UP FRONT
The JDC will provide Haug:
ing and a monthly $300 sti-
pend. They will live in in the
center of Bombay in Byculla,
considered middle class by In-
dian standards and slums by
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Ann Arbor Couple To Help
The Bene Israel In Bombay
KIMBERLY LIFTON
Staff Writer
B
Hadas and Jeffrey Chajes are heading to Bombay.
Daniel M. Rosen
ROUND UP
How To Sweeten
A Student's Life
It's been one of those days.
Rebecca, in New York for her
first year of college, has been
studying for the past 10
hours. A whole week has
passed without a letter from
Adam — sigh — that dreamy
guy she met at summer camp.
She knows she's got to call
Pop soon for more funds.
And then it happens. A
knock on the door and there
it is: a Rosh Hashanah
surprise.
Chizuk, the Jewish
outreach agency of Agudath
Israel, is sending free Rosh
Hashanah-away-from-home
kits to college students
throughout the United
States. The kit includes a jar
of honey; a sourcebook ex-
plaining basic concepts, laws
and customs of the High Holi-
day period; a Jewish calendar
for the coming year; and in-
formation on local hospitali-
ty for the Yom Toy.
To send a kit, mail the
name and address or phone
number of any student at any
campus across the country to
Chizuk, do the Agudath
Israel of America, 84 William
St., New York, N.Y., 10038, or
call (212) 797-9000.
Holocaust Council
Seeks Histories
Washington (JTA) — The
U.S. Holocaust Museum's oral
history department needs
survivors, liberators and
rescuers to record their ex-
periences during World War
II for the museum's new
archives.
The videotapes will serve as
a resource for scholarly
research, with portions being
incorporated into museum ex-
hibitions and educational
programs.
For information, contact Dr.
Linda Gordon Kuzmack, U.S.
Holocaust Memorial
Museum, 2000 L St. NW,
Washington, D.C., 20036, or
call (202) 822-6464.
Reform Appeal
For Homeless
Congressmen will be receiv-
ing greeting cards for Rosh
Hashanah under a program,
developed by the Religious
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efore starting their
doctorate programs,
Jeffrey and Hadas
Chajes wanted to take some
time off to travel.
The Ann Arbor couple had
traveled extensively overseas,
but never to India — a place
Hadas Chajes wanted to visit.
When they heard from a
friend that the American
Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee was looking for a
young couple to launch In-
dia's first education program
for its estimated 8,000-person
Jewish community, they ap-
plied for the position.
Now the Chajeses are on
their way to Bombay as
Jewish Service Corps
Volunteers for the JDC, the
overseas arm of the American
Rothstein Romps
In OP Primary
Incumbent
Mayor
Charlotte Rothstein of Oak
Park easily won the city's
primary election Monday and
will face challenger Herschel
Goldstein in November.
Rothstein had 2,763 votes to
Goldstein's 685.
Incumbent city councilmen
Arthur Frolich and Louis
Demas ran on a slate with
Rothstein. They outpolled
Minerva Freeman, Irwin
Lorber, Saad Marouf and
Terry Mudge. Lorber and
Mudge, along with Goldstein,
were part of the Oak Park
Committee of Concerned
Citizens.
Frolich. (2,239 votes), Demas
(1,565), Freeman (1,274) and
Lorber (768) will face each
other in November for the two
council seats.
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The Religious Action Center's
card to congressmen.
Action Center of Reform
Judaism in Washington, D.C.,
to aid the homeless.
The center has distributed
thousands of cards to Reform
Jewish families throughout
the United States for mailing
to senators and represen-
tatives, urging legislative ac-
tion for the homeless.
The card contains a' prayer
that "next year every
American will have a decent
and affordable place to live."
Compiled by
Elizabeth Applebaum
Kollel Institute's
Facility Growing
A $20,000 construction and
refurbishing program is
underway at the Kollel In-
stitute of Greater Detroit,
located on Lincoln Road in
Oak Park.
When completed around
Rosh Hashanah, the construc-
tion will add about 400
square feet of study area to
the facility, according to Rab-
bi Mordecai Wolmark,
building committee
chairman.
The institute, founded in
1975, has more than 15
fulltime fellows, according to
Rabbi Moshe Schwab, Kollel
dean.
Jewish community which
sponsors programs of relief,
rescue, rehabilitation and
Jewish education. They will
spend six months developing
programs for Indian Jews .
self-education.
JDC volunteers generally
spend a year overseas. Since
the India program is new,
JDC officials opted for a six-
month trial stay, which can
be extended for a year. The
Chajeses will study the Bene
Israel community to address
its needs.
"We will be guinea pigs for
the Joint Distribution Com-.
mittee," Jeffrey Chajes
"Most of India's educators
have made aliyah, leaving no
organized educators. There is
no cental Jewish quarter. We
will get the older children
together and teach them how
to teach the youngsters!"
The history of the Jews of
India dates back 2,000 years.
As legend tells it, the com-
munity grew out of a small
group of Jewish merchants on
a trade route who were ship-
wrecked in India. Seven
couples survived.
Over the years, Christian
missionaries taught them
Hebrew.
"These people have positive
feelings toward others," Jef7
frey Chajes said. "They are at
peace with their environ-
ment. They get along with
their Hindu neighbors. _
"People have gone there
before to try and help," he
said., "But they didn't last.
They don't like people coming
in from the outside and
preaching. They want us to
teach, not to impose!'
Both just finished master's
programs at the University of
Michigan. Hadas holds a
master's degree in German
literature and Jeffrey holds a
master's degree in history
and a bachelor's degree in
Jewish intellectual history.
They have studied in Israel —
Jeffrey spent a year at
Hebrew University and
Hadas studid at a yeshivah
there for a year during high
school and at Hebrew Univer-
sity during college.
Both speak fluent Hebrew.
"We are excited about going
to work for a Jewish com-
munity," Jeffrey said, adding
he plans to earn a doctorate
in history and also become or-
dained as an Orthodox rabbi.
Jeffrey and Hadas each
have guided European study
tours. During their travels,
they have visited many coun-
tries, excluding the Far East.
Marchers, Protestors
Get Farmington OK
RICHARD PEARL
Staff Writer
T
he City of Farmington
will not stop a neo-
Nazi group from pro-
testing a march for racial uni
ty in mid-October, but city of-
ficials said they will police
the area to keep the opposing
groups on opposite sides of
the street.
City Manager Robert Dead-
man said neither group —
Love Forces United, the racial
unity group, nor the Dear-
born Heights-based SS Action
Group — need a permit to
march or protest on the
sidewalk along Grand River
Avenue in Farmington, where
the Oct. 15 march is schedul-
ed. The sidewalk is public pro-
perty, he said.
The state refused to give
the racial unity group a street
march permit for Grand River
Avenue, a state thoroughfare.
Love Force United predicted
it would have 1,000-2,000 par-
ticipants on the Farmington
City Hall grounds, where the
3:07 p.m. march is to con-
clude, the city manager said.
The neo-Nazi group said it
would stage a "peaceful
demonstration somewhere on
the sidewalk along the march
route," Deadman said.
Richard Lobenthal,
Michigan director for the
Anti-Defamation League,
said the SS Action Group is
short on membership and
might have difficulty muster-
ing forces.
"We can't find more than 15
persons who claim member-
ship in the group, which
means the group probably
will rely on support from
Chicago-area neo-Nazis,"
Lobenthal said. "If the
Chicago guys aren't coming,
we're not sure they (the SS Ac-
tion Group) are going to show
up!'
Lobenthal said there is
"very little evidence to sup-
port the contention that this
is a major hate-group.
"It's inconceivable to me
that they will get more than
25-30 people to show up
there," he said.
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