COMMUNITY

Annual Solidarity Walk
Planned For May 6

Righteous Award
To Governor Blanchard

Governor James Blanchard
will receive the Righteous
Gentile Award for his life-long
commitment to Remem-
brance of the Holocaust and
for the state's support of the
Holocaust Memorial Center.
The award will be presented
as Shaarit Haplaytah of
Metropolitan Detroit joins
Holocaust survivors for the
45th Anniversary after
Auschwitz and the 47th com-
memoration of the Warsaw
Ghetto uprising at 1:30 p.m.
April 22 at the Maple-Drake
Jewish Community Center.
The annual commemora-
tion is co-sponsored by the
Holocaust Memorial Center,
Jewish Community Center,
Jewish Welfare Federation,
Jewish Community Council,
Archdiocese of Detroit,
Greater Round Table of Chris-
tians and Jews, Junior
Divison of Shaarit
Haplaytah, and CHAIM.
Abraham Weberman, presi-
dent of Shaarit Haplaytah, re-
quests every person in the
community to light a candle

the night before the com-
memoration in memory of the
six million Jews murdered
during the Holocaust.

Bus Service
To Holocaust Event

This year's official State of
Michigan Holocaust Corn-
memoration in Lansing will
be entitled "Heroes of
Holocaust Education: Re-
membering the voices that
were silenced; honoring the
voice that spoke." It will take
place at the State Capitol
Rotunda at 1 p.m. April 26.
To facilitate participation
by Detroit area residents, the
Jewish Community Council
has arranged for busses to
depart the Oak Park Jewish
Community Center at 10:30
a.m. Riders will be charged
$1.
To register for the bus and
to insure that enough busses
are ordered for the day, riders
are asked to reserve a seat by
calling the Council at
962-1880.

Shaarey Zedek Honors
Cantor Chaim Najman

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Cantor Chaim Najman will
be honored at a luncheon
celebrating his 10 years of
service to Congregation
Shaarey Zedek, following
Sabbath Services April 28.
During the service, the cantor
and choir will present special

Cantor Najman:
Service recognized.

music commissioned for the
occasion.
Najman created the youth
choir at Shaarey Zedek. The
choir became a monthly

feature at Shabbat services.
Najman developed the an-
nual Weisberg Concert and
the annual Laker Chanukah
Concert. In 1988, Najman ap-
peared as tenor soloist at the
premier of Not So Wild A
Dream, an oratorio commis-
sioned for the Weisberg Con-
cert in honor of Israel's 40th
anniversary.
The professional synagogue
choir has expanded under Na-
jman's direction. The cantor
and choir made a recording
featuring a number of
liturgical pieces identified
with Shaarey Zedek. A
release date has not yet been
set.
Najman has directed the
Men's Club Choir, the
Michigan Branch Sisterhood
Chorale, taught classes both
for the Men's Club and for the
adult bat mitzvah program
and in the high sch000l.
He is a past president of the
Cantors Council of Detroit
and is a member of the ex-
ecutive Council of the Can-
tor's Assembly. He is involv-
ed in the Assembly program
to recruit young men and
women for the cantorate.
For luncheon reservations
by April 24, call Shaarey
Zedek, 357-5544. There is a
charge.

Gov. Blanchard

Rabbi Cardoza
Sets TWo Talks

Rabbi Nathan Lopez Car-
doza will give two lectures
April 24 on behalf of the
Yeshiva Gedolah.
The first lecture will take
place at the noon Lunch and
Learn at Uniland Corpora-
tion in Farmington Hills. The
topic will be "Where Was God
in the Holocaust? Is It Still
Possible to Believe in God,
Judaism and the Torah After
the Unprecedented Destruc-
tion of European Jewry?" The
second talk will be 7:30 p.m.
at the home of Dr. and Mrs.
Arnold Zuroff, 31455
Franklin Fairway in Farm-
ington Hills. The second lec-
ture topic will be on Rabbi
Cardoza's book The Torah as
God's Mind.
Rabbi Cardoza received his
master's in philosophy at the

Rabbi Nathan Lopez Cardoza

University of Holland with
emphasis on modern
philosophers, the philosophy
of religion, law and morality.
Rabbi Cardoza, who was or-
dained at Gateshead
Talmudic College in England,
has lectured at Oxford and
Cambridge Universities in
London and throughout
North America and Europe.
There is a fee. Those in-
terested should contact Rab-
bi Eric Krohner, 968-3361.

Singles and couples, teens
and tots, grandparents and
grandchildren, clubs and
organizations will join in an
expression of solidarity with
Soviet Jews and the state of
Israel in a Walk for Jewish
Solidarity on May 6, in West
Bloomfield.
Sponsored by the Jewish
Welfare Federation and the
Israel Anniversary Commit-
tee, the walk will focus on the
rescue and resettlement of
Soviet Jews as well as the
42nd anniversary of the
Jewish state. Registration
will begin at 10:45 a.m. on
the Maple-Drake Campus,
with the walk following at
11:30. The 3.3 mile event will
include a rest stop for
refreshments at Temple
Israel.
After the walk, the day of
fun will continue at the Israel
anniversary celebration on
the Center grounds, with
children and family activities,
an Israeli "kumsitz" (an in-
formal gathering featuring

music and dance) highlighted
by a concert by Habibi, the
annual Israel quiz bowl,
entertainment and
refreshments.
Marta Rosenthal and
Robert Orley are chairmen of
the walk. Associate chairmen
are: Dr. Andrew Colman, Rab-
bis Chuck Diamond and Nor-
man T. Roman, Dr. Mark
Diem, Dr. Steven Grant,
Mark S. Kahn, Ken Korotkin
and William Lakritz. James
Colman is adviser.
The walk will begin a week
of phonathons on behalf of
Operation Exodus, a $16.5
million campaign to help
resettle Soviet Jews in Israel.
Funds will be used for
transportation from the
USSR, as well as programs in
Israel, including housing, job
retraining and language
instruction.
Pre-registration is advised.
The walk will be held rain or
shine. For information, call
Ken Mintzer at the Federa-
tion, 965-3939, Ext. 149.

Vera Rosenne Speaks
At Israel Bond Dinner

Vera Rosenne, national
honorary chair of Israeli Af-
fairs for the Women's Division
of Israel Bonds will join in
honoring local community
leader Helen Zuckerman of
Franklin.
Rosenne will be the speaker
at the Metro Detroit Israel
Bond Women's Division for-
mal dinner 6 p.m. May 3 in
the Bloomfield Hills home of
Linda and Martin Goldman.
At the event, geared to the
1990 enrollment of Diamond
Trustees and Prime
Minister's Club members,
Zuckerman will be presented
a silver replica of one of the
late Golda Meir's favorite
brooches, in appreciation of
"exemplary service to her
community, the Jewish peo-
ple and the State of Israel."
A former vice chairman of
the Women's International
Zionist Organization (WIZO)
in Jerusalem, Rosenne lec-
tured extensively to Jewish
and non-Jewish groups on
current Israeli issues.
She was born in Czer-
nowitz, Romania, and
emigrated to Israel with her
parents as a child on the eve
of World War II. She served in
the Israel Defense Forces, ear-
ning a special citation.
Rosenne, who studied
political science at the Sor-
bonne, is married to Am-

Vera Rosenne:
Featured speaker.

bassador Meir Rosenne, who
served as diplomatic envoy to
the United States and before
that to France.

JNF Brunch
At Beth Achim

Nathan and Ann Harris
will be honored by the Jewish
National Fund at a communi-
ty Service award brunch
10:30 a.m. May 6 at Con-
gregation Beth Achim.
Folksinger Judy Goldstein
will entertain with Yiddish,
Hebrew and Russian songs.

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