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Federation
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Fisher spoke briefly at the
meeting, paying tribute to
individuals and the com-
munity and introducing
Yehuda Baros, mayor of
Detroit's Project Renewal
sister city, Yavne, Israel.
Tillie Brandwine was
presented with the Fred M.
Butzel Memorial Award for
Distinguished Community
Service. Former Butzel
winner Edythe Jackier
praised Brandwine's nearly
50 years of service to Fed-
eration, National Council of
Jewish Women, Federation
Apartments, Hillel Day
School, Jewish Family Ser-
vice and other organizations.
Elected at the meeting
were: Mark Schlussel, presi-
dent; James August, David
Hermelin, Edythe Jackier,
David Page and Jane Sher-
man, vice presidents; Hugh
Greenberg, treasurer; and
Robert Naftaly, secretary.
Elected to the Federation
board were: Penny Blumens-
tein, Stanley Frankel, Joel
Gershenson, Edward C.
Levy Jr., Benjamin Rosen-
thal, Rabbi Irwin Groner,
Helen Shevin, Robert
Slatkin and Robert Sosnick.
Dr. Giles becomes chair-
man of the executive com-
mittee, replacing former
President Joel Tauber.
Elected to the committee
were: Stanley Frankel,
Marlene Borman, Marvin
Goldman, Irwin Green,
David Handleman, Stuart
Hertzberg and Jack Robin-
son. ❑
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Cooperative Formed As
Alternative To IJCIC
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1989
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New York — The Interna-
tional Interreligious Entity
(IIE), a joint cooperative
effort to improve corn-
munications between the
Jewish community and the
international Christian
churches, was formed last
week by the American
Jewish Committee, the
American Jewish Congress
and the Anti-Defamation
League of B'nai B'rith.
The new group appears to
be an alternative to the In-
ternational Jewish Com-
mittee on Interreligious
Consultations, or IJCIC, the
umbrella group that has
been representing world
Jewry to the Vatican.
Neither AJCongress or
ADL is a member of IJCIC.
AJCommittee, which did
belong to the umbrella
group, decided last week to
pull out, a move that left
IJCIC without a chairman.
The new group with essen-
tially the same purpose
comes at a time of severe
strain in Jewish-Catholic re-
lations over a number of
issues, including the conti-
nuing presence of a
Carmelite convent at the
Auschwitz death camp in
Poland.
AJCommittee this week
was urged to reconsider its
decision to leave IJCIC by
the group's other consti-
tuents, the Synagogue
Council of America, the
World Jewish Congress and
B'nai B'rith.
"It is not good for the
Jewish community to pre-
sent a sense of disunity or
competition among various
agencies," said Rabbi Henry
Michelman, executive vice
president of SCA.
But the formal announce-
ment by AJCommittee,
AJCongress and ADL made
clear that, whatever the
reasons for the AJCom-
mittee's withdrawal, there
are no prospects for its
return.
Ira Silverman, executive
vice president of AJCom-
mittee, would only say that
he thought his organization
"could be effective in an-
other configuration" and
that his group feels more
comfortable working
together with "organi-
zations of closer kinship."
Formation of the new body
was announced by Silver-
man, Henry Siegman, exec-
utive director of the
American Jewish Congress,
and Abraham Foxman, na-
tional director of the ADL.
Those serving in the
Secretariat of the new group
will be Rudin, Rabbi Leon
Klenicki of ADL and Dr.
Michael Wyschogrod of
AJCongress.
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IDF's Col. Shafir
At Einstein Lunch
The Einstein Luncheon
Forum will meet noon, Thurs-
day, at Southfield Charley's.
Col. Linda Shafir of the Israel
Defense Forces, will speak
about how military law is be-
ing enforced in occupied
territories.
For reservations, call the
ZOA office, 569-1515.