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Call 642-5575. est. 1919 30400 Telegraph Road Suites 104, 134 Birmingham, Mi. 48010 (313) 642-5575 449. GEMOLOGIST 6i LAWRENCE M. ALLAN President DIAMONTOLOGIST honorees and their families. These include: the late Rabbi Morris Adler, Goldie Adler, Harold Berry, Louis Berry, the late Abraham Borman, Paul Borman, Tom Borman, Irwin Cohen, Theodore Curtis, Henry Dorfman, Max Fisher, Miriam Hamburger, Mr. and Mrs. Irving Hermelin, Joseph Jackier, I. Murray Jacobs, the late Morris Karbal, Samuel Kovan, Myron Milgron, David Miro, Robert Steinberg, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Weisberg. A movie, "Heart of the Matter," will be shown. Rabbi Allan Schranz, recently appointed assis- tant to the chancellor of the seminary, will deliver a brief address. David Hermelin is chairman of the evening and Michael Karbal and Melvin Wallace are co- chairmen. For information, call the synagogue, 357-5544. The community is invited. 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MIRRORED WALI. 12" wide x 8" high $435.00 - — or $505.99 with 2 mirrored beveled columns PERFECTION IS OUR REFLECTION Where quality work, discount prices and you The customer make us, #1 552-0088 By JUDITH KOHN NEW YORK (JTA) — Five years ago this month, a handful of Sephardic Jews assembled at a midtown law office to lay the groundwork for a visionary program aimed at bridging the so- cial, economic and cultural gaps between Ashkenazim and Sephardim in Israel. They have since provided more than 2,600 schol- arships to needy students of Sephardic background, and embarked on a far-sighted self-help campaign by which students from disad- vantaged neighborhoods extend their own contribu- tions to communities like the ones from which they came. The birth of the Interna- tional Sephardic Education Foundation (ISEF) was, ac- cording to Nina Weiner, its founder and president, a re- sponse to a longstanding imbalance between Ashkenazim and Sephar- dim that was preventing a large segment of Israel's population from achieving their full potential in con- tributing to Israeli life. For years, Mrs. Weiner said, in an interview at the same Manhattan law office where the organ- ization was founded, the Zionist community in Is- rael and abroad had avoided addressing the problem of Sephardic Jewry in the Jewish state. "Because Israel was so besieged and be- leaguered with all the wars, it really couldn't focus on, or even talk about the social prob- lems," Weiner said. "But the time has come where it's there and we have to start doing something about it." Mrs. Weiner, who was born in Egypt to a third- generation Israel mother of Sephardic origin, and an Ashkenazi father, emi- grated as a teenager to the United States following a two year stay in Israel and completion of a degree in psychology. She has worked in this country as a voca- tional counselor both within and outside the Jewish community, has served for the past four years as alter- nate representative of the Women's International Zionist Organization (WIZO) to the United Na- tions. Having undertaken to address the problems of Sephardic Jewry in Israel, Mrs. Weiner decided that Israel's ethnic imbalance could best be corrected by upgrading the educational level of its Sephardic citi- zens, who, she noted, re- present only 16 percent of the total university student body in that country, even though they comprise well over half of Israel's popula- tion. Following consulta- tions in 1977 with a number of Sephardic Israeli leaders, including Yitzhak Navon, then a member of Knesset and now President of Israel, it was agreed that such an effort would be most effec- tive at the university level, since higher education could provide the Sephardic community with a capable leadership that might; in turn, offer positive role models for Israel's younger Sephardic- population, and eventually help to correct ethnic imbalance in other spheres, such as housing and unemployment. When the 20 founding members of ISEF met that year to create the new organization, their goals did not extend beyond the rais- ing of funds to finance edu- cation for a select number of potential university stu- dents. But a year after the foundation's program had gone into effect — with 400 scholarships distributed through Israel's six univer- sities, as well as academic institutions abroad — it be- came apparent that schol- arships by themselves would not eliminate the ob- stacles confronting many of Israel's Sephardic students. Although financial dis- tress has undoubtedly contributed to the high drop-out rate • among Sephardic students — 50 percent according to fig- ures provided by ISEF — other factors related to circumstances common to a majority of these stu- dents were causing some of the scholarship reci- pients to abandon their studies, despite ISEF's declared commitment to providing financial sup- port for the duration of each student's academic program. Magnifying ISEF's - achievements many times over is the modest style of its operation, directed with a frugal budget that con- sists exclusively of dona- tions and only three percent of which is spent on ad- ministrative costs, includ- ing a full-time coordinator in Israel. Having raised over a million dollars for scholarships, the founda- Farmington Bias Chabad Plans Second Annual Dinner Call today for free estimates: 552-0088 Atlas Glass & Mirror Sephardic Group Seeks End to Social Imbalance in Israel 1 Cong. Bais Chabad of Farmington Hills will hold its second annual dinner 7:30 p.m. June 28 at the Lubavitch er Center of Far- mington Hills, 28555 Middlebelt. Guest speaker for the evening will be Rabbi Moshe Feller, director of _ Chabad Lubavitch of the Upper Midwest and founder and director of the Bais Chana Institute for Women. Harriet Drissman is dinner chairmen. For ticket information and reserva- tions, call Mrs. Drissman, 851-4019. There is an ad- mission charge. tion has remained a kind of "mom and pop" set-up, that draws its volunteer staff and patrons primarily through community con- tacts in Brooklyn and Man- hattan. No attempt has been made to plug in to other larger Jewish philan- thropic organizations. Mrs. Weiner, who calls herself a "volunteer execu- tive," directs the foundation from her home in New York. Legal aid is provided on a volunteer basis by her hus- band's law firm — the com- pany which hosted ISEF's initial meeting five years ago: Amnon Giniger, direc- tor of the firm's associate office in Israel, manages the distribution of ISEF schol- arships on a volunteer basis. Similarly, accounting services are provided gratis by a sympathetic firm. ISEF has also remained decidedly non-political and, according to Mrs. Weiner, has abstained from dogma- tic accusations or demands for immediate panaceas to the problem of Israel's cul- tural gap. Looking toward the fu- ture, Mrs. Weiner, who travels to Israel each year to oversee the foun- dations programs, envisions, a bridging of Israel's Ashkenazic - Sephardic gap through systematic efforts at un- earthing the roots of the current ethnic imbal- ance. "I would like to have more research on the problem of the gap," she said. "I would like to be able more and more to get at the real facts, the real numbers, and to see in a concrete way how we can help to solve these prob- lems. I have a vision for twenty years to come." Kupat Cholim Seeks Doctors NEW YORK — Kupat Cholim, the Histadrut's Sick Fund, has announced openings for senior medical personnel in its hospitals throughout Israel. Vacancies exist for senior medical staff in hospitals and out-patient clinics at lo- cations ranging from Beersheva in the south to Afula in the north. Some of these positions will be- come available in 1982 and 1983. Housing assistance will be provided. Pathologists, radiolo- gists, surgeons, geriatrists, endocrinologists, neurosur- geons, E.N.T. specialists, anesthesiologists and pediatricians are among the many specialists being sought. Doctors considering one year sabbaticals may also apply. For information, contact Avraham Frank, director of professional services, Israel Aliya Center, 515 Park Ave., New York, N.Y., 10022. The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interpos- ition of darker bodies.