COMMUNITY
Detroit Round Table
Honors Civic Leaders
Three Detroit civic leaders
were honored by the Greater
Detroit Interfaith Round
Table of the National Con-
ference of Christians and
Jews at its 1990 Brotherhood
Dinner.
Receiving the organiza-
tion's National Human Rela-
tions Award were Charles
Fisher III, chairman and
president, NBD Bank; Walter
McCarthy Jr., retired chair-
man of Detroit Edison, and
Alan Schwartz, senior part-
ner, Honigman, Miller,
Schwartz and Cohn. Dinner
chairman was Harold Poling,
chairman of Ford Motor
Company.
The award recipients were
honored for their commit-
ment to the Metro Detroit
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community and their
business leadership. All three
have been actively involved in
identifying problems and
charting solutions in Metro
Detroit through the Detroit
Strategic Plan. In addition,
they have been volunteers in
the organization as co-chairs
of the board of directors. All
three were instrumental in
widening the scope of the
organization by increasing
Muslim participation.
Support for the organiza-
tion is at record levels with
corporations and private
citizens donating more than
$300,000. Proceeds from the
Brotherhood Dinner will go to
support the many efforts of
the Round Table to bring peo-
Harold Poling, Charles Fisher, Alan Schwartz, Walter McCarthy Jr. and
Michael Berry at the Brotherhood Dinner.
ple of different religions and
racial groups together to im-
prove human relations in the
commuhity.
Programs of the Greater
Detroit Interfaith Round
Table include: the Muslim,
Christian and Jewish Leader-
ship Forum, Youth Symposia
on the Holocaust, Anytown
USA; a human relations
camp for youth, an associa-
tion of business and clergy
leaders, the Women's Divi-
sion, the American Arabic
and Jewish Friends, police
and community relations
programs.
Children's Opera
Highlights Project
Claude Schochet and Mark Schlussel with last year's outstanding
teacher, Samuel Semp.
Welfare Federation
Seeks Teacher Nominees
Nominations are being ac-
cepted through Jan. 31, 1991,
for the third annual Schochet
Family Outstanding Teacher
Award. It is sponsored by the
Frank and Freda Schochet
Fund of United Jewish
Charities in partnership with
the Jewish Welfare
Federation.
Anyone can submit names
of candidates, who must be in-
volved in Jewish education in
the greater Detroit area. The
award emphasizes teacher
recognition for people who
dedicate their careers to
enhancing a Jewish identity
among students in the
community.
The winner will receive up
to $3,000 to fund a project he
or she proposes in an area of
Jewish learning and
teaching. Nominees will be
judged on the potential
benefits of their proposals, as
well as their individual
qualities. These include pro-
fessionalism, an ability to be
innovative, a demonstrated
commitment to Jewish educa-
tion and empathy with
students and their families.
The winner of last year's
award was Samuel Semp, the
ritual director and a teacher
at Congregation Beth
Shalom. He received the
award for a proposal to
develop and implement a
special curriculum on Jewish
morals and ethics for seventh
graders.
Frank Schochet, active in
the Minneapolis Jewish com-
munity, extended his interest
in Jewish education to
Detroit, where members of
his family reside.
Names of candidates should
be submitted to the Schochet
Award Committee. For entry
forms and information, call
Carla Newman at the Jewish
Welfare Federation, 965-3939.
Brundibar, a children's
opera originally performed by
Jewish youth imprisoned in a
concentration camp during
the Holocaust, is part of a
year-long project of the
Holocaust Memorial Center
of West Bloomfield.
On Dec. 14 at 11 a.m., the
preview performance (free ad-
mission) of Brundibar will be
held for students of middle
and high school age. Follow-
ing the opera, a panel of
young people will discuss the
significance of the Holocaust
and Armenian massacre to
young people today. This con-
temporary significance will
also be highlighted by a pro-
logue and epilogue written by
Professor Guy Stern of Wayne
State University.
The premier performance of
Brundibar will be Dec. 15, 8
p.m. at Wayne State Univer-
sity's Community Arts
Auditorium. Tickets are a
minimum donation of $8 and
can be obtained from the
Holocaust Memorial Center,
661-0840; or the Hilberry box
office, 577-2972.
On Dec. 16 at 2 p.m. a per-
formance of the opera
organized by Cantor Harold
Orbach will be performed for
families under the sponsor-
ship of the Keffy Orbach
Family Concert Fund in
cooperation with the
Holocaust Memorial Center
at Temple Israel in West
Blomfield. Phase II will in-
clude expanding perfor-
mances in the greater
Metropolitan area and out-
state. Phase III will be the
production of a videotape of
the opera with accompanying
curriculum materials.
Brundibar is a story of
children's hope, courage and
perseverance. The opera is a
morality tale that tells the
story of a group of children
trying to buy milk for their
ailing mother. They en-
counter a series of obstacles
provided by a hurdy-gurdy
man named Brundibar. In its
literal sense, Brundibar
reflects the universal lesson
of goodness triumphing over
evil.
Children imprisoned and
facing eventual death in
Theresienstadt, the Nazi's
showcase concentration camp,
found spiritual escape in per-
forming Brundibar.
For information, call the
Holocaust Memorial Center,
661-0840; or Wayne State Un-
iversity's Music Depart-
ment, 577-1795.
Pointe Council
Sets Party
The Grosse Pointe Jewish
Council will have a children's
Chanukah party 1-3 p.m. Dec.
16 at the Grosse Pointe
Unitarian Church Annex,
17150 Maumee, Grosse
Pointe. The charge per child
will include food, activities,
favors and entertainment.
For information, call Alan
Blender, 885-0741.
Dr. Alan Lee Keyes, diplo-
mat and authority on the
Middle East, will open the
1991 Allied Jewish Cam-
paign Jan. 17.
The community-wide event
at Congregation Shaarey
Zedek will begin at 7:30 p.m:
with a dessert reception
following Dr. Keyes' address.
Dr. Keyes, a resident
scholar with the American
Enterprise Institute for
Public Policy, a Washington
think-tank, has been one of
Israel's strongest supporters,
particularly in his role as U.S.
ambassador to the UN
Economic and Social Council.
Serving as an assistant
secretary of state in the
Reagan Administration, he
orchestrated the U.S. effort to
achieve reform at the UN and
spoke out against the
"Zionism is Racism"
campaign.
Dr. Keyes served in his first
diplomatic post as vice-coun-
sul in India. In 1983, Jeanne
Kirkpatrick, then U.S.
ambassador to the United Na-
tions, selected Dr. Keyes to
serve as U.S. representative to
UNESCO with the rank of
ambassador. Two years later
Alan Keyes
he was named assistant
secretary of state for interna-
tional organization affairs
with the responsibility for
charting U.S. relations with
76 international organi-
zations.
Dr. Keyes is president of
Citizens Against Government
Waste, a consumer advocacy
group.
There will be no solicitation
of gifts at the meeting. There
is a charge for the reception
and reservations are re-
quired. For information, call
the Campaign office at
Federation, 965-3939.
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