28 Friday, August 3, 431 4 * ELECT * • EXPERIENCED • iiiE- bETROIT JEWISH NEWS SOBEL * ELECT * • QUALIFIED • • BA. High Distinction, University of Michigan • Law Degree, Thomas M Cooley Law School • Member in Good Standing. • District Court Magistrate • Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, Oakland County • Michigan Attorney General. Organized Crime Division • Advanced Police Training Instructor. Oakland Police Academy • Oakland County Circuit Court Mediator • Tenants Resource Center Housing Advisor Michpan Bar Association Oakland County Bar Association Southfield Bar Association ' South Oakland Bar Association - American and Michigan Inat Lawyers Associations • Married. Lifelong Resident of Oakland County LIFELONG MEMBER OF CONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK DISTRICT JUDGE * 48TH DISTRICT COURT * "I CAN PROMISE ONLY 10 BE A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL JUDGE I HAVE NO POLITICAL DEBTS TO PAY I NEED YOUR VOTE 10 HELP KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE AND SECURE Michael A Sobel 1984 "WE ADMIRE MR SOILS PERSONAL INTEGRITY WE KNOW HIM TO BE ABLE AND HARDWORKING AND BELIEVE HE WILL BE A STRONG ASSET TO THE COURT WE WERE IMPRESSED WITH HIS POISE. KNOWLEDGE Of LAW ABILITY 10 EXPRESS HIMSELF AND HIS GENERAL FRIENDIINESS Oakland Court Watchers Newsletter 1983 AS THE BEST QUALIFIED CANDIDATE, MICHAEL SOBEL HAS BEEN GIVEN THE HIGHEST RATING OF "PREFERRED AND WELL-QUALIFIED" BY CIVIC SEARCHLIGHT, INC., AND THE OAKLAND CITIZENS LEAGUE. AS DISTRICT JUDGE, SOBEL WILL: 1. HOLD NIGHT COURT AND SATURDAY SESSIONS TO MAKE COURT MORE ACCESSIBLE TO THOSE WHO CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSE TIME FROM WORK OR BUSINESS. 2. START COURT ON TIME AND WORK STEADILY. 3. HELP REVITALIZE THE VOLUNTEER PROBATION PROGRAM. 4. CONSERVE TAXPAYER DOLLARS IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE COURT FOLLOWING IS A PARTIAL LIST OF INDIVIDUALS WHO SUPPORT SOBEL FOR JUDGE HON NORMAN W. FEDER JOHN A KAICHEN JOAN RODE NORMAN I. BROCK MICHAEL COLTON LEO RUSHLOW DONNA LOSURDO BRUCE ROSENTHAL MARILYNN STONE MICHAEL McCARTHY PAM SELIS ANNE HIMELHOCH MORRIS ROSS ARNOLD J. SHIFMAN FRED COHEN PAUL COLLRIN THOMAS ST. DENNIS GLORIA RIVKIN HANNA GOODSTEIN DR. GEORGE S. EVSEEFF HOWARD L. SHIFMAN SANFORD ROSENTHAL CAROL COSKEY ROBERT W. EASTERLY MARK WHITEFIELD RICHARD SIRIANI DR RICHARD ZIRKIN MARK ZAUSMER PAUL RYBICKI HON. EUGENE S. FRIEDMAN JOSEPH N. HORENSTEIN DR. FREDERICK RIVKIN ALBERT FERRARI DR. MARVIN SIEGEL NANCY EVSEEFF DANIEL DEVINE JR. FARAH DUFFY LINDA GOLDMAN DR HERBERT BROM HAROLD S. FRIEDMAN DAVID F. ZUPPKE HENRY AUSLANDER DR. RICHARD GOODSTEIN DONALD LAKIND LAWRENCE S. COHEN STEVEN J. 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VOTE TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1984! * JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT Premieres HA-KOL: THE JEWISH VOICE Sunday, August 5th, 1984 4:30-5:00 p.m. WDET-FM (101.9) Yitzhak Gitelman and Dr. Robert Bree Bar-Bat Mitzvah Twinning Detroit Soviet Jewry Committee Roberto Cohen Jewish Baseball Players Allan Gale Tisha B'Av Host: David Lebenbom Theme Music by: Elaine Lebenbom Tune in to WDET-FM (101.9) each week on Sunday from 4:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. for HA-KOL: THE JEWISH VOICE. BOOKS Ethical wills: a testament of what life could have been BY LAWRENCE KUSHNER Special to The Jewish News If you knew (God forbid) that you only had three minutes to live, what you would say to the people you love would be very impor- tant. It would also be in Judaism what is called an ethical will. Hopefully written de- cades before your death, an ethical will is neither a will nor ethical. It is rather an intimate, often confidential, lengthy letter which Jews, for centuries, have written to their survivors. It is a tes- tament by which they hope to make clear (in writing) what they had hoped to teach by their lives. It is what they want their closest friends and relatives to re- member. It is the final three minutes of a good class as embodied in the teacher's summation, or the final three minutes of the therapeutic session in which the patient hurriedly tries to integrate the in- sights of the past hour (life). Ethicals wills have some extraordinary and unique religious qualities. Since they are meant to be read only after the death of the author, they provide us an insight into the soul of someone (or ourselves) at precisely the moment when they are most keenly aware of their finitude. They also force those who write them and who read them into con- fronting the fact that, like it or not, every human being has a spiritual legacy. Everyone,has a teaching to which they hope their life bears witness. Riemer and Stampfer have put together an ex- traordinary anthology of these documents spanning centuries and continents. Their moving treasury pro- vides us at once with an in- spiration to write our own ethical wills as well as a compelling insight into the soul of the Jewish people. There is really no way to summarize this extraordi- nary volume, since each selection is a distilled lifetime. Each selection is emotionally devastating Girl who fled Nazis writes new book Rose Zar has won the Association of Jewish Lib- raries "Best Book" award for her recently published effort In the Mouth of the Wolf. A true story, the book chronicles her successful at- tempt to escape the Nazis by living among them. In the Mouth of the Wolf conveys the danger and emotion of 19-year-old Ruszka Guter- man and her fight for survi- val. and exalting. They take us to the edge and return us to ourlown lives with a sharper vision of what our own lives might be. Selections include tales of a Jew in Latvia in 1809 who tells about a miracle that "Ethical Wills: A Modern Jewish Treasury," edited and annotated by Jack Riemer and Nathaniel Stampfer, Schocken Books. happened to him. A Jew provides a special trust fund in his estate that would pay the travel costs for his chil- dren and grandchildren to come together from wher- ever they might live, each year, for the family Passover Seder. A Jew re- quests that his bier be made out of the boards of his Shabbos table. 'A rebbe gives his students permis- sion to choose any rebbe they like upon his death. A Jew asks his family to be sure to return all the books that he has borrowed. Meir Dizengoff, the first mayor of Tel Aviv, hoped his death would be by "Divine Kiss." A Jew who died in the war of '48 asked that the insurance money go to set up a fund for buying guns for the Irgun. Another Jew who died in the same war speaks of sac- rificing life for something greater than itself. The rediscovery and popularization of such ethi- cal wills may be one of the most important contribu- tions to the newly emerging personal pietism of this de- cade. Indeed, the book is more than a literary an- thology; it is a stimulus to Jews everywhere to write their own ethical will. Copyright 1984, Lawrence Kushner Allen Warsen publishes mini-anthology of reviews Allen A. Warsen, who during the past dozen years has reviewed more than 250 books for The Jewish News, has published a booklet con- taining samples from his journalistic portfolio. The booklet was put together with the aid of Warsen's sis- ter, Annette Friedman, and her husband, Dr. Lee E. Friedman. The volume includes three Warsen book reviews, a biographical sketch of Warsen published in The Detroit News on the occa- sion of the writer's 80th birthday last year, a 1980 salute to Warsen from then U.S. Rep, James J. Blan- chard (D-Mich.) which ap- peared in the Congressional Record and Warsen's trib- ute to Jewish News' editor emeritus Philip Slomovitz, published in Michigan Jewish History, the quar- terly journal of the Jewish Historial Society of Michi- gan. Warsen, who taught in the Detroit Public Schools for 33 years before retiring in 1972, was born in War- saw and raised in Mlawa, a Polish town on the German border. Since moving to De- troit with his wife Sara, now deceased, in 1932, Warsen has been an active member of the Jewish community. In addition to his work as a founder and first president of the historical society, Warsen served for four years as chairman of the Yiddish Committee at the Jewish Community Center. 1— • Allen Worsen To obtain a copy of the Warsen booklet, send your name and address, along with 60 cents in postage stamps, to Allen A. Warsen, % Annette J. Friedman, 4063 Hardwoods, West Bloomfield, Mich. 48033. NEWS B'nai B'rith honors Bikel Washington — Actor Theodore Bikel, who has been involved in the teater since the age of 19 and has been active in the labor movement, human rights and the Jewish community, will be honored by B'nai B'rith International during its biennial convention in September. Bikel will receive B'nai B'rith's Generation to Gen- eration Award. 6.