UP FRONT Chrysler Gives $1 Million To U.S. Museum, Greenwald Takes Role ALAN HITSKY Associate Editor A trip to Poland this summer has resulted in Chrysler Corpora- tion Vice Chairman Gerald Greenwald taking a fund- raising role with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Coun- cil. Chrysler has backed his decision with a $1 million gift from its charitable fund to the $147 million Holocaust Museum under construction in Washington, D.C. Greenwald is chairing cor- porate fund-raising for the museum near the National Mall. Although the new building has received 25 private gifts of $1 million or more, Chrysler's is the first corporate gift at that level. Greenwald went to Poland in August with U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council Chairman Harvey Meyerhoff, columnist George Will, former United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick and other cor- porate leaders. After visiting Nazi concen- tration camps, Greenwald said, "it became clear to me that no one coming face to face with the irrefutable physical evidence of the Holocaust could fail to Gerald Greenwald: Holocaust impact. become increasingly sen- sitized to the rights and needs of his fellow man. This museum in our nation's capital will reach millions who would never otherwise come in contact with this searing event and will have a major impact for genera- tions to come." Construction of the five- story, 250,000-square-foot museum began in July. It is scheduled to open in 1993. Half of the $147 million goal for the museum has been raised. Lynn Feldhouse, manager of the Chrysler Fund, said the fund has emphdsized higher education in its an- nual grants, but is shifting to primary and secondary education, health, human services, civic and cultural needs. "We knew when Mr. Greenwald took this assignment that he would need the backing of Chrysler. He could not ask others for funds if his own company did not support the project. And this is the kind of request that crosses all the lines" of activities spon- sored by the Chrysler Fund. Contributions to the $30- million Chrysler Corpora- tion Fund are made from the automaker's profits. The fund will distribute $11.5 million this year from direct grants and interest. "We look at the Holocaust Museum as a national cam- paign," said Everett Scran- ton, director of investor rela- tions at Chrysler. "It might not be quite as popular as our effort for the Statue of Liberty, but we think in- dustry should be suppor- tive." Said Feldhouse, "The Holocaust was not just a tragedy for the Jewish peo- ple and the museum needs support from all segments of our society." ❑ 1-6 I- 0 Yanina and Mark Glazer Family Reunification: Success By Number SUSAN GRANT Staff Writer B ringing their own family from the Soviet Union to America was not enough for Yanina and Mark Glazer. During the past year, the Glazers have helped more than 90 Soviet Jews — most from Yanina's hometown of Poltava in the Ukraine — resettle in Detroit. Their story begins in 1979 when, three years after they applied to emigrate to Israel, the couple with their two children, Olana, 9, and Rachel, 7, left Poltava. While many of her friends had asked to leave, Yanina's family was the only one in a community of about 500 Jews granted permission. During stops in Vienna and Rome, the family decid- ed to go to Philadelphia where some cousins lived. Yanina and Mark found jobs and she volunteered to help other newly arrived Soviet Jews resettle in Philadelphia. But the couple never forgot the family members and friends they left behind. Continued on Page 12 ROUND UP Shamir, Walesa And Two Detroiters It's more than politics that Israeli Prime Minister Yit- zhak Shamir and Polish Solidarity leader Lech Walesa have in common. Both will be meeting this week with top U.S. Jewish leaders in talks arranged by two former Detroit-area residents. Leah Braunstein, formerly of Oak Park, works with the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in New York. She is coordinating the meeting, to be held Nov. 20, between Shamir and a number of presidents and executive directors of leading Jewish groups. Franci Podolsky of Bloom- field Hills, assistant to Con- ference Executive Director Malcolm Hoenlein, is ar- ranging today's meeting between Walesa and the Jewish leaders. Last week, she coordinated talks bet- ween Jewish groups and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp. Among the women's responsibilities are arrang- ing the location and security for the meetings. Exchange Students Seek Host Families Jewish foreign exchange students from Latin America and Israel, who are arriving in the United States this month, in January and in August, need guest homes where they may stay while atten- ding nearby high schools. The students' stay here is being coordinated by Open Door, a non-profit student exchange program based in New York. Families interested in hosting a foreign students, or sending their own child abroad, should contact Rob at the Open Door, (800) 336- OPEN, 250 Fulton Ave., P.O. Box 71, Hempstead, N.Y. 11551. Domino's Theory: A Mezuzah Wait! Don't turn that channel just because it's a commerical! The next time you see a commercial for the Ann Ar- bor-based Domino's Pizza watch carefully and you'll see something not typical of most TV ads. This one features a young woman dancing about her living room as a pizza delivery man arrives. As she opens the door, a mezuzah is visible on the right. A spokesman for Domino's said the use of the mezuzah was not deliberate. He said the commercial was filmed at a private home in Los Angeles. A People's Ethic Goes Russian Walter Field says he loves brevity. So he condensed 4,000 years of Jewish history into a 40-page book, A People's Ethic, written in verse. This month, A People's Ethic will be translated into Russian, then distributed to Jews in the Soviet Union and to Soviet Jewish im- migrants in the United States. The project is being financed by the Walter and Lea Field Jewish History Fund. Field, who lives in Birm- ingham, said a private group in Israel that supports Soviet Jewry approached him about translating his work into Russian. Years ago, former Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion had A People's Ethic translated into Hebrew. Members of the Soviet Jewry group saw the Hebrew ver- sion and decided to translate and send it to refuseniks. Field said his son, Irwin, inspired him to write the book. At 16, Irwin had little patience for long history books. Field combined his desire to present his son with an informative but brief history of the Jewish people with his talent for writing rhymes. Thus, A People's Epic was born. Compiled by Elizabeth Applebaum THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 5