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sion chairman, will seek to in-
volve more workers and more
contributors in the annual
Super Sunday, scheduled for
Dec. 2. Howard Tapper and
Janice Schwartz, both past
phonathon chairmen, again
are chairing the phonathons
committee.
Campaign leaders Irwin
Alterman and Ellen Labes
will head the Worker Educa-
tion Committee.
Morris Rochlin, a past AJC
chairman will take the Cam-
paign to prospective local con-
tributors spending winter
months in Florida.
Irving Laker, past chair-
man of Industrial and
Automotive Division, is chair-
man of collection review,
which oversees collection of
gifts pledged in past years.
Past Campaign Chairmen
Marvin Goldman and Emery
Klein, co-chairmen of cash
collection, are already seek-
ing payments on pledges.
Marta Rosenthal and
Robert Orley again are
organizing the Walk for
Israel, the annual event
which brings the community
together in solidarity.
Beverly Liss, a member of
the Women's Division Cam-
paign Executive Cabinet, will
chair the Speakers Bureau,
which makes presentations
on Federation and its services
to synagogues and other
organizations.
Sheri Schiff and Alan Yost,
both of whom have worked ex-
tensively with young people,
head the Youth Committee,
seeking to increase awareness
of the Campaign among
teens.
Dennis Bernard and Jo
Frank, who serve on the na-
tional United Jewish Appeal
Young Leadership Cabinet,
will co-chair Campaign's
Young Leadership Commit-
tee, which focuses on outreach
to Detroit's young adults.
Alan J. Kaufman, past At-
torneys Section chairman,
and Bluma Schechter, a
Women's Division worker
training chairman will head
the Worker Recruitment
Committee.
James August, vice presi-
dent of Federation and a past
Campaign worker education
and training chairman,
chairs the Project Renewal
Committee, which will
oversee relationships with
Detroit's sister cities of
Yavneh and Ramla.
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Rabbi Card Craze
Hits Hollywood
TOM TUGEND
Special to The Jewish News
T
he very latest in
Hollywood fads is
trading rabbi cards,
and a slightly dog-eared
Yisroel Twersky or Joel
Teitelbaum will get you a
mint- condition Shlomo
Auerbach or Yerachmiel
Meir Kalish.
Long used to introduce
yeshiva and Hebrew School
students to the faces of the
eminent Talmudic sages,
and more recently a fad in
the northeast corridor of the
U.S.,the cards were
discovered last spring by
show-biz attorney Renee
Golden in a little Judaica
shop in the Flatbush area of
Brooklyn.
"I saw these wonderful
faces and the shop owner
told me lots of people were
collecting them, so I decided
to collect them, too," Ms.
Golden told Los Angeles
magazine, which devotes
two full pages to the
phenomenon in its current
issue.
Back in L.A., Ms. Golden
found several shops in the
Fairfax district that sold the
cards and introduced her
friends to the game.
"Stephen Haft (producer of
Dead Poets Society) and I
were having tea the day
before the Academy
Awards," she said. "I show-
ed him the cards and he lov-
ed them." The same eve-
ning, Mr. Haft turned come-
dians Billy Crystal (Jewish)
and Robin Williams (non-
Jewish) on to the cards and
"they just flipped," he re-
ported. Since then, a whole
string of Hollywood pro-
ducers, writers and actors
have joined in the rabbi card
craze.
There is a lofty motive to
all this, according to pro-
ducer-writer Allan Blye (The
Mary Tyler Moore show).
"These cards celebrate the
intellectual rather than the
physical, as baseball cards
do," he said.
Since money is still the
ultimate status symbol,
Charlie Fleischer, the voice
of Roger Rabbit, claims to
have insured his two-set col-
lection for $20 million. ❑
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