. The group will perform in
the Aaron DeRoy Studio Theater.
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either by telephone or visit.
Hours are: Monday, 1-4
p.m.; Tuesday, 9 a.m.-1
p.m.; Wednesday; 10 a.m.-3
p.m.; Thursday, 10 a.m.-3
p.m.
Yehuda Berman, the di-
rector of the Israel Aliya
Center, will direct the
center. Volunteers are
needed to help the shlikhim.
For information, contact
Natan Bachrach, 967-4030,
or the Israel Aliya Center,
968-1044.
The Center announces,
meanwhile, that tickets
are still available for the
Center Symphony Or-
chestra family concert to
take place 3:30 p.m. Sun-
day in Shiffman Hall.
Eddie Benyas, Jeffrey
Chajes, Paul Di Blasi and
Cheryl Petri will per-
form. Julius Chajes will
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chief counsel and staff di-
rector to the Senate Water-
gate Committee, will ad-
dress a luncheon of the
Legal Associates of the
Michigan Chapter of the
American Friends of the
Hebrew University, noon
Wednesday at the Michigan
Inn. He is professor of law
and director of the Institute
of Criminal Law and Proce-
dure at Georgetown Uni-
versity Law Center.
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Tickets are available at
the Center cashier's office.
The Jewish Center will
hold its annual Purim car-
nival March 19 at the main
complex.
Beginning at 1 p.m., the
carnival will feature
booths, costume parade,
a goldfish dive and sports
activities. There will be
exhibitions of dance and
gymnastics, and roving
characters from the
Purim story will high-
light the carnival. Tradi-
tional refreshments will
be available.
A concert by Shimon and
Ilana Gewirtz will take
place at 3:15 p.m. March 19
in the DeRoy Studio Thea-
ter.
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1972 as the chairman of the
Criminal Law Section,
American Bar Association
and as the president of the
-National Association of De-
fense Lawyers in Criminal
Cases from 1959 to 1960. He
is a member of the board of
governors of Hebrew Uni-
versity in Jerusalem and
national chairman of the
lawyers division of the
American Friends of the
Hebrew University. He is
the author of two books.
Erwin C. Ziegelman is the
president of the Michigan
Chapter of the AFHU.
Joseph Jackier and Milton
J. Miller are the co-
chairmen of the legal divi-
sion.
For information, call the
American Friends of the
Hebrew University office,
963-0549. There is a charge.
Canadian Jewish Leader
Hyman Bessin Dies at 68
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Hyman Bessin, the im-
mediate past president of
the Canadian Zionist Fed-
eration, died Feb. 26 at age
68. Born in Ottawa, he was
the president of the Jewish
community there for a
number of years until 1961.
Mr. Bessin was also, over
the years, chairman of the
Canadian Friends of Bar-
Ilan University and a
member of the Mizrachi
Executive. At the time of his
death he was a deputy
member of the World
Zionist Organization
Executive and a member of
the World Executive of the
Religious Zionists Move-
ment.
Mr. Bessin was on the
board of trustees of Yeshiva
University, president of the
Federated Zionist Organi-
zation of Canada and of the
Ottawa Jewish community
and was chairman of the
United Jewish Appeal and
of the United Zionist Coun-
cil.
He was a delegate to
every World Zionist Con-
gress from 1951 to 1966.
He was national trea-
surer of the Mizrachi Or-
ganization of Canada and
had served as chairman
of the Ottawa Vaad
Hayeshivot and presi-
dent of the Canadian
Foundation for Jewish
Education.
Mr. Bessin served as pres-
ident of the Canadian
Friends of Yeshiva Univer-
sity, was an officer of the Ot-
tawa Free Loan Fund and
was a director of the United
Mizrachi Bank of Israel.
Students Show Solidarily
With Imprisoned Soviet Jew
The Bnai Brith Hillel
Foundation on the Wayne
State University campus
and the Detroit Jewish
Workshop will conduct a
solidarity campaign on be-
half of jailed Soviet Jewish
refusnik
Anatoly
Shcharansky
Monday
through Wednesday.
The students will partici-
pate in an international
hunger strike and letter
campaign.
Meanwhile students from
the University of Windsor,
the Hillel at WSU and
Jewish students from Oak-
land Community College
will meet 8 p.m. Saturday at
the Hillel House for a trip to
Roy's Ranch for a sleig-
hride. College-age students
are invited. There is a
charge.
The Hillel Foundation
will host Dan Schueftan,
scholar-in-residence for
the Hillel Foundation at
the University of Michi-
gan, at 11:30 a.m.
Tuesday at the Hillel
lounge. He will speak on
"Settlements in the West
Bank and Sinai and Sec-
ure Boundaries for Is-
rael." Luncheon will be
served at 12:30 p.m.
Scheuftan, a research as-
sociate for the Shiloakh
Center for Middle Eastern
and African Studies, will be
the guest of the Detroit
Jewish Workshop 8 p.m.
Tuesday at Hillel House.
The Oakland University
Christian Fellowship and
the Jewish Students Or-
ganization of Oakland Uni-
versity will hear Mr. and
Mrs. Richard (Marcia)
Wagner 8 p.m. Monday in
the Human Interaction
Center at the Oakland
Center on campus. They
will speak on "A Basic Ap-
proach to Judaism."
Wagner is the principal of
the Adat Shalom
Synagogue and Cong. Bnai
Moshe United Hebrew
School branches. Mrs.
Wagner is the-Hillel Foun-
dation assistant director.
. All college students are in-
vited free of charge.
For information, call the
Hillel lounge at WSU, 577-
3459.
The Detroit Jewish
Workshop will hear
David Ginsberg, a
specialist on Israel and
aliya, noon Monday in
the Hillel lounge on the
WSU campus.
The workshop will hear
Wagner speak on "A State
Like Any Other State:
Foundations of Zionism" 8
p.m. Sunday at Hillel
House.
Israeli Political
Analyst to Speak
at U-M Hillel
The Bnai Brith Hillel
Foundation at the Univer-
sity of Michigan, in conjunc-
tion with the American
Zionist Youth Foundation,
will host Israeli political
analyst Dan Schueftan as
scholar-in-residence, March
19.
Schueftan is research as-
sociate at the Shiloakh
Center for Middle Eastern
and African Studies, I
specializing in the Arab-
Israeli conflict. He is head of
the Middle Eastern Prog-
ram at the Efal Center, lec-
tures on the conflict to in-
termediate and upper-grade
officers of the Israel Defense
Forces (IDF), and gives
seminars to the Ministry of
Defense and the Prime I
Minister's office.
He is consultant to var-
ious branches of the Is-
raeli government, a regu-
lar contributor to media
news and regularly briefs
visiting dignitaries. He is
the author of several
books and numerous ar-
ticles.
Schueftan will speak 8
p.m. Monday at U-M Hillel
on "The Middle East Con-
flict — Its Past and Its Fu-
ture." He will speak in sev-
eral academic- classrooms
and to various Israel-
oriented student organiza-
tions on campus. For infor-
mation, call U-M Hillel,
1-663-3336.