COMMUNITY
Annual Holocaust Academy
By Shaarit Haplaytah April 14
Miller, and in memory of all
deceased members of Shaarit
Haplaytah by Sam Seltzer.
Cantor Chaim Najman, of
Congregation Shaarey Zedek,
will chant memorial prayers,
accompanied by Cantor
Sholom Kalib.
Greetings will be extended
by Leon Halpern, president,
Holocaust Memorial Center;
Henry S. Dorfman, chairman
executive committee, HMC;
Mark Schlussel, president,
Jewish Welfare Federation;
Linda Lee, president, Jewish
Community Center; Robert
A. Arcand, director, Greater
Detroit Interfaith Round
Table of the National Con-
ference of Christians and
Jews; Colonel Jimmi W.
Hanes, Jr., Commander,
379th Combat Support
Group, Wurtsmith Air Force
Base; Michael Eizelman,
chairman, Holocaust Com-
mittee, Jewish Community
Council; and Charles Silow,
president, Children of
Holocaust Survivors Associa-
tion of Michigan.
Memorial musical selec-
tions will be presented by
Jocelyn Ruth Krieger,
pianist. Shoshana Kraus will
give a recitation.
Proclamations will be
acknowledged by Irvin
Gastman, Junior Division of
Shaarit Haplaytah.
Rabbi Charles H. Rosenz-
veig, director of the Holocaust
Memorial Center, will deliver
the memorial address.
Ely Katz, commander of the
Jewish War Veterans of the
United States of America,
Department of Michigan, will
present the colors. The
academy will be concluded at
the Eternal Light, Holocaust
Memorial Center.
Student Holocaust Symposium
Helps Make A Difference
(Editor's note: Each year,
the lives of thousands of
Jews in Detroit are touch-
ed by the Jewish Welfare
Federation and its Allied
Jewish Campaign.)
Madhavi Dandu never
thought much about the
Holocaust. The 15-year-old
Mercy High School
sophomore was more con-
cerned with school work
and world politics as
studied in the Model
United Nations Club. Then
she attended a Holocaust
symposium.
"I am amazed that
anything like that could
happen," she said. "Prior
to attending the sym-
posium, I knew only what
I'd learned in school: the
number of deaths, the ways
of murder and historical
dates."
Ms.Dandu, who is Hin-
du, and four classmates at-
tended the most recent of
the semi-annual Holocaust
symposia co-sponsored by
the Jewish Community
Council. Following the pro-
gram, the students taught
the Holocaust section in
their world religions class.
"They bring back their
impressions from the liv-
ing testimonies of the ac-
tual survivors, not just a
history lesson," said
Madhavi Dandu
teacher John Shultz.
"They teach about the
stark reality of the
memorial."
Born in southern India
and a resident of Canton
Township, Ms.Dandu was
moved after talking with
the survivors. "I think
(they) were the most effec-
tive part of the program.
The symposium allowed
me to listen to some peo-
ple's feelings, how it was in
the camps," she said.
At Mercy, an all-female
Catholic high school, the
class studied the pre-World
War II era and European
anti-Semitism.
"I realize it is impossible
to fully understand or even
grasp the reality of the
Holocaust, but I have gain-
ed a better understanding
of it," she said.
Before she taught her
classmates about the
Holocaust, "it was not a
common topic of conversa-
tion. Now, it seems like a
good topic to bring up,"
Ms.Dandu said.
The big lesson for her en-
tire class, she believes, is
"if everyone learned about
it, it couldn't happen again
. . . not without some sort
of intervention."
The Holocaust sym-
posium is an interfaith
event designed to teach
and reinforce the lessons of
the Holocaust in a way
that would be meaningful
to young people. In addi-
tion to the Jewish Com-
munity Council, the sym-
posium is co-sponsored by
the Greater Detroit Inter-
faith Round Table — Na-
tional Conference of Chris-
tians and Jews and the
Holocaust Memorial
Center.
The Jewish Community
Council and member or-
ganizations link Jewish
and non-Jewish communi-
ties, taking an active role
in interfaith and inter-
ethnic relations, Holocaust
education and fighting
hunger and homelessness.
The Council also promotes
U.S.-Israel connections and
human rights through the
Soviet Jewry Committee.
General Yehuda Halevy, Bar-Van's national executive vice president,
briefed the university's Detroit leadership recently. Pictured with
General Halevy are David Hermelin, Barbara Stollman and Neal
Zalenko.
JVS To Celebrate
Its 50th Anniversary
.
Jewish Vocational Service
will celebrate a half-century
of service to the community
with a celebration com-
memorating the changing
tides of immigration to the
Detroit area 6:30 p.m. April
24 at Congregation Shaarey
Zedek.
The event will showcase the
native foods of the Jewish im-
migrants the agency has serv-
ed through the years. Cuisine
will include Eastern and
Western Europe, the Middle
East and America. Dietary
laws will be observed.
The Bill Meyer Orchestra
and roving ethnic musicians
will provide music for
dancing.
For ticket information, call
Tom Clynes, 559-5000.
Hillel Announces
Patron Event
Hillel Day School will host
a patron event 6 p.m. April 10
at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Allan Nachman with speaker
Ari Goldman, religion cor-
respondent of the New York
Times. Patron chairmen are
Beverly Liss and Robert
Schostak.
Mrs. Liss is active in the
Jewish Welfare Federation
and a board member of Adat
Shalom Synagogue. She is
secretary of the Jewish Com-
munity Center. Mr. Schostak
is a Hillel Day School
graduate and a former board
member of the Jewish Com-
munity Center. He is a
member of Adat Shalom
Synagogue.
The patron event is a
Liss
Schostak
prelude to the Hillel annual
dinner to be held May 1 at
Adat Shalom with speaker
Bernard Kalb, former assis-
tant secretary of state for
public affairs and a former
news correspondent.
For information, call Hillel,
851-6950.
ZOA Will Hear
Samarian Mayor
Ron Nachman, the mayor of
Ariel, Samaria, will address
ZOA's Einstein Luncheon
Forum noon March 26 at the
Zionist Cultural Center in
Southfield.
A fourth generation sabra,
Mr. Nachman was brought up
in Nes-Tsiyona, where his
father served as deputy-
mayor. He is a graduate of the
University of Tel Aviv.
In 1973 Mr. Nachman
gathered together a group of
young families, who were to
become the founders of Ariel.
For reservations, call ZOA,
569-1515.
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Haplaytah
Shaarit
Organization of Metropolitan
Detroit — Survivors of the
Nazi Genocide, will hold the
annual Holocaust Memorial
Academy 1 p.m. April 14 at
the Maple-Drake Jewish
Community Center.
The annual academy is held
in conjunction with the obser-
vance of Yom Hashoah —
Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Arthur Weiss is chairman of
the event.
A candlelighting ceremony
by the survivors of the con-
centration camps and ghettos
will include: Jane Salzberg,
Hedy Simonovic, Esther
Stybel, Irving Gutman, Mar-
cus Last and Marcel Thir-
man. They will be accom-
panied by children and grand-
children of survivors.
A candle will be lit in
memory of fallen Israeli
soldiers and civilians by Jack