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Each week, internationally-known doctors and scientists will speak on the causes and treat- ments of dizziness and balance disorders. This enlightening lecture series is free, however reservations are required.- You may attend any combination of the following four lectures: • Oct. 6 Causes of Dizziness Malcom D. Graham, M.D. • Oct. 13 Diagnosis of Dizziness Jack M. Kartush, M.D. • Oct. 20 Treatment of Dizziness Dennis I. Bojrab, M.D. • Oct. 27 Coping with Dizziness Joel R. Saper, M.D. All lectures are on Tuesdays, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM, in the Fisher Center Auditorium at Providence Hospital. Call 424-3068 for your reservation. 16 FRIDAY, SEPT. 25, 1987 I Education And Aliyah On Shaliach's Agenda DAVID HOLZEL Staff Writer S haliach Yefet , Ozery has three main items on his agenda for his two-year stay in Detroit: to promote the Zionist idea, and to promote formal Jewish education and to promote in- formal Jewish education. At his first public meeting since arriving in Detroit earlier this month, Ozery told members of the Labor Zionist Alliance and Detroit Naamat at an Oneg Shabbat Sept. 18 that the resources are available to successfully pro- mote Zionism and Jewish identity in Detroit. He added that transferring the shaliach from the auspices of the Jewish Com- munity Center to the Jewish Welfare Federation puts him "in a good place to be to be in- fluential without identifying myself with any particular organization. I feel I can be utilized bettor" through the Federation?' His office will remain in the Israel Aliyah Center at the Jewish Center in West Bloomfield. In order to promote the Zionist idea, the first item on his agenda, Ozery said it was necessary to promote "understanding of Israel in the community." The way to do that, he said, is to "in- crease the number of people who have personal experience of Israeli life." There are currently 400 short- and long-term Israel programs, for all ages, for singles and families, he told his audience. He said he was very im- pressed by the formal Jewish education available in the Detroit area, but that "it is agreed by everyone that [the community] can do much more to introduce Israel, to introduce Hebrew education" to local Jews. "There is an uneasy feeling that maybe kids aren't so hap- py that they have to go to Hebrew school, that it's not so relevent to them." The solution, he said, is to improve the schools' cur- riculum, by utilizing the resources available from the American Zionist Youth Foundation and the Hebrew University, among others. "We can bring in the best peo- ple and this community, for- tunately, can afford it." Ozery cited the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization as an ex- ample of effective informal education. He said he was ap- proached by BBYO to plan an event for 200 kids. He intends to make the program more than just a social event. "Let's make sure we give them the hot dogs and give them something else too." Visibly enthusiastic about his new position, Ozery, who speaks fluent English, prais- ed the Jewish Welfare Federa- tion as "one of the first um- brella organizations to put [aliyah] on the agenda. [Federation] has taken the position that aliyah is something that we need to support in the community. This is something that was unheard of ten years ago." Armed with this mandate, Ozery said he intends to en- courage younger Detroiters to join the "ingathering in Israel." Born in Yemen, Ozery was six-months old when Yemen's Jews made aliyah in 1950. Ozery told his audience that he was almost left out of the mass exodus. The family had to walk for two weeks from their village to the British port of Aden. "My uncle, who was then 18, put me in a bag and carried me. On one of their rest stops he put me down and forgot me there." The family walked for two hours before Ozery's mother asked, "Where is he?" and the uncle had to retrace his steps to recover the infant. The Ozerys' journey to the reborn Jewish State began with an encounter with a shaliach-from Israel. During his talk, Ozery implied that he sees himself as following in the footsteps of that conse- quential emissary. Franklin Heads Rights Plea Cynthia Franklin, chair- man of Jewish community relations for Women's American ORT, Michigan Region, has been named chairman for the 1987 Human Rights Plea for Soviet Jewry to be held Dec. 13 at 2 p.m. at Cong. Shaarey Zedek. The Jewish Community Council and ORT are co- convenors of the program, which will feature Daniel D.P. Grossman, human rights of- ficer in the bilateral affairs section of the office of Soviet Union affairs in the State Department's Bureau of European Affairs. Grossman monitors the Soviet Union's