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FEBRUARY 14, 1992 / 10 ADAR 5752
U-M Invites
Black Activist
NOAM M.M. NEUSNER
Staff Writer
D
r. Leonard Jeffries,
who last summer said
Jewish movie moguls
and the Mafia conspire to
denigrate blacks, will speak
at the University of Mich-
igan later this month.
U-M's Black Student
Union invited Dr. Jeffries to
speak as part of its Black
History Month celebrations.
Other activities include
several forums, a film, a tal-
ent show and a salute to
Malcolm X.
Dr. Jeffries will be speak-
ing on "Media Lynching: the
destruction of African
people," 7 p.m. Feb. 18 in an
open lecture at the Michigan
Union.
Last summer, Dr. Jeffries,
who is chairman of the Afro-
American Studies Depart-
ment at City College of New
York, gave a speech where
he not only made his charge
against Jewish filmmakers,
but he also said that Jews fi-
nanced and supported the
slave trade.
Dr. Jeffries is also a
leading proponent of the
Afrocentric academic
movement. He has repeated-
ly called for the study of
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Chasidim Shaken
By NY Murder
AMY J. MEHLER
Staff Writer
A
sher and Henna
White of Crown
Heights, N.Y., live
one block from where 38-
year-old Pesha Leah Lapine
was knifed to death.
The Lubavitch mother of
four young children was
stabbed more than 30 times
in the chest and neck, accor-
ding to the medical ex-
aminer. She was discovered
at about 4 p.m. Feb. 6 by her
5-year-old son, Avrumi.
When he couldn't get into
the house, the little boy tried
a neighbor, who looked
through a window and saw
Mrs. Lapine's body lying on
the living room couch.
Also that night, a Jewish
couple was beaten and
mugged three blocks from
the Lapines' home. That in-
cident is being classified as a
bias crime because the two
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Federation Sells
Butzel Building
NOAM M.M. NEUSNER
Staff Writer
Since David Died
Dr. Burton and Judy Stillman seek answers to the
mystery of their 26-year-old son's death last
August at a ski resort in Switzerland.
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F
ederation officials an-
nounced Tuesday that
they had sold the Fred
Butzel Building in
downtown Detroit to the
Waycor Development Co.
The purchase price was not
disclosed.
Waycor is owned by
Donald Barden, who also
owns Barden Cablevision.
The Butzel Building, at
163 Madison, was the home
to the Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit for 40
years. In December, Federa-
tion moved its main ad-
ministrative offices to the
Max Fisher Building on
Telegraph Road near Maple
Road. The Butzel sale was
approved by Federation's
real estate committee two
months after Waycor made
an offer on the building.
' Discussions between Fed-
eration officials and Mr.
Barden had been going on
for about a year.
Some office space in the
building will be leased by
Waycor to the Federation,
the Jewish Community
Council, the Jewish Labor
Committee and the Ameri-
can Jewish Committee. 111