ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
JEWISH WELFARE FEDERATION
OF DETROIT
I N EWS I
Nominees to the Board of Governors
Pursuant to the bylaws of the JEWISH WELFARE FEDERATION OF DETROIT, the
following list of nominees, selected from the membership of the Federation, eligible
for election to the Board of Governors of the Federation, has been presented to the
Executive Vice-President not less than thirty days prior to the Annual Meeting, to take
place on Tuesday, September 25 at Adat Shalom Synagogue at 6:30 p.m.
FOR RE-ELECTION
3-Year Term Ending in 1993
Eugene Applebaum
Allan Nachman
FOR ELECTION
3-Year Term Ending in 1993
Susan Citrin
Rabbi Elimelech Goldberg
Stephen Grand
Noman D. Katz
David Lebenbom
Lauren K. Liss
Rabbi Harold S. Loss
Claude Schochet, Ph. D.
Jerome L. Schostak
Other persons may be nominated by petition or petitions signed by not fewer than
25 members of the Federation and filed with the Executive Vice-President of the Fed-
eration not less than ten days prior to the date of the Annual Meeting. Only one
person may be nominated in each petition and no nomination shall be valid unless
the nominees have consented to be a candidate.
1990 NOMINATING COMMITTEE
George M. Zeltzer
Chairman
Milton H. Goldrath, M.D.
Mark R. Hauser
Doreen Hermeliln
Benjamin F. Rosenthal
Bruce E. Thal
JEWISH WELFARE FEDERATION OF DETROIT
Robert P. Aronson, Executive Vice-President
163 Madison Avenue • Detroit, MI 48226-2180 • (313) 965-3939
Donald S. Beser, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Robert D. Beitman, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Robert T. Clark, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Amy B. Eston, M.D.
Lawrence L. Stocker, M.D.
Metropolitan Eye
Surgeons
Are Pleased To Announce Their New Associate
Leslie David Grosinger, M.D.
Professional Background:
• University of Michigan, Undergraduate and Medical School
• William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan Internal Medicine Residency
• Sinai Hospital of Detroit, Michigan Ophthalmology Residency
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1990
Jews Reported Dying
As They Wait In Ethiopia
Addis Ababa (JPFS) — The
approximately 15,000 Jews
who have streamed into the
Ethiopian capital in the last
three months hoping to join
their families in Israel are
facing an array of dangers
and difficulties which ap-
pear to be intensifying as
their wait stretches into
weeks and months.
Weakened by the hard-
ships of the often arduous
journey from the remote
villages where they lived,
some 60 Jews, mostly in-
fants and young children,
died here in July, according
to community leaders.
Some of the Jews arriving
here are malnourished and
are suffering from hepatitis,
measles, or pneumonia.
Israeli officials who have
set up a clinic in the em-
bassy grounds believe they
are succeeding in preventing
any further outbreak of
disease. But they are quick
to admit that Ethiopian
Jewry's struggle to survive
in the unfamiliar envi-
ronment of Addis Ababa has
produced some serious prob-
lems.
The crowded living condi-
tions, where families of eight
or more people are often
squeezed into one-room
shacks with muddy floors
and no running water and
electricity, has greatly in-
creased the danger of epi-
demics.
The Israelis, working with
an Ethiopian medical team,
have completed a program of
emergency inoculations and
are working desperately to
examine, and if necessary,
treat all the Jewish children.
Every Jewish family arriv-
ing here is eligible for a sti-
pend from the Jewish Agen-
cy which should be enough
for minimal food, clothing,
and shelter needs. But many
of the landlords in the newly
Jewish neighborhoods sur-
rounding the Israeli Em-
bassy have doubled the
rents.
Food and clothing costs
have also soared. Moreover,
the Jews come from farming
areas and have no experi-
ence with urban life, in-
cluding managing on a
budget, and find themselves
penniless and hungry before
they receive their next mon-
thly stipend.
Because of confusion in the
mass encampment, there are
families who have not
received any of the support
services, and Israeli officials
are also wary of raising the
level of support out of the
fear of arousing the hostility
and envy of gentile
neighbors.
Most Ethiopian Jews
arrived in Addis Ababa
believing that they would re-
join their families in Israel
within days. The state of
limbo in which they now live
is straining their traditions
and sense of community to
the breaking point. There
are no suitable streams for
ritual immersion here, and
some Jews are afraid to
observe Shabbat in the
largely gentile environment.
The Kessim — Ethiopian
Jewry's spiritual leaders —
who are still here are at-
tempting to organize a syn-
agogue, and Israeli officials
have begun an informal
school for the children.
Meanwhile, there are at
least 1,500 Jews still in
villages in the north, either
because they lack the finan-
cial means to travel, or be-
cause they are trapped in a
war zone, where Tigrean and
Eritrean rebels are fighting
Ethiopian government
troops. Small groups of Jews
are still arriving in Addis
Ababa, unaware that the
hardships of their journey to
Zion may have only just
begun.
Israel Plans
Radio Net
For Olim
Tel Aviv (JTA) — The
Israel Broadcasting Au-
thority plans to establish a
new radio network to help
immigrants from the Soviet
Union and Ethiopia in-
tegrate more quickly into
Israeli life.
It will broadcast in Rus-
sian and Amharic, the lang-
uage of Ethiopia.
The IBA, a quasi-
governmental agency, is ac-
ting on the recommendation
of Minister of Education and
Culture Zevulun Hammer.
He proposed that it broad-
cast Hebrew lessons, lec-
tures on Jewish festivals,
values, traditions and
Israel's geography for the
benefit of the immigrants.
At present, radio programs
for immigrants consist of
news bulletins aired three
times a day in five-to-15-
minute segments.
The new network could
provide jobs for immigrant
journalists, producers and
other professionals, Mr.
Hammer suggested.
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