Friday, September 1, 1919 17 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 • 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 • 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 - Leslie M. Goldstein Midwest Executive Director, Bar-Ilan University For Reservations Please Call Detroit Friends, Bar-Ilan University 23125 Coolidge, Oak Park, Mich. 48237 398.7180