Dr. Burg To Speak Here
On Behalf Of Israel Bonds
Two To Chair BB Dinner
Glen W. Fortinberry, chair-
man and chief executive of-
ficer of Ross Roy, Inc., and
David Handleman, chairman
of Handleman Co., are the
general chairmen for the for-
thcoming B'nai B'rith Inter-
national Great American
Traditions award dinner,
slated Dec. 1 at the Westin
Hotel.
Joseph E. Antonini, chair-
man and chief executive of-
ficer of Kmart Corp. will be
the honoree.
General co-chairmen are:
Charles T. Fisher, III, of Na-
tional Bank of Detroit; Gerald
Greenwald, Chrysler Corp.;
Frank M. Hennessy of
Handleman Co.; Alan E.
Schwartz, Honigman, Miller,
Schwartz and Cohn; and
William P. Vititoe, Michigan
Bell Thlephone Co.
Proceeds from the dinner
will benefit the B'nai B'rith
Youth Serving Agencies: the
Hillel Foundations on college
campuses, and the B'nai
B'rith Youth Organization for
Jewish teenagers.
In
Michigan, Hillel maintains a
presence at Wayne State
University, the University of
Michigan, Western Michigan
University, the University of
Detroit, Oakland University
and Eastern Michigan
University.
Dr. Owen Z. Perlman is the
B'nai B'rith Foundation din-
ner committee chairman. Ser-
ving with Dr. Perlman are:
Joel D. Gershenson, journal
chairman; David L. Bittker,
B'nai B'rith International
fund-raising chairman; Peter
A. Perlman, president of
B'nai B'rith Metropolitan
Detroit Council. Committee
members are: Floyd A. Born-
stein, Mark Klinger, William
LaKritz, David Levine,
Phillip Neuman and Stuart
Sakwa.
Following the award presen-
tation to Antonini, Grammy
Award-winner Kenny G. will
perform. For information and
reservations, contact B'nai
B'rith Foundation, 552-8070.
Danny Siegel
That We Don't — Modern Day
Mitzvah Heroes!'
Siegel, who will speak at
7:30 p.m. Thursday at the
Maple/Drake Jewish Com-
munity Center, travels
throughout North America
and Israel teaching about the
importance of charity. His
latest book is Mumbaz II and
Other Mitzvah Heroes.
The program is co-
sponsored by the Jewish Com-
munity Center and the
United Hebrew Schools. All
teens are invited, and parents
are encouraged to attend. Ad-
mission is with one can of
high protein food to be
donated to the Oakland
County Food Bank.
Dr. Joseph Burg will be the
guest speaker at the
Maimonides Awards dinner
for State of Israel Bonds on
Nov. 17 at Adat Shalom
Synagogue.
The dinner is sponsored by
the Professional Health Ser-
vices Division of State of
Israel Bonds and will honor
Dr. Michael J. Brennan, presi-
dent and medical director of
the Michigan Cancer Founda-
tion, and Dr. Jerome P. Hor-
witz, chairman of the depart-
ment of chemistry at the
same institution and creator
of the AIDS drug AZT. Drs.
Brennan and Horwitz will be
presented at the dinner with
State of Israel's Maimonides
Awards.
Serving as dinner chairman
are: Drs. William M.
Leuchter and Arthur L.
Lieberman, co-chairman of
the Professional Health
Division.
Dr. Burg is Israel's former
minister of religious affairs.
Elected deputy speaker of the
first Knesset, Israel's Parlia-
Bomb Threat
Not Anti-Semitic
STAFF REPORT
A
Cantor Louis Klein, center, recently sponsored a Magen David Adorn
(MDA) Paramedics Training Scholarship and Leukemia-Hemophiliac
Treatment Fund in memory of his wife, Sonia. Pictured with him are: Dr.
John J. Mames, left, chairman of the Michigan Region, and Dr. Harold A.
Maxmen, treasurer of the Michigan Region.
Youth Leaders Combine,
Create Education Event
Leaders of three Jewish
youth organizations have
combined their efforts to
create an educational pro-
gram for youth that focuses
on tzedakah.
Rob Weiss, president of the
B'nai B'rith Youth Organiza-
tion's AZA division; David
Tessler, president of the local
United Synagogue Youth
region; and Robbie Weiner,
president of Michigan State
Thmple Youth, all friends and
students at West Bloomfield
High School, have organized
an event which features poet,
writer and lecturer Danny
Siegel, whose topic will be
"What Do Bruce Springsteen,
Paul Newman and Kenny
Rogers Know About Mitzvahs
bomb threat against
Temple Israel Oct. 27
was not directed at
the temple or a member of the
congregation and was not an
act of anti-Semitism, West
Bloomfield Police Sgt.
Michael Madigan said this
week.
Police declined to release
details of an ongoing in-
vestigation, but said they
have ruled out anti-Semitism
as a motive.
An unknown caller phoned
the congregation at 8:19 p.m.,
forcing officials to evacuate
about 600 people attending a
wine tasting benefit, police
said. -
Police arrived at Thmple
Israel about five minutes
after the threatening phone
call, Madigan said. Police in-
spected the building for more
than an hour, but did not find
any explosives.
"There wasn't much to it,"
Madigan said. "We knew it
was a hoax almost from the
beginning."
Police are investigating. No
suspects have been identified.
Dr. Joseph Burg
ment, at age 40, he has been
a member of every govern-
ment from 1948 until retire-
ment from the Cabinet in
1986, serving with every
prime minister from David
Ben-Gurion to Yitzchak
Shamir. He has held almost
every important Cabinet port-
folio with the exception of
foreign affairs and defense.
From 1946 to 1949, Dr.
Burg actively engaged in sav-
ing Jewish survivors in Cen-
tral Europe. He received a
doctorate in philosophy from
the University of Berlin, and
migrated to Palestine in 1939.
He is the author of
philosophical and political
essays and publications in
Hebrew, German, Yiddish
and English.
In the wake of the signing
of the 1979 peace treaty with
Egypt, Dr. Burg was placed in
charge of autonomy negotia-
tions for Judea, Samaria and
the Gaza district.
Dr. Burg was recently ap-
pointed chairman of Yad
Vashem.
For dinner reservations and
information, call Israel bonds,
557-2900.
Future School
Sites Probed
Future needs for educa-
tional facilities is the trust of
a research project launched in
Southfield and surrounding
communities by Con-
gregataion Shaarey Zedek.
The congregatiOn's future
planning committee will
distribute a questionnaire to
members to determine their
opinions on current and
future facilities for educa-
tional programs. The con-
gregation now leases educa-
tional facilities from other
organizations, in addition to
the facilities in its own
building.
Including the opinions of
fellow congregants in the
research, the planning com-
mittee will decide whether
the current lease ar-
rangements should be renew-
ed. Alternatives to the cur-
rent arrangements include
renting other properties or
building new educational
facilities for the congregation.
The survey will afford
members the opportunity to
participate in the planning
decisions, including recom-
mendations for the location,
size and functional features of
new facilities.
Congregation Shaarey
Zedek leases facilities at Or-
chard Lake Middle School for
its religious school branch
and at Moss Nursery School
on Middlebelt Road for its
Beth Hayeled Nursery
branch.
Aging Topic
Of Adult Talk
"The Later Years: Jewish
Reflections on Aging" will be
the subject of a lecture to be
delivered by Rabbi Morton F.
Yolkut at the B'nai David In-
stitute for Adult Education on
Wednesday at 8:15 p.m. at the
synagogue.
The lecture is the second in
a series entitled "Generations
in Crisis: Jewish Answers to
Contemporary Dilemmas."
The series is open to the com-
munity without charge.
For information, call the
synagogue office, 557-8210.
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