COMMUNITY
Irving And Sarah Pitt
To Be Cited By JNF
Irving and Sarah Pitt will
be honored at the 28th an-
nual Keter Shem Tov —
Crown of Good Name —
award dinner sponsored by
Jewish National Fund on
June 18 at Congregation
Shaarey Zedek.
Irving Nusbaum will serve
as general chairman of the
dinner. Dinner co-chair-
persons are David L. Bittker,
Stuart M. Bordman, Michael
Brooks, George Grafe, Dennis
and Sandra Dembs, Dr. Ar-
thur and Rochelle Lieber-
man, Sol Moss, Dr. Owen Z.
Perlman, Peter A. Perlman,
Herbert A. Pichler, Mack
Pitt, Murray and Ina Pitt, Dr.
Terry and Meryl Podolsky,
Nathan D. Rubenstein, An-
drea Sachse, Robert V. and
Bluma Schechter, Sherman
Shapiro, Donald R. Simon,
Norton E. Stern, Joel D.
Tauber and Charles H.
Tobias.
Irving and Sarah Pitt have
aided Jewish students at area
universities with scholarship
funds and leadership training
opportunities, including na-
tional conferences and stu-
dent visits to Jews in the
Soviet Union.
Yom Hazikaron
Service April 16
Sarah, Irving Pitt
Mr. and Mrs. Pitt also sup-
port a series of programs at
the University of Michigan
Hillel aimed at fostering stu-
dent involvement and
understanding of contem-
porary issues.
The Pitts are active at Tem-
ple Israel and support the
B'nai B'rith Youth Appeal,
the Anti-Defamation League
and the City of Hope. Mr. Pitt
is a member of the B'nai
B'rith Hillel Commission.
of the co-authors of "Life Un-
worthy of Life," a curriculum
on the Holocaust that is in in-
ternational distribution.
The program will also
feature a candle-lighting
ceremony by individuals from
around the state who ex-
perienced the Holocaust as
children.
The Michigan Historical
Museum is at 717-Allegan at
the corner of Washtenaw.
Parking is available across
the street.
The Holocaust commemora-
tion is sponsored by the
Michigan Jewish Conference
and the Jewish Community
Council of Metropolitan
Detroit. For information, call
the Council, 962-1880.
JWF Forms Plan Unit
The Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion will undergo a year-long
strategic planning process to
provide a blueprint for
Federation's future.
Mark Schlussel, president
of Federation, has named
David Page as chairman of
the committee.
A vice president of Federa-
tion, Mr. Page chaired the
The board of governors of
the Michigan Jewish Sports
Hall of Fame will sponsor a
program of scholarship fun-
ding from the Louis Handler
Memorial Fund to the Fresh
Air Society. The money will
be used to help needy
children spend a session at
camp this summer. The Fund
was created in memory of Lou
Handler by his former Camp
Tamakwa campers in 1989 on
the occasion of Mr. Handler's
induction into the Hall of
Fame.
Raymond Tanter
State Holocaust Event
In Lansing On April 17
The annual State of
Michigan Holocaust com-
memoration will be held noon
April 17 at the Michigan
Historical Museum in Lans-
ing. The theme of this year's
commemoration is "Through
the Eyes of Children" and
will focus on bigotry and pre-
judice through the eyes of
children who lived through
the Holocaust.
Governor John Engler will
{present a gubernatorial pro-
clamation for Week of
Remembrance, and Represen-
tative Maxine Berman will
act as legislative host.
Keynote speaker will be Dr.
Sidney Bolkosky, professor of
history at the University of
Michigan-Dearborn, and one
Hall Of Fame
Camp Fund
Task Force on Identity and
Affiliation.
Detroit is one of several
federations conducting such a
process, which follows the
18-month Detroit Jewish
population study. The consul-
tant to that report, Dr. Jacob
Ukeles, has also been named
consultant to the Strategic
Planning Committee.
Yom Hazikaron, Israel
Memorial Day, will be observ-
ed in community-sponsored
ceremonies 7:30 p.m. April 16
at Congregation Beth Achim.
The evening will include a
presentation of the colors, a
memorial torch lighting, flag
lowering ceremony, a Yizkor
service, a reading of the poem
"The Silver Platter" and a
speech by Moshe Fox, Israel
consul for media and cultural
affairs.
Berman Award
Nominations Asked
Nominations are being ac-
cepted for the fourth annual
Berman Award for Outstan-
ding Professional Service.
Created by Mandell and
Madeleine Berman, the
award will go to a Jewish
communal professional
employed by the Jewish
Welfare Federation or a
Federation beneficiary.
Nominees for the Berman
Award must have worked in
the Detroit Jewish communi-
ty a minimum of five years.
They must have demon-
strated the highest profes-
sional standards in their
chosen field; made a contribu-
tion to the general good of the
Jewish community; demon-
strated leadership and in-
novation in their profession
and applied creativity, dedica-
tion, knowledge and care to
providing services to the
Jewish community.
Nominations may be sub-
mitted by letter to the selec-
tion committee no later than
May 15. Names of the
nominees will remain con-
fidential, and they may be
renominated in subsequent
years.
Address nominations to
Michael Berke — Confiden-
tial, Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion, 163 Madison, Detroit,
Mi. 48226-2180.
Edith Frankel
Israel And Mideast
Is Hebrew U. Topic
Two Mideast experts will
discuss "After the Storm:
Israel and the Changing New
World Order" in a celebration
of Israel Independence Day,
7:30 p.m. April 17 at Con-
gregation Shaarey Zedek.
Sponsored by the Michigan
Chapter of . the American
Friends of the Hebrew
University, the forum will
feature Professors Edith
Frankel and Raymond Tanter.
Edith Frankel is director of
the Mayrock Center for
Soviet and East European
Studies at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem. She
also serves as director of the
Office of Academic Affairs of
the university's Rothberg
School for Overseas Students.
She will be speaking on
Israel's domestic agenda after
the Gulf crisis.
Dr. Tanter is professor of
political science at the
University of Michigan. He
was a visiting professor of in-
ternational relations at
Hebrew University from
1973-78.
He served as the personal
representative of the
Secretary of Defense at the
Conference on Confidence
and Security-Building
Measures and Disarmament
in Europe, Helsinki and
Stockholm,. 1983-84. Prof.
Tanter will address Israel's
relations with its Arab
neighbors.
Co-chairs of the forum are
Harold Berry and Allan
Nachman. Program chairper-
son is Esther Liwazer. The
event is free and open to the
public.
Women's Groups
Hear Groner, Maida
Archbishop Adam Maida,
Archbishop of Detroit, and
Rabbi Irwin Groner, president
of the Rabbinical Assembly,
will speak at the annual joint
meeting of the League of
Jewish Women and the
League of Catholic Women
12:30 p.m. April 10 at St.
Hugo of the Hills in Bloom-
field Hills. The topic will be
"Catholic-Jewish Dialogue:
An Unfinished Journey."
This event represents the
first time since Archbishop
Maida has come to Detroit
that he will publicly engage
in a dialogue with the Jewish
community. He was introduc-
ed to the community at a
gathering at Congregation
Shaarey Zedek shortly after
his arrival last spring.
Rabbi Groner was recently
among a delegation of Jewish
leaders who met in the
Vatican with Pope John Paul
Groner
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II. The delegation engaged in
dialogue with Catholic
spokesmen on the condition of
Catholic-Jewish relations
since the Nostra Aetate, the
Papal statement of 1965, call-
ing for greater understanding
of and renewed respect for
Judaism by the Catholic
Church.
This meeting is open to the
entire community.
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