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Sponsored by the United State Holocaust Memorial Council, chaired by author and human rights activist Elie Wiesel, the conference has enlisted the assistance of Detroiters Maurice Chandler; Sister Maureen Fay, 0.P., president of Mercy College of Detroit; Louis H. Golden; David Hermelin; Alvin Kushner, executive director of the Jewish Community Coun- cil; Philip Minkin; Sister Maurita Sengelaub, R.S.M., president of the Mercy Col- laborative; and Sister Carol Rittner of Mercy College, who is serving as conference coordinator with Dr. Harry James Cargas. The conference will bring together scholars, educators, survivors and non-Jews who helped Jews during the Holocaust. According to Sister Carol, the conference is not an in- ternational gathering. However, delegations from Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, from Italy and from Bul- garia are expected to attend. Funding is coming from independent fund raising, and to date more than $250,000 has been raised. Mutual of America, whose president William Flynn of New York is chairman of the advisory committee, contributed $100,000 to the conference. Although there are no di- rect ties between the con- ference and Detroit's or any other city's Holocaust memorial center, each HMC has been asked to send a representative and to pro- vide the names of survivors who were helped to escape during the Holocaust and the names of persons who aided them. Among the guest speak- ers are: George Shultz, U.S. secretary of state; Gideon Hausner, chairman of the Council of Yad Vashem; A. Bartlett Giamatti, president of Yale Univer- sity; Franklin Littell, pro- fessor of religion at Temple University; Robert McAfee Brown, professor of ethics at the Pacific School of Reli- gion; Magda Trocme, wife of Pastor Andre Trocme, the spiritual leader of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, during the war, when the community saved more than 2,000 Jews; Rabbi Harold Schulweis, founder and chairman of the Institute for Righteous Acts based at the Judah Magnes Museum; Leo Eitinger, pro- fessor psychiatry at the Univeristy of Oslo and Rabbi Irving Greenberg, di- rector of the National Jewish Resource Center. A goal of the conference is to bring together rescuers of Jews and some of the people who were rescued so that their testimony can be re- corded for posterity. Oral histories of the re- scuers will be collected and conference proceedings will be recorded to be placed in the archives of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Registration deadline is Sept. 7. For registration in- formation, contact the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Coun- cil, 425 13th St. NW, Suite 832, Washingtori, D.C. 20004, (202) 724-0779. Oakland judge orders 'get' in local couple's divorce Staff report IIII ALEN, I-I 11111 : from YOU'RE BETTER OFF AT Ltia Buick Honda 28585 Telegraph Rd. Across From Tel-Twelve Mall Southfield, Mich. 353-1300 Marjorie L. Feurerman, 28, of West Bloomfield, has gone to Oakland County Circuit Court to receive a Jewish divorce settlement. Ms. Feurerman claims that despite receiving a court-granted divorce in February from her hus- band, Barry S.Feurerman, he has "failed to make the proper arrangements for ob- taining the Jewish divorce." Although , a Jewish woman who has not re- ceived a "get" from her hus- band may remarry as far as the state is concerned, she may not remarry according to Jewish law. "He's holding it over my head to get what he wants," Ms. Feurerman said last month before a hearing in front of Judge Steven N. Andrews in Pontiac. Among the arguments be- fore the court was a charge that the court has no stand- ing in the case because of the religious implications and is excluded by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution establishing separation of church and state. Ms. Feurerman's attor- ney, Henry Baskin, referred to Feurerman's refusal to obtain a "get" as "legal blackmail." "It's something - that -shouldn't;, ,eFfepi allowed in our supposed enlightened age," he said. "But the fact remains it is something that Jewish women who get divorced have had to deal with for years." Baskin said that there is nothing in Michigan law requiring a man to supply his wife with a "get." In handing down his deci- sion last week, Judge An- drews stated that the "get" would be included as part of the property settlement. Ms. Feurerman has until Oct. 1 to pay her part of the settlement, $5,000. Once paid, her husband has until Nov. 1 to obtain a "get" for Ms. Feurerman. Baskin noted that divorce matters often become com- plicated, and therefore, many Jewish men use the "get" as a "bargaining tool" in settlement negotiations. In recent years, the "get" question has been raised frequently in civil divorce cases. In New York, courts have become so "flooded with litigation" that the state legislature passed a law on the issue. The new law allows a judge to de- mand that a husband pro- vide his wife with a "get" before he is granted a civil divorce. . Tickets are still available for Jewish film festival Tickets are still available for the Third Annual . Jewish Film Festival which will be held at 8 p.m. Sun- day through Aug. 26 at the Southfield Civic Center Recreation Building. The films West of Hester Street and A Generation who is forced to adjust to a new way of life far from a thriving Yiddish culture. The second feature, "A Generation Apart" portrays the impact of the Holocaust on families of concentration camp survivors. A Vilna Legend, Apart are scheduled for scheduled for Wednesday, is Sunday. West of Hester- a classic love story set in Street interweaves the early 20th Century Jewish events of the "Galveston Lithuania and stars Ida Movement" with the story Kaminska. This movie is a of a young Jewish peddler restored copy of a Ariddish