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f you open up your Seder, you
elevate it from the status of a
mere meal. It becomes a holi-
day, it becomes a sharing of a his-
tory."
Marsha Trimas of Farmington
Hills, and her husband, Dr. Marvin
and their family, shared this his-
tory with a newly arrived Russian
Jewish family by inviting its mem-

Is Shapiro
A Candidate
For Princeton?

University of Michigan President
Harold Shapiro had no comment
Monday about a Michigan Daily
report that he is being considered as
a potential candidate for the
Princeton University presidency.
"Shapiro is definitely being con-
sidered as the model university presi-
dent for a state university," the report
quotes Thomas Weber, a reporter for
the Daily Princetonian, as saying.
Shapiro, a Princeton graduate, has
been University of Michigan presi-
dent since 1980. There is speculation
that he is growing restless with his
current position and that he is groom-
ing interim president James
Duderstadt, who will serve during
Shapiro's sabbatical next year, as his
successor in Ann Arbor.
According to the Daily Princetonian,
Princeton alumni who are- top
academic officials at other univer-
sities are prime candidates in the
presidential search.

hers to the Trimases' second Seder.
In honor of the Russian fami-
ly's coming to the Seder, the
Trimases obtained Haggadot in
Russian- for their guests. The Seder
was conducted in English and He-
brew.
Mrs. Trimas had invited Rus-
sian Jews to her Seder once before,
about five years ago. Since then,
the' family had traveled out of town
for Pesach. This year, since they
were going to be in town for the
holiday, they decided to invite a
Russian family again.
"I feel that as a Jew, this is my
country and my home," Mrs.
Trimas said. "There are other Jews
who are strangers who come here
and haven't had a chance to have a
Seder. A Seder is more than a meal
with your family."
To find the family, Mrs.
Trimas called the Jewish Informa-
tion Service, !directed by Norma
Silver. It was Silver who got her in
touch with the Russian family.
The guests of the Trimases
were Efim and Sofia Perchikolvsky
of Oak Park. Originally from Mos-
cow, the Perchikolvskys waited
about seven years before receiving
exit visas to come to the U.S., ac-
cording to Lydia Kuniaysky of the
Resettlement Service of the Jewish'
Family Service. Perchikolvsky is a
mechanical engineer. His wife is a
piano teacher.
And how did the Per-
chikolvskys respond when they re-
ceived the invitation from the
Trimas family? They were ex-
tremely grateful," Mrs. Trimas
said. "It brought tears to my eyes." _

Bob McKeo wn

Detroiters 'Share History'
With Russian Emigre Family

Elitzur's Donee Posner, Akiva's Michael Selesny, right, and referee Burt
Hurshe are ready for the tip-off

Akiva Hosts Israeli All-Stars

Staff Report

Akiva Hebrew Day School's fledgl-
ing basketball team hosted an. Israeli
high school all-star squad last week,
and although Akiva coach Moshe
Rose isn't talking about the scores, he
does view the games as a barometer
of growth for his young squad.
Akiva, which fielded a basketball
squad for the first time last season,
progressed to the point where it was
invited to a four-team yeshiva tourna-
ment in New York at the end of
March. Hosted by the HAFTR High
School (Hebrew Academy of the Five
Towns and Rockaway), the tourna-

ment included teams from HAFTR,
St. Louis and Los Angeles. "We didn't
win any games," Rose admits, "but
you have to remember that Akiva
does not have a 12th grade (seniors
spend the year in Israel), and we were
playing against older kids. We were
only really out of one of the games —
the rest were close — but we missed
too many free throws:'
The Israeli team that visited
Detroit last week represented Elitzur,
a religious sports movement in Israel,
Europe and the United States. Akiva
joined the movement last year, gain-

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ROUND UP

Picketing Quiet
At Church Play

A small group of Jewish
picketers was surprised at the
lack of response of Christian
parishioners who were handed
anti-Jews for Jesus leaflets at
four area churches last week.
Pickets led by Ronnie and
Batya Schreiber protested per-
formances of the Jews for Jesus'
"Christ in the Passover" play.
Mrs. Schreiber said that church
members. "quietly took our
literature without comment."
Last year, she said, during
similar picketing, some at-
tendees quietly talked with the
pickets, while a few made
derogatory comments.
Leaflets were distributed this
year at St. Paul United
Methodist Church in Bloom-

field Hills, Redeemer Baptist
Church in Warren, Christ the
King Lutheran Church in
Grosse Pointe Woods, and Troy
Baptist Church. Seven other
area churches allo hosted the
Jews for Jesus play.

Meeting Held
Over Corruption

Tel Aviv — Prime Minister
Yitzhak Shamir met Monday
with members of the Defense
and Justice ministries to
discuss charges of high-level
corruption in Israel's security
system, Israeli news agencies
have reported.
The details of the charges are
secret. The daily Chadashot
reported Sunday that the At-
torney General's office received

information on "a highly sen-
sitive security issue" revolving
around a person who "was con-
nected to another affair that
shook the Israeli public."
It was speculated in the press
that Yossi Ginossar was the
man in question. Ginossar was
one of 11 Shin Bet agents par-
doned last year by President
Chaim Herzog for his part in
the scandal surrounding the
murder of two Palestinian ter-
rorists and the subsequent
coverup.

Arafat Breaks
Jordan Pact

Algiers, Algeria — Yasser
Arafat announced the cancella-
tion of a 1985 agreement with
Jordan Monday to placate pro-

Syria PLO groups. The
cancellation was the quid pro
quo demanded by the anti-
Arafat groups for their par-
ticipation in a session of the
Palestine National Council.

Hungarians Say
Wallenberg Dead

Budapest, Hungary — The
government daily Magyar
Hirlap reported Saturday that
Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish
diplomat who saved thousands
of Hungarian Jews during the
Holocaust, died in a Moscow jail
in 1947.
Wallenberg was taken
prisoner by Soviet prisoners in
Hungary in 1945 and disap-
peared. In 1957, the Soviets
said he had died of a heart at-
tack ten years earlier.

Three weeks ago, Apim
Mashinski, a former Soviet in-
telligence officer who now lives
in Israel, told a West German
press service that he received
information as recently as
December 1986 that
Wallenberg is still alive in
Siberia.

Soviets Reduce
Prison Term

The prison sentence of Soviet
Jew Aleksey Magarik, a cellist
and Hebrew teacher, has been
reduced by one-half, according
to Soviet emigre Leonid Makar-
Limanov. The change in the
sentence implies that Magarik,
28, will probably be released
soon, Makar-Limanov
explained.

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