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Former Detroiters
are living the good life
on Maui.

JULY 7, 1989 14 TAMMUZ 5749

Hospital Will Lease
Goldin Center Space

KIMBERLY LIFTON
staff writ,

Doctors affiliated with Henry
Ford Hospital will lease space at
Sinai Hospital's West Bloomfield
facility, Sinai and Ford officials con-
firmed last week.
"Henry Ford came to Sinai and
said if you have space, we are in-
terested in leasing," Sinai Hospital
Administrator Robert Steinberg said.
"We have no lease signed and no com-
mitment. But I think we will soon
have a tenant."
Two
floors,
each
about
3,200-square-feet, at Sinai's Goldin
Center were vacated last November
when the hospital closed its Problems
of Daily Living Clinic, which provid-
ed services like marriage counseling
and sex therapy. A few medical pro-
fessionals not affiliated with Sinai
have since moved into the building at
the corner of Farmington and Maple
roads, but most of the space has re-
mained empty.

Sinai officials maintain the clinic,
headed since 1971 by author Dr. F.
Paul Pearsall, had been losing
$200,000 to $250,000 a year.

Sinai spokesperson Sherri Hassel
said there is no relationship between
leasing of space to Henry Ford doctors
and recent meetings between the two
institutions. Sinai and Henry Ford of-
ficials have met to discuss joint pro-
jects, but no projects to date are under
way. Steinberg said Sinai has been
talking with both Ford and the
Detroit Medical Center.
"By the end of July, we will know
where Sinai is going," Steinberg
said.
Steinberg has dismissed specula-
tion that Henry Ford Hospital would
purchase Sinai.

He has repeatedly voiced concerns
over Sinai's role within the Jewish
community and has said he is com-
mitted to maintaining the hospital as
an independent Jewish-sponsored
institution.

Refusenik Abe Stolar
In Detroit Next Week

Stolar worked as a translator and
announcer in the Soviet Union. Gita
Assm•iate Editor
was a chemist. After they retired in
Independence Day was a fitting the early-1970s the family applied to
emigrate. The Soviets denied them
date for Abe Stolar to arrive home.
And next week, the Chicago-born, permission, claiming Gita had work-
78-year-old Soviet Jewish refusenik ed on secret projects.
In the 1980s, the Stolars were told
will visit Detroit as part of a nation-
wide tour to thank Soviet Jewry they could leave, but were unable to
groups who worked for 15 years to win permission of family members to
free the American expatriate and his allow their son's wife to go with them.
The Stolar family was finally
family.
Stolar and his wife Gita, a released in March and they flew to
Holocaust survivor, will be guests of Israel. "Abe is an ardent Zionist," said
the Detroit District of the Zionist Rae Sharfman, who is involved with
Organization of America, Congrega- the three organizations sponsoring
tion Beth Shalom and Detroit his local visit. "But he wanted to see
Chapter of the Friends of the Soviet Chicago and visit the friends in the
Jewry Education and Information United States who pressured for his
release."
center.
The Stolars will be in Detroit from
He will speak at noon Wednesday
at the ZOA's Einstein Luncheon Tuesday through July 17. On July 18,
Forum at the Southfield Hotel and at Senators Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and
Shabbat services July 15 at Beth Paul Simon (D.-Ill.) will sponsor a con-
gressional reception in Washington.
Shalom.
The Stolars' month-long tour of
Stolar was 20 when his family
moved to the Soviet Union from the United States, planned by the
Chicago in 1931. His father was ar- Union of Councils for Soviet Jewry
rested and vanished during one of and Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry,
Stalin's purges in 1936. His sister was will include visits to Boston, Atlanta,
exiled to Siberia the following year Miami, Denver, Seattle and An-
chorage.
and died there.

ALAN HITSKY

