UP FRONT
Alan King To Bring Humorous
Conclusion To AJCampaign
Comedian Alan King will help
close the 1987 Allied Jewish Cam-
paign, 7 p.m. April 9 at Adat
Shalom Synagogue.
The party is open to all 1987
Campaign contributors and will in-
clude a cocktail buffet before the
program and dessert reception af-
terward.
In addition to his international
renown as a comedian, King is an
author, businessman, Broadway-
television-motion picture producer
Alan King
and actor—and philanthropist.
A product of Brooklyn and
New York's Lower East Side,
King's big break came when he
toured Ameica and Great Britain
with Judy Garland. His perform-
ances before Queen Elizabeth made
him an instant favorite with the
British people, and he has been
back for three Royal Command
Performances for the Queen.
King is widely admired as a
humanitarian, having given away
millions of his own money and rais-
ing millions more as a performer
for causes in the United States and
Israel.
He has been an officer and
fundraiser for the American
Friends of Hebrew University, and
founded the Alan King Diagnostic
Medical Center, a 13-story complex
in Jerusalem. King has also been
active on behalf of Nassau Center
for Emotionally Disturbed Children
on Long Island, and established a
liberal arts chair at Brandeis Uni-
versity.
Allied Jewish Campaign
chairmen Paul Borman and Emery
Klein believe that King's appear-
ance will spur the final days of the
Campaign. The two have expressed
optimism, and concern, because the
Jewish Welfare Federation budget-
ing process for 1987-88 is already
underway.
Borman noted that there are
roughly 5,000 Detroiters who have
not yet made their '87 pledge. Our
Bayla Landsman and Renee Kaplan lead a chain dance for Purim.
A Special Purim Celebration
Members of Detroit's National
Conference of Synagogue Youth (Or-
thodox) joined in a Purim program
for developmentally disabled teens
last Sunday at the main Jewish
Community Center.
The Purim celebration, which
included the telling of the Purim
story through words and pantomine,
as well as games, was led by NCSY
advisor Bayla Landsman as part of a
monthly program involving NCSY
youth and the programs for the de-
velopmentally disabled at the JCC.
The monthly get-togethers serve
approximately ten teens among the
150 developmentally disabled per-
sons who are involved in Thursday
and Sunday programs sponsored by
the JCC, the Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion and Northwest Child Rescue
Women.
"We want to make these
youngsters feel like regular members
of NCSY," Landsman said. The local
teens began the monthly programs in
September as part of a national
NCSY project. They try to base the
program on religious themes, such as
the Purim celebration. The group
puts out a monthly newsletter, and
selected participants can be
"mainstreamed" into the regular
NCSY summer tour of Israel or
cross-country tour of the United
States.
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ROUND UP
Machpelah
Picket Silenced
As part of an out-of-court
settlement of a slander suit in
December, Abraham M. Sil-
verstein has agreed not to
speak publicly or write about
his claims that control of
Machpelah Cemetery in
Ferndale was wrongfully
taken in 1940 from its found-
ing synagogues.
Silverstein has picketed the
cemetery in recent years, pic-
keted the Oakland County
Court House, accused judges,
the Council of Orthodox Rab-
bis, his own synagogue and
newspapers of conspiracies in
the case.
The courts threw out his
cemetery claim in 1976, saying
the statute of limitations had
long expired to contest the
1940 transaction.
The slander case was filed by
the Oppenheim family. The
late David Oppenheim took
care of the cemetery for years
and arranged for the transfer,
and son Royal Oppenheim is a
member of the cemetery board.
Tutu Praises
S. Africa Jews
London (JTA) — Anglican
Archbishop Desmond Tutu of
Capetown, in a speech to a
packed assembly of British
Jews Monday night, praised
the contribution of some South
African Jews to the struggle
against apartheid but roundly
condemned Israeli links with
the South African government.
"Israel's integrity and exist-
ence must be guaranteed. But I
cannot understand how a
people with your history would
have a state that would col-
laborate in military matters
with South Africa and carry
out policies that are a mirror
image of some of the things
from which our people suf-
fered," he said.
In a 90-minute address,
punctuated with frequent quo-
tations from the Bible and
warm references to the Jewish
people, Tutu drew repeated
comparisons between the suf-
fering of his fellow blacks at
the hands of the apartheid re-
gime and of Jews under the
Nazis.
Earning Their
Wings Again
Old paratroopers never die,
they just float away. A pa-
ratroopers visit to Israel May
16-24 will allow former
chutists the opportunity to
relive their youth by jumping
out of C-130 Hercules air-
craft, following a day of pre-
training at the Israeli Air-
borne School. Participants
will be awarded Israeli pa-
ratrooper's wings.
The 17th Airborne Di-
vision, whose members
fought in the European Thea-
ter in 1944 and 1945, is con-
ducting a membership drive
in order to locate former pa-
ratroopers and glidermen,
who served with the division.
Solidarity For
Soviet Women
New York (JTA) — At
demonstrations in major cities
all over the U.S. and by tele-
phone calls to the USSR,
Americans expressed solidar-
ity this week with some 60
Jewish women in the Soviet
Union on a hunger strike to
protest the continued denial of
exit visas to Jews, some of
whom applied for them as long
as 15 years ago.
The fasting began on Satur-
day night, to coincide with In-
ternational Women's Day in
the Soviet Union, a Socialist
holiday. On Sunday night, the
ongoing struggle of refuseniks
was described in detail to
members of the Long Island
Committee for Soviet Jewry.
April Hearing
For Hershkovitz
A show-cause hearing will
be scheduled in 48th District
Court next month in Oakland
County's criminal case
against former travel agent
Benny Hershkovitz.
The former owner of B&H
Travel in Southfield has been
charged with embezzling
$95,000 in failing to return
trip payments last spring to
20 Temple Israel couples
after they cancelled a trip to
Israel.
Oakland County assistant
prosecutor Judy Bailey said
the case will be bound over to
circuit court for trial if the
county can produce enough
evidence in the case. By the
time of the hearing, Baily
said, the county should com-
plete its investigation of
other allegations against
Hershkovitz.
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