A fresh look at some recent stories in the headlines.

Candyman
Goes
South

ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM

ASSISTANT EDITOR

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ruing Small is going, and he's
taking his candy with him.
For generations, Mr. Small

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ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM

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has been passing out candy to
everyone from children he
meets in the neighborhood to
rabbis at his congregation, Tem-
ple Israel. Just about everyone
knows him as "The Candy
Man."
Now, life in metro Detroit is
going to be just a little less
sweet.
Last month, Mr. Small and
his wife packed up their bags
(filled, naturally, with candy)
and moved to West Palm
Beach, Fla.
"Of course I'll be distributing
candy there, too," he said. But

T

he Anti-Defamation
League of B'nai B'rith re-
mains one of the few na-
tional Jewish organizations
that hasn't called on the
United States to commute the
sentence of Jonathan Pollard.
But just before Rosh
Hashanah, two of the group's
leaders made personal pleas
for the convicted spy.
"I believe the time has
come for you to grant clemen-
cy to Jonathan Pollard and
commute his sentence to the
time already served, and I
urge you to do so," ADL Na-
tional Director Abraham Fox-

his work in Michigan will have
to come to an end. "I can't send
all the candy back here!" he
gasped.
Mr. Small, of Southfield, be-
gan passing out candy when his
grandchildren were growing up.
Every Sunday, Mr. Small and
his wife, Lina, took their
grandchildren to Milton's
Drug Store at Six Mile and
Hamilton, where each child was
given several dollars to get
whatever he wanted. "That,"
Mrs. Small said, "was when you
could get a whole bag of penny
candy for $1 and still have mon-

ey left over."
Then Mr. Small gave some
candy to assistants at the North
Park Towers, where for years
the couple resided. Soon resi-
dents got word of the free pep-
permints and lollipops and
everyone was at the Smalls'
door.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Small are
longtime Michigan residents.
Mrs. Small was raised in
Owosso; Mr. Small was born in
Philadelphia and moved,
when he was 9 months old, to
Detroit.

man wrote in a letter to Pres-
ident Bill Clinton.
"There is no question that
what Pollard did was wrong
and cannot be justified. How-
ever, he has acknowledged
his transgressions, and he
has paid a steep price for
them. Pollard, too, deserves
forgiveness and a chance to
turn the page and begin a
new chapter in his life."
ADL National Chairman
Melvin Salberg also wrote to
the president: "As serious as
his crime was, Jonathan Pol-
lard has paid his debt to so-
ciety."

The ADL opted not to be-
come involved in the Pollard
case because, Mr. Salberg
said, "it found no probative
evidence of anti-Semitism in
his sentencing."
Mr. Pollard was convicted
of spying for Israel and sen-
tenced to life in prison.
Other leaders who have
spoken out in recent months
on behalf of Mr. Pollard in-
clude former NAACP Exec-
utive Director the Rev.
Benjamin Hooks, Sen. Carol
Moseley Braun and Evangel-
ical Christian leader the Rev.
Thomas Steele.

Abraham Foxman

JPM
Center
Continues
To Grow

LESLEY PEARL STAFF WRITER

2nd Forum
Addresses
Multi Mix

KIMBERLY LIPTON

STAFF WRITER

I

he Rev. James Lyons, di-
rector of the Ecumenical
Institute for Jewish-
Christian Studies, will be the

0

n Sept. 8, the newly ren-
ovated Jimmy Prentis
Morris Jewish Commu-
nity Center re-opened its
doors.
A project that was only a
dream for many became a
major fund-raising event to
beef up Jewish neighbor-
hoods. Now a reality, the
JPM JCC is attracting the
Jews of Southfield, Oak Park
and Huntington Woods.
As of Sept. 22, 230 mem-

berships had been purchased
— 44 of them belonging to the
health club.
Class registration and in-
terest are up.
Leslie Bash, JPM director,
is pleased with the progress,
but looking forward to those
numbers — especially at the
health club — increasing.
"We've had a lot of calls
and interest in the luxury
membership. We're just com-
pleting the last-minute tasks

— hair dryers,
locker dividers
— and we'll be
ready to open on
Oct. 3," Ms.
Bash
said.
"When all the fa-
cilities are avail-
able and people
can actually use
the health club
completely,
memberships
will jump."

keynote speaker for the sec-
ond Southfield-Lathrup Mul-
ticultural Coalition, to be held
on Oct. 14.
Called "Living in South-
field-Lathrup — Changes,
Choices, Challenges Part II,"
the forum begins at 7 p.m. at
Southfield-Lathrup High
School.
The forum is a response to
an April program, when 250
area residents gathered at S-
L to discuss cultural diversi-
ty in the community as it
relates to education, govern-
ment, neighborhoods and
business.

The coalition is a grass-
roots organization of repre-
sentatives from synagogues,
churches, government, ethnic
groups and schools. Its goal
is to empower citizens to take
an active role in the commu-
nity.
The coalition was spear-
headed in 1991 by the Jewish
Community Council and the
Neighborhood Project, which
provides interest-free loans
to first-time Jewish home
buyers in parts of Oak Park
and Southfield.
More than 20 area organi-
zations have since joined the

coalition. Among them: cities
of Southfield and Lathrup
Village, Southfield Public
Schools, Congregation Beth
Achim, Congregation
Shaarey Zedek, St. Bede
Catholic Church, Oakland
County Center for Open
Housing, the Chaldean As-
syrian Foundation, the Amer-
ican-Arab Anti-Discrim-
ination Committee and the
NAACP South Oakland
Branch.
For more information, con-
tact Beverly Phillips at the
Jewish Community Council,
642-5393.

Ken Williams, Nedja Williams and son Basil look at the
plans for the JPM.

The Rev. James Lyons