750 Celebrating 50 years of growth with the Detroit Jewish Community THE JEWISH NEWS 28 SHEVAT 5753/FEBRUARY 19, 1993 JHA's Fate Community leaders will look next week at the Home's future. KIMBERLY LIFTON STAFF WRITER ederation leaders next week will lay the ground- work for the future of the financially strapped Jewish Home for Aged, which operates Borman Hall in Detroit, Prentis Manor in Southfield and Fleischman Residence in West Bloomfield. In the past decade, JHA has operated on a deficit, and the Feder- ation has allocated mil- lions of dollars to keep it afloat. Recently, finan- cial problems were mag- nified during a costly six-month accelerated clean-up program to cor- rect four of the state's highest levels of health violations at Borman Hall. At a meeting on Tuesday, the board of governors for the Fed- eration and its endow- ment arm, the Jewish Community Founda- tion, will review final costs of the Borman Hall operation. Also, board members are expected to discuss an operating plan for JHA and ap- prove funding for the next 12 months. "Nobody is happy," Federation Executive Vice President Robert Aronson said. "Any more money spent will need to come from the community reserves af- JHA page 10 Inside CLOSE UP FOCUS Finding Her Roots An adopted woman struggled to find her biological parents. Page 26 SPORTS Man In The Middle Harley Marks has made an impact for West Bloomfield High. Page 31 BUSINESS Rev Up Those Blades! Targeting Jewish consumers has become a huge business in the United States. Don't wait for spring for in-line skating. Serving It Up Page 35 Page 42 Contents on page 5 The End Of An Era Philip Slomovitz, founder of The Jewish News and a lifelong booster of klal Yisrael, dies at 96. ALAN HITSKY ASSOCIATE EDITOR he man who retained Detroit's Jewish history in his mind, and who helped more than most to create that history, died Feb. 17. Philip Slomo- vitz, founder of The Jewish News and numerous Jewish organi- zations in Detroit, will be missed for the sense of history and the support for klal Yisrael — the Jewish people — that he brought to the community for 70 years, said friends and associ- ates. Mr. Slomovitz turned 96 last month. Though he had physically slowed in the last year, he retained his active mind and courtly sense of humor. As late as Monday he was still planning his week- ly Purely Commentary column, which has ap- peared in The Jewish News and its forerunner, the Jewish Chronicle, for 70 years. His final columns, prepared last week, appear today and in the Feb. 26 Jewish News. He told a friend last week, "From the shoul- ders down I'm not doing too well, but I think I'm still OK above that point." Though legally blind for most of his life, Mr. Slomovitz typed his own material until two years ago. He relied on his nine file cabi- nets of clippings, articles, personal letters and back- ground informa- tion, and his sharp mind, to tie cur- rent events to pre- , vious episodes in I Jewish history. In 1992, he donated his files to the new Community Jewish Archives, now housed at Wayne State University's Reuther Library. In recent years his deteriorating eyesight forced him to dictate his column to longtime SLOMOVITZ page 10