LOCAL NEWS
Call for Nominees for the 2nd Annual
BERMAN AWARD
for Outstanding Professional Service
created by Mandell and Madeleine' Berman
Eligibility for Nomination:
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All Jewish communal professionals
employed by Federation, its agen-
cies, or its beneficiaries, who have
been working in the Detroit Jewish
community a minimum of five years.
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Criteria for Selection:
The recipient of the Berman Award must demonstrate the highest
professional standards in his/her chosen field. That professional
must have:
• made a contribution to the general good of the Jewish community
• demonstrated leadership and innovation to his/her profession
• applied creativity, dedication, knowledge and care to providing
services to the Jewish
community
Nomination Process:
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Submit nominations by letter to the
Selection Committee. Names of the
nominees shall remain confidential,
and they may be renominated in
subsequent years.
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Send nominations, marked confiden-
tial, to Michael Berke at the Jewish
Welfare Federation, 163 Madison
Avenue, Detroit, Ml 48226.
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FFIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1989
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Mon.-Wed. 8.5
Thurs. & Fri. 8.6
Saturday 8.1
Rabbi Polish to Address
Einstein Luncheon Forum
Rabbi Daniel Polish, senior
rabbi at Temple Beth El, will
address the Einstein Lun-
cheon Forum on Monday at
noon at the Southfield Hilton
Hotel, announced Judges Ira
G. Kaufman and Benjamin
Friedman, the forum's
co-chairmen.
Rabbi Polish will discuss:
"New Patterns in Israel-
Diaspora Relations." A
graduate of Northwestern
University and the Hebrew
Union College in Cincinnati,
Ohio, Rabbi Polish was or-
dained in 1967. In 1973 he
earned his Ph.D. degree in
the history of religion from
Harvard University.
Having served as director of
education for Inter/Met, an
interfaith, interracial pro-
gram for training clergy in
Washington, D.C., and as
associate executive vice presi-
dent and director of the
Washington office of the
Synagogue Council of
America, Rabbi Polish
became senior rabbi of rIbm-
ple Israel in Los Angeles
where he served from 1981 to
1988.
He has been on the ex-
ecutive board of the Central
Conference of American Rab-
bis and on the editorial board
of its journal and was a
member of the task force,
which authored "Centenary
Perspectives," the current
platform of Reform Judaism.
He also served as vice presi-
dent of the Jewish Federation
Council of Los Angeles, vice
president of the Board of Rab-
bis of Southern California
Rabbi Daniel Polish
and a number of commissions
associated with the Central
Conference of American
Rabbis.
Rabbi Polish was taught at
Harvard, at Tufts and at the
University of Maryland as
well as at the Los Angeles
School of the Hebrew Union
College. He also served on the
ideological commission of the
American Zionist Federation.
Rabbi Polish has published
articles in numerous scholar-
ly journals and has con-
tributed to a number of books
dealing with Christian-
Jewish relations, human
rights, the Holocaust and
other aspects Jewish and
Christian theology.
For luncheon reservations,
call the Zionist Organization
of Detroit, 569-1515. The
Einstein Luncheon Forum is
sponsored jointly by Metro
Detroit Zionist Organization
of America and the Zionist
Cultural Center.
Shenkman Endowment
Aids Tamarack Camps
Jack
and
Miriam
Shenkman have made a con-
tribution towards the
establishment of the Jack and
Miriam Shenkman Judaica
Endowment Fund to benefit
Jewish programs at the sum-
mer camps sponsored by the
Fresh Air Society.
The fund will aid a variety
of different program needs:
The development of Jewish
program manuals for staff,
the purchase of costumes that
enable children to dress up in
authentic looking Jewish
historical costumes for
dramatic purposes, the ac-
quisition of cassette tapes for
Israeli and Chasidic dancing,
the purchase of flags and ban-
ners for all-camp programs as
well as a variety of specialty
items on Jewish themes that
children can take home.
In 1984, the Shenkmans
contributed funds towards the
building of the Milton M.
Maddin Physical Fitness
Course at Camp Maas, nam-
ed in memory of the past
president of Fresh Air Socie-
ty. In 1986, they established
the Miriam and Jack
Shenkman Fund designated
to be used towards the non-
routine maintenance, repair
and improvement of the Mad-
din Course.
The Jack and Miriam
Shenkman Judaica Endow-
ment Fund will become a part
of the Federated endowment
Fund, a joint effort by the
Jewish Welfare Federation,
United Jewish Charities, and
member agencies to build a
$100,000,000 endowment for
the community's benefit.