1 UP FRONT Dedicated Survivor John Mames A Driving Force On Holocaust KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer D Phoebus Kaldobsky discusses travel options with Esther Schwartz at the • Israel Travel Fair on SundayThe event was sponsored by the Jewish Community Council and The Jewish News. Glenn Triest Grant Extends JFS Child Abuse Program SUSAN GRANT Staff Writer A Jewish Family Ser- vice program design- ed to prevent child abuse now has the money to help even more families. The Skillman Foundation has given Jewish Family Service a $250,000 grant to continue a child abuse prevention program that helps Jewish and non- Jewish families throughout Oakland County and Detroit deal with the pressures that lead to child abuse. The foundation, which serves southeastern Michigan, gives grants to programs working with children, basic human needs, culture and the arts, community-wide collaborative efforts and ed- ucation. Marilyn Wineman, JFS program community coor- dinator, said more than two years ago JFS realized fami- ly violence was a problem in Continued on Page 20 r. John Mames was a driving force behind the many causes to which he dedicated his life, friends and relatives said. A survivor of a labor camp in the Soviet Union during the Holocaust, a quiet and dignified Dr. Mames was committed to Holocaust edu- cation. Among his related activities, he was in- strumental in organizing the Holocaust Memorial Center and launched its oral history project, in which survivors recount their experiences on videotape. In addition, Dr. Mames and his wife, Eva, founded the Michigan Region for American Red Magen David, Israel's emergency medical service. Without his efforts, a Michigan region for Magen David Adorn might not exist today. Dr. Mames, of Southfield, died Dec. 1 at the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor. He was 67. "He was one of the few extraordinary men in our community in every respect," said Rabbi Charles Rosenzveig, director for the Holocaust Memorial Center. "Whatever he did, he did with devotion." For his efforts, Dr. Mames last month was honored by the Holocaust Memorial Center with its first Leader- ship Award for pioneering the oral history project. From the American Red Magen David for Israel, he Dr. John Mames: Driving force. received numerous awards, including the Gift of Life award, the Humanitarian award, the Helping Hand award, the Shofar award and the Pikuach Nefesh award. "He had a Jewish heart," said survivor Sonia Popowski. "He did every- thing and anything that was Jewish and good for our nation and Israel. He was a good father and a family man. We lost a treasure. I never saw such a dedicated man." Dr. Mames was born in Krakow, Poland, where he lived until he and his family were taken by Nazi troops to labor camps. They all sur- vived the camps. Afterward, Dr. Mames moved to Heidelberg, West Germany, where he studied at the university and receiv- ed his doctor of dental surgery degree. He moved to Israel and then moved to New York, where he joined his sister. In New York, he met his wife, Eva. After they were married, the Mames went to Ann Arbor so Dr. Mames could study dentistry at the University of Michigan. From Ann Arbor, the Mames moved to Southfield, where he practiced dentistry and they raised their children, Dr. Robert, now of Gainesville, Fla., and Dr. Andrea Rosenblum, now of Boca Raton, Fla. Continued on Page 20 I ROUND UP New Tools To Study The Holocaust In 1992, visitors to A Liv- ing Memorial To The Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York will be able to enter its learning center, sit down in front of a monitor and, with the touch of a finger, open up a world of Judaic study and history. The computerized Interac- tive Encyclopedia of Jewish Heritage will combine words, animated graphics, photos, moving images and sound to provide visitors with the tools to understand the Holocaust. A visitor who wishes to learn, for example, about a Jewish community in Poland destroyed during the Holocaust could read its history, view a film or newsreel clip, study photographs taken in the area before the war, hear a popular song from the region and see street maps of the town simply by touching The title screen of the computerized Interactive Encyclopedia of the Jewish Heritage highlighted words in the text. The museum, which is scheduled to begin construc- tion this spring, is being created under the auspices of the New York Holocaust Memorial Commission. Get Carrots By Telephone Ra'ananah (JPFS) — In the beginning there was Dial-A- Story. Now, there's Dial-A- Carrot or Dial-A-Loaf of Bread or Dial-A-Box of Laundry. Take your pick. The Supersol supermarket chain in Israel launched a new program called "Tele- Sol" — computerized grocery shopping. Using a catalog, customers place their orders by tele- phone through receptionists at computer terminals in Ra'ananah. The goods are delivered within four hours, and payment is made by credit card. During a six-week start-up period, the Tele-Sol systems has received an average of 50 orders a day. Golf, Scuba And Kosher Foods New York — Adweek magazine recently named kosher foods among the hot- test products of 1989, along with camcorders, cowboy boots, computers for kids, golf and scuba gear. Based on food companies' increased kosher product lines and rising consumer interest, experts predict the kosher food industry will expand at a rate of about 15- 20 percent. Calling All Torah Scrolls The Universal Torah Registry is holding a drive to register every Torah in the United States. The registry is an in- dependent, non-profit agen- cy created in 1984 in response to thefts of Torah scrolls. From 1980 to 1983, more than 300 Torahs were stolen from American synagogues. Rabbi Emanuel Holzer, chairman of the New York- based organization, said that by utilizing a fine-point nee- dle, an invisible code of micro-perforations is applied at strategic locations on the parchment for identification purposes. Should the Torah be stolen, the registry will begin a search for the scroll. For information, call the Universal Torah Registry, 1- 800-645-5404. Jews Say It's Not Time For A Change London (JTA) — Saying the move would impose a hardship, Orthodox Jews in Britain are fighting a government proposal to in- troduce daylight saving time year round. Under the proposed changes, dawn would fall an hour later in winter and summer, creating problems for Jews who must say morn- ing prayers after dawn, before leaving for work.d Daylight would be pro- longed in the summer mon- ths, extending religious fasts, which end only at dusk. In the northern reaches of the United Kingdom, Shabbat would not end until midnight. Compiled by Elizabeth Applebaum THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 7