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Rabbi Teller Is Leaving
United Hebrew Schools
ALAN HITSKY
News Editor
any necessary support staff from
Federation 'personnel. "And Jerry
Teller will give it his all until the
day he leaves," Dr. Goodman said.
He will not be a lame duck ad-,
ministrator."
Teller said this week he may
be able to stay at UHS into Sep-
tember, after the next: school term
starts. ,
Dr. Goodman said the UHS
will be able to conduct "business as
usual. If necessary," she said, "we'll
appoint a head principal for the
elementary schools and an acting
principal at the high school" and
allow the new superintendent to
make the permanent appointments.
The UHS board is also facing a
reorganization of its own ,structure
and a merger of the independent
Beth Shalom high school into the
UHS high school. Approval of the
merger was expected this week.
,
r. Gerald A. Teller an-
nounced his resignation
this week as superinten=
dent of 'United H ebrew Schools.
Teller is the thir d top adminis-
trator at t the school who will not re-
turn next year.
Ra bbi Teller h as been hired to
head C Board of Jewish
Education, which has 58 day and
afterno on schools i n its system with
15,000 students. IJH S has approx.
imately 1,000 stud ents.
resignation followS the
Tel
annotmcement several months ago
Bernar d Moskowitz is
that R
leaving
several
years as
UHS
after
administrator. Moskowitz told The
Jewish News his resignation has
nothing to do with Teller leaving
the sy stem. Alth ough Moskowitz'
plans
are ized,
not fmal "I want to
get back , to studying. If I stay in
Michigan, I can te ach at UM and I
can go
But basically,
into ss.
busine
I want to study ag ain."
UHS board m embers were also
the t the contract Of
told' re
UHS High School principal Dr. Avi
Ahroni who has served two years,
will not be renewed at the end of
this school year. IRIS officials were
reluctant to discti ss the departures
but insisted
with T he Jewish N
that they were no t linked.
Barbara
U HS preside nt
Goodman preferre d to talk about a
"smoo th transifio n." She has re-
ceived commitments from Jewish
Welfare Federatio n officials Mai*
Kraar
and Juris
Allen to provide
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More than 650,000 copies of author Masami Uno's two anti-Semitic books have
been bold in Japan. They are titled "If You Understand The Jews You Can
Comprehend The. World: 1990 Scenario For The Final Economic War" and
"If You Understand Judea You Can Understand Japan."
Planner Hired For Apartments Phase IV
Jewish Federation Apartments
has hired a special projects coor-
dinator to plan for 150 new' apart-
ment units in Oak Park as well as
new programs at its present
facilities.
Patricia Anne Milner, a former
associate of the Menorah Park Cen-
ter for Aging in Cleveland and
former principal of Temple Beth
Emeth Religious School in Ann Ar
bor, has already begun working on
a new construction, project. Jewish
Federation. Apartments (JFA)
executive . director Helen Naimark
told The Jewish News that the
.
.
agency is hoping to, receive final
approval from the U.S. Department
of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment for its Phase IV project and
begin construction in late fall. The
project has been in the planning
stages for several years.
It would add 150 new units in
a separate building to be located
where two houses now stand east of
the Morris Branch Jewish Commu-
nity Center driveway on Ten Mile
Road. JFA has already purchased
the property, although the owners
still live in the homes.
Ms. Milner is . expected to Set
up management teams and prepare
budgets for the project. JFA cur-
rently has two buildings on Ten
Mile adjacent to the Morris Branch
JCC and the Hechtman Apart-
inents near the main JCC.
Ms. Milner is also expected to
plan additional 'services for all JFA
residents to help keep them in the
independent living environment as
long as possible. Mrs. Naimark said
these services , might include addi-
tional meals — residents are now
served' five dinners per week; but
must provide for themselves the,
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Meetings Push
Trade With Israel
Patience, understanding,
acceptance of cultural dif-
ferences and infusion , of
American merchandising
knowledge are among the in-
gredients necessary for crest-
ing a successful partnership
between American businesses
and Israel.
Bob Garbarino, a vice
president with Borman's Inc.,
told approximately '15 par-
ticipants this week. at the
American-Israel Chamber of
Commerce of Michigan's con
Terence on business oppor-
tunities' in Israel, that by
utilizing these ingredients )
his company is successfully
selling 97 grocery, .43 non-
food and 69 panty hose lines
or products produced by 20
Israeli businesses.
Charles Gelman, chairman
and president of Gelman Sci-
ences of Ann Arbor, told the
participants of an emerging
success story, one which cen-
tered on 'a breakthrough in
the manufacture of; mein-
brane filters by an Israeli-
based associate. He said his
company, expects to find new
applications for use of the fil-
ters, such as in military gar-
ments as protection against
chemical or' biological war-
fare, which' will make his Is-
raeli venture "truly suc-
cessful."
The, Michigan chamberat-
tempts to promote contact be-
tween the business commu-
nity and Israel, identify Is-
raeli products' for .Michigan
markets, promote investment
in Israeli industries and
encourage. the transfer of
technology.
-Labor Party
Assembling A
'Peace Front'
Jerusalem (JTA) — Labor
members of the Knesset, in-
cluding Vice Prime Minister
and Foreign Minister Shimon
Peres, were attempting last
week to put together a peace
front with representative
Palestinians from the West
Bank.
Peres was scheduled to
meet with• Hanna Senora,"
editor of the East Jerupalem
Arabic daily 'Al-Fajr, and
rayez Abu-Rahme. Both have
been mentioned as possible
members of a Palestinian-
Jordanian delegation in peace
talks with Israel.
Seniora, who makes no sec-
ret of his sympathy for the
Palestine Liberation Organi-
zation, was one of four
Palestinians *ho attended a
meeting with Labor MKs Ab-
ba Eban and Ora Namir at
the. King David Hotel. The
others were mayor Elias Freij
of Bethlehem and two Nablus
businessmen, Said Kanan
and Bassel Kanan and Bassel
Kamm.
The six signed a joint state-
ment calling for peace talks
witliin the framework of an
international conference
which would include "legiti
mate representatives of
Israel, Jordan and the Palesti-
nian people'
,
Charges Of U.S.
Spying Denied
Jerusalem '(JTA) — An
Atherican magazine report
that the U.S. intelligence
community occasionally
planted agents among Ameri-
can Jewish youth doing
non-military volunteer work
for the Israel Defense Force
over the last ten years was
flatly denied in. Israel by
"authoritative security, ele-
ments."
The report in the New Re-
public • noted :that thousands
of Jewish youth have done
clean-up and maintenance
- work for , one-month periods
at IDF.; camps .in ".a program
called "Volunteer Israel"
which began after the Yom
Kippur War: