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Call for Nominees for the ard Annual

BERMAN AWARD

for Outstanding Professional Service

overflow capacity and people
came from Budapest, more
than 100 miles away, as well
as towns and cities through-
out the region. Hungarian
television recorded the event,
as did CBSIIN which record-
ed the event for future use.
Newspaper reporters from
France, the United States and
Hungary also attended.
While Szeged today has
only 300 Jews, the commu-
nity has a center with a
kosher kitchen feeding 40
persons daily as well as a
small old age home and
kosher butcher. These pro-
grams are sponsored by JDC,
which in turn receives the
majority of its funding from
the United Jewish Appeal
and Jewish Federations
throughout America, includ-
ing Baltimore.
This fall, it turned out, was
a season for re-openings. In
September, JDC president
Sylvia Hassenfeld, flanked by
U.S. Ambassador Mark
Palmer and Israeli Interest
Section director Shlomo

created by Mandell and Madeleine Berman

Marom, opened the JDC's
first permanent office in
Hungary since 1939. Also
making up the audience was
a 55-member UJA fund-
raising mission which came
primarily from Baltimore.
"Opening our office here
will enable us to get much
closer to our programming in
Hungary, a community going
through an absolute Jewish
renaissance," Hassenfeld said.
"And it's going on not just in
Budapest but in towns like
Szeged as well."
It is highly unlikely the
Szeged synagogue will ever
see a crowd as large as the one
that came for its reopening
(estimated at 1,500). But for
as long as Jews remain in the
city, they will have their
house of prayer, the city will
enjoy a room with superb
acoustics, and hopefully
other countries in Eastern
Europe will follow Hungary's
example.

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All Jewish communal professionals
employed by Federation, its agen-
cies, or its beneficiaries, who have
been working in the Detroit Jewish
community a minimum of five years.

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Criteria for Selection:

The recipient of the Berman Award must demonstrate the highest
professional standards in his/her chosen field. That professional
must have:
• made a contribution to the general good of the Jewish community
• demonstrated leadership and innovation to his/her profession
• applied creativity, dedication, knowledge and care to providing
services to the Jewish
community
Nomination Process:

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Edward Serotta is a writer
based in Prague.

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Submit nominations by letter to the
Selection Committee. Names of the
nominees shall remain confidential,
and they may be renominated in
subsequent years.

1 NEWS 1

Anti-Semitic Spate
Alarming Australians

Sydney (JTA) — Beefed-up
police units patrolled
Australia's largest Jewish
population centers over the
weekend, alert for neo-Nazi
activity on Yom Hashoah,
the memorial day for Holo-
caust victims.
Australia, virtually the
area of the continental
United States but with a
population of only 16 mill-
ion, is home to a propor-
tionally high percentage of
Holocaust survivors.
It also has one of the best
records as a land free of anti-
Semitism and discrimina-
tion.
That is why the spate of
anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi in-
cidents in recent months has
seriously disturbed the Jew-
ish community, although no
one has been injured and
property damage is minimal.
The incidents, mainly
vandalism and verbal abuse,
have been attributed to neo-
Nazi teen-agers and
skinheads, shaven-headed
young hooligans who travel
in gangs, wear Nazi-like
regalia and harass
minorities.
They occurred in the three
main Jewish population
centers: Melbourne, Vic-
toria, in southeastern
Australia; Sydney, in the
neighboring state of New
South Wales; and Perth,
across the continent in
western Australia.

Eligibility for Nomination:

The most serious occur-
rences were in Melbourne,
which has a Jewish popula-
tion of 40,000.
There were three gasoline-
bomb attacks on synagogues
in the past month, without
casualties or serious
damage.
The police say there are no
clues at present, and "there
were no threats or other
messages before or after the
attacks."
For that reason, they tend
to discount organized groups
and have advised the Jewish
community to "carry on as
normal."
Two self-proclaimed teen-
age neo-Nazis vandalized a
number of Jewish-owned
buildings and public
buildings in downtown
Melbourne earlier this year.
There were also unex-
plained graffiti attacks on
synagogues.
In Perth, with a Jewish
population of 5,000, the pres-
ident of the Council of
Western Australian Jewry,
Doron Ur, was given a police
escort after he was threaten-
ed at a public forum on
"Race, the Press and Free
Speech."
In Sydney, where the Jew-
ish community numbers
more than 30,000, vandals
have defaced Hebrew
schools, synagogues,
mikvahs (ritual baths) and
communal offices.

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tial, to Michael Berke at the Jewish
Welfare Federation, 163 Madison
Avenue, Detroit, MI 48226.

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