Detroit's Endowment Fund
Nearing $100 Million Goal

ALAN HITSKY

Associate Editor

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Rabbi Elimelech Goldberg escorts Jerome Lipowici, carrying the Torah, his son Phillip Litt,
hidden, and daughter-in-law Cheryl Litt last Sunday. The damaged Torah, purchased by
Lipowicz in Poland after the Holocaust, was buried behind Young Israel of Southfield in
conjunction with the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht.

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Temple To Open Satellite
School In West Bloomfield

ELIZABETH KAPLAN

Staff Writer

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emple Emanu-El is planning
to open a satellite school in
West Bloomfield for fourth-
through seventh-grade students in
the temple's midweek Hebrew school
program.

Jack Nolish, president of the tem-
ple, said classes at the satellite school
could begin as early as January. "But
realistically we may not open until
the fall. We're not going to sacrifice
quality for speed."

Temple officials are looking into
holding the classes at the
Maple/Drake Jewish Community
Center, but have not signed a con-
tract, Nolish said.
Dottie Dressler, Temple Emanu-
El education director, said temple of-
ficials will decide when and where the
school will be opened after compiling
information from questionnaires sent
this week to parents in the
congregation.
The questionnaire asks parents if
they would use the satellite school,
whether the JCC is convenient and if
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he Detroit Jewish commun-
ity's aggressive campaign to
raise a $100 million endow-
ment fund is nearing its goal after
five years.
United Jewish Charities Presi-
dent Samuel Frankel reported at the
organization's annual meeting this
week that community endowments
have reached $78 million of
UJCharities' $85 million holdings,
and generated $18 million in invest-
ment income this year. UJCharities
disbursed $11 million of those funds.
Jewish Welfare Federation Presi-
dent Dr. Conrad Giles told the au-
dience. of 200 at Adat Shalom
Synagogue that endowments were the
means of assuring that the Jewish
community's future "is as bright as
our past." He called the Allied Jewish
Campaign "our most important an-
nual drive," but it is clear that "we
need something more than that."
Federation Vice President Edythe
Jackier paid tribute to the 600 endow-
ment donors for ensuring "a Jewish
community for our children and
grandchildren:'
Monday's programs at Adat
Shalom included the first public
United Jewish Charities annual
meeting in recent history. The day-
long events included a women's en-
dowment seminar and a professional
tax institute.
Frankel told The Jewish News
that the annual meeting had "been
under wraps for many years. We are
a custodial organization," holding

communal funds and property. "What
finally happened is we became ag-
gressive and so many people became
involved?'
Public meetings, Frankel said,
"tell people what we are and what we
are doing. They educate the communi-
ty and get people involved."
As part of the educational process,
former Council of Jewish Federations
President Morton Mandel of
Cleveland gave the keynote address,
describing the tremendous growth of
Jewish communal endowment funds.
In 1958, Jewish endowments in
the U.S. totaled $35 million. Today
they have reached $2 billion and are
expected to double in the next five
years.
"But if they had grown as they
have in Detroit and Cleveland, the
figure would be $8 billion," Mandel
said, adding that there are 20 Jewish
family foundations in the United
States with the potential to con-
tribute $100 million to $1 billion.
He said endowments — large or
small — aid the Jewish community's
future and "help individual and fami-
ly objectives" in terms of tax advan-
tages and designating gifts.
"These funds can create a dif-
ference and a bolder Jewish future
both here and in Israel," Mandel said.
But he warned that persons forming
family foundations must work
together with the Jewish federations.
"We cannot have a bunCh of loose can-
non working at the whim of some
very wealthy families."
He advocated the formation of
foundations that involve the family's
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ROUND UP

Svetlana Joins
Mother, Sister

Soviet emigre Svetlana
Braun was reunited this week
with her mother and sister.
Braun, who immigrated to
Detroit last year, received
-word last weekend that her
mother and sister had been
given permission by Soviet
authorities to visit Toronto for
the wedding of a wealthy
Canadian.
The Canadian family paid
for the trip and worked
through the Canadian am-
bassador to Moscow to win
permission. Braun's father
was not allowed to leave the
Soviet Union.
Braun and her husband,
Keith, called the U.S. consul
in Toronto and the State
Department in Washington

in an effort to obtain visas for
Svetlana's relatives to visit
Detroit.

Composer Wins
Arts Grant

Local composer Elaine
Lebenbom has received a
$5,000 grant from the
Michigan Council of the Arts.
She will use the prize to com-
plete work on her opera, The

Witch, the Wise Man and the
Fool.
The grant "legitimizes
what I do," Lebenbom said.
She was turned down for a
similar grant last year.
The opera is based on
Jewish kabbalistic and folk
elements and is geared
toward children and families.
Lebenbom, who is now copy-

ing and proofreading the
score, collaborated on the
work with librettist Sylvia
Starkman.
No date has been set for
production of the work.

Israel has not attracted in-
ternational fast food fran-
chises, and has instead
developed home-grown
hybrids such as McDavid
Hamburgers, Burger Ranch
and Senor Sandwich.

Wendy's Comes
To Tel Aviv

Palestinian
Slays Soldier

Tel Aviv — Where's the
beef? On Dizengoff Circle.
Beginning next month, Wen-
dy's, the world's third largest
fast food chain will open a
restaurant in the heart of Tel
Aviv.
According to operators, food
at the franchise will be
kosher, but because the
restaurant will be open on
Shabbat, owners cannot app-
ly for rabbinical kashrut
certification.

Jerusalem (JTA) — An Arab
day-laborer fatally stabbed an
Israeli reserve soldier and
was himself shot to death
Monday, in what may have
been an altercation over
money at Moshav Masua, in
the Jordan Valley.
The soldier, Cpl. David
Danieli, 28, of Ashkelon was
slain by Hussein Abdullah
Basharat, 21, from Tammoun
village, near Nablus in the
West Bank.

A moshav member who
witnessed the attack killed
Basharat with an M-16 rifle.

Israel's Polio
Outbreak Ends

Aviv (JTA) — The polio
outbreak in Israel has been
officially declared over.
Health Minister Shoshana
Arbeli-Almoslino reported
Tuesday that no new cases
have been diagnosed in the
last five weeks.
Fifteen cases in all were
reported between August and
October, leading to a mass in-
oculation drive.
A total of 3.2 million peple
under age 40 were given the
polio vaccine, the health
minister said.

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