I LOCAL NEWS YOU'RE COVERED With Our New T-Shirt! Lifton, Kaplan Join Jewish News Staff Kimberly Lifton and Elizabeth Kaplan have recently joined The Jewish News as staff writers. Ms. Lifton and Ms. Kaplan bring considerable experience to their positions. Ms. Lifton, 26, comes to The Jewish News after reporting for three years for the Fort Lauderdale News and Sun-Sentinel. There, she covered local government and wrote a weekly political col- umn for the 300,000-circu- lation daily. A Southfield native and graduate of Groves High School and Michigan State University, Ms. Lifton also worked for the United Press International, the Saginaw News and the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Foundation in Washington, D.C. Ms. Lifton will concentrate on local and state politics and business and financial news. Ms. Kaplan, 29, comes to The Jewish News from the Kansas City Jewish Chroni- cle, where she served as associate editor. There, she wrote about local, national and international Jewish issues, including personal meetings with refuseniks in Shabbat Talk On AIDS Subscribe Today To The Jewish News And Receive Our New T-Shirt With Our Compliments! From the West Bank to West Bloomfield — and all points in between — The Jewish News covers your world. And now with our new T-shirt, we cover our new subscribers, too. It's durable, comfortable, easy to care for and attractive. And it comes in an array of adult and children's sizes. But most important, your new subscription will mean 52 information- packed weeks of The Jewish News, plus our special supplements, delivered every Friday to your mailbox. A great newspaper and a complimentary T-shirt await you for our low subscription rates. Just fill out the coupon below and return it to us. We'll fit you to a T! Jewish News T-Shirt Offer Please clip coupon and mail to: Yes! Start me on a subscription to The Jewish News for the period and amount circled below. Please send me the T-shirt. JEWISH NEWS T-SHIRT 20300 Civic Center Dr. Southfield, Mich. 48076-4138 NAME This offer is for new subscriptions only. Cur- rent subscribers may order the T-shirt for $4.75. Allow four weeks delivery. ADDRESS CITY (Circle One) STATE ZIP 1 year: $2.6 2 years: $46 Out of State: $29 Enclosed $ (Circle One) ADULT EX. LG. ADULT LARGE ADULT MED. CHILD LARGE CHILD MED. CHILD SMALL 12 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1988 Moscow, Minsk and Len- ingrad. A native of Columbus, Ohio, Ms. Kaplan is a graduate of Stephens College and completed two years of post-graduate education at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Ms. Kaplan also worked for the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Ms. Kaplan's writing will focus on Detroit Jewish com- munal life. "We are pleased to add these thoughtful, talented writers to our staff and look forward to providing our readers with greater levels of local news coverage," said Associate Publisher Arthur M. Horwitz and Editor Gary Rosenblatt. "We are confident that Kimberly and Elizabeth, together with Associate Editor Alan Hitsky, News Editor Heidi Press, staff writer David Holzel, special sections editor Carla Schwartz and sports writer Mike Rosenbaum, will allow The Jewish News to present, each week, the most com- prehensive package of news and information available to any Jewish community in North America." Temple Emanu-El an- nounces that Rabbi Marc Blumenthal of Thmple Beth El, a charter member of the Union of American Hebrew Congregation's National Committee on AIDS, and Ted Duncan, -executive director of Wellness House, Detroit's residential home for AIDS pa- tients, will address the plight of AIDS sufferers at Temple Emanu-El's Social Action Shabbat at 8:15 p.m. today. An update on the continu- ing projects for the hungry and needy and Soviet Jewry also will be discussed. Rabbi Blumenthal is known for his work in hospital chaplaincy and grief and bereavement counseling. He spent a year as the full-time Jewish chaplain at Calvary Hospital for Advanced Cancer Care and Misericordia Hospital Medical Center, both in New York. He is a charter member of the UAHC National Commit- tee on AIDS. He is also a co- chairman of the AIDS Inter- faith Network, a member of the board of Wellness House, and a member of the AIDS Task Force of the Detroit In- terfaith Round Table. Duncan received his Ph.D. from Wayne State University and taught at WSU for 11 years. Before coming to the Wellness House, he was with the hospice program . in Florida. Council Prepares Holiday Calendar The Jewish Community Council has issued a new pamphlet entitled Public Schools, Religion and the Constitution. The publication, along with Council's annual and five-year Holiday Calen- dar, will be distributed to 3,000 school principals and superintendents, legislative and judicial policy-makers, as well as college and universi- ty personnel. According to Howard I. Wallach, the Jewish Com- munity Council's Church/State Separation Subcommittee chairman, the pamphlet has guidelines regarding prayer in the public schools, accommodation of religious minorities in scheduling, teaching about religion, dissemination of religious literature and pro- selytizing students during school hours.