I COMMUNITY

1989 Allied Jewish Campaign
Schedules 4 December Events

The Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion Business and Profes-
sional Women's Division will
host Israel radio broadcaster
Freda Keet at a meeting on
behalf of its Allied Jewish
Campaign $100 Section on
Wednesday.
Set for 6 p.m., the dinner
meeting will take place at the
home of Diane Klein in West
Bloomfield.
One of Israel's foremost
broadcasters, Keet is known
for her interviews on Kol
Israel, the national radio
service.
Born in Rhodesia, Keet was
educated at Cape Town
University and became the
first woman announcer on
Rhodesian radio. She has
been an Israeli citizen since
1963.
Marlene and Paul Borman
will host members of the
Young Adult Division $500

Section at a dinner meeting
Thursday.
The meeting will be ad-
dressed by both Mr. and Mrs.
Borman.
Chairman of the 1989 Cam-
paign, along with Jane Sher-
man, Mr. Borman has served
as associate chairman and
vice chairman of the Cam-
paign as well as $100,000 Sec-
tion chairman. He recently
led a group of Detroiters to
Morocco during the UJA's
Jubilee Mission.
Active in Federation's
Women's Division, Mrs. Bor-
man is a past-president, as
well as a former vice-
president and Campaign
chairman.
News columnist and TV
commentator George Will of-
ficially opens the 1989 Allied
Jewish Campaign at 7 p.m.
Dec. 12.
The event at Thmple Beth

El includes cocktails and hors
d'oeuvres, with a dessert
reception following the
meeting. Admission is by in-
vitation to contributors of
$1,000 and over to the '89
Campaign.

Several community leaders
who have recently returned
from a mission to the Soviet
Union will address the 1989
Allied Jewish Campaign
Human Services/Communal
Services Section 7:30 p.m.
Dec. 15 at the home of Joel
and Shelley Tauber in West
Bloomfield.
The current status of Soviet
Jewry and changing condi-
tions inside the Soviet Union
will be discussed. In addition,
a musical program by Rus-
sian emigres Nikolai and
Ludmila Lemberg, perform-
ing on flute and piano, will be
featured.

BBYO Regional Convention
Due Dec. 25-29 At JCCenter

OPP

BBYO: The Legend Lives
On" is the theme for the 1988
Michigan Region B'nai B'rith
Youth Organization Regional
Convention Dec. 25-29 at the
Maple/Drake Jewish Com-
munity Center.
Coordinated by Corbin Bell
of Chalutzim AZA and Nicole
Nelson of Shalom Aviv BBG,
"Regional '88" will see 500
members of BBYO participate
in the many competitions
among AZA and BBG

Chanukah Party
Set For Sunday

The Neighborhood Project,
its Southfield Residents
Group and J.E.F.F. (Jewish
Experiences For Families), in
cooperation-with The Jewish
News L'Chayim Family Sec-
tion, will host a "Chanukah
Happening, featuring `Drei-
del-Mania' " 2 to 5 p.m. Sun-
day at the United Hebrew
Schools in Southfield.
Parking and a free shuttle
are available at Congregation
Beth Achim.
There will be potato latkes,
jelly donuts, a dreidel-
spinning contest, yo-yo
demonstrations and Bruce
Franco's balloon sculptures.
J.E.F.F. will provide a
number of family programs
and the City of Southfield
will be showcased through a
variety of booths located in
the UHS auditorium.

chapters, business meetings
and social events.
Among the competition
categories are: bake, song and
cheer, photography, literature,
art, handicrafts, movie/video
and chapter newspaper.
Sports will include ping pong,
basketball, bowling and
volleyball. In addition, the
convention will feature the
ISF Carnival on Dec. 26 to
raise money for the BBYO
Service Fund, the "dressy
dance" at Congregation Beth
Abraham Hillel Moses on
Dec. 27 and the annual BBYO
talent show at West Bloom-
field High School auditorium
on Dec. 28.
BBYO announces the ap-
pointment of the following
new advisers to AZA and
BBG chapters: Nancy Baskin,
Aliyah BBG; Peter Brodsky,
Brandeis AZA; Jill Garvin,
Brice BBG; Allan Cohen and
Michael Cohen, Herzl AZA,
Windsor; Janice Klein,
Masada BBG; Elliot
Chandler, Posen AZA;
Michael Weil, Samson AZA;
and Julie Zuppke and Linda
Keller, Shalom Aviv BBG.
Volunteer positions as ad-
visers to AZA and BBG
chapters are still available in
the Metropolitan Detroit
area. lb volunteer, contact
Nathaniel Warshay for AZA
chapters or Adele Lewin for
BBG chapters at the BBYO
office, 788-0700.
BBYO announces the for-

mation of an AZA and a BBG
chapter in the Farmington
Hills area under Proram
Supervisor Cheryl Pisner.
New members are welcome.
For details, call the BBYO of-
fice, 788-0700.
The Great Lakes AZA
Council announces the elec-
tion of Brad Rochlen of
Kishon AZA as AZA basket-
ball chairman. The AZA
league plays Sunday morn-
ings at Oakland Community
College, Orchard Ridge Cam-
pus, from January through
March.

The next meeting of the
Great Lakes AZA Council
will be on Tuesday at the
Maple/Drake Jewish Center's
DeRoy Theatre at 7 p.m.
Michigan Region, BBYO
regional convention leader-
ship meeting, will be held at
the Maple/Drake Jewish
Center Thursday at 7 p.m.
Immediately following at 7:30
p.m. the kick-off rally and
press conference for the
"Israel Makes It — BBYO
Makes the Difference Project"
will take place.

The project, co-sponsored by
BBYO and the American
Israel Chamber of Commerce,
will take note of businesses in
the Metropolitan Detroit area
that already sell Israeli-made
products to be listed in a
publication to be released at
the 1989 Israeli In-
dependence Day celebration.

U-M President James Duderstadt, left, and Dean Peter Steiner, right,
honored the Frankels.

Frankels Establish
U-M Judaic Center

The Samuel and Jean
Frankel Center for Judaic
Studies has been established
within the College of
Literature, Science, and the
Arts at the University of
Michigan in Ann Arbor.
The cneter was initiated
with a gift from the Samuel
and Jean Frankel Support
Foundation of the United
Jewish Charities. Other
funds from the university
and private donors have been
added to fund the center.

An outgrowth of the univer-
sity's Program in Judaic
Studies, the center was

created as part of the Pro-
gram in Studies in Religion
and later achieved in-
dependence as a unit of the
College of Literature, Science,
and the Arts. The Frankel
Center will be an inter-
disciplinary and interdepart-
mental unit with faculty who
are doing scholarly work on
the Jewish experience, both
past and present.
In recognition of their gift,
Samuel and Jean Frankel
were honored at a dinner
hosted by U-M President and
Mrs. James J. Duderstadt and
Dean and Mrs. Peter 0.
Steiner.

Plea For Soviet Jews
Highlights Refusenik Play

Dafna Soltes' one-woman
The Story of a
play, Irina
Refusenik, a 90-minute com-
pilation of music, drama,
dance and song depicting the
life of a Soviet ballerina who
becomes a refusenik will be
presented at the annual
Human Rights Plea for Soviet
Jewry Dec. 18 at Congrega-
tion B'nai David at 2 p.m. The
program is free of charge, and
open to children as well as
adults.
Co-sponsors of the program
are: American Women for
Bar-Ilan University,
American Jewish Congress,
Anti-Defamation League of
B'nai B'rith, B'nai B'rith
Metropolitan Detroit Council,
B'nai B'rith Women's Council
of Metropolitan Detroit,
Children of Holocaust Sur-
vivors Association in
Michigan, Adat Shalom
Sisterhood, Beth Abraham
Hillel Moses Sisterhood,
Congregation Beth Achim,
Congregation B'nai David,

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Congregation B'nai David
Sisterhood, Congregation
B'nai Moshe Sisterhood,
Congregation Shaarey Zedek,
Congregation Shaarey Zedek
Sisterhood, Temple Beth El
Sisterhood, Temple Israel,
Temple Israel Sisterhood,
Friends of the Soviet Jewry
Education and Information
Center.

Also Hadassah, Jewish
Community Center, Jewish
Historical Society of
Michigan, Jewish National
Fund, Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion — Women's Division,
Labor Zionist Alliance,
Maimonides Medical Society
of Michigan, Na'amat USA,
National Council of Jewish
Women, Primrose Benevolent
Club, Soviet Jewry Commit-
tee of Jewish Community
Council, United Hebrew
Schools, Women's American
ORT — Michigan Region,
Zionist Organization of
America — Detroit District.

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