Chairman Named
For HMC Dinner

Diem, Liss Co-Chair
Bar-Ilan Dinner

JCC Hosts
Chai Run

Mark Diem

Dr. Mark Diem and Beverly
Liss, will chair the 1993
dinner of the Detroit
Friends of Bar-Ilan
University Sept. • 8 at
Congregation Shaarey
Zedek.
The evenings highlight
will be the presentation of
the University's honorary
fellowship to Dr. Miton and
Lois Shiffman in recognition
of the decade of friendship
to the University and their
longtime activism in the
Detroit Jewish community.
The evening also will see
the inauguration of the
Milton and Lois Shiffman
Program for Clinical and
Bas' t Research Collabor-
ation between the National
Institutes of Health and
Bar-Ilan University.
Dr. Diem has had a long
record of involvement in the
Detroit Jewish community.
He served as last year's
Bar-Ilan workers recruit-
ment chairman, is on its
Detroit executive commit-
tee, and has been of great
assistance in the universi-
ty's work with its Russian
and Ethiopian students. He
is a board member of the
Hebrew Free Loan Assoc-
iation, vice president of
Congregation Shaarey
Zedek's Men's Club, and co-
chairman of that syna-
gogue's social action com-
mittee. He co-chaired the

Beverly Liss

Allied Jewish Campaign
Super Week in 1992, and is
a past chairman of its
phonathon committee.

The funds raised
will allow for the
purchase of state
of the art
equipment.

Beverly Liss has been
involved in a variety of com-
munal organizations. She
sits on Bar-Ilan's Detroit
executive committee, and is
a past dinner arrangements
chairman and worker
recruitment chairman, as
well as being a member of
the American Women for
Bar-Ilan's board. She is on
the boards of Adat Shalom
Synagogue, Hillel Day
School, and is on the execu-
tive committee of the
Jewish Community Center.
In addition, she is a past
vice president of the
Federation's Women's
Division, and a recipient of
the Sylvia Simon Greenberg
Young Leadership Award in
1987.
For more information
concerning the Bar-Ilan din-
ner, call Bar-Ilan, 423-4550.

The Jewish Community
Center of Metropolitan
Detroit will host the 15th
Annual Chai Run/Walk 8
a.m. Sept. 12. The course
will begin on the West
Bloomfield campus of the
JCC.
The 18 mile Chai
run/walk is a non-compet-
itive event for exercise
and pleasure with the
goal of enhancing the
health, fitness and life of
the participants.
Runners and walkers of
all ages are invited to
choose from the distances
of 1, 3, 6, 12 or 18 miles.
All participants will
receive a long sleeved T-
shirt and awards will be
given for distances com-
pleted. There also will be
a special three-mile walk
beginning at 8:15 a.m.
and a one-mile run start-
ing at 8:30 a.m.
To receive the early-
bird discount, entries
must be received by Sept.
3. Registration also will
be available the day of
the event for a slightly
higher fee. For informa-
tion, call the JCC, 661-
1000.

Temple Israel
Family Picnic

Temple Israel will hold
its annual Family Picnic
11:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Sept. 3. This annual
event is open to the com-
munity at no charge.
There will be food, bever-
ages, Ball Jump, pony
rides, petting farm, clown
and games.
In conjunction with the
picnic, the temple will
sponsor a blood drive for
the American Red Cross
and a canned food drive
for the needy.
For information or to
sign up to donate blood,
call the temple, 661-5700.

Steven Grant

Dr. Steven D. Grant has
been named chairman of
the Holocaust Memorial
Center's Ninth Anniversary
Dinner Oct. 24 at the
Westin Hotel in Detroit's
Renaissance Center.
Dr. Grant is an internist
and maintains a private
practice in Farmington
Hills. He is a fellow of the
American College of
Physicians. A member of
the attending and teaching
staffs of William Beaumont

Hospital in Royal Oak, he
also serves on the clinical
faculty in the Department
of Internal Medicine at
Wayne State University.
Dr. Grant is a member of
the Oakland County Medi-
cal Society and the Michi-
gan State Medical Society.
A long-time supporter of
the Holocaust Memorial
Center and a member of its
executive committee, Dr.
Grant also sits on the board
of Men's ORT. He is active
in the physicians division of
the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign, and served as head
of the Walk for Israel in
1993. He is also a supporter
of Hillel Day School. He has
coached baseball for six
years in the North
Farmington-West Bloom-
field Baseball Little League
and has served as camp
doctor at Camp Tanuga in
Kalkaska, Mich.
The theme of this year's
dinner will be "The 50th
Anniversary of the Warsaw
Ghetto Uprising." The din-
ner also will pay tribute to
the many other forms of
Jewish resistance during
the Holocaust.
For dinner information,
call the Holocaust Memorial
Center, 661-0840.

Money Seminar For
Women Aug. 23

The Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit is
hosting a Money Matters
Seminar for Women
Monday, Aug. 23, at the
Max M. Fisher Building.
"Taking Care of Your
S•E• L•F," will begin at
8:45 a.m. with continental
breakfast, and focus on per-
sonal financial planning
with an eye toward helping
the community.
Martin J. Satinsky, who
has provided tax and finan-
cial planning services for
more than 20 years, will
keynote the program.

Workshops will focus on
planning for the woman on
her own, surviving as the
surviving spouse and plan-
ning as a family for the next
generation. They will be led
by Eileen Wasserman, who
specializes in working with
divorced and widowed
women; Howard B. Young,
who specializes in tax mat-
ters and estate planning;
and Mr. Satinsky.
For reservations or infor-
mation, contact the
Federated Endowment
Fund office, 642-4260.

