THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Cohodas Birthday Mission

Sam Cohodas of Ishpem-
ing, Mich: celebrated his
86th birthday with Mission
81 to Boy's Town
Jerusalem. One of the lead-
ing supporters of the educa-
tional institution which
combines traditional reli-
gious studies with technical
training, Cohodas said he
was gratified by the pro-
gress of Boys Town
Jerusalem in the three de-
cades-since it was founded
by American educators and
philanthropists.

In addition to his interest
in Boys Town Jerusalem,
Cohodas has also contrib-
uted to Shaare Zedek and
Hadassah hospitals and has

SAM COHODAS

set up scholarships at the
Hebrew University, as well
as a chair at its agricultural
school.

Buloff Presents
Yiddish Readings

Broadway actor Joseph
Buloff will give two drama-
tic readings, in English Oct.
10 in Ann Arbor, and in
Yiddish Oct. 11 in South-
field, as part of the Festival
of Yiddish Culture being
coordinated by the Univer-

sity of Michigan.
On Oct. 10, Buloff will
present "Readings from
Yiddish Literature" in
English at 8 p.m. at the U-M
Residential College. Thea-
ter.

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Briefs

Kitty Wagner has just
returned from Vienna, Au-
stria, where she addressed
the World Congress of Cos-
metologists on European
Skin Care and Treatment in
the United States. Kitty
Wagner Facial Salons are
located at Loehmann's at
Hunters Square, 626-1231;
and 12 Oaks Mall, Novi,
349-4550.
• • •
World Imports, lo-
cated in Birmingham Vac-
uum at the .,Evergreen
Plaza, offers 20 percent sav-
ings on gifts from around
the world, from Swiss music
boxes to collectible crystal
bells from Hungary. Hours
are Monday through Satur-
day 10 a.m.-8 p.m.

•• •

Great Scott!
Names Epstein

PAUL EPSTEIN

Paul Epstein has been
promoted to produce sales
manager for Great Scott!
Supermarkets.
Epstein joined the Great
Scott! produce department
in 1952 and has served in
various capacities since,
serving most recently as a
produce buyer.

JOSEPH BULOFF

On Oct. 11, Buloff will
present "Readings from
Yiddish Literature" in Yid-
dish at 2:30 p.m. at United
Hebrew Schools.

Buloff has had 21
Broadway roles. He has
also appeared off
Broadway, in Europe
and on the Yiddish stage.
He is also a producer and
director.

There is no charge for
either performance.
• • •

Other events in the next
10 days on the schedule of
the Festival of Yiddish Cul-
ture include:
9 p.m. Saturday — Cong.
Beth Israel, Ann Arbor, will
present "The Hasidic Songs
of Maramures." There is a
charge. For tickets, call the
synagogue, (1) 665-9897..
Oct. 4-11 —Photographic
exhibit of the contemporary
Romanian Jewish shtetl,
"The Last Jews of Radauti,"
in LaMed Auditorium of
United Hebrew Schools,
Southfield. The exhibit will
open Oct. 12 at the main
Jewish Community Center.

If a group of Jews on a
long journey are overtaken
by barbarians who say,
"Give us one of your
number, or we shall kill you
all," let all be slain; for no
Israelite shall be deliber-
ately delivered to barbar-
ians.
—Talmud

Friday, October 2„19811

Women's Division Unit for Career Women ,

Increasingly, the Jewish
woman is working outside
the home, whether by.choice
or out of necessity.
Older women who for-
merly may have volun-
teered their time in service
to the Jewish community
are enterting the work
force. Many younger women
are moving directly from
college to professional
career, never having ex-
perienced the Jewish volun-
tarism tradition.
Noting the trend, Carolyn
Greenberg, the 1977
presidentof the Jewish Wel-
fare Federation Women's
Division, decided that year
to organize a Career
Women's group with meet-
ings during the evening or
on Sunday to attract both
types of Jewish working
woman.
Other founding mem-
bers and former Career
Women's .group chair-
men over the past four
years are Beatrice Rowe,
Judy Naftaly and Fayga
Dombey. (Member
Maurine Sillman also has
been a group chairman
and Helen Naimark is
another founding
member.) The current
leaders are Jeannette
Tilchin, chairman, and
Malka Gordon, associate
chairman.
Mrs. Naftaly said that
while Women's Division of-
fers Jewish women a
variety of ways to be part of
the community, the division
- meetings usually take place
in the daytime, to accom-
modate its members who
are still primarily
homemakers. Career
women such as Mrs: Naf-
taly, a school teacher, would
have to take time from work
to participate.
Before Career Women,
that situation proved dis-
for former
couraging
homemakers like Mrs. Til-
chin, who had returned to
work full time at the Fresh
Air Society. She said, "I felt
removed and isolated from
the Jewish community,
even though I work for a
Jewish, agency. I thought
there was nothing I could do _
within the community be-
cause of my working hours."
Bertha Chomsky, assis-
tant director of the Women's
Division and adviser to
Career Women, said the
group was set up to "inte-
grate working women into
the community — to keep
them actively part of it."

The group also. fulfills
the women's desire for in-
tellectual stimulation.
Programs are planned to
explore areas of concern
and interest to the mem-
bers as women, as Jews
and as citizens. During
the 1980-1981 season, the
topics ranged from the
Equal Rights Amend-
ment to "pre-digested
books for the working
woman" to a preview of
last fall's elections to a
film about Israeli life to-
day.

A lively discussion period
follows every presentation.
As Mrs. Naftaly noted:
"There's no way this group

Shown at a meeting of Career Women of the
Jewish Welfare Federation Women's Division are,
from left, seated, Jeannette Tilchin, chairman; Fayga
Dombey, past chairman; and Malka Gordon, associ-
ate chairman. Standing are Judy Naftaly, past chair-
man; and Helen Naimark, founding member.

is going to just sit and listen
to a speaker."
The members' own ta-
lents and expertise gained
from working in a variety of
professions are what make
the group an exciting one,
according to several par-
ticipants represented.
Members often serve as
program leaders for the
meetings. For example, a
session on ways to deal with
stress was conducted one
year by member Beverly
Talan, a clinical psychol-
ogist. Rochelle Millen, con-
sultant for the United He-
brew Schools, led a program
on "ERA and the Jewish
Woman."
Several of the partici-
pants have said that the
opportunity to meet fel-
low women professionals
in other fields, and to
enjoy the camaraderie of
such stimulating per-
sons, has been a reward-
ing aspect to their be-
longing to Career
Women.
Most of the meetings take
place in the United Hebrew
Schools board room. A deli
tray usually is brought in
for supper for 6 p.m. and the
program gets under way at
7. Occasionally, the group
visits Federation agencies
for special programming.
At a meeting held at the
Jewish Vocational Service
with professional staff Al
Ascher, Barbara Nurenberg
and Rhoda Raderman, the
group learned how JVS
helps women enter the job
market and what oppor-

Magazine Folds

NEW YORK (JTA) — A
quarterly magazine,
'Jewish Combatants,"
edited by Isaac Kowalsky, a
former leader in the anti-
Nazi underground in war-
time Europe, has been dis-
continued after a year of
publication.
The magazine recorded
Jewish combat actions
against the Berlin-Rome
axis.
Kowalsky said the period-
ical's income was from ad-
vertising and paid subscrip-
tions with no organizational
support, and that those
sources of income were not
enough to cover the periodi-
cal's costs.
He said refund checks
have been sent to all sub-
scribers who paid for more
than one year's subscrip-
tions.

tunities are available.
Another well-received
meeting last season at the
Jewish Family Service fea-
tured caseworker Lydia
Kuniaysky. A Russian im-
migrant, Ms. Kuniaysky
contrasted her experiences
in the Soviet Union with life
in this country.
Participation in Career
Women is not a matter of
paying dues. Instead,
members are asked to
make a contribution each
year to the Allied Jewish
Campaign-Israel Emer-
gency Fund. Some of the
women also volunteer to
work an evening at
Phonogift, the annual
fund-raising telethon of
Women's Division.

Career Women has had a
growing, but always chang-
ing membership during its
four years. The original
members were Federation
agency staff and former
volunteers through
Women's Division. Later,
participants brought
friends to the meetings who
sometimes were unac-
quainted with Federation
and its opportunities for
service.
Programming for the
group's new year was
planned by a committee
over the summer. It in-
cludes Marlene Borman and
Janice Schwartz, past and
present Women's Division
vice presidents who serve at
the division's liaison to the
Career Women's program.
The first meeting of
the season is Sunday
at the United Hebrew
Schools. Following a brunch
at 11 a.m., the featured
speaker will be Bczalel
Gordon, editor-in-chief of
the English department at
the Israel Government
Press Office and son of
Rabbi and Mrs. James Gor-
don. His topic is "The News
Behind the News," explor-
ing the impact of the press
on everyone's lives.
For information about
Career Women, contact
Mrs. Chomsky or Women's
Division Director Barbara
A. Satinsky at the Federa-
tion office, 9.65-3939.

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