COMMUNITY
Chajes Fund Concert Planned
At Jewish Community Center
the Grosse Pointe Symphony
and Brunch with Bach at the
Detroit Institute of Arts and
is teaching at the Center for
Creative Studies and Wayne
State University.
DiFiore joined the DSO in
1959. He began his career
with the Florida Symphony
in Orlando before joining the
DSO. He has toured and
recorded with the Tipton Trio,
named for Albert Tipton,
former principal flutist of the
DSO. He is currently on the
faculty of the University of
Windsor.
Hollman joined the DSO in
1973 from the Baltimore
residence at Marygrove Col-
lege. A member of the
- Marygrove piano faculty for
21 years, he teaches piano in
Grosse Pointe and is an ad-
junct professor of piano at two
other local colleges. LaGore
has performed extensively as
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Sinai Hospital of Detroit's acting president, Robert Steinberg, second
from left, is pictured with Renaissance High School students who
received the hospital's donation of an lmagewriter II printer and cables.
Stacey Woolley
Loewenthals To Receive
Torah Temimah Award
The Julius Chajes Music
Fund Concert Series will hold
its third concert of the
1988-1989 season on March
16 at 8 p.m. in the Aaron
DeRoy Theater of the
Maple/Drake Jewish Com-
munity Center.
The featured performers
will be members of The Ven-
tura String Quartet: Stacey
Woolley, violin; Mario
Hart Hollman
Lawrence LaGore
Symphony. Previously, he was
the principal violist and
soloist with the North
Carolina Symphony. Besides
playing and teaching viola
and violin, Hollman plays the
classical flamenco and jazz
guitar and also appears in
numerous concert series in
this area.
LaGore is the first artist-in-
Mario DiFiore
DiFiore, cello; Hart Hollman,
viola; and Lawrence LaGore,
piano. They will perform the
Piano Quartet in E Flat, KV
493 by Mozart; Introduction,
Theme and Variations, Opus
82 No. 2 by Schubert-
Piatigorsky; and the
Schumann Piano Quartet in E
Flat, Opus 47.
Woolley is a member of the
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
and the Lyric Chamber
Ensemble. He has been a
soloist with the Detroit Sym-
phony Chamber Music Series,
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soloist, ensemble performer
and accompanist in Detroit's
concert halls and in other
locations throughout the
United States and Canada.
He performed with the
Brunch with Bach Series, the
DIA chamber concert series,
the Laudenslager Memorial
Concerts, Nightcap with
Mozart and Praeludium Con-
certs at Orchestra Hall. In ad-
dition, he has also performed
on radio and television. In
1977, LaGore founded the
chamber music series, Satur-
days at Four.
For ticket information, call
the Center, 661-1000, ext.
335.
Torah Mitzvah Award
Goes To Benefactor
Yeshivath Beth Yehudah
will hold its first annual
Torah and Mitzvah Award
banquet at 6 p.m. March 12 at
the Michigan Inn. Cocktails
will be served at 5:30 p.m. and
dinner will be followed by a
concert featuring world-
renowned recording artist
Avraham Fried
and
Orchestra.
The Torah and Mitzvah
Award will be given to
longtime friend and sup-
porter of the yeshivah, Alex
Saltsman "for his tireless
years of dedication and devo-
tion to the perpetuation of
Torah education (in the Beth
Yehudah School System)."
Saltsman has served as
chairman and board member
on many of the yeshivah's
committees as well as having
initiated the formation of its
first Business Councilmen's
Group.
Saltsman also is the
"father" of Beth Yehudah's
enrichment program, design-
ed to assist in the matricula-
tion of late-starters to the
Jewish day school
curriculum.
Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence
Loewenthal will receive the
Ibrah Temimah Award from
Akiva Hebrew Day School.
The award will be presented
at Akiva's 25th anniversary
banquet April 2 at Congrega-
tion Shaarey Zedek. Ivan
Bloch is general chairman of
the event and Erry Loewen-
thal, Dr. Harvey Sabbota and
Mark Schlussel are honorary
co-chairmen.
Dr. Loewenthal is medical
director of the Vision In-
stitute of Michigan where his
wife, Shirley is administrator.
The Loewenthals have three
children, Robert, Jeffrey and
Lisa.
Loewenthal is a vice presi-
dent of Akiva Hebrew Day
School, president of Detroit
Friends of Shaare Zedek
Hospital, board member of
the Hebrew Free Loan
Association, board member of
the Neighborhood Project of
the Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion, past board member of
the Culture and Education
Division of the Federation.
He also is on the executive
committee of Detroit Friends
of Bar-Ilan University, past
president and chairman of
the board of Young Israel of
Southfield, a member of the
National Leadership Council
of the National Council of
Young Israel, trustee of the
Young Israel trust, member of
the Prime Minister's Club of
State of Israel Bonds and the
past adviser to
Health-o-rama.
Mrs. Loewenthal is a past
board member of Amit
Women and- Women of
Maimonides Medical Society.
She was also involved with
the National Council of
Jewish Women.
She is a board member of
American Women for Bar-
Ilan, active in the Women's
Division of State of Israel
Bonds and the Women's Divi-
sion of Shaare Zedek
Hospital.
Mrs. Loewenthal has been
involved with the Women's
Division of the Jewish
Welfare Federation as a past
board member, a committee
chairman for Spring Forum, a
chairman for Institute Day
and a member of the Young
Leadership Division. She is
also a member of Women's
American ORT • and a
member of Young Israel
Sisterhood.
For information, call the
Akiva office, 552-9690.
Seniors Begin
Film Series
"Friday Morning Features,"
a new film series offered by
the senior adult department
of the Jewish Community
Center, will focus on the
Jewish/American experience.
The Chosen, Chaim Potok's
story of two boys growing up
in the Williamsburg
neighborhood of Brooklyn in
the 1940s, begins the series
today at 10 a.m in the
assembly hall of the Jimmy
Prentis Morris Building.
Future films include Funny
Lady, The Golden Age of Se-
cond Avenue, Hester Street
and The Jolson Story. There
is no charge for admission.