B'nai B'rith International OBSERVATIONS cordially invites you to attend Catskill Resorts Are Joining Together The Great American Traditions Award Dinner honoring ARNOLD AGES Special to The Jewish News R esort owners in the fabled Catskill Mountains of New York State have co-produced a public relations leaflet which collectively lauds their Jewish-oriented hotels. The leaflet even mentions Gros- singer's, the major hotel that is closed for renovations. This unprecedented cooper- ation reflects the desire to promote a community of hotels, not isolated units, ac- cording to Milton Kutcher, owner of Kutcher's Hotel, and Gordon Winarick, owner of the Concord Hotel, the largest in the Catskills. But the "Borscht Belt" re- sort business is changing. Irving Cohen, the maitre d' at the Concord, said that year-round operations have changed the nature of the dining room. Fewer college students are available to wait on and bus tables, making it necessary to engage full-time help, and attracting good service personnel is difficult, he added. Also new is the dichotomy between the kosher hotel and the kosher-dining hotel. Cohen put it this way: "We have kosher dining facilities that are impeccable. We are inspected, moreover, reg- ularly by New York State agents from the Department of Agriculture. "We are not, however, a kosher hotel in the sense that we do not control the atmos- phere outside of the dining hall. The Concord and several of the other Catskill resorts employ mashgichim to super- vise their dining halls and kitchens, but they do not enforce religious regulations beyond this." Some people here claim that Grossinger's closed its doors primarily because it went "further than was wise from the business point of view" to attract Jewish clients who were religiously observant. As one hotel owner put it: "There simply aren't enough of that seg- ment of Jewish society to sus- tain a hotel of Grossinger's size." Another change is the guests. Twenty-five years ago, the majority was Jewish and from New York or New Jersey. Today, as much as 30 percent are non-Jews. In addition, they come from all over North America and Europe. Winarick of the Con- cord said this is an important development. The presence of non-Jewish guests at the Concord and other Catskill resorts is due to attempts in recent years to attract con- vention business. At the Con- cord, for example, an interna- tional chess convention re- cently was sharing space with the Pennsylvania-based Brit Shalom fraternal order. Gerald and Glenda Greenwald Gerald Greenwald Chairman Chrysler Motors Corporation Glenda Greenwald Publisher The Michigan Woman Magazine Wednesday, November 19, 1986 The Westin Hotel Cocktails 6:00 p.m. Couvert $150.00 per person Dietary Laws Black Tie Optional General Chairman Honorable William G. Milliken General Co-Chairmen Paul D. Borman Keith E. Crain David B. Hermelin Dr. Harold T. Shapiro Peter W. Stroh William P. Vititoe Detroit B'nai B'rith Foundation Committee David Levine Louis Weber Chairman Honorary Chairman Sharon B. Rapapport Michigan Director Performing in Concert For further information and reservation call 552-8070 22 Friday, October 24, 1986 y. 'S Lc. L. A- IL. L •• Windrick' developed a new family encounter and reunion program at his hotel called "Le-Chaim," Hebrew for "to life." He indicated that one reunion would soon gather more than 40 people from all over the United States. Whether they come for family reunions, conventions or personal respites, the Catskill hotels still offer an array of entertainment. It's passe by now to list the prominent Hollywood per- sonalities who began their careers as stand-up comics in the "Borscht Belt." The fledgling would-be comedians are still making the rounds, but they are being eclipsed, especially on week-ends, by mega-stars such as Paul Anka, Harry Belafonte, Joan Rivers, Tom Jones and Julio Iglesias, all of whom were scheduled to perform at the Concord this summer. Intellectual entertainment also attracts respectable audiences. Kutcher's has a resident expert on the Middle East who discourses regularly about Israeli and Arab poli- tics. The Concord invites highly qualified experts on taxes and investment strategy to lecture on a reg- ular basis. Jewish Telegraphic Agency Brandeis Votes On Divestiture Of Stocks Waltham, Mass. (JTA) — Brandeis University has sold its stock in three U.S. com- panies that were found not to be in compliance with univer- sity policies governing in- vestments in firms doing business in South Africa, Brandeis president Evelyn E. Handler announced last week. The three companies whose stocks were sold are Rey- nolds & Reynolds Company, Schlumberger Ltd. and Union Camp Corp. The total value of the stocks is approximately $200,000, about 6.5 percent of the university's holdings in companies doing business in South Africa. The action is the result of a new policy on South Africa related stocks adopted by the university's Board of Trustees this summer. The policy re- quires that companies in the Brandeis portfolio with South Africa operations subscribe to the expanded Sullivan Principles, which call for ac- tivities beyond the workplace in ameliorating the plight of South African blacks. The Board also voted to consider full divestment in May 1987 if significant reform of South Africa's apar- theid policies has not oc- curred. THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS • . • L a 4444 4 • . • t a a . ra a.. f. Y .R.dllu .. • - - ••; V• F . T V V .4' , ,•••