UP FRONT
UHS Establishes An Interim
Organization For 1987-1988
ALAN HITSKY
Associate Editor
T
he United Hebrew Schools
has completed an organiza-
tion plan for the coming
school year while it searches
for a new superintendent of schools.
UHS president Dr. Barbara
Goodman announced to her board
this week that veteran Adat
Shalom principal Bea Kreichman
will assume the duties of acting
head principal to work with . the
UHS principals and teachers on
educational programs. She will con-
tinue her responsibilities at Adat
Shalom, but will have "minimal
inter-agency responsibilities," Dr.
Goodman said.
Phyllis Domstein has been
named interim principal at the
UHS high school. She will also con-
tinue her former duties as principal
of the elementary program in Troy
and directing in-service education
programs for UHS teachers. With
all of her duties and the merger of
UHS and Cong. Beth Shalom high
school programs, Dr. Goodman de-
scribes Domstein's assignment as a
"whopping task,"
.
The changes at UHS were
forced by the resignation of
superintendent Dr. Gerald Teller,
who is leaving in mid-August to
become head of the Chicago Board
of Jewish Education, and the end of
the contract of Dr. Avi Aharoni as
high school principal. Rabbi -Ber-
nard Moskowitz also announced his
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JENNIFER TAUB
Jewish News Intern
y
uri Shtern, spokesperson
and founder of the. Israel-
based Soviet Jewry Educa-
tion and Information Center
(SJEIC), refuses to be fooled by the
wave of religious tolerance and in-
creased emigration granted as a
part of the new Soviet policy of
glasnost. "Gorbachev initiated a
new law to nearly prevent anyone
from emigrating, not for becoming
a liberator of Jews." Like a
modern-day Moses, Shtern makes
one clear-cut demand. He wants
the Soviets to sign a repatriation
agreement, freeing all of the Jews.
"Every Jew has a right to emigrate
to Israel," he said.
Shtern came to Detroit as part
of a two-week fundraising visit in
North America and met with the
Michigan Friends of the SJEIC at
the home of Arnold and Janet
Aronoff for a parlor meeting on
Sunday. He spoke at a Canadian
B'nai B'rith gathering of a few
hundred people in the Catskills and
met with Congressmen and mem-
bers of the Union of Councils for
Soviet Jewry and plans to continue
on to Toronto and Philadelphia.
Under Shtern's close scrutiny,
developed through personal experi-
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Glenn Meet
Modern-Day Moses Requests
Freedom For All Soviet Jews
Noah Feldman joins Elyse Stettner in the shade on Sunday as hundreds of Oak
Park and Southfield residents visited the Neighborhood Project's ice cream social
at the Morris Branch of the Jewish Community Center.
ROUND UP
Scam Targets
Agency Heads
New York — A new scam is
circulating around the country
and Jewish communal leaders
are the target. The swindle, a
kind of father-son allied Jewish
campaign, operates as follows:
An individual calls an agen-
cy leader and identifies himself
as a major Jewish philan-
thropist who, is about to leave
for Israel, and that his son,
whom the family has disowned,
is in trouble with local police.
The father asks that the in-
dividual meet with the son and
help him with a loan if
necessary, and the father would
wire reimbursement when he
arrives in Israel.
The local leader meets with
the son, who elicits his sym-
pathy. The leadaer writes the
check; the son disappears and
there is no reimbursement.
United Jewish Appeal
leaders say the scam has been
reported in Atlanta, Boston,
Tampa and Little Rock, Ark.
Togo Renews
Israel Ties
Paris (JTA) — Togo, a west
African state, restored
diplomatic relations with Israel
June 9, broken off since 1973.
Togo is the fifth African coun-
try to renew diplomatic ties
with Israel after Zaire, Liberia,
Cameroon and the Ivory Coast.
Israel expects to regain
diplomatic relations by year's
end with two more black
African states that severed
them at the time of the 1973
Yom Kippur War, a senior
foreign ministry official said.
Benad Avital, director of the
ministry's African department,
told Israel Radio that all told,
six African nations have an-
nounced their intention to
restore diplomatic relations
with Israel. He did not identify
the countries.
Togo, population three
million, is one of the stablest
and most prosperous African
states. It renewed its economic
ties with Israel several years
ago and more than _a dozen
Israeli companies now run of-
fices in its capital, Lome.
The Togolese government
said it based its decision on the
precedence of Egypt which
signed a peace treaty with
Israel in 1979. In all, 29 black
African countries broke with
Israel 14 years ago.
Court Hearing
For Hershkovitz
A preliminary exam for
Benny Hershkovitz began
Tuesday in 48th District
Court in West Bloomfield on
charges that the former
travel agent embezzled more
than $90,000 from 20 Temple
Israel couples last year.
Proceedings before Judge
Gus Cifelli lasted nearly
three hours Wednesday af-
ternoon as testimony about a
cancelled trip to Israel was
given by Temple Israel's
Rabbi Harold S. Loss and
comptroller Eva Shapiro.
Court observers believed
that the proceedings might
take four days before the
judge would decide if the evi-
dence warranted a trial. But
.
the judge, Oakland County
Assistant Prosecutor Harry
Golski, and Hershkovitz's
torney Mark Krieger reached
agreement on a stipulation of
facts so that not as many
persons will have to testify.
The hearing has been ad-
journed. until 11 a.m. July 2.
Golski has refused to discuss
whether additional charges
might be brought against
Hershkovitz over his business
dealings as owner of B&H
Travel in Southfield. Some 15
lawsuits were filed against
Hershkovitz during the last
year in Oakland County Cir-
cuit Court alleging that he
and others had failed to pay
back nearly $1 million in
business loans. The Michigan
State Police have also been in-
vestigating the now-closed
business.