THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 34 Friday, September 25, 19131 Bar-Ilan Convocation Honors Slomovitz wrgurEttall MOVING? Priced Sale of Household Furnishings Professionally Conducted In Your Home Estate Liquidators EDMUND FRANK & Co. Appraisers Liquidators 875-7650 368-4044 By ALAN HITSKY Bar-Ilan University for- mally , conferred the degree of Doctor of Humane Let- ters, honoris causa, upon Philip Slomovitz on Tues- day evening and saw the drive for a Philip Slomovitz . . . plaza suite .. "The Dinnerware Store" HAPPY NEW YEAR To Our Many Friends Franklin Shopping Plaza Northwestern at 12 Mile, Southfield Phone 357-1121 Visa. Mastercharge • Chair in Communications move toward its $250,000. goal. Some 780 persons filled the Morris Adler Hall of Cong. Shaarey Zedek to honor Slomovitz, editor and publisher of The Jewish News and a dean of Ameri- can Jewish journalists. Their presence at what was described as the largest Bar-Ilan dinner ever held outside Israel contributed to the goal of endowing a chair to "combat the misinforma- tion of which Israel is often the target." Rabbi Emanuel Rackman, president of Bar-Ilan, led the tributes to Slomovitz, his nearly 70 years in Jewish journalism YOU WERE SMART SAVE You've waited til now to join Hamilton Place. Now, when our fall program is gearing up with aerobic exercise, indoor swimming, indoor track, Nautilus equipment, gourmet restaurant and more. There's never been a better time to join, because now you can save '/Q off initiation at Hamilton Place. Get everything you ever wanted at the most complete health facility in Southfield. CALL 646-8990 NOW and save 1/2* 30333 Southfield Rd. (Between 12 & 13 Mile Rds.) Call or drop in' anytime between 9:00 a.m. & 9:00 p.m. FINAL DAYS HAMILTON PLACE ATHLETIC CLUB , Presented 6y HALL REAL ESTATE GROUP • 0•< op.:nes <0 full saqle cout,e cv fo., ■ "•—•• .— Phillip Stollman, left, and Dr. Leon Fill place the hood of a Doctor of Humane Letters on Philip Slomovitz at Tuesday's Bar-Han dinner. At right; President Emanuel Hackman reads the university ci- tation to Slomovitz as dinner co-chairman Irving Laker looks on. and his championing of Jewish and humanitarian causes. Dr. Rackman equated his university with Slomovitz, saying its purpose was to build bridges: "between the past of the Jewish people and the future of the Jewish people, between generations of the Jewish family." Dr. Rackman listed the numerous Bar-Ilan pro- grams aiding senior citizens and Israel's Sephardi com- munity. He equated the university's goals with Slomovitz's "nearly 70 years of battles, of trying to create understanding, of educating." Following the conferral of the honorary doctorate in an academic convocation complete with caps and gowns, Slomovitz thanked the audience for helping to initiate the chair in com- munications. He said the chair would "help the battles of Jewish life, for there is always a battle." He said he has always tried to warn-his fellow Jews against two great sins: the sin of silence and the sin of panic. He said the chair in communications at Bar- Dan will help insure that . "non-Jews will not misin- ".terpret us and that Jews will know the facts." In reference to the up- coming vote in Congress on the proposed sale of AWACS radar planes to Saudi . Arabia, Slomovitz warned that many Jews are frightened and will panic-no matter which way the AWACS issue is resolved. "These are conditions that demand that we be awakened," he said, "that not only our generation responds." The dinner opened with a surprise tribute to Mr. and Mrs. Max (Frieda) Stollman, founders of Bar- Ilan and members of its global board of trustees. Dr. and Mrs. Martin (Sharon) Hart paid tribute to their aunt and uncle, the Stollmans, and presented them with a sculpture on behalf of the Bar-Ilan fam- ily on the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary. Mrs. Stollman is president of American Women for Bar-Ilan and Mrs. Hart, as president of the Detroit women's chap- ter, presented a report on the Detroit chapter's ac- complishments in the one year of its existence. - Some 350 Detroiters have joined the Detroit women's unit and $5,000 was raised for the Bar-Ilan library. Phillip Stollman, chairman of the global board and a founder of Bar-Han, paid tribute to Philip and Anna Slomovitz by reminding the audience that the De- troit Jewish community gives the most per capita to Jewish causes of any community in the U.S. "and much of the credit is due to the Slomovitzes. This is - the finest tribute that we can give to them." Stollman also credited the dinner's general chair- men,. Irving Laker and Myron Milgrom, for making the program "the finest ever held under the auspices of Bar-Ilan." Other participants in the program included Rabbi Irwin Groner and Cantor Chaim Najman of Shaarey Zedek. Agritech Exhibit a Success A $25 Moroccan contingent and TEL AVIV million sale of poultry many from black African nations which do not main- breeding technologies to Egypt was only one of many tain diplomatic relations with Israel. international transactions Among the estimated signed at last week's Ag- ritech '81 agricultural im- 7,000 Israeli viewers were Arabs from the adminis- plement exhibition. Other deals worth more tered territories seeking than $60 million were more advanced techirol- finalized during the fair's ogY- The Arabs of Judea and four days. There were 400 Israeli exhibitors and 1,500 Samaria have added more visitors from abroad. 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