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Federation Promotes
Michelle Passon

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Michelle Passon

Jewish Welfare Federation
Executive Vice-President
Martin Kraar has announced
the promotion of staff
member Michelle Passon to
director of leadership develop-
ment for Federation.
"This new senior staff posi-
tion recognizes the impor-
tance of building our leader-
ship ranks," said Kraar, who
added that "The future of our
Jewish community lies with
the training and development
of new leaders."
In her new role, the former
Women's Division director
will help develop programs
focusing on lay and profes-

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sional leaders at all levels.
These programs include
recruitment, education and
training, as well as a system
of recognition for lay and pro-
fessional accomplishments.
Before joining Federation in
1982, Passon was executive
director of the B'nai B'rith
Women's Midwest Region.
She served as controller for
the North Oakland County
board of realtors and assis-
tant to the Controller of the
Jewish Community Center of
Metropolitan Detroit.
She serves on the United
Jewish Appeal's national pro-
fessional advisory committee
on new gifts, and is a field in-
structor for the University of
Michigan.

Group Focuses
On Yiddish

A Yiddish Vinkl, sponsored
by the Workmen's Circle, will
be held on Sunday at 2 p.m.
at the Workmen's Circle
Center, 26341 Coolidge, Oak
Park.
The vinkl gives Yiddish
speakers an opportunity to
hear and speak
mamaloschen. The public is
invited, and there is no
charge.

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FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1987

New York (JTA) — A
British-published African
weekly news magazine has
taken a swipe at Israel's
renewed ties with Africa. Ar-
ticles in the July 9 African
Concord claim that Israel has
pledged to develop African
agricultural and health pro-
grams with the ulterior
motive of selling arms,
building African armies and
establishing an intelligence
network to pass information
to South Africa.
The magazine also reports
that Israel continued active
military and business
engagements in Africa dur-
ing the years of discontinued
official diplomatic relations.
The magazine was one of
several black publications
made available for the press
at the convention of the Na-
tional Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People
in New York.
Concord correspondent Vic-
tor Ndovi describes Israeli

Premier Yitzhak Shamir's
week-long June visit to four
African nations as an
"African offensive," and
claims it was in response "to
growing domestic political
and economic pressures from
the United States."
Shamir visited Togo,
Cameroon, Liberia and Ivory
Coast, countries which over
the past four years resumed
diplomatic relations with
Israel that were broken off
during the Yom Kippur War
of 1973.
Ndovi writes that as Israel
itself cannot afford to offer
monetary aid to Africa, which
Shamir admitted during his
visit, Israel seeks financial
backing, mostly from the U.S.
A "key aspect" of Israel's
agreements with the African
nations, Ndovi writes, is
military. Thus, Shamir pro-
mised Togo military training
assistance that would include
the training and arming of
the presidential guard. In