36B, Friday, September 28, 1984 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS EA R R EV I E MAKING HISTORY, Democrat Walter Mondale chose the first woman vice presidential candidate, Geraldine Ferraro, to join his ticket. The Democrats face an uphill battle in the November election. in the Knesset . . . Finance Minister Yoram Aridor resigns over the furor created by his secret "dol- larization" plan. Inflation escalates as Yigal Cohen-Orgad becomes the new Finance Minister, vowing to cut the standard of living and curb the groWing foreign debt . . . Leaders of Lebanon's warring factions travel to Geneva for a reconcilia- tion conference . . . Teddy Kollek is re-elected mayor of Jerusalem . . . Meeting in Jerusalem, the Jewish Agency's Board of Governors votes to oust Raphael Kotlowitz, the controversial chairman of the Aliyah Department . . . Jewish Community Council Executive Director Alvin Kushner wins tributes at communal dinner . . . Newsman Ber- nard Kalb addresses Shaare Zedek Hospital Friends dinner . . . Jewish Community Founda- tion named for Max M. Fisher . . . Controversy brews over University of Michigan's beginning of classes on Rosh Hashanah . . . Women's Bicur Cholem Organization celebrates 50th anniversary . . . United Jewish Appeal East Central-Midwest Leadership Conference meets in Detroit . . . B'nai B'rith honors General Motors chairman Roger Smith . . . Royal Oak couple receives Righteous Gentile Award from Yad Vashem . . . Kosher nut- rition program for elderly begins at Jewish Center Morris Branch . . . Jack Zwick re-elected Detroit Jewish National Fund president . . . Dr. Arnold Zuroff is Detroit Friends of Yeshiva University honoree . . . Peter Alter is elected president of the Michigan Regional Advisory Board of the Anti- Defamation League . . . Cong. B'nai David's. longtime Cantor Hyman Adler honored at tes- timonial dinner . . . Holocaust Memorial Center kicks off membership drive . . . Joel Tauber elected Federation president . . . Philanthropist Abraham J. Cutler dies . . . President Reagan names Robert McFarlane as his National Security Adviser. McFarlane replaces William Clark, who was ap- pointed Secretary of the Interior . . . The Soviet Union sentences Soviet Jewish activist Iosif Begun to seven years imprisonment followed by five years of internal exile. on charges of "anti- Soviet" activities . . . In a vote that ends years of controversy, the faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary agrees to ordain women as Conservative rabbis . . . A terrorist on a suicide mission suc- cessfully explodes a bomb-laden truck inside the Marine camp in Beirut, killing close to 300 Marines. The U.S. announces that a high-level delegation is being dispatched to Israel to review the situation in Lebanon. NOVEMBER PRESIDENT REAGAN kept the Mideast off his cam- paign speaking agenda, but seemed to have good reason to be smiling, bas- ed on polls predicting his re-election. HART ATTACKED front-runner Mondale in the Democratic primaries and for awhile it worked. The sur- prise of the campaign, Sen. Gary Hart stayed in the race until the bitter end while early favorites like John Glenn faded fast. The Israel presence in Lebanon suffers a major war disaster when 60 Israeli soldiers and civilians are killed in Tyre as the result of a truck bomb terrorist attack . . . In northern Lebanon, a mini-war erupts between followers of PLO chief Yasir Arafat and a PLO splinter group backed by Syrian forces. Besieged in Tripoli, Arafat is forced again to flee Lebanon, this time under the shelter of the American and French navies . . . Jewish Community Center hosts 32nd annual Jewish Book Fair . . . Israel Bonds fashion show comes to Detroit ... Actress Kitty Carlisle addresses Na- tional Council of Jewish Women luncheon .