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Israel Travel Seminar Here
Targets Christians And Jews
KIMBERLY LIFTON
Staff Writer
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Judge Avern Cohn
Judge Bernard Friedman
Hillel Foundations
Will Honor Judges
The B'nai B'rith Hillel
Foundations of Metropolitan
Detroit will host a cocktail
reception honoring U.S.
District Court Judges Avern
Cohn and Bernard A. Fried-
man on May 18 at 7:30 p.m.
in the home of Rosie and
Mark Schlussel.
Judge Cohn was admitted
to the Michigan Bar in 1949.
His professional career began
in the law firm of his late
father Irwin I. Cohn. In 1961,
he joined the law firm of
Honigman, Miller, Schwartz
and Cohn where he remained
until his Presidential ap-
pointment in 1979 as a
United States District Judge
for the Eastern District of
Michigan.
Judge Cohn served on the
Michigan Social Welfare
Commission, was chairman of
the Michigan Civil Rights
Commission and was chair-
man of the Detroit Board of
Police Commissioners. He is a
past president of the Jewish
Welfare Federation of Detroit
and past vice president of the
American Jewish Committee.
Judge Friedman became a
felony trial attorney for the
Wayne County Prosecutor's
office following graduation.
He has been a city attorney
for several cities and after
private practice became a
district judge for the state of
Michigan until his Presiden-
tial appointment in 1988.
The reception will be held
in behalf of the Hillel Foun-
dations at Wayne State
University, University of
Detroit, Oakland University,
Lawrence Technological
University and Oakland
Community College.
Reception chairmen are
Sylvia P. Ross and Geri Sills.
Committee members are:
Eadie Albion, Dr. Judith
Covensky and Charlotte
Edelheit. Alex Ornstein is
president of the B'nai B'rith
Hillel Foundations of
Metropolitan Detroit. Rabbi
Louis Finkelman is the
director.
For reservations or informa-
tion, call the Wayne State
Hillel Foundation, 577-3459.
Two WSU Profs Win
Annual Probus Awards
Two Wayne State Univer-
sity faculty members — a
medical professor and an
English instructor — have
been named this year's win-
ners of the 26th annual Pro-
bus Club Awards for Aca-
demic Achievement, which
are accompanied by a $1,000
unrestricted grant.
The award is presented by
the Probus Club of Detroit, a
service group comprised of
Jewish representatives from
the business and professional
community.
Marilyn Poland, a professor
of obstetrics and gynecology
and community medicine,
and Jerry Herron, who dur-
ing his time at Wayne State
has developed a specialization
in cultural studies, will be
presented with the awards
May 18 at the McGregor
Memorial Conference Center.
Poland has been on the
Wayne State faculty since
1972, after starting her
teaching career at the
University of Maryland.
tanding atop Masada,
a group of Jewish tour-
ists listen intently as
one of its members reads the
historical suicide note of
Eliezer. Their tour guide of-
fers Jewish interpretations.
Nearby, a group of Chris-
tians sit inside the remains of
a building, thought to be an
ancient synagogue. Their
tour guide interprets the tale
of Masada through Christian
perspectives.
Israel pilgrimage trips for
Christians — whose religious
roots also point to Israel —
have always been popular,
making up 25 percent of
Israel's visitors. American
Christian travelers are se-
cond only to Jewish tourists
from the United States, which
comprise 65 percent of its
visitors each year, says
Israel's government tourist
office.
Although travel to Israel
has plummeted since tourism
reached its highest numbers
in 1985, Christian groups
continue to visit, says Amnon
Linn-Lipzin, director of
Midwest region of the Israel
Government Thurist Office in
Chicago.
The Israel Government
Thurist Office is reaching out
to the Jewish and Christian
communities to boost tourism
with its first local cultural
seminar next Friday.
"The pastor is the main
link to the Christian com-
munity," Linn-Lipzin says.
"The seminar is a new con-
cept. But the target — Chris-
tian pastors and Jewish
leaders — is an old one!"
On Friday, Professor Joseph
Ginat of Haifa and Tel Aviv
Universities will discuss the
latest biblical discoveries in
Jerusalem-and other areas of
Israel at the Southfield Hotel
and Conference Center.
Ginat, an anthropologist
and historian, has published
several articles on women in
Jewish and Arab societies
and the political life of Arabs
in Israel. He also served as
adviser on Arab affairs to
former defense ministers
Moshe Dayan and Ezer
Weizmann.
American tourism to Israel
began to decline in 1988 dur-
ing the 40th anniversary
celebration after the Arab
uprisings in the West Bank
and Gaza. The number of
tourists in 1988 dropped from
322,000 to 280,000 — a 13
percent drop from 1987,
which had shown a 20 percent
increase from 1986.
Now tourism is gradually
picking up, Linn-Lipzin says.
He is optimistic the number
of tourists will go up at least
to the 1987 figures. ❑
Hebrew University Friends
Will Hold First Symposium
Dr. Susan Harlan
Dr. Raymond Cohen
Dr. Amnon Pazy
The Detroit Jewish com-
munity will have an oppor-
tunity to participate in
workshops with experts from
Hebrew University at the
first annual symposium of the
Michigan Chapter, American
Friends of Hebrew University,
9:30 a.m. May 21 at Congre-
gation Beth Abraham Hillel
Moses.
The symposium will feature
as discussion leaders Dr. Am-
non Pazy, president of Hebrew
University of Jerusalem;
Prof. Raymond Cohen, senior
lecturer in international rela-
tions at the university; and
Dr. Susan Harlap, depart-
ment chairman, faculty of
medicine, at Hebrew Univer-
sity — Hadassah Medical
School.
Dr. Pazy, a renowned
mathematician and former
chairman of the university's
Einstein Institute of Math-
ematics, will speak on "He-
brew University at the Cross-
roads — Challenges for the
'90s."
Dr. Cohen will speak on
"Can Peace Erupt — Caught
in the Middle East Conflict!"
He is on sabbatical at the U.S.
Institute for Peace in
Washington, D.C., and is an
expert on cultural aspects in-
volved in the Arab-Israeli
conflict.
Dr. Harlap, a leading Israeli
medical researcher, teaching
scientist and consultant to
the World Health organiza-
tion's special program on
human reproduction, will ad-
dress the topic of "Are Issues
of Public Health a Private
Matter?"
Registration will begin at
9 a.m. Continental breakfast
will be served. The symp-
soium is free and open to the
public. There will be no
solicitation of funds.
Co-chairmen of the sym-
posium are Michigan Chapter
past presidents. Harold Berry
and Harvey Grace.
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