COMMUNITY

Beth Shalom Director
Receives Award

JNF Brunch
Honors Harrises

Ann, Nathan Harris:
Outstanding citizens.
At a brunch on May 6,
Nathan and Ann Harris will
be honored by the Jewish Na-
tional Fund and receive an
"Outstanding Citizens
Award."

Harris, a survivor of concen-
tration camps, was born in
Poland and arrived in the
United States in 1950. He
was in his family bakery
business on Michigan Avenue
over twenty years, after
which he went into ownership
of several bowling alleys. He
is active in the Bowling
Centers Association, a
member of Beth Achim,
Holocaust Memorial Center,
the Regional Council of
Detroit B'nai Writh as well as
past president of Einstein
Lodge.
Mrs. Harris also is a sur-
vivor of Europe and Germany.
For information and reserva-
tions, call Laurie Nosanchuk,
557-7016.

Beth Achim Plans
Peace Forum

Daniel Pipes:
Mideast peace?

"Peace with the Palesti-
nians," will be the theme of a
public forum 7:30 p.m. April
24 at Congregation Beth
Achim.

The speaker will be Pro-
fessor Daniel Pipes, a
specialist in Middle East af-
fairs and director of the
Foreign Policy Research In-
stitute and editor of Orbis, its
quarterly journal of interna-
tional affairs.
Pipes is the author of four
books. The two most recent
are The Long Shadow:
Culture and Politics in the
Middle East and In the Path
of God: Islam and Political
Power.
The forum is sponsored by
the Zionist Organization of
America, Metro Detroit
District, the Greater Detroit
Chapter of Hadassah and
Congregation Beth Achim.
There is no charge.

later worked as a youth ad-
viser and administrator.
In 1974, Semp joined the
faculty of Beth Israel Hebrew
Religious School in Flint,
where he taught grades 2
through 8 and Hebrew
studies in its high school elec-
tive program. He also held
the posts of junior congrega-
tion coordinator, audio-visual
supervisor and administra-
tive assistant.
Semp received his Hebrew
teacher's license from the
Board of License of Detroit in
1976 and completed studies
in Habet Ushma, teacher ef-
fectiveness training,
psychology and sociology.
He joined the staff of Beth
Shalom in 1983. Throughout
his teaching career, Semp has
created teaching materials on
Israel, Soviet Jewry, the
Holocaust, the Bible, Megillat
Esther, the Parsha of the
Week and Haftara.

Israel Bonds Honors
Cooper, Steinberg

Gerson Cooper

The Metro Detroit Profes-
sional Health Services Divi-
sion of State of Israel Bonds
will honor the presidents of
two major Detroit hospitals at
a Tribute Dinner 6 p.m. May
23 at the Hyatt Regency
Dearborn.
Receiving State of Israel
Maimonides Awards will be
Gerson Cooper, president and
C.E.O. of Botsford General
Hospital and Robert Stein-
berg, president of Sinai
Hospital.
Cooper graduated from
Wayne State University with
a degree in business ad-
ministration. Later, he joined
Zieger Osteopathic Hospital
as business manager.
In 1978, he was named vice-
president, administration, of

Robert Steinberg

Botsford; in 1984 he was
elected to be president and
C.E.O. of the hospital
corporation.
Steinberg, a resident of Bir-
mingham, was an insurance
agent from 1956 to 1985 and
served as president of the In-
dependent Insurance Agents
of Greater Detroit in 1970.
From 1985 to 1986 Stein-
berg served as chairman of
the Board of Sinai Hospital
and last year became Sinai
Hospital's president and
C.E.O. He is also a Board
member of the Greater
Detroit Area Health Council
and the Southeast Michigan
Health Council Association.
For information, call Israel
Bonds, 352-6555.

Samuel Semp:
Leading educator.

Holocaust Program
Set In Lansing

The Official State of
Michigan Holocaust Com-
memoration will take place at
the State Capitol Rotunda in
Lansing at 1 p.m. on April 26.
The theme of the program,
sponsored by the Office of
Governor Blanchard in
cooperation with the Jewish
Community Council of
Metropolitan Detroit, the
Flint Jewish Federation and
the Michigan Office of
Management and Budget,
will be "Heroes of Holocaust
Education: Remembering the
voices that were silenced;
honoring the voices that
spoke."
The commemoration, will
feature Rev. James Lyons,
director of the Ecumenical In-
stitute for Jewish-Christian
Studies. A candle lighting
ceremony will include some
heroes of Holocaust education
as well as Holocaust
survivors.
Participating in the candle
lighting ceremony will be Bill
Brown, retired Ferndale High
School history teacher who
taught Governor James Blan-
chard about the Holocaust.
Brown and •lanchard will
light a candle together.
Charles Silow, chair of the
Holocaust Committee, and
his mother Sara Silow, a
Holocaust survivor, will also
share a candle.
The winner of the Holo-
caust essay contest sponsored
by Children of Holocaust Sur-
vivors Association in
Michigan (C.H.A.I.M.),
Gabriel Bolkosky of Ferndale,
will read his essay. Gabriel's
teacher at Ferndale High
School, Barbara Demlow, will
light a candle.
To ride a bus from
Southfield to the event, call
the JCCouncil.

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

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OM MU N IT

Jack Blumenkopf, Yonah Pirutinsky, John Lakier and Chuck
Ehrenreich put the finishing touches on a $4,000 climber recently
donated by the PTA to Yeshiva Beth Yehudah.

Samuel Semp, Congrega-
tion Beth Shalom's ritual
director, will receive the 1990
Schochet Family Outstanding
Teacher Award, sponsored by
the Frank and Freda
Schochet Fund of United
Jewish Charities.
Semp, seventh grade
teacher in Beth Shalom's
religious school, will receive
the award for his development
of a curriculum for seventh
graders on Jewish morals and
ethics.
The $3,000 Schochet prize
is to be used to fund a project
in any area of Jewish learn-
ing and teaching. It is ad-
ministered in partnership
with the Jewish Welfare
Federation.
Semp received his religious
education in his hometown of
Manchester, England, and at-
tended the Institute for Youth
Leaders from Abroad, spon-
sored by the B'nei Akiva
Youth Movement for which he

