I UP FRONT
New JFS Executive Director
Unfazed By Lerner Legacy
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Alan D. Goodman
Dishing Up
A Jackie Mason
Start with marbelized rye
and pumpernickel bread. Add
a layer of crisp lettuce, corned
beef, a scrambled egg with
sliced black olives, another
helping of corned beef and let-
tuce, pickled tongue and
tomato and, voila, the winn-
ing ingredients for the Jackie
Mason sandwich contest.
Ida Olson of Oak Park
dreamed up the concoction,
which won over the taste buds
of Executive Chef Peter Loren
of Opus One, Executive Chef
Remy Berdy of Star of
Detroit, deli food wholesaler
Larry Snider and Danny
Raskin of The Jewish News at
a competition Sunday at
Southfield's Plaza Deli. She
presented the sandwich to
Mason Wednesday evening
before his performance at the
Palace of Auburn Hills.
The runner-up sandwich?
You wouldn't want to know.
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Temple Youth
Support JARC
Non-profit organizations'
list of donors frequently in-
clude names of large com-
panies with large budgets.
The 'Ibmple Israel Youth
Group is not-a large company
and it doesn't have a massive
budget, but it is a Pewter
($200) Donor to JARC, the
Jewish Association for
Retarded Citizens.
The youth raise money over
the year and donate it to
JARC when the two groups
meet for their annual
Chanukah party, according to
TYG advisers Sandi Stocker,
Myra Greenwald and Pam
Haron.
The temple youth group has
been working with JARC for
about 10 years. In addition to
raising funds, the young men
and women frequently visit
JARC homes on Shabbat.
lan Goodman has a
tough act to follow.
The new executive
director of the Jewish Family
Service took up the reins
May 1 of an agency that the
now-retired Sam Lerner led to
national acclaim in the field
of social welfare services. But
Goodman isn't intimidated.
"I'm a trail blazer," he said.
"I'm my own person. I offer a
fresh, different approach. If I
had to fill Sam's shoes it
would be a self-defeating at-
tempt!"
One difference between the
two is the way their roles as
executive director are perceiv-
worker for Youth Aliya in
Israel.
A doctoral candidate at the
State University of New York
at Albany, Goodman was
educated at Rhodes Universi-
ty in South Africa and
Yeshiva University's Wurz-
weiler School of Social Work.
He left South Africa for
Israel in 1970 because he was
"very Zionistically inclined!"
"I felt I didn't, have a future
in South Africa," he explain-
ed. "The first place as a Jew
I would try to live was in
Israel!' He met his wife in
Israel and served in the Israel
Defense Forces, but left the
Jewish state after 51/2 years.
"It was time for me to make
shaken that our souls became
totally enrapt in meditation
and participation in the ser-
vice!'
sprinkles; Danish Delight
graham, oatmeal raisin and
animal cookies; and a Cholov
Yisrael nougat bar.
Stephen Pal, 7-Eleven
manager, said the kosher
snacks are selling well.
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I ROUND UP
My Oh My!
Not Octopi!
Song Of Tribute
To'Nowakowsky
His admirers included poet
Chaim Nachman Bialik,
Peter lbhaikovsky and Franz
Liszt, but few today know his
name.
David Nowakowsky was
born in Russia in 1869. When
he was 8, he ran away to Ber-
ditchev where he studied har-
mony and counterpoint. At
21, Nowakowsky was named
choirmaster of the Brody
Synagogue in Odessa, a posi-
tion he held for 50 years.
Nowakowsky was a com-
poser of synagogue music.
Some 15,000 titles he left in
manuscript were saved from
Nazi destruction when his
great-grandson buried them
in metal ammo boxes at the
farm of Christian neighbors.
Yet only two — "Shire David,"
music for Friday night, and
"N'ilah Service" for the con-
clusion of Yom Kippur — are
published.
Cantor David Lefkowitz of
the Park Avenue Synagogue
in New York wants that to
change. In 1978, he
discovered several
*Nowakowsky manuscripts
that had been donated to the
congregation. Later, he
sought the composer's
ed. "I define myself first as an
administrator, then as a
social worker," Goodman said.
"Sam was a therapist first,
then an administrator?'
A native of South Africa,
Goodman was the executive
director of the Jewish Family
Services in Albany, NY, prior
to coming to Detroit. He also
was the executive director of
the Johannesburg Associa-
tion for the Aged, senior staff
associate for community
organization and social plan-
ning for the Syracuse (N.Y)
Jewish Federation, a
counselor for the New York
City Jewish Child Care
Association, a field
psychologist with the Israel
Armed Forces and a youth
counselor and resident social
David Nowakowsky
descendents, who gave him
the entire Nowakowsky
collection.
In an effort to further
publicize Nowakowsky's
music, Cantor Lefkowitz and
Jack Novack last year helped
establish the David
Nowakowsky Foundation in
Marina Del Rey, California.
Among the foundation's goals
are to stage an annual Jewish
festival concert featuring
Nowakowsky's music and
to create a visiting, classical
choir to bring the composer's
music to congregations
throughout the United
States.
"We went to the
synagogue," Liszt wrote of the
first time he heard
Nowakowsky's music.
"Seldom had we been so deep-
ly stirred by motion..so
Get your tentacles off those
cans, kosher eaters!
Something fishy is going on
. . .
The Vaad Horabonim of
Greater Detroit reports that
50 cans of octopus were ac-
cidentally labeled Season
Brand Portuguese sardines,
yellow label.
A positive identification can
be made by removing the
wrapper and reading the first
line of the production code
embossed into the can.
Kosher cans bear the code
1891 SA; the non-kosher cans
are marked 1891 PB.
Gilbert Epstein, vice presi-
dent of I. Epstein and Sons,
the importers of the fish, said
the mistake occurred when a
company in Portugal acciden-
tally put the Season labels on
the cans of octopus. Epstein
said he did not know the oc-
topus was being labeled there.
There's Kosher
Heaven At 7-11
It has Glamour and The
Sporting News. It has dog food
and pickles and bubble gum.
It even has kosher snacks.
The 7-Eleven on Lincoln in
Oak Park recently began of-
fering a new line of kosher
delights. Among the items
available are Bloom's jelly
rings, licorice and rainbow
JTS Ordains
Israeli Woman
New York — The Jewish
Theological Seminary of
America last week ordained
Einat Ramon, the first
Israeli-born woman to become
a rabbi.
Ramon learned about Con-
servative Judaism in the ear-
ly 1970s when her family was
living in Texas.
New York Plans
Israel Parade
New York — Youth from
three Eastern European na-
tions will participate in New
York's Salute to Israel parade
June 4.
The parade, which will
feature some 75,000 mar-
chers, 35 bands and 30 profes-
sionally designed floats, is ex-
pected to attract more than
half a million spectators.
The 15 youth, ranging from
age 14 to 22, are part of the
small Jewish communities of
Poland, Hungary and
Czechoslovakia. It is the first
time Jewish students from
Czechoslovakia have been
'allowed to travel abroad to
participate in a pro-Israel
activity.
Compiled by Elizabeth
Kaplan
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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