DETROIT The Jewish National Fund Council of Greater Detroit requests the honor of your presence at their Senate Bill Targets Charitable Deductions Annual Dinner honoring ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Assistant Editor HERBERT DADS A KAUFMAN Temple Beth El 7400 Telegraph Rd. Bloomfield Hills Couvert: $200 per person Dietary Laws Observed Dinner Master of Ceremonies David B. Hermelin Dinner Co-Chairpersons Norman Allan Harold and Barbara Berry Paul Borman Laurence Deitch Otto and Potty Dube Judge Nancy Edmunds Leonard and Dolores Farber Nathan and Charlotte Feldman Merle and Shirley Harris John and Judith Komins Dr. Bud and Judy Kaufman Mrs. Ira Kaufman Irving Laker Edward Levy, Jr. Alan A. Moy Irving Nusbaum Sanford and Elly Passer Melvin Rosenhaus Dr. Jock and Mickey Shapiro Dr. Sam and Margie Shell Gerald and Ilene Sucher David and Ilene Techner Erwin and Isabelle Ziegelman Milton and Lois Zussman Clergy Advisory Committee Rabbi Milton Arm Rabbi Ernst Conrad Rabbi Julian Cook Rabbi E.B. Freedman Rabbi Nooh Gomze Cantor Howard Glantz Rabbi Benjamin Gorrelick Cantor Samuel Greenbaum Rabbi Irwin Groner Dr. Richard C. Hertz Cantor Gail Hirschenfong Cantor Louis Klein Rabbi Harold Loss Cantor Chaim Nojmon Rabbi David Nelson Rabbi Daniel Polish Rabbi Norman Roman Cantor Sidney Rube Rabbi A. Irving Schnipper Rabbi Efry Spectre Rabbi Lane Steinger Rabbi M. Robert Syme Cantor Lorry Vi'eder Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine Rabbi Paul Yedwob Rabbi Morton Yolkut Arrangements Judith L. Naftaly Rose Lynn Schlussel can sell iewelry. • • ICE and DISCOUNTS Anybody ENCE. ides SERV but NOBODY prov Irk Weintraub. THERE IS A DIFFER ~ N .rt es rniniai AI in' InT .4 A .11111A TLS - 5:15 "Sunset Strip 29536 Northwestern Hwy., Southfield Hours: 10 - 5 Set new bill that would redefine the status of charitable deductions has come one step closer to implementation. The Senate Finance Com- mittee last week passed a major tax bill which includes the stipulation that tax- payers must have written proof that donations of $100 or more were not made for services rendered. Expected to be approved shortly by the Bush ad- ministration, the bill will af- fect anyone who writes a check topping the $100 mark to his synagogue for tangible items including Passover wine and matzah, and goods purchased at a fund-raising auction. Until now, most taxpayers have opted to claim these as deductions, with checks made out simply to the syn- agogue. The new bill demands that the taxpayer specify the value of the goods he receiv- ed for his donation. This must be in the form of a document from the church or synagogue or other tax- exempt organization; cancelled checks will not be accepted. Meanwhile, the status of other items for which Jews automatically claim tax deductions — like High Holiday tickets — is up for debate in the U.S. Tax Court. As it now stands, High Holiday tickets do not constitute quid pro quo, charitable donations for • which someone receives a service, and as such are not, taxed. Yet a case pending in the U.S. Tax Court challenges the tax-deductible status of quid pro quo services in the Church of Scientology. If the "I Court rules against the. , church, all religious institu- tions would be affected. so Should the Scientologists lose and the Bush ad- 4 ministration pass the new tax bill — both of which observers predict — the Jew-. ish community would lose millions. Among the items..., that would no longer automatically be tax deduc- 1 tible: congregational mem- bership dues, High Holiday 41 tickets, synagogue education classes and pastoral co _ unsel!' ing. * "If the tax bill passes and the Scientologists lose, then nobody will have anything in place because nobody • wants to deal with this," said Marc Stern, a lawyer with the American Jewish_, Congress. "It will be Mg disaster for the Jewish, 4 community." The new legislation regar- ding charitable donations was introduced by Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., along with Sen." John Danforth, R-Mo., and Sen. David Boren, D-Okla. (11 Part of a $31 billion measure aimed at balancing tax cuts and increases, it includes tax • credits for first-time home buyers, tax breaks for those, in the upper-income bracket and greater aid to inner-city communities. ❑ Father And Daughter Decry Bosnian Violence DAVID KOTZEN-REICH Staff Writer L ike most people reading the daily ac- counts of atrocities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dr. David Loeffler is appalled. But unlike everyone else, the Sinai Hospital im- munologist could no longer remain silent after seeing images of gaunt men behind barbed wire fences and 2- year-old victims of sniper fire on television and in newspapers. Sunday, Dr. Loeffler and his 11-year-old daughter, Deena, stood holding a large sign near the Holocaust Sol 4.1 Memorial Center as people entered the Jewish Com- munity Center. The sign read: "Yugoslavia: The 4 tragedy demands a stronger..., Western response." Dr. Loeffler has doubts • whether his one-man, one- daughter protest had any effect. But "Something in my kishkes won't let this I thing go," he said. "If we (as Jews) learned anything, we ` can't allow genocide to go on no matter who it's happen- " ing to." Dr. Loeffler and Deena handed out between 75 and 100 copies of letters he is asking people to send to George Bush, urging the president "to use all means