CLOSE-UP "SUNSATIONAL:' SUMMER SHOPPING Southfield Continued from preceding page at rite i/aA/ -Eoeitortafaire HUNTERS SQUARE FOR FASHIONS, GIFTS, DINING and PERSONAL SERVICES, we're what's HOT for SUMMER! Anita's Kitchen Baby & Me Beach Bound Bleu Moon Complaisant/Stadium Continental Exclusives Creations by Pollak's Designer Lady Designer Shoe Outlet F&M Distributors The Honey Tree ilona & gallery Kitty Wagner Facial Salon • Leona's • Let's Entertain • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Loehmann's Mario Max Max & Erma's Miss Barbara's Dance Center Ms. Threads Nusrala's Pages & Pages Powerhouse Gym Rare Coin Gallery Rena Travel & Tour Seventh Heaven Sherri's Silver Fox Furs Winkelman's Xandru's COMING SOON: • Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum 30 FASHIONABLE SHOPS & SERVICES Orchard Lake at 14 Mile Rd. Farmington Hills • 573 8050 - 26 FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1990 Soviet Jews to Southfield. Southfield school officials say 40 Soviet students enrolled this year in the public school system. "Hopefully, we will con- tinue to be a Jewish base," Zelda Robinson says. "We in the leadership roles are try- ing to do all we can to con- vince people to stay." City Council member Denise Alexander has no plans to leave Southfield. She found an old ranch home on a street between Tele- graph and Lahser, gutted it and remodeled it to her lik- ing. It overlooks a ravine. Now, Alexander says, she is living in the house she always wanted. And, instead of pay- ing hundreds of thousands of dollars for the house in one of the more northwest suburbs, she paid $90,000 and brought the value up to $140,000 through renova- tions. Southfield, she says, is convenient to her office in Birmingham and to her husband's office in downtown Detroit. Talk about schools eroding is nonsense, she adds. "People think the schools aren't what they used to be because of the Detroit expe- rience. They transfer that perception." Adds a professional black woman, who recently moved from northwest Detroit to Southfield with her young daughter for the schools: "People are scared that their property values will go down because they think blacks and Chaldeans don't keep property up since Detroit is one big slum. "They think Southfield will become a slum," she says. "I would have gone straight to Farmington Hills if I were afraid of that. Blacks want to get away from slums, too." Marla and Joel Gartner have lived for seven years on Bradford Lane in Beacon Square. They have two chil- dren, Michael, 8, and Renay, 5. When they moved there, one-half of the street was Jewish, one-quarter was Chaldean and one-quarter was black. Now, Marla Gartner says, there are three Jewish families. Three-fourths of the neighbors are black and the remainder are Chaldean. Marla Gartner is confused. She likes the diverse popula- tion on her street, but would like more of a Jewish presence in the schools. She doesn't want her children to be in the minority at school. Yet she says she doesn't like West Bloomfield, the place where everyone seems to be going. "This all upsets me," she says. "I have mixed feelings. I am happy here. This is not a racial issue. But I am torn between what you do for yourself and what you do for your kids who are in the schools. "You don't want to be the last Jewish person on your block. It is hard," she says. "This is how it is if you talk to anyone. People who are moving to West Bloomfield and Farmington Hills be- cause they either need bigger houses or they are concerned with the edu- cation of their kids." Andrea Steingold, who moved to Beacon Square seven years ago with her husband, David, wonders whether they should start looking to move. She and David have three children. "I have friends here, but most of my friends are leav- ing or talking about leaving. It seems like the Jewish ones are moving away," she says. "It is like a chain. A few "You don't want to be the last Jewish person on your block." Southfield resident Marla Gartner people move and everyone gets scared. Maybe I should start looking. I love my house. I would like to stay. I feel like I am being forced to move. I wish people would just stay put instead of runn- ing. "I don't want to be the last Jewish person here," she says. "My oldest daughter says there is no one to play with her." Although the northwest migration of the Jewish community appears to be continuing into the 1990s, some Jewish families prefer Southfield. Susan and Ron Taracoff two years ago left a home they built in West Bloom- field for a house in Southfield. Their children attend Hillel. "My husband hated the traffic," Susan Taracoff says. "He would stay at his office at Eight Mile and Greenfield late each night just to avoid traffic." In West Bloomfield, house payments were nearly $1,000 more each month for a house at 15 Mile and Drake. "It was a big house and a healthy payment," he says. "My capital was in a house. The biggest thing was that I was working long hours and driving all of the time. I work in Southfield. Now I live in Southfield." The Taracoffs attend Con- gregation Shaarey Zedek. Their parents live in Southfield. "We have no reason to move," Susan Taracoff says. "Our block is wonderful. You get more for your money here." "Now we are centrally located," Ron Taracoff says. "If everybody would stay, it would be okay. What is everyone running for?" ❑ N EWS Holocaust Memorial For Germany? Bonn (JTA) — A group of prominent Germans, in- cluding scholars and in- dustrialists, have proposed erecting the first monument in Germany to the memory of Jews who perished in the Holocaust. It would be located in the rebuilt heart of a united Berlin, on the site of the chancery from which Hitler ruled the Third Reich, ac- cording to the promoters, who outlined their plans in advertisements published last week in leading news- papers of West and East Berlin. The governing board of the group that sponsored the advertisements consists of Marcus Bierich of the Bosch Co.; Edzard Reuter, chief ex- ecutive officer of Daimler- Benz; Professor Eberhard Jackel of Stuttgart, a historian; Peter Kirchner, leader of the East Berlin Jewish community; author Siegfried Lenz; and conduc- tor Kurt Masur, who has been named to lead the New York Philharmonic Or- chestra. The advertisement notes that nearly 50 years after more than 5 million Jews perished at the hands of the Nazis, no memorial to them has been erected to remind Germans of the most awful crime in their history. The promoters propose that the memorial's design be included in a contest now under way among architects for the best plan to rebuild the area. The site is in the very heart of Berlin.