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Friday, September 7, 1984
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
LOCAL NEWS .
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Thursday, Sept.13
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Mike Burstyn
Claire Barry
star of Broadway, films, TV and
the night-club circuit, Mike
Burstyn. Actor, singer, dancer,
comedian, Burstyn won two Is-
raeli Oscars, starred in his own
Israeli television series, head-
lined a Dutch television variety
show and has entertained in night
clubs from Acapulco to Australia.
In Israel, he co-hosted the Mery
Griffin Show and co-starred with
Jason Robards in the film Death
in Jericho. He has just completed
shooting the third in a series of
musical comedy films based on
the folk-character "Kuni Leml."
Co-starring with Burstyn will
be Claire Barry, once part of the
well-known singing team The
Barry Sisters. In 1977, Barry
launched her new career as a solo
performer. Mack Pitt and his or-
chestra also will be on the pro-
gram. Chairing the Balfour Cele-
bration Women's Committee is
Mrs. Ira G. Kaufman. Mr. and
Mrs. Philip Slomovitz are honor-
ary co-chairmen of the Balfour
Celebration. Mrs. Sidney Z. Leib
is honorary women's committee
chairman and Mrs. I. Walter
Silver is chairing the Masada
Scholarship Endowment Pro-
gram.
Proceeds from the ZOA Balfour
Celebration are earmarked for
ZOA's educational projects in Is-
rael and its public affairs pro-
grams in the United States.
Jewish Reagan-Bush coalition
is organized for Michigan
The Jewish Coalition for
Reagan-Bush '84 has announced
the formation of its Michigan
Committee. Honorary chairman
of the Michigan Coalition is Max
Fisher, who also holds the honor-
ary chairmanship of the national
group: He will be assisted by co-
chairmen Edward C. Levy Jr. and
Alan May. Staff director will be
James Alexander. The coalition
has opened offices at 700 E. Maple
in Birmingham.
At a meeting of the coalition
last week, Levy stated, "We will
put together a comprehensive
campaign within our community
to insure a significant contribu-
tion to President Reagan's re-
election. Since this election is cer-
tain to be a hard fought, close
race, the Jewish vote in Michigan
Fre
can be the swing vote this
President needs."
May, who currently serves as
GOP chairman for the 18th Con-
gressional District and as chair-
man of the Michigan Civil Rights
Commission, added, "The coali-
tion will function as an arm of
Reagan-Bush '84, the President's
Campaign Committee, and mount
a strong grass roots organization.
To do this takes an enormous
number of volunteers, and we are
actively seeking to include as
many people as possible in this
effort."
Staff director James Alexander
is a former campaign chairman of
the Republican Committee of
Oakland County. The coalition
has set a goal of obtaining 50 per-
cent of the identified Jewish vote
for President Reagan.
Fisher Fund oks project grants
A total of $140,000 for innova-
tive community projects has been
approved by the Max M. Fisher
Jewish Community Foundation,
funded by United Jewish
Charities of the Jewish Welfare
Federation.
Since its inception in 1964, the
foundation has granted more than
$1.6 million to Federation's be-
neficiaries to conduct short-term
demonstration projects not within
the scope of regular operations.
The newly approved programs
range from the establishment of a
centralized information and re-
ferral service for the Jewish com-
munity to the development of a
community service utilization
system for the non-
institutionalized elderly.
The Jewish Information Serv-
ice has received $39,150. Staffed
by professionals and trained vol-
unteers, the program seeks to
make information about services
ofered by the Jewish community
more accessible to the public
through person-to-person contact.
The project will operate both as a