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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Rockaway Gets History Prize
Former Detroiter Dr.
Robert Rockaway was re-
cently awarded the Rabbi
Harvey B. Franklin Memo-
rial Award in American
Jewish History from the
American Jewish Archives
of the Hebrew Union Col-
lege.
The award will enable
Rockaway to pursue re-
search in American Jewish
History at the American
Jewish Archives in Cincin-
nati, Ohio.
In addition to his teach-
ing duties, Dr. Rockaway
is a fellow of the Diaspora
Research Institute at Tel
Aviv University and a
consultant to the Beit
Hatefutsot Museum of
the Jewish Diaspora.
Annual Dinner of
DETROIT FRIENDS OF
BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY
DR. ROCKAWAY
Recently he headed a na-
tional committee to study
the problems of overseas
students in Israel. From
1976 to 1979, he was aca-
demic head of the overseas
student unit at Tel Aviv
University.
Tuesday, September 18 - 6 p.m.
at Congregation Shaarey Zedek
Health, Economic Aid Set
for NY Jewish Community
By BEN GALLOB
(Copyright 1979, JTA, Inc.)
A new division of the
Metropolitan New. York
Coordinating Council on
Jewish Poverty plans to
provide a wide variety of
technical aid services to el-
derly Jews in several sec-
tions of the city, funded by a
$1.2 million federal grant.
Among projects planned
by the new Neighborhood
Zoning Board
to Rule on Mikva
in Nassau County
Services division are home
health care services for el-
derly residents not qualified
for Medicaid; information
and referral services; eco-
nomic development activi-
ties; and neighborhood de-
mographic surveys.
The 18-month grant will
permit the council to recruit
and train 66 workers to im-
plement the projects. Home
health care for the frail el-
derly unqualified for
Medicaid help will include
bathing the elderly, taking
vital signs, taking the el-
derly to doctors and related
help.
An estimated 160 frail
elderly persons will be
helped weekly over the
18-month period. The
health care project is
scheduled for implemen-
tation in Manhattan's
Lower East Side, Wash-
ington Heights, the
shorefront area of Brook-
lyn and all of Queens ex-
cept Far Rockaway.
The economic develop-
ment project is slated for the
Crown Heights section of
Brooklyn. The demographic
survey will cover Flatbush,
central Queens and Man-
hattan's West Side.
WOODMERE, N . Y .
(JTA) — The Hewlett Town
Zoning Board of Appeals
held a hearing on a request
by the Mikva South Shore
Congregation to build a con-
troversial mikva (ritual
bath) in Woodmere and an-
nounced it would rule on the
request on an unspecified
date.
Rabbi Gilbert Klaperman
of Cong. Beth Sholom in
Lawrence, one of the Or-
thodox synagogues to be
served by the proposed
mikva, said that, in accord-
ance with standing proce-
dure, the zoning board did
not indicate when it would
rule. Meanwhile, he said,
the sponsors who have pur- Gelb to Chair
chased land for the bath, UJA Conference
cannot proceed with con-
CLEVELAND — Victor
struction.
Gelb of Cleveland was
named chairman of the
United Jewish Appeal East
Ex-Detroiters
Central Region Leadership
Meet in Florida
Conference. The an-
The Detroit Floridians nouncement was made by
will have a Las Vegas night Joel D. Tauber of Detroit,
7:30 p.m. Sept. 19 in the the regional chairman.
Hollywood Federal Bank,
The weekend conference
4600 Sheridan St., Hol- will be held at the Marriott
. lywood, Fla.
East Hotel in Cleveland
For information, call in Oct. 19-21 and will be pre-
Florida, Grace Kaufman, ceded by a women's division
972-2097, or Edith Weiss, mini-conference on Oct. 18.
940-3531.
Tauber also announced
the appointment of Marilyn
Moses was a great artist, M. Bedol and Sheldon S.
and possessed the time ar- Mann as Cleveland co-
tistic spirit . . . He took a chairmen of the conference.
poor shepherd family and
The World Zionist Organ-
created a nation from it, a
great, eternal, holy people; ization was founded by
a people of God, destined to Theodor Herzl at the First
outlive the centuries and to Zionist Congress in Basle in
serve as a pattern to all na- 1897. The program then
tions, even as a prototype to adopted was: "To create for
the whole of mankind. He the Jewish people a home in
Palestine, secured by public
created Israel.
Heinrich Heine law."
EMERY KLEIN
DR. LEON FILL
ROBERT NAFTALY
Midwest Regional Chairman
General Co-Chairmen
Guest Speaker: DR. EMANUEL RACKMAN
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President Bar-Han University, Ramat Gan Israel
Guest Artist: MISHA RAITZIN
Metropolitan Opera
BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY DINNER COMMITTEE
General Dinner Chairmen
Robert H. Naftaly
Emery I. Klein
Max M. Fisher
Irwin I. Cohn
Joseph H. Jackier
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Honorary Chairmen
Paul Zuckerman
Honorary Co-Chairmen
Irwin Green
Samuel Frankel
Irving Nusbaum
Edward C. Levy
David B. Hermelin
Max Stollman
President Women's Division - Mrs. Max Stollman
Honorary Treasurer - A.J. Cutler
Midwest Regional Chairman — Dr. Leon Fill
Dinner Committee
Paul Baker
Gustav Berenholz
Allen Charlupski
Susan Citrin
Norman J. Cohen
Avern Cohn
Louis Cooper
Milton Duchan
Alexander Ehrmann
Gary Eisenberg
Leonard R. Farber
Aaron Ginsberg
Gordon Ginsberg
Norman Gordon
Moshe Grossbard
Daniel Honigman
Lawrence Jackier
Robert Kasle
Rabbi Joseph Katz
Judge Ira G. Kaufman
Judge Nathan Kaufman
Bernard Klein
Irving Laker
Sol Lessman
Milton J. Miller
David Muskovitz
Mrs. Ben Nosan
Jacob Nosanchuk
Graham Orley
Jerome Pershin
Samuel W. Platt
David Pollack
Harold Provizer
Abraham Ran
Dave Sakwa
Saul Saulson
Mark E. Schlussel
Jane Sherman
Minnie Slobasky
Philip Slomovitz
Harold Soble
Jack Solway
Bernard Stollman
Dr. Gerald Stollman
Dr. Samuel S. Stollman
David Tanzman
Harry Zekelman
Scholarship Committee
Dr. Martin Hart
Mrs. Morris Adler
Norman Allan
Morris J. Brandwine
Henry Dorfman
Joseph Fetter
Nathan I. Goldin
Merrill Gordon
Abe Green
Co-Chairmen
Henry P. Lee
Samuel Hechtman
Mrs. Morris Karbal
Thomas Klein
Stephen Lanyi
Max Nosanchuk
I. William Sherr
Peter Weisberg
Phillip Stollman, Chairman
Global Board of Trustees, Bar Ilan University
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Leslie M. Goldstein
Midwest Executive Director, Bar-Ilan University
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