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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, January 26, 1919
Youth News
ADAT
-SHALOM
will have their annual
Tamarack retreat Feb. 2-4.
Stuart Sandweiss and
Susan Bakst are co-
chairmen. The theme for
the weekend will be
"Shabat Observance."
Rabbi David Nelson, Cantor
Samuel Greenbaum and
their families will be with
the groups for the weekend.
For information, contact
USY adviser Karen Knop-
pow, 569-8008, or Kadima
adviser, Barbara Dworin,
649-0858. Cantor Green-
baum's synagogue skills
class meets 4:30 p.m. Satur-
days in the daily chapel.
Boys and girls of junior high
and high school age and
adults are invited.
USY - Kadima services
are held 10 a.m. Saturdays
in the daily chapel. All
youth are invited.
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Garinim (fifth and sixth
grades) will hold Shabat
morning services 10 a.m.
Saturday in the chapel.
Shoresh (seventh and
eighth grades) and Migdal
Tzion (ninth-12th grades)
will attend the 19th annual
Tamarack retreat today
through Sunday at Camp
Tamarack, Ortonville. The
topic for the weekend is "Me
vs. We," a look at individual
responsibility vs. group loy-
alty. In addition to study
sessions, members will par-
ticipate in services, ice skat-
ing and tobogganing.
The chairmen for the
weekend are Melissa Okun
_(Shoresh) and David
Gottfried (Migdal Tzion).
Accompanying the youth
groups will be Rabbi Efry
Spectre, Debby Vieder,
Steve Cohen, Tom Colton
SHAAREY ZEDEK
and Cheryl Kovsky. For in- junior congregation will
formatioR about youth ac- -
tivities, call the youth de- join
the Beth Achim
Synagogue
Youth United
for an
partment, 851-5100.
Soviet
"underground"
ID'S Atid Jewry service and oneg
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iency of .oup (grades Shabat 8 p.m. today at
)111 194 ' ad its annual Cong. Shaarey Zedek.
cecutii ad at Camp There will be a speaker, and
Ortonville refreshments will be served.
e Uni
Rehearsal for youth
i Sunday. Ed
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!mbe !ak on "Cutts, Shabat will take place 9:30
ey Effect To- a.m. Sunday at Shaarey
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' "Judaism in Zedek, following services
' 1(
0" also will be and brunch. •
For information, call
)utdoor tobog-
3
skating and a Bruce Davidson, president,
' round out the 358-4210, or the youth de-
artley Harris is partment, 357-5544.
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,er.
BNAI MOSHE Talit and
in grades three
to six will hold their Tefilin Club has postponed
Tamarack winter weekend its "Beat the Champ"
Feb. 9-11. Registration is competition until Sunday at
now being taken. Oak Park Lanes, following
*
Third and fourth graders
will hold a progressive
dinner 6 p.m. Feb. 4.
Friends are invited, and a
short Tamarack weekend
meeting will take place. For
information, contact group
adviser Karen Davidoff,
545-6232.
,
8:30 a.m. services and
breakfast at the synagogue.
There will be prizes. For in-
formation and reservations,
call Mark Cymerint, 547-
1343, or the synagogue,
548-9000.
The youth department
will observe Youth Shabat
Saturday. Members of the
Senior United Synagogue
Youth group, junior congre-
gation and Talit and Tefilin
Club will participate. Past
junior congregation
presidents also will take
part. Luncheon for mem-
bers will follow. For reser-
vations, call the synagogue.
For information on Youth
activities at the synagogue,
call Hanan Weizman, youth
director, 626-2355, or the
synagogue.
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BBYO
Activities
A total of 420 Michigan
BBYOers were on hand re-
cently for the annual
Michigan BBYO conven-
tion which took place at the
main Jewish Community
Center, and drew represen-
tatives from chapters in
Grand Rapids, Mt. Cle-
mens, Windsor,- as well as
throughout the metropoli-
tan Detroit area. This year's
convention theme was
"United We Stand, Divided
We Fall." Overall coor-
dinators were Carol Lem-
pert of Masada BBG and
Doug Moss of Kishon AZA.
The highest award pre-
sented at the convention is
"The Most Distinguished
Chapter Award," which is
Israel to Maintain Sports
Relations With S. Africa
given to the AZA and BBG
chapter that best partici-
pates in the convention.
Winning the award this
year for AZA was Gen.
Maurice Rose AZA; while
the BBG award was shared
by Benjamin Disraeli BBG
(fourth consecutive year)
and Rabbi B. Benedict
Glazer BBG. -
Winners of regional
competition in national
BBYO contests were: AZA
Oratory, Roger Klein,
Goode AZA; AZA Story Tel-
ling, Marc Lowenthal, Rose
AZA; BBG Oratory, Cheryl
Blau, Disraeli BBG; BBG
Story Telling, Heather
Kellman, Dalyah. BBG;
AZA Newspaper, (for the
third consecutive year)
Herzl AZA, Windsor; BBG
Newspaper, Naches BBG;
The plenary meeting
BBG Originality Plus - Lit- came after a storm of pro-
erature, Dina Noorily, tests in Israel over the re-
Glazer BBG; Art, Marlene ported action of the IOC.
Reid, Glazer BBG; Handic- Both the foreign ministry
raft, tie, Julie Geller, Glazer and the ministry of cul-
BBG, and Cathy Kaner, ture and education ex-
Sabra BBG.
pressed anger that the
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AZA Tree Drive Planned
Children in grades five
and six will go ice skat-
ing, followed by an ice
cream party at 2 p.m. Feb.
4, meeting at the
synagogue. A short meet-
ing on the Tamarack
weekend will also be
held. For information
and reservations, contact
adviser Marsha Katz,
968-2760. -
Masada (grades seven
through eight) will join with
Beth Abraham Hillel Moses
youth group for ice skating
at Fairlane Ice Arena, fol-
lowed by an ice cream so-
cial, meeting 6:30 p.m. Sun-
day at the synagogue. Skate
rental is included, and les-
sons are available for be-
ginners. For reservations,
contact group vice president
Greta Bernard, 569-5605.
Tamarack winter weekend
for seventh and eighth
Aelw- erade youth will take place
/ 16-18. Registration is
`)eing taken.
information on youth
ies at Bnai David,
the synagogue
4. e, 557 8325.
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Preparing for their "Invest in Your Jewish Roots"
drive, conducted under the auspices of the Jewish
National Fund, are members of the young men's di-
vision of the Bnai Brith Youth Organization, Aleph
Zadik Aleph, from left, seated: Larry Bircoll; Roger
Klein, tree drive co-ordinator; and Joel Stitelman; and
standing, from left: Brian Ackerson, assistant direc-
tor, Michigan Region, BBYO; Aaron Shapiro, Gary
Epstein, Great Lakes Council AZ _ A president; and Ar-
nold J. Weiner, regional BBYO director. Bircoll and
Stitelman are vice presidents of the council and Shap-
iro is a member of the executive board.
Participating chapters
More than 400 members
- of Aleph Zadik Aleph, the include Beber, L'Chaim,
zoung men's division of the Mostel, Posen, Akiva,
Bnai Brith Youth • Organ- Goode, Hart, Benny,
ization will participate in a Rose, Samson, Kishon,
tree-planting drive "Invest. Jolson, Herzl (Windsor),
Rambam (Flint), Strauss
in Your Jewish Roots," con-
ducted under the auspices of (Mt. Clemens) and Was-
serman -(Grand Rapids)..
the Jewish National Fund.
According to Roger Klein,
president of the Great.
Lakes AZA Council, the
SHALOM'S members plan to complete a
1_T.2 t.
gro"‘: -r 000 trees by
Youth chaptei, Ma
To purchase trees for the
AZA drive, call Brian Ac-
kerson at the BBYO office,
354-6113, or the JNF, 557-
"
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The
plenary of the Israel Olym-
pics Committee (IOC) an-
nounced that it had not sus-
pended sports relations
with South Africa. It
claimed that IOC Chairman
Yitzhak Ofek's statement
that the IOC presidium had
done so was an incorrect re-
port in the press.
Chaim Wein, the IOC's
vice chairman, said the re-
lations with South Africa
will continue as before with
Israel following the rules
set by international sports
federations on South Africa.
This means that Israel
will continue to compete
with South Africa in sports
where international federa-
tions have not banned
South Africa because of its
apartheid policy.
Winners of regional
competition in district con-
tests were: AZA Song, Rose
AZA; BBG Song, Disraeli
BBG; AZA Originality Plus
- Literature, Lenny Be-
rman, L'Chaim AZA; Art,
Martin Zoldan, Jolson AZA;
Handicraft, (for the second
consecutive year) Aaron
Shapiro, Kishon AZA; AZA
Photography - black and
white, Marc Lowenthal,
Rose AZA; AZA Photog-
raphy - color: Marc Lowent-
hal, Rose AZA. BBG
Photography - black and
white, Marcy Lichterman,
Disraeli BBG; BBG Photog-
raphy - color, Debbie David-
son, Glazer BBG.
especially upset since they
feared the decision would
endanger the 11th Mac-
cabia scheduled for 1981.
South African Jews are
permitted to participate in
the event, according to rules
of international sports fed- •
erations, and they were
major participants in the
last Maccabia.
The Maccabi leaders had
demanded that Ofek resign
for mishandling the situa-
tion, improper negotiations,
and for not consulting with
the government. He ref , .-I
and blamed all of the
lem on misquotations by the
press.
,
After the press re-
ported that the IOC had
suspended sports rela-
tions with South Africa,
Ofek said that the sus-
pension was only until
after the 1980 Moscow
Olympics so as not to give
the Soviet Union a- pre-
text to bar Israel from
Moscow.
action came without-the
government being con-
sulted.
They said the IOC's
statement had damaged Is-
rael. At the same time, they
praised restraint shown by
South Africa. It was noted
that South African Jews
and some South African
sports figures expressed
understanding of the situa-
tion in which Israel was
being pressed.
Maccabi leaders were
Winners of regional con-
tests were: AZA Film -
L'Chaim AZA; BBG Film,
Disraeli BBG; AZA Bake -
cakes, tie, Eric Blumenthal,
Mostel AZA, and Ben Bor-
doff, Herzl AZA, Windsor;
Cookies, Rick Behar, Beber
AZA; Jewish Desserts, tie,
Rick Behar, Beber AZA,
and Alan Salle, Posen AZA;
BBG Bake - cakes, Andrea
Becker, Aliyah BBG;
Cookies, Lisa Taylor,
Glazer BBG; Jewish Des-
serts, Shelly Staudt,
Strauss BBYO, Mt. Cle-
mens. AZA chapter T-shirt,
Kishon AZA; BBG Chapter
T-shirt, Glazer BBG; BBYO
Talent Show - AZA Winner,
Bob'Scully, Strauss BBYO,
Mt. Clemens; BBG winner,
Masada BBG.
Also AZA Cheer, Rose
AZA; BBG Cheer, Disraeli
BBG; Michigan Region
T-shirt Design Winne'rs,
Yonit. Hoffman, Masada
BBG. In athletic competi-
tion, Al Jolson AZA,
Livonia, swept the conven-
tion by winning the AZA
basketball tournament, the
AZA ping pong cham-
pionship, and the AZA
bowling competiton. Dis-
raeli BBG took- the title in
BBG volleyball, while
Dalyah BBG won the ping
pong championship. Glazer
BBG was_ the winner in the
BBG bowling competition.
The IOC acted after it was
advised by Lord Killanan to
refrain from sports rela-
tions with South Africa to
prevent the adverse public-
ity such relations is causing
Israel. The IOC presidium
agreed to keep a low profile,
but when the information
was relayed to the press it
was given as a suspension in
relations. The IOC plenary
said it had discussed Killa-
nan's recommendations,
but that it will continue its
present policy.
U.S. Jews Join in Tributes
to Dr. Martin Luther King
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Rabbi- Arthur Schneier,
president of the Appeal of
Conscience Foundation and
rabbi of the Park East
Synagogue here, joined
Mrs. Coretta Scott King and
the U.S. Ambassador to the
United Nations, Andrew
Young, in paying tribute to
the late Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. at his 50th birth-
day anniversary cere-
monies held in Atlanta,
which ended Jan. 16.
Schneier, the only rabbi
at the ceremonies, said, "as
a survivor of the Nazi
Holocaust, I personally ex-
perienced man's inhuman-
ity to man. In spite of this, I
have never given up my
hope in man.
"Martin Luther Kin g
at the height of his suffering
and oppression, had faith in
overcoming evil. He cared
deeply not only for his own
people but for the freedom,
rights and dignity of all of
God's children."
Schneier quoted from a
letter by the late civil
rights leader on behalf of
Soviet Jewry, published
in the New York Times on
Jan. 14, 1965: "The strug-
gle of the Negro people
for freedom is inextrica-
bly interwoven with the
universal struggle of all
peoples to be free from
discrimination and op-
pression. The Jewish
people must be given -
their full rights."
Schneier stressed that
'non-violence was the phi-
losophy of Dr. King in his
struggle for human freedom
and peace in the spirit of the
Prophet Zechariah, 'Not by
might nor by power but by
my spirit says the Lord.' " -
(Chapter IV, Verse 6)
Schneier lauded Mrs. King,-
president of the. Martin
Luther King Center for So-
cial Change, for champion-
ing her husband's unfulfil-
led dream.
. Other speakers at the
ceremonies were Prime
Minister Olaf Ullsten of
Sweden, UN Secretary
General Kurt Waldheim,
Gov. George Busby of Geor-
gia and Atlanta Mayor
Maynard Jackson. Earlier,
President Carter addressed
s
the gathering and'
awarded the Martin Lk_
King Jr. Peace Prize.
Those present included
the Israeli Ambassador to
the UN, Yehuda Blum, and
Egypt's Ambassador to the
UN, Abdul Meguid. Blum
participated in the wreath-
laying ceremony at the
graveside of King and also
laid a special wreath in the
name of Israel.
Twenty-five percent of
the Jewish Welfare Board's
annual scholarships in so-
cial work have gone to
Yeshiva University stu-
dents.