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Mr.
Baseball
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Mike Ilitch, he said. "But
lately I've been so tied
up with my slide shows,
I'm almost working full
time."
For nine years, Mr.
Cohen worked in group
sales at Tiger Stadium.
After the team's owner-
ship changed hands last
summer from Tom
Monaghan to Mr. Ilitch,
a number of longtime
workers, including Mr.
Cohen,'were fired.
For years, Mr. Cohen

ore than a year
after the idea for a
therapy group for
male survivors of rape
and incest was envi-
sioned, Jewish Family
Service has completed its
first 12-week session.
JFS is looking for par-
ticipants to form its next
group.
The group of five
Jewish and gentile men

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was led by social workers
Perry Ohren and Elissa
Driker.
In session, Mr. Ohren
and Ms. Driker discussed
issues of male socializa-
tion, sexual orientation,
what it means to be a
survivor and mastery
over the victimization.
"Mastery refers to con-
trol and making sense of
the victimization," Mr.

Ohren said. "When peo-
ple are hurt, they
acquire survival strate-
gies to make it through.
Only when survival
strategies stop working
do individuals start to
_ seek help."
The group also dis-
cussed addictive person-
ality traits a survivor
may take on as coping
mechanisms — alco-

Rabbis
Urge
Pollard's
Release

he Michigan Board of
Rabbis last week
wrote a letter to
President George Bush,
urging him to commute

the sentence of convicted
spy Jonathan Pollard.
The decision of the
board of rabbis, compris-
ing Orthodox, Conserva-
tive, Reform, Reconstruc-
tionist and Humanist
rabbis throughout the
state, follows a recent
New York Times ad
signed by hundreds of
rabbis requesting com-
mutation.
This is the first time
since Mr. Pollard was
sentenced seven years
ago on charges he was
a spy for Israel that the
rabbis have come to
his defense.

"We, as loyal Ameri-
cans, join our Jewish
leadership throughout
the United States in a
heartfelt concern for
proper action against
crime committed," said
Rabbi Efry Spectre of
Adat Shalom Synagogue,
the group's president.
"Espionage must be pun-
ished, but, we believe
that after seven years of
incarceration in solitary
confinement, the mes-
sage has most effectively
been sent in the case of
Mr. Pollard.
"We appeal to you for
compassion, asking that

you use your good
office to end Jonathan
Pollard's incarceration,"
Rabbi Spectre wrote.
A former civilian Navy
intelligence analyst, Mr.
Pollard in 1985 was sen-
tenced to life in prison
for passing U.S. military
secrets to Israel. His sen-
tence was the harshest -‘,
in U.S. history for spy-
ing.
He is confined to a fed-
eral penitentiary in
Marion, Ill., where he
spends much of his time _1
reading and writing,
according to his mother. =

he National Labor
Relations Board on
Nov. 27 gave the go
ahead for the Inter-
national Brotherhood of
Teamsters - AFL-CIO to
hold a union election for
about 55 transportation
workers employed by
United Hebrew Schools.

The Teamsters had
petitioned the NLRB to
form a union. But attor-
neys for UHS' Transpor-
tation Department argu-
ed that UHS was too
small to fall under rules
of the NLRB.
Teamsters came to
UHS seven months ago

after a phone call from
an employee who said
workers needed outside
organizing help. Teams-
ter organizer Joe Vitale
has been working with
the employees requesting
a union.
An election is tenta-
tively scheduled for Jan.

7 at the UHS transporta-
tion office in Oak Park.
This is not the first-
time UHS workers have
petitioned for union rep-
resentation. Employees ,z
who would be eligible to
join such a union twice ,,1
last year voted against
joining a union.

ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM

ASSISTANT EDITOR

Irwin Cohen

Therapy
Group A
Success

LESLEY PEARL

STAFF WRITER

KIMBERLY LIFTON

STAFF WRITER

Jonathan Pollard

Union
E Vote
Planned

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KIMBERLY LIFTON

STAFF WRITER

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had been doing slide pre-
sentations about the his-
tory of Jewish Detroit.
He decided to update his
production, finding new
pictures from local muse-
ums and lengthening the
program to more than
three hours.
The show traces the
history of the Jewish
community from 1701 to
the present.
Mr. Cohen also is com-
pleting a slide show on
the history of Detroit.

our months after
being released from
his job with the
Tigers, Irwin Cohen has
built up a new career as
one of Detroit's premier
historians.
Most days find Mr.
Cohen out in the field
with his slide shows,
which depict both the
history of the city of
Detroit and of the Jewish
community here.
"I wouldn't turn down
a call" from Tigers owner

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holism and drug abuse,
but also addiction to sex,
overeating, undereating,
overexercising and over-
achieving.
"The whole idea is that
you're not alone. That's a,-
very powerful idea," Mr.
Ohren said.
For more information,
contact Perry Ohren at
JFS, 559-1500.

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