Spring is a comin' we gotta get this stuff outta here SALE! SAVE 25.60% Splingis coming and so are truckloads of new outdoor fumitize! Meanwhile we need to clear out our showrooms. Take advantage of our sale and sate on: D an Bedroom sets 0 Fireplace accessories 0 Dining sets 0 EvelYthing must go! NOW 48700 Grand River - 348-0090 LIVONIA O4 ML &OUTDOOR FEMME 522-9200 - 29500 W. 6 Mile Rd. BIRMINGHAM 644-1919 - 690 S. Woodward Completely Casual fir Over 46 Years WHY WOULD YOU SHOP ANYWHERE ELSE FOR A FUR WHEN THERE'S A SALE AT ROBERT MANN FURS 40-50% OFF LU C/3 LU ENTIRE COLLECTION Valentino - Calvin Klein Bob Mackie - Anne Klein Basile - Geoffrey Beane CC F- LU CD Robert Warm, cling 10 Applegate Square • Northwestern Hwy. at Inkster Road JHA page 1 ter all other resources are used up. This meeting will lead to a solution. Dollars will be spent." Added Robert Naftaly, chairman of the newly formed JHA board of direc- tors, "We will lay out what happened in the past, and also discuss options for the future. Hopefully, after see- ing all of the options, the com- munity will give the mandate to see if it can run the Home with the quality care and op- erating subvention it can af- ford." In the past two years, com- mittees, boards and Federation executives have spent countless hours dis- cussing options for JHA. Now the community's leaders must decide how it will effec- tively care for the elderly. Plans for a new facility are indefinitely on hold. Among the options are: selling or leasing Borman Hall to an outside vendor who could run it as a Jewish nursing home; finding an out- side management company to run JHA; closing Borman and keeping Prentis open; closing Prentis and keeping Borman open. No matter what happens, Mr. Aronson said, the Jewish community never will put its elderly out on the streets. "In the next few weeks, we will decide what we will do with the Home for the next year," said Federation President David Page. "As a community, we want to do the responsible thing. We probably should continue to be in the (nursing home) business." The Federation first \ stepped into Home opera- tions in July 1991 because - JHA could not account for money spent through Fed- eration allocations. Then fed- eration president, Mark Schlussel said JHA needed to balance its books and get its finances in order. JHA has been tangled in a management and operating dilemma ever since. When Denise Bortolani-Rabidoux takes over JHA as executive director next week, she will _ become the third adminis- trator in three years. Borman Hall had to cor- rect four of the highest levels of health code violations. With assistance from Federation, Borman hired -\ Ann Arbor consultant Markey Butler, who oversaw what was projected to be a successful $1 million clean up. The money had been ear- marked from the community reserve fund of Jewish Community Foundation. If Borman had failed the state survey, regulators could have closed the Seven Mile Road facility. Though state regulators removed all major code violations, officials be.-_( lieve costs may have far ex- ceeded the $1 million projection. And after com- pleting a game plan for Borman, consultants began launching a corrections plan I at Prentis Manor. Costs to clean up Prentis have not yet been finalized. ❑ SLOMOVITZ page 1 aide Percy Kaplan, former ex- ecutive director of the Jewish National Fund in Detroit. But mostly, he relied on his memory. He could recall crit- ical nuances from history- making events of 50 or 60 years ago — events which he lived through, influenced and reported. These included Henry Ford's anti-Semitism, the broadcast propaganda and Vatican silencing of Royal Oak radio priest Father Charles Coughlin, the found- ing of the United Nations, the enlisting of United States support for the birth of the State of Israel, and a trip to Israel in 1961 to cover the sensational trial of Hitler's - "Final Solution" director, Adolf Eiclunann. In summary, he was a Zionist. He helped found a Zionist student organization at the University of Michigan -\ during the World War I era — 30 years before Israel became a state. While a reporter at the Detroit News and then as / editor of the Jewish Chronicle in the 1920s, he was a cata- lyst for the formation of the' \ local Jewish National Fund effort. SLOMOVITZ page 12