POLITICALLY SPEAKING OAK PARK SAYS HAPPY 90TH College Skirball Museum in Los Angeles. The group has launched a national cam- paign to collect memorabilia of American Jewish political history. -- Buttons, bumper stickers, banners, posters and pens or anything else of interest will suffice. Materials collected will be used for exhibits at the new Skirball Cultural Center, now under construc- tion in L.A. For information, write to Ellen Dryer Kaplan, Project Americana Coordinator, HUC Skirball Museum, 3077 University Ave., Los Angeles, Calif. 90007, or call 213-749-3424. Jewish Women Get Out The Vote Izzy Youngworth and Gerald Naftaly hold the proclamation. KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer T he City of Oak Park gave an innovative birthday gift to the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, who recently turned 90. Mayor Gerald Naftaly signed a proclamation and delivered to the Rebbe's Brooklyn office a symbolic key to Oak Park via local Lubavitch member Izzy Youngworth. Mr. Young- worth is gabbai of Chabad of North Oak Park. "Oak Park, Michigan, is proud to be home to many members of the Lubavitch community," Mr. Naftaly wrote in a letter to the Rebbe. "As I am also known as Menachem Mendel Nafta- ly, Ben Tova Naftaly, I am proud to bestow this small tribute." NJDC is an independent organization whose mission is to enhance the Democratic Party throughout the United States and advance Jewish concerns through the in- creased political participa- tion of its members. HUC Collects Political Gadgets Do you have a button from the failed Congressional campaigns of Jewish polit- ical rivals David Honigman or Alice Gilbert? Or how about something bearing Michigan Sen. Carl Levin's prized slogan "Send a mensch to the Senate"? If you can answer yes to the above questions, you may consider sending the material to Project Ameri- cana of the Hebrew Union Three From Mich. On NJDC Boards Detroit Democrat Emery Klein, a longtime board member of the Motor City Political Action Committee and a Jewish community ac- tivist, joins Susan Miller, administrator for Democrat- ic U.S. Rep. Sander Levin's Michigan office, on the board of directors for the National Jewish Democratic Council. Flint Jewish community activist Michael Pelavin has been named to the NJDC ex- ecutive committee and its board of directors. The Washington-based Emery Klein Jewish women have been mustering political forces to educate their peers and to get out the vote in the Nov. 3 presidential election. A sampling of what's been go- ing on: • Carol King, executive di- rector for the Michigan Abortion Rights Action League, has been making the rounds. This week, she discussed the abortion debate with the Social Ac- tion Council of the National Council of Jewish Women, the Golda Meir Chapter of B'nai B'rith Women and the women's division for the United Jewish Appeal in Ann Arbor. • The Temple Israel Sisterhood this week kicked off its opening meeting with Dr. Raymond Tanter, a Uni- versity of Michigan political science professor. He up- dated the group on "The New Israel and the Peace Pro- cess." • The Adat Shalom Sisterhood this week also kicked off its program year with a discussion of can- didates and the importance of voting. • Temple Beth El's Sisterhood this week laun- ched its new year with a panel discussion on the em- powerment of women. A sampling of what's to come: • The American Jewish Committee's Detroit Wo- men's Forum will host a lun- cheon on "The Year of the Woman" noon Sept. 25 at the International Institute at Kirby and John R in Detroit. Panelists are Shelley Good- man Taub, candidate for Oakland County commis- sioner; Ida Short, candidate for Detroit School Board; and Mildred Jeffrey, longtime political activist and co-founder of the Na- tional Women's Political Caucus. There is a charge. • Arlene Victor and Linda Soberman and their group, Women in Politics, will br- ing Andrea Briggs, wife of 11th District Congressional candidate Walter Briggs, and a few others to a forum on women's issues. Races on their slate include Michigan Supreme Court and Oakland County executive at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 30 at the Bloom- field Township Library. • The offices of State Rep. Maxine Berman, D- Southfield, and Shirley Johnson, R-Royal Oak, have been flooded with phone calls from curious people assigned to a new task. The two women soon will be fair game for even their staunchest supporters when the National Women's Polit- ical Caucus hosts an evening roast 6 p.m. Oct. 1 at the Kingsley Inn on Woodward Avenue at Long Lake. Among the roastees are Betty Howe, Democratic candidate for Oakland County executive who is running against former county prosecutor L. Brooks Patterson; state Rep. Lynn Maxine Berman Carl Levin Johndahl, D-Okemos; and MARAL's Carol King. There is a charge. • Former GOP commit- teewoman Ronna Romney and Democrat Deborah Dingell will take a bipar- tisan look at the year of the woman for the Jewish Fed- eration's Business and Pro- fessional Division's opening dinner, to be held 6 p.m. Oct. 14 at the Townsend Hotel in Birmingham. There is a charge. Linda Soberman Fein Forms Liberal PAC The newly formed Multi- Issues Political Action Committee is somewhat different from the standard, one-issue pro-Israel PAC. This one, chaired by Leonard Fein, founder of Moment magazine, is com- mitted to progressive liberal philosophical views. The PAC supports Israel fully but was founded for other reasons. In announcing the PAC's formation, a press release stated, "We look for legis- lators who are progressive on women's issues — stead- fastly committed to the freedom of choice and also on church-state, civil liberties and civil rights issues." Serving on its advisory committee are a number of well-known Jewish figures. Among them are interna- tional folksinger Theodore Bikel; retired former direc- tor for the Washington office of the American Jewish Committee Hyman Bookbinder; past president of the Conference of Presi- dents of Major Jewish Organizations Theodore Mann; and Democrat Stuart Eisenstat, who was an ad- viser to former President Jimmy Carter. ❑