COMMUNITY

NCJW, Council Ask Support
For Sunday Pro-Choice Rally

KIMBERLY LIFTON

Staff Writer

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A recent cocktail reception in advance of this Sunday's dinner for the
American Red Magen David for Israel saw the contribution of two am-
bulances for Israel's emergency medical service. Honorees Mike and
Mary Must donated a standard ambulance and Mannie and Natalie
Charach contributed a mobile intensive care unit. Shown at the recep-
tion are, from left, Donald Sharfman, Bernard Edelman, the Musts and
Dr. Morris Starkman.

ADL To Air
Hate Group Show

The Michigan Regional Ad-
visory Board of the Anti-
Defamation League has com-
pleted a new segment of their
series, "Insight with ADL."
The program, entitled
"Hate Groups, an Overview,"
was produced by Alan Hur-
witz and features host Sheri
Schiff and guests Richard
Lobenthal and State
Representative David
Honigman. It reviews the cur-
rent status of the hate group
movement in America and
countermeasures being taken
to prevent the spread of hate
groups.
The show will air on Con-
tinental Cablevision's Chan-
nel 18 9:05 p.m. Sept. 28;
8:05 p.m. Oct. 5; 9:05 p.m. Oct.
12; 8:05 p.m. Oct. 24 and
8:35 p.m. Nov. 1.

Federation Apts.
Election Meeting

Jewish Federation Apart-
ments will hold its 1989 an-
nual meeting and dinner,
6 p.m. Oct. 25 at Anna and
Meyer Prentis Towers, Oak
Park.
Election of directors will
take place and annual reports
will be given by President Dr.
Hershel Sandberg and Ex-
ecutive Director Helen
Naimark.
Slated by the Nominating

Committee are:
Doris August, Bertha
Chomsky, Arnold Cohen,
Richard Colton, Cheryl
Guyer, Sharon Lipton,
Lauren Liss, and Nathan Up-
fal. New candidates for an in-
itial three-year term are
David Gordon and Edythe
Jackier.

A.D. Removed
From Licenses

STAFF REPORT

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eginning next spring,
state marriage
licenses will no longer
contain the letters A.D.,
which stand for Anno
Domini, a reference to Jesus
that means "In the year of
the Lord."
State Sen. Jack Faxon, D-
Farmington Hills, brought
the issue to the attention of
the Office of the State Regis-
trar and Center for Health
Statistics after he received a
complaint from Oak Park
resident Phillip Applebaum.
State officials said the let-
ters A.D. will be eliminated
from the licenses in future
printings after the current
supply of 100,000 licenses is
used up.
Earlier this year, Ap-
plebaum persuaded the
Oakland County Probate
Court to drop the usage of
A.D. on its documents.

he National Council of
Jewish Women and
the Jewish Communi-
ty Council are calling on
their constituents to partici-
pate in a pro-choice rally on
Sunday at the state Capitol.
NCJW hopes to bring 100
people to the 1 p.m. rally,
expected to attract between
1,000 and 2,000 pro-choice
advocates from throughout
the state. NCJW is the only
Jewish co-sponsor of the ral-
ly, sponsored by nearly 30
groups, including Planned
Parenthood Affiliates of
Michigan, the National Or-
ganization of Women, the
Religious Coalition for Abor-
tion Rights, Men for Choice
and Catholics for a Free
Choice.
"It is very important that
every person, regardless of
sex, should have the right to
choose whether it be for
abortion or anything else,"
said Carol Sue Coden, a
NCJW vice president.
"Nobody should tell you
what to do."
The JCCouncil, which this
week reaffirmed its position
supporting a woman's right
to reproductive choice, is
sending to the rally a dele-
gation carrying the Council
banner.
"The Jewish Community
Council continues to strong-
ly support a woman's right
to privacy and choice with
respect to this most funda-
mental personal decision,"
JCCouncil President Paul D.
Borman said. "We believe
that the essence of democra-
cy is for all individuals to let
their elected representatives
know their views." Speaking
at the rally will be two na-
tional personal freedom
leaders, the Rev. Charles
Bergstrom, a founder and co-
chair of the Executive Com-
mittee of People for the A-
merican Way Action Fund,
and Kate Michelman, execu-
tive director of the National
Abortion Rights Action
League.
Bergstrom, former execu-
tive director of government
affairs for the Lutheran
Council in the United
States, has served as senior
pastor of Trinity Lutheran
Church in Worchester,
Mass.,and as president of the
board of Social Ministry of
the Lutheran Church of
America.
Michelman has led the
350,000-member NARAL,

known as the political lobby-
ing arm of the pro-choice
movement, since 1985.
Among state legislators
helping to organize the rally
are Jewish legislators, Rep.
Maxine Berman, D-
Southfield and Sen. Lana
Pollack of Ann Arbor and
Representatives Teola
Hunter, D-Detroit, Shirley
Johnson, R-Royal Oak,
Donald Gilmer, R-Augusta
and Lynn Jondahl, D-
Lansing.
About 14 buses will head
to the rally from the metro-
politan Detroit area. NJCW
has chartered two buses,
which will leave at 10 a.m.
from the council's Southfield
office. Susan Kurtzman
Rogin, a Jewish activist who
is a former Michigan Abor-

tion Rights Action League
director, also has chartered a
bus leaving from the
Southfield Greyhound sta-
tion. Bus reservations are
required.
"I believe women are not
equal without the right to
control their own bodies,
meaning reproductive life,"
Rogin said. "Our opposition
is the fundamentalist and
some of the Catholic hierar-
chy, and I am concerned
about the separation of
church and state."
Members of the Orthodox
and Lubavitch communities,
who maintain that abortion
is murder according to Jew-
ish law, are keeping low pro-
files on the subject. They are
not planning any counter
demonstrations at the ral-
ly. ❑

Ambassador Kirkpatrick
To Address Federation

Dr. Jeane Kirkpatrick,
former U.S. ambassador to
the United Nations, will ad-
dress a 1990 Allied Jewish
Campaign major gifts
meeting 6:30 p.m., Oct. 5 at
the home of David and
Doreen Hermelin in Bir-
mingham. David K. Page and
Norman A. Pappas serve as
chairmen of the $25,000 Com-
mittee which will sponsor the
event.
A member of the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Council,
Kirkpatrick participated in
an August visit to Auschwitz

to resolve the dispute over a
convent on the grounds of the
- former death camp.
The first woman to be ap-

Leadership Awards
For Ten Honorees

Benjamin F. Rosenthal,
Agency for Jewish Education;
Edward A. Lumberg, Fresh
Air Society; Henry P. Lee,
Hebrew Free Loan Associa-
tion; Jerome Soble, Jewish
Community Center; Andrew
Zack, Jewish Community
Council; John E. Jacobs,
Jewish Family Service; Neil
A. Satovsky, Jewish Federa-
tion Apartments; Jack Schon,
Jewish Home for Aged; Den-
nis S. Bernard, Jewish Voca-
tional Service and Leah
Snider, Sinai Hospital of
Detroit have been named reci-
pients of the third annual
Agency Leadership Awards
from their respective agencies
and the Jewish Welfare
Federation. They will be
honored at an awards recep-
tion, 7 p.m., Oct. 10, at Tam
O'Shanter Country Club.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

pointed U.S. permanent
representative to the U.N.,
Kirkpatrick is a recipient of
the Presidential Medal of
Freedom, served as a member
of President Reagan's Cabinet
and is a longtime supporter of
Israel.
In 1985 she returned to
private life to teach, write
and lecture.

Workmen's Circle
Members Inducted

Workmen's Circle Michigan
District will induct new
members at its annual Circle
Of Friends program, 8 p.m.
Friday, at the Workmen's Cir-
cle Educational Center.
Refreshments will be serv-
ed.

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