COMMUNITY
Deven Richardson, left, Johanna Hoadley, second from left, and
Theresa Birkett, right, won first, second and third places,
respectively in the Farmington Public Schools' essay contest on
"Social Injustice and the Holocaust." The students wrote their
essays based on visits to the Holocaust memorial Center, directed
by Rabbi Charles Rosenzveig, second from right.
Ten Congregations
Form Mazon Council
ALAN HITSKY
Associate Editor
T
en local Jewish con-
gregations plan to im-
plement a permanent
pickup service around the
Thanksgiving holiday to
utilize leftover food to feed the
hungry.
The 10 congregations forin-
ed a Mazon Council of
Metropolitan Detroit last
week in an effort to share fun-
draising ideas for Mazon —
The Jewish Response to
Hunger. The three-year-old
California-based project en-
courages Jews to contribute
three percent of the cost of
any party to the national ef-
fort to feed the hungry.
In Detroit, members of
seven congregations have con-
tributed $50,000 to Mazon.
The 10 congregations who
have joined the Detroit
Mazon Council are Temple
Israel, Beth Abraham Hillel
Moses, Beth Shalom, Adat
Shalom, Shir Shalom, Kol
Ami, Shaarey Zedek, Beth El,
Emanu-El and Shir Tikvah.
"The main problem," said
Nancy Fishman of Temple
Israel, "is getting each con-
gregation started in Mazon
and getting the congregants
to see Mazon as a habit."
Detroit Mazon's Forgotten
Harvest project to utilize lef-
tover food will be the first
joint effort for the new
organization. It will be model-
ed after 24 similar programs
around the country.
Fishman will visit the
Philabundance project in
Philadelphia in July and
report back to the monthly
Mazon Council of Detroit
meeting in August. She said
Detroit Mazon is working
with Stone August Baker
Comunnications to create an
explanatory "package which
we can take to caterers, par-
ty planners and
restaurants."
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Round Table
Elects Muslim
The Greater Detroit Inter-
faith Round Table of the Na-
tional Conference of Chris-
tians and Jews elected four
new co-chairman at its an-
nual board meeting and for
the first time added a Muslim
co-chairman to its leadership.
The new co-chairmen are:
Michael Berry (Muslim); Joel
Tauber (Jewish); Barbara Van
Dusen (Protestant); and
Daniel J. Kelly (Catholic).
Current Round Table co-
chairmen Charles T. Fisher
III (Catholic); Alan E.
Schwartz (Jewish); and
Walter J. McCarthy, Jr. (Pro-
testant), will remain on the
executive board as honorary
co-chairmen.
The Interfaith Round Table
conducts programs to promote
interracial and interreligious
understanding. These include
the Muslim Christian Jewish
Leadership Forum, American
Arabic and Jewish Friends,
High School Symposium on
the Holocaust, Community
Affairs Forum, Anytown
Youth Camp and women's
programs.
Richard N. Perle will be the
guest speaker for the 59th an-
nual dinner of the Council of
Orthodox Rabbis of Greater
Detroit at 6 p.m. Tuesday at
the Westin Hotel. Paul Bor-
man and David Hermelin are
general chairmen for the
evening.
Perle served from 1981 un-
til May 1987 as assistant
secretary of defense for inter-
national security policy. From
his office in the Pentagon in
Washington he had respon-
sibility for theater and
strategic nuclear weapons
policy, trade and technology
exports, European and North
Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO) policy, and negotia-
tions between the United
States and its western allies
and the Soviet Union.
Since leaving the Depart-
ment of Defense in May 1987,
Perle has become a resident
scholar at the American
Enterprise Institute in
Washington, D.C., and a con-
tributing editor to U.S. News
and World Report.
The honorary chairman for
the event will be Max Fisher.
Sponsors chairmen are Judge
Avern Cohn and Leonard Bor-
man. Donor chairmen are
Morris Flatt, Dr. Lawrence
Loewenthal and Nathan
Soberman.
The evening is being spon-
sored by: Gustav Berenholz;
Marvin Berlin; Harold Bez-
nos; Max Biber; Leonard Bor-
man; Paul Borman; Judge
Black-Jewish
Ties Probed
Issues of anti-Semitism,
racism and intergroup rela-
tions will be the focus of
American Jewish Congress'
"Dialogue on Black-Jewish
Relations," at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday at Congregation
Shaarey Zedek.
Leading local activists N.
Charles Anderson, president,
Detroit Urban League; and
Allen Zemmol, a board
member of the Jewish Com-
munity Council; will present
their communities' views on
local and national issues af-
fecting black-Jewish
relations.
Refreshments will be serv-
ed at 7 p.m., followed by the
program. It is free and open
to the public; however, reser-
vations are preferred. Contact
Robert Brown, program chair-
man, American Jewish Con-
gress, to make reservations,
557-6472.
Avern Cohn; Mrs. Irwin I.
Cohn; Steven Z. Cohen; Rab-
bi Naftali Deutsch; Joseph
Dressner; Harry Eisenberg;
Isidore Eisenberg; Leo
Eisenberg; Sidney Feldman;
Max Fisher; Morris Flatt; Dr.
Phillip Friedman; Nathan
Goldin; Martin Goldman;
Martin Goodman; Seymour
Greenstein; Samuel Havis;
Samuel Hechtman; David
Holtzman; David Hermelin;
Dr. Howard Jacobs; Mrs. Han-
nah Karbal; Michael Karbel;
Murray katz; Paul Kohn; Irv-
ing Laker; Edward Levy Jr.;
Dr. Lawrence Loewenthal; Dr.
Sidney Lutz; Mrs. Ann
Newman; Irving Nusbaum;
Marvin Olender; Royal Op-
penheim; Irving Palman;
David Pollack; Benjamin
Rosen; Burton Rosen; Fred
Ruby; Asa Shapiro; Jack
Shenkman; Soberman, Mil-
grom and Cooper families;
Jerome Soble; Ernest
Richard Perle
Solomon; Max Stollman;
Phillip Stollman; Marvin
Tamaroff, Phillip Tewel; Gary
Ibrgow; Morris Weiss and Dr.
Arnold Zuroff.
For information and reser-
vations, call the Council of
Orthodox Rabbis, 559-5005.
Hermelin Will Chair
JNF Testimonial
David B. Hermelin has been
named general chairman for
the Jewish National Fund's
testimonial dinner honoring
Jack and Miriam Shenkman,
slated for Thursday at Con-
gregation Shaarey Zedek.
Hermelin is the interna-
tional chairman of State of
Israel Bonds, 1988 general
chairman of United Jewish
Appeal of Metropolitan
Detroit and president of the
American ORT Federation.
Recently elected vice presi-
dent of the World ORT Union,
Hermelin is also a member of
the WOU executive and ad-
ministrative committees.
He also is the chairman of
the tourism task force for
Operation Independence.
Locally, Hermelin serves on
the boards of many communi-
ty and Jewish organizations.
Associate chairmen are
Lawrence S. Jackier and D.
Dan Kahn. Vice chairmen of
the dinner committee are:
Norman Allan, Elaine J.
Beresh, Louis Berry, Harold
Beznos, Paul Borman, Morris
and Tillie Brandwine, Allen
Charlupski, Gloria and Mar-
tin Cohen, Henry Dorfman,
Ann Y. Eisenberg, Marcy
Feldman, Martin R. Gold-
man, Erwin and Sylvia Har-
vith, David B. Holtzman,
Richard Kughn, Irving Laker,
Eric Yale Lutz, Michael Mad-
din, David Mondry, Ann
Newman, Irving Nusbaum,
David Hermelin
Michael Perlman, Jack
Robinson, Richard Rosen-
haus, Emma Schaver, Arnold
and Devorah Shenkman,
Martin and Shelly Shenk-
man, I. William Sherr, Robert
Sosnick, Bernard Stollman,
Max Stollman, Phillip
Stollman, Lawrence Wolfe
and Jack Zwick.
The Shenkmans will
receive the Keter Shem Toy —
Crown of Good Name Award.
Proceeds from the dinner will
be used to establish the Jack
and Miriam Shenkman Af-
forestation Project in Rosh
Pinna, Israel, near the
Lebanese border.
For reservations and infor-
mation, call the JNF,
557-7016 or 557-7059.
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