COMMUNITY
Fund For Reform Judaism
Names Its Dinner Honorees
Operation Exodus
Events Are Planned
Local synagogues will have
an opportunity to participate
in Operation Exodus for the
resettlement of Soviet Jews in
Israel on Shavuot when rab-
bis will make special appeals.
Jewish organizations will
contact their members in
phonathons at the United
Hebrew Schools building 1-5
p.m. June 14 and 5-9 p.m.
June 19 and 21.
A gathering of major donors
and their adult children will
take place June 4 at
Knollwood Country Club
when Exodus author Leon
Uris will relate his ex-
periences on a trip to the
Soviet Union.
The Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion's Women's Division,
which will participate in the
Knollwood meeting, reported
contributions of $420,250
from 24 workers during a
worker training meeting for
major donors. On Sept. 27,
three fundraising sections —
pre-Campaign, Kadima and
Koach — will have a combin-
ed meeting for Operation Ex-
odus and the 1991 Campaign.
The Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion's Young Adult Division
will have an Operation Ex-
odus fundraiser June 13 in
the home of Joel Tauber, a
former Federation president
and a vice chairman of the
United Jewish Appeal.
Students at the Communi-
ty Jewish High School kicked
off a special youth campaign
this week with a telethon. Ac-
cording to Sheri Schiff, chair-
man of the children and
youth campaign, Operation
Exodus tzedaka boxes will be
distributed only during the
summer months to Jewish
summer camps and elemen-
tary-age children. A city-wide
young people's fundraiser will
be held in the fall.
AJCommittee Slates
Its Annual Meeting
The American Jewish Com-
mittee will hold its annual
meeting 7:30 p.m. June 14 at
Temple Beth El.
The evening's panel presen-
tation, Detroit: A Vision for
the '90s, will be moderated by
Dr. Bernard Klein, professor
of political science, U. of M.
Dearborn, and will feature
Maryann Mahaffey, Detroit
city council president; Dr.
John Porter, Detroit public
school superintendent; and
Leon Cohan, senior vice presi-
dent of Detroit Edison and
chairman of the Michigan
Council for the Arts.
A new slate of officers for
1990 will be selected, in-
cluding Beverley Geltner,
associate professor of educa-
tion administration at
Oakland University. Geltner
has an educational and ad-
ministrative career.
was
associate
She
superintendent of instruction,
Southfield Schools, and con-
sultant on educational pro-
grams for the Multi-Resource.
Center, Inc., Southfield. She
participated in international
study programs in Israel,
Japan, China and France.
The slate also includes vice
presidents Laurence Imer-
man, Norman Lewis, Ann
Mandelbaum, Irene Sobel
and treasurer, Oscar Genser.
A dessert reception will
follow. The public is invited.
There is a charge. For reser-
vations, call the chapter of-
face, 965-3353.
Berlins
Esther Shulak
Finkelsteins
In Wengrow
volunteers and a series of suc-
cessful fund raisers.
She has taught religious
school at Temple Emanu-El
and Temple Kol Ami. She has
been chairperson of the
religious services committee
at Temple Kol Ami, and par-
ticipated in Yeshiva and
Chevrah Torah groups. She is
currently a trustee on the
Board of Temple Kol Ami.
Wengrow has served Tem-
ple Shir Tikvah as its presi-
dent and vice president.
He is co-chair of the Tem-
ple's membership committee.
Wengrow is a vice president of
the Metropolitan Detroit
Federation of Reform
Synagogues and chairs
the Michigan Small Con-
gregation Conference of the
Union of American Hebrew
Congregations.
He is author of a UAHC
booklet on recruitment and
retention and is a member of
the UAHC-CCAR Commis-
sion on Synagogue Manage-
ment. He also serves on the
UAHC-CAAR Task Force on
the Unaffiliated and on other
committees concerned with
retention, integration and
finance.
Stuart Winkelman served
on the board of directors of
the St. Clair County Mental
Health and Child Guidance
Clinic and as a trustee of Mt.
Sinai Synagogue; he chaired
the Port Huron Community
Relations Board and the Art
Education committee in the
city-wide study of the school
system.
At Temple Beth Jacob in
Pontiac, Winkelman chaired
Malins
Stuart Winkelman
the Adult Education commit-
tee and the religious school,
served as board member, vice
president and as president in
1984-86. He is recording
secretary of the Metropolitan
Detroit Federation of Reform
Synagogues.
SZ Men's Club
Installs Officers
Leon Hochman was install-
ed as new president of Con-
gregation Shaarey Zedek's
Men's Club along with
president-elect Robert Bayer;
vice president Michael
Balkin; treasurer Samuel
Scheinfield; secretaries. Mark
Diem, Richard Jacobs and
Alden Leib; and new board
members Gershon Blumstein,
Isaac Engelbaum, Joel Jacob,
Leon Ordin and Eugene
Zweig.
Leon Hochman
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OMMU NIT
The youth group of the Bais Chabad Torah Center was among nearly
1,000 persons who participated in the Lubavitch-sponsored Lag
B'Omer parade May 13 at the Jewish Community Center. The parade
was led by 45 Soviet Jewish immigrants who recently were circumcized
and received bicycles in honor of the event.
The sixth annual Fund For
Reform Judaism dinner spon-
sored by the Metropolitan
Detroit Federation of Reform
Synagogues will be held 6
p.m. June 5 at Temple
Emanu-El.
In addition to raising funds
for the Reform Movement na-
tionally and locally, it also is
the occasion to honor
members of the Detroit area
Reform Congregations.
This year's honorees are:
Allen and Bernice Berlin,
Temple Israel; Stanley and
the late Jane Finkelstein,
Temple Emanu-El; Isadore
and Frances Malin, Temple
Beth El; Esther Shulak, Tem-
ple Kol Ami; Iry Wengrow,
Congregation Shir Tikvah;
and Stuart Winkelman, Tem-
ple Beth Jacob.
The Berlins have been stu-
dying Hebrew for many years.
They have been to Israel more
than ten times. They both
study at the Rebbe's Tisch.
They've attended the UAHC
biennial in New Orleans and
participated in the UAHC
Kallah last summer.
Bernice Berlin has chaired
the Temple Israel Art Shows,
helped behind the scenes at
the Religious School's
Chanukah performances, and
chaired the Adult Education
Committee.
The Finkelsteins have been
board members of the
sisterhood and brotherhood of
Temple Emanu-El. Jane
Finkelstein served as
religious vice president of
sisterhood; Stan was pro-
gramming vice president for
brotherhood. She served on
the education, membership
and house rules committees
and as chairperson of the
religious committee. He was
a board member of Temple,
then recording secretary,
religious vice president and
president of the Temple.
The Malins have been ac-
tive members of Temple Beth
El for over 40 years. They
were original founders of the
Temple Beth El Young Mar-
ried Group and were original
organizers of the Temple Beth
El Purim Carnival.
Isadore Malin is a member
of the Temple Beth El
Brotherhood board of direc-
tors and has been active with
the brotherhood for 40 years.
Frances Malin has 40 years of
involvement with Temple
Beth El's Sisterhood. She is
the sisterhood vice president
of human relations.
Shulak introduced famous
artists, a tutorial program
that brought parents in as