I NEWS I If she ever gets sick, it's nice to know there's a Children's Hospital specialist nearby. `Gay' Designation Deleted By Synagogue ELLEN BERNSTEIN Special to The Jewish News Introducing Children's-Oakland Center Children's Hospital of Michigan-Oakland Center is right here in Oakland County at the corner of Lahser and 11 Mile Road in Southfield (just off the Lodge and 1-696). This is not just another clinic. This is customized health care for children, backed by Children's Hospital of Michigan. Specialists who specialize in children Children's-Oakland Center brings most of the pediatric sub specialists available at Children's Hospital of Michigan into your own neighborhood. Their specialties include cardiology, developmental pediatrics, ENT, EEG, endocrinology, gastroenterology, general surgery, genetic counseling, nephrology, neurology, neurosurgery, plastic surgery, psychology, urology and specialists in speech pathology and audiology. All professionals trained in the treatment of children. Here's how to get an appointment If your child needs specialized health care, ask your pediatrician or family doctor for an appointment with a Children's Hospital specialist at Children's-Oakland Center. If you don't have a family doctor or pediatrician, call our Physician's Referral Service at 993-0123. We'll be happy to give you the names of nearby Children's Hospital pediatricians who meet your specific needs. • • Children's HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN OAKLAND - An outpatient satellite of CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN A member of The Detroit Medical Center 27207 Lahser at 11 Mile Road, Southfield CENTER 22 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1990 Vlith no guarantees of acceptance into the Atlanta Synagogue Council, Congregation Bet Haverim voted recently to cease publicizing itself as a "gay and lesbian syn- agogue" and instead will be known as a "Reconstructionist syn- agogue . . . serving the gay and lesbian community." Bet Haverim changed its name "to pursue admission to the Synagogue Council," said the synagogue's presi- dent, Phillip Kaufman, "so that we may become part of this new voice in the Atlanta Jewish community and be able to confront and end homophobia within the Syn- agogue Council and the Jew- ish community," he said. In a narrow vote at a closed-door meeting, Bet Haverim members approved the name change to "Reconstructionist syn- agogue," to comply with the Synagogue Council's condi- tion for membership, ap- proved Nov. 29. But the add- ed clause "serving the gay and lesbian community" has not been formally approved by the citywide organization of rabbis and synagogue presidents. Kaufman also said the synagogue's new name "reflects that . . . all Jews are welcome" at Bet Haverim even though the synagogue is "comprised primarily of gay men and lesbians." It is uncertain whether the name change, deemed semantical by some; will persuade the more tradi- tional wing of the Syn- agogue Council to admit Bet Haverim, whose member- ship application last summer spurred controversy within the fledgling organ- ization, formed one year ago. Rabbi Shalom Lewis of Congregation Etz Chaim, who is leading the difficult negotiations between the Council and Bet Haverim, told Kaufman a change in definition would reopen negotiations, which had reached a stalemate. ❑ Hadassah, Israel Bonds Launch Soviet Aid New York (JTA) — Urgent action to help Israel absorb the tens of thousands of Soviet Jews beginning to ar- rive there has just been an- nounced by the State of Israel Bonds Organization and by Hadassah, the Wo- men's Zionist Organization of America. Hadassah has allocated $1 million for a wide range of absorption needs. The Bonds Organization's aim is to help Israel build housing and create jobs for the Soviet Jewish immi- grants. The announcement by Bonds' North American chairman, William Belzberg, cited reports from the Soviet Union of a dangerous rise of anti- Semitism there. It represents a departure for the Bonds Organization, which sells dividend-paying Israeli bonds as capital in- vestment instruments in all aspects of Israel's economic development. Now it will launch an emergency effort to convince investors of $10,000 or more to purchase new bonds im- mediately, to provide loan funds to Israel for the ab- sorption of Soviet emigres. That will be followed dur- ing the Passover season in April by Operation Aliyah, a special mass campaign, to be conducted in synagogues all over the United States and Canada. New Tax Dodge: Wife-Swapping Jerusalem (JPFS) — Israel's income tax au- thorities have announced that a new method of tax evasion has now hit the country — wife-swapping. The authorities have un- covered several recent cases in which pairs of employers have each falsely claimed on tax returns that they employ the other's wife. In one case, the pair in- cluded a lawyer, and in an- other, the pair had used this trick on the advice of their accountant. All the suspects, including the accountant, have been charged and released on bail.