COMMUNITY
Campaign Closing
At JCC On Thursday
The National Council of
Young Israel will honor
Fayga Dombey with the
Shofar Award at a banquet
next week in New York.
Dombey, of Southfield, will
receive the national award
for her work on behalf of the
Detroit Metropolitan Coun-
cil of Young Israel.
The daughter of Rabbi
Mayer Israel and Lois Her-
man of New York, Dombey
settled in Oak Park when
she married her husband,
David Dombey. The city at
the time had no synagogues
or day schools.
Fayga and Dave Dombey
were among the founders in
1952 of Young Israel of Oak-
Woods, which started as a
minyan in private homes
then moved two years later
to its own building. At
Young Israel of Oak-Woods,
Dombey has served on the
board of directors and as sec-
retary, banquet chairman,
journal campaign chairman,
sisterhood president, vice
president of programming
and donor lunch chairman.
Dombey, who twice receiv-
ed the Woman of the Year
Award from Young Israel of
Oak-Woods, was instrumen-
tal in the establishment of
Akiva Hebrew Day School.
A founder of Akiva's twelfth-
Generations Concert
Is Set For March 29
The sixth annual Dor L'Dor
concert will be held at 7:30
p.m. March 29 at Adat
Shalom.
The program is jointly spon-
sored by the National Coun-
cil of Jewish Women, Greater
Detroit Section, the Jewish
Community Center's Senior
Adult Department, the
Jewish Home for Aged —
Fleischman Residence/Blum-
berg Plaza, Hechtman Fede-
ration Apartments, and Hillel
Day School.
Hillel sixth graders and a
group of "adopted grand-
parents" first exchanged let-
ters and eventually came
together to rehearse and pre-
sent the first Dor L'Dor con-
cert in 1985.
There is no charge. An
afterglow has been planned.
NCJW's "Up and Out Pro-
gram" will provide bus
transportation for its par-
ticipants from several pick-up
points to the synagogue.
For information, call NCJW
offices, 258-6000.
Funk Is Honored
Alan Funk, executive vice
president of the Jewish Home
for Aged, has been chosen as
the 1990 recipient of the Dr.
Herbert Shore Young Ex-
ecutive Award presented an-
nually by the North
American Association of
Jewish Homes and Housing
for Aged.
The award is given to honor
young executives who have
demonstrated significant
potential in the field of long-
term care management by
virtue of their cumulative
achievements or innovative
results in the area of general
management.
Funk was the 1987-1989
chairman of the Allied Jewish
Campaign Social Services
Division. He is a member of
the United Jewish Appeal
Young Leadership Cabinet
and an appointee to the Na-
tional Council of Jewish
Federations Task Force on
Federation-Home
Relationships.
Funk is a member of the
Michigan Non-profit Homes
Association Health and Reim-
Fayga Dombey
year program in Israel, she
received the school's Tribute
of Distinction Award, was
honored by the Friends of
Akiva and served as a mem-
ber of the day school's edu-
cation committee, executive
committee and board of di-
rectors.
The founder of the Batya
chapter of Amit Women,
Dombey is a past president
of the Great Lakes Chapter,
Women's Branch of the
Union of Orthodox Jewish
Congregations of America; a
past board member of the
Women's Division of the
Jewish Welfare Federation;
and former coordinator of
volunteer services for the
Jewish Family and Chil-
dren's Service, a JF&CS
department she helped es-
tablish.
A member of Young Israel
of Southfield, Dombey serves
on the Advisory Council of
the JWF Women's Division
and the board of directors for
the Women's Division of Bar
Ilan University and
Aleynu/Aish HaTorah.
.
Home For Aged
Cites Volunteers
Alan Funk
bursement Policy Committee,
the Alzheimer's Disease and
Related Disorders Association
Board, and serves on the
Quality Assurance and Long
Range Planning Committees
for the North American
Association of Jewish Homes
and Housing for the Aged.
The Jewish Ensemble
Theatre will present The Last
Resort, a comedy, as part of
this year's Recognition Party
saluting the Jewish Home for
Aged's volunteers. The party
will be noon April 1 at the
Maple-Drake Jewish Com-
munity Center.
Daniel M. Clark, the
Home's president, will pre-
sent an award to the
"Volunteer of the Year" and
volunteers with service ex-
ceeding 2,000 hours will be
cited.
An award will be given to
the Community Group of the
Year by Marica Mittelman,
administrator of the Home's
Prentis Manor facility. After
a petite brunch, Bea Breiner,
Auxiliary president, and Alan
S. Funk, the Home's executive
vice president, will speak.
Comedian David Brenner
and the Detroit Jewish com-
munity will come together
Thursday at 7:30 p.m. for the
Allied Jewish Campaign clos-
ing celebration at the Maple-
Drake Jewish Community
Center.
Joining Brenner will be
Campaign Chairmen Paul
Borman and Joseph H. Orley,
who will announce an ex-
pected record achievement for
the closing. The 1989 Cam-
paign raised more than $27
million.
A pictoral essay of the
Jewish community, focusing
on people who are touched
daily by Campaign-supported
agencies, will be shown.
Campaign divisions are
completing their assign-
ments. The division which
records the highest percen-
tage of pledges prior to March
22 will receive the 1990 Com-
munity Achievement Award.
In advance of the closing,
more than 100 area rabbis
and congregation members
volunteered at a phonathon
March 8.
A wine and cheese buffet
will open the March 22
festivities at 7:30 p.m., and a
dessert reception will follow
the program. Everyone who
has made a pledge to the 1990
Campaign is invited.
For reservations, call
Federation, 965-3939.
Federation Advances
$2.5 Million To Israel
The Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion has agreed to send an ad-
vance of $2.5 million to the
United Jewish Appeal to help
Israel through its current
financial need brought on by
the aliyah of Soviet Jews.
The UJA asked American
Jewish communities for cash
to alleviate the fiscal crunch.
Local Allied Jewish Cam-
paign cash mobilization
chairmen Robert Naftaly and
Morris Rochlin are asking all
who have balances on their
Campaign pledges — as well
as those who have paid their
pledge but would like to make
an advance payment — to
send a check to the Campaign
as quickly as possible.
The cash emergency is be-
ing felt throughout Israel,
said Naftaly. Programs the
Campaign supports through
the UJA, including Youth
Aliyah villages, hundreds of
rural projects and programs
for the disabled and aged, will
be jeopardized unless there is
an infusion of funds, he said.
Rochlin emphasized that
the $2.5 million advance to
the UJA will be against
pledges already made.
Sinai Aids Emigres
In order to better serve the
many Russian immigrants
expected in the Detroit area
this year, Sinai Hospital has
expanded its health screening
program. Its purpose is to
detect health problems and to
certify the immigrants for
employment in the United
States.
"We check their vaccina-
tions and provide a full ex-
amination to determine if
they have any serious health
problems and if they may be
certified for employment or if
they need follow-up medical
care," said Dr. Marc Feldman,
coordinator of the program.
Those requiring further
medical care are referred to
the Primary Care Center, a
general internal medicine
practice at Sinai staffed by
both attending physicians
and residents.
Russian immigrants are
referred to Sinai for medical
care through Jewish Family
Service. Sinai anticipates
screening about 1,000 im-
migrants from June 1989 to
June 1990.
All physicians participating
in the program have donated
their time to screen the im-
migrants. In addition, Or-
thodox Jewish men who were
not permited to have ritual
circumcisions in Russia may
do so at Sinai. Several
anesthesiologists and
urologists have also donated
their services to perform this
procedure.
Russian immigrants were
previously treated in the
primary care center. However,
the expected increase in im-
migrants warranted a screen-
ing program solely to serve
them. A new location was
chosen in the Blumberg Pro-
fessional Office Building on
West McNichols in Detroit.
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National Young Israel
To Honor Fayga Dombey