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"We will have to increase our fi- nancial base and member- ship base. No congregations have ever had funding to maintain services forever. We will look at needs for to- day and for tomorrow." Dr. Gordon said the con- gregation will be more ag- gressive in efforts to attract the unaffiliated toward Con- servative Judaism. Meanwhile, B'nai Moshe has no rabbi, no Hebrew school, an unfinished building and membership is at 320 units. Since selling its Oak Park building to the Jewish Federation two years ago, services have been held at the Maple-Drake Jewish Community Center. Steven Schneider, ex- ecutive director for B'nai Moshe, said a search com- mittee has formed in the last week to hire a rabbi, ex- pected to begin work no later than April when the new Managing Editor • Major Brands • Contemporary and Traditional Styles • Expert Installation • 15 Years Experience QUALITY DISCOUNT FLOORING, INC. 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B'nai Moshe members al- ready have committed $1.2 million above dues and building fees for the con- gregation and the new facili- ty. In the last two years, over half of the monies have been collected, Mr. Schneider said. "B'nai Moshe is going to make it," he said. "The membership understands there is a tough road ahead, but they are committed." Added Mr. Gordon of Beth Achim, "We will survive. You can put that down as a fact." ( N ❑ 40th Book Fair Draws Crowd To JCC PHIL JACOBS Sheldon Weisman I or Sallyjo Levine, heaven is a bag of Oreo cookies, a good book and time to read it. Mrs. Levine didn't have her cookies on Tuesday night, but she was almost in heaven at the Maple/Drake JCC where the 40th annual Jewish Book Fair was taking place. Mrs. Levine, for six years the chairman of the chil- dren's section of the Book Fair, has the challenge and joy of previewing dozens and dozens of children's books for display and sale. She said the face of chil- dren's reading has expanded during her six-year tenure. Children's books can be identified as anything rang- ing from a plastic bathtub book for a toddler to a book involving social action for a teen. Social action also seems to be the trend in books for almost any child who can read. Issues such as the homeless, Soviet and E- thiopian Jewry are becom- ing part of a Jewish child's library. "Kids are reading a lot more when it comes to major issues that affect them and the world," she said. "We give the kids a variety of these issues to choose from here at Book Fair. Yes, there are important books on the Holocaust here for them. But there are also titles that in- volve teen-age suicide." Mrs. Levine, who teaches nursery school at Temple Beth El, said there were no books this year on AIDS, but that basketball star Magic Johnson's announcement made AIDS a topic that many children coming to Book Fair wanted to discuss. She said that for the rest of Book Fair, which will run through 9 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 20, a highlight for chil- dren will be the presentation of the folktale, "It Could Always Be Worse." The production, presented by the Children's Enter- tainment Co., is scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 17, at 2 p.m. There is a $4 admission. Book Fair Co-Chair Joyce Sherman said patrons are purchasing many of the books by those authors who are speaking. Because Chanukah is earlier this year, the Book Fair has become a perfect resource for gifts, she said. Cultural Arts Director N