COMMUNITY
Women's Division Is Planning
Ethics Panel And Luncheon
JCCouncil
Opens Nominations
The Jewish Community
Council is accepting sugges-
tions from community mem-
bers for potential nominees to
the Council board of directors.
The election will be held at
the Council's annual meeting
in May.
Those wishing to nominate
a candidate should call the
Council, 642-5393, to request
a Candidate Information
Form. Completed forms
should be submitted to Hon.
Susan Moiseev, Chairperson,
Jewish Community Council
Nominating Committee, 6735
Telegraph, Suite 100, Bloom-
field Hills, MI 48031 by Feb.
14.
Potential candidates must
be Council delegates in good
standing as of the May
election.
for clients who are within six
months of death.
Recipient of the Burns En-
dowment of Ethics Grant to
develop programs on medical
ethics with the Wayne State
University Medical School,
Rabbi Finkelman oversees
educational, cultural and
social programs for college
students and faculty at area
college campuses.
Food for Thought is a forum
to educate the participants on
important Jewish issues and
to reach out to women not yet
involved in Women's Division.
The next program will take
place April 29.
There is a charge for the
event; there will be no
solicitation of gifts. For reser-
vations, call Women's Divi-
sion, 642-4260, ext. 183.
Home Improvement
Is Topic Of Show
Lon Grossman, home repair
expert and Detroit Free Press
columnist, will speak on "The
How-lb's of Home Improve-
ment" at Home Sweet Home,
a home improvement show
sponsored by the Neighbor-
hood Project, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Feb. 9 at the Southfield
Pavilion.
The fair, co-sponsored by the
City of Southfield and The
Jewish News, will exhibit and
demonstrate the latest home
improvement techniques.
More than 40 contractors will
be available for consultation.
Mr. Grossman, a licensed
builder, has been active in the
building and real estate in-
dustry for 27 years. President
of Technihouse Inspections,
Inc., a residential and com-
mercial building inspection
company, he appears fre-
quently on television and
radio.
Other speakers at the
event, which is geared to
small improvements as well
as large projects, will dis-
cuss architectural plans, in-
terior and landscape design.
Booths will feature local con-
tractors and bank loan repre-
sentatives.
Barbara Krass, founder of
Colorworks Studio, will lead
.
U.S.-Israel Forum
To Be At Beth Achim
Lon Grossman
"Renewing Spaces," a discus-
sion on renovating rooms and
interior design for all sizes of
jobs. Architect Leo Stein will
talk about planning home
remodeling as opposed to buy-
ing a different house. Cynthia
Richardson, a landscape
designer and advanced
master gardener with Four
Seasons Garden Center, will
speak about exterior design.
For information, call
the Neighborhood Project,
967-1112.
Adult Classes At Akiva
Akiva Hebrew Day School
will introduce a new adult
education series Jan. 29 for
six weeks. Courses will be in
Judaic and Hebrew areas. All
classes will be held in the
Akiva building, 27700 South-
field Road.
Three hourly, concurrent
courses will be offered
7:30-8:30 p.m. Channa Green-
field will present a course for
beginners in Hebrew reading;
Edward Codish will teach an
intermediate course in
Jewish history from the time
of the emancipation through
modern times; Rabbi Marc
Congregation B'nai David and the Jewish National Fund held their
third annual brunch in honor of Tola Schwarzberg. Funds were raised
to establish a grove of 1,000 trees to be planted in the Rabbi Leo
Jung Forest in Safad. The gathering included Max Sosin, Mrs.
Schwarzberg, Rabbi Morton Yolkut and Alex Blumenberg.
Volk will discuss the Jewish
life cycle.
Three classes will be offered
8:30-9:30 p.m. Rabbi Eliezer
Cohen will present an under-
standing of the halachic pro-
cess, and Rabbi Moshe
Englander will teach Ethics
of the Fathers. These courses
are intermediate level. A
third course, kashruth for
beginners, will be taught by
Rabbi Zev Shimansky.
These courses are offered
without charge. For informa-
tion, call the school office,
552-9690.
The Zionist Organization of
America, Metro Detroit
District, and Congregation
Beth Achim will present a
public forum on U.S.-Israel
Relations and the Arab-
Israeli Peace Process 2 p.m.
Jan. 26 at Congregaton Beth
Achim.
The speaker will be
Douglas Feith, deputy assis-
tant secretary of defense in
the Reagan administration
and a former counsel to
Richard Perle, assistant
secretary of defense. Mr. Feith
will analyze the administra-
tion's Mideast diplomacy, the
Arab-Israeli conflict and
adherence to the land-for-
peace concept.
Mr. Feith's writings on in-
ternational law and foreign
and defense policy have ap-
peared in newspapers and
journals. His responsibilities
in the Defense Department
included formulation of policy
for the conventional force
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Four viewpoints on the
right to die — legal, medical,
rabbinical and humanitarian
— will be examined at the
next Food for Thought lun-
cheon, sponsored by the
Jewish Federation Women's
Division 11:30 a.m.-2:15 p.m.
Jan. 29 at the Birmingham
Community House, 380 S.
Bates.
The gathering will feature
a four-member panel of ex-
perts on medical ethics. The
panel will include: Virginia
Benner, an attorney and vice
president of Human
Resources and Legal Services
at Sinai Hospital; Dr. Gerald
Mandell, chairman of the
hospital's ethics committee;
Rabbi Louis (Eliezer)
Finkelman, director of the
B'nai B'rith Hillel Founda-
tions of Metropolitan Detroit;
and Evelyn Liberman, direc-
tor of volunteer services for
the Hospice of Southeastern
Michigan.
Ms. Benner is a member of
the National Health Lawyers
Association and the Michigan
Society of Hospital Attorneys.
She sits on the health care
committee of the State Bar of
Michigan.
Dr. Mandell is a vice presi-
dent for medical affairs at
Sinai Hospital and chairman
of the Department of
Laboratory Medicine. He
serves on the Wayne County
Medical Society's Ethics
Committee and is past presi-
dent of the Michigan Society
of Pathologists.
Ms. Liberman led her
organization in caring for
1,100 terminally ill patients
last year. The Hospice cares
Douglas Feith
reduction talks in Vienna,
the Geneva Conference on
Disarmament in Europe and
nuclear non-proliferation
issues.
There is no charge for the
meeting.
Family Concert At JPM
The Boaz Siegel Culture
Fund will present the third in
the Sunday Family Concert
Series 2 p.m. Jan. 26 at the
Jimmy Prentis Morris Jewish
Community Center. It will
feature cellist Irina
Tikhonova with Ludmila
Lemberg, pianist.
Irina Tikhonova held the
position of assistant principal
cellist of the State Symphony
Orchestra of Radio and Televi-
sion in Kiev, Ukraine. She
also was chamber music in-
structor on the faculty of the
State Conservatory of Music
in Kiev. For four years she
performed with the Ensemble
of Philharmonic Soloists in
Kiev. She also has been a
member of the Renaissance
Chamber Orchestra and the
Harmony Philharmonic
Ensemble of Soloists.
Ms. Tikhonova is a member
of the Allen Park Symphony
cello section and teaches cello
and piano at the Jewish Com-
munity Center of Metro-
politan Detroit and privately.
Ms. Tikhonova's program
for the concert will include
compositions by Faure,
Tschaikowsky, Boccerini and
Gliere. There is a fee; special
family rates are available.
For ticket information, call
Diane Sands, 967-4030.
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