Yitzhak Arad
At HMC Dinner
Yitzhak Arad
Dr. Yitzhak Arad, director of
Yad Vashem, the Holocaust
Martyrs' and Heroes' Re-
membrance Authority in
Israel, will speak at the
Holocaust Memorial Center's
Ninth Anniversary Dinner
Oct. 24 at the Westin Hotel.
The theme of this year's
dinner is "The Fiftieth Anni-
versary of the Warsaw Ghetto
Uprising."
Dr. Arad will discuss the
Warsaw Ghetto Uprisng and
the varius other ways in which
Jews resisted the Germans in
their efforts to destroy them.
Dr. Arad fought the Germans
as a partisan while still a teen-
ager.
At the end of the war, Dr.
Arad left the USSR and trav-
eled through Europe, finally
meeting Haganah agents and
soldiers of the Jewish Brigade
in Italy. From there, he emi-
grated to Palestine where he
joined the Haganah and the
Palmach. He fought in the
War of Independence and re-
mained in the Israeli army
until 1972.
Dr. Arad attained the rank
of brigadier general and in
1968 became chief education
officer of the Israeli Defense
Force.
In 1972 Dr. Arad retired
from the military and was ap-
pointed director of Yad
Vashem.
Call HMC, 661-0840, for
information and dinner reser-
vations.
Franco Project
Builds Forest
Proceeds from the Anthony M.
Franco Tree of Life Award
Dinner, Oct. 14, will be used
to establish a forest in the
American Independence Park
outside the city of Jerusalem.
This forest will bear the name
of Anthony M. Franco.
The idea behind the park to
mark the bicentennial of the
United States was initiated by
the Jewish National Fund of
America as a gift to the people
of the United States. The
Keren Kayemeth Leisrael se-
lected the location, some 15
miles southwest of Jerusalem.
For dinner information, call
Laurie Nosanchuk Blum, 557-
6644.
Lubavitch Dinner
Launches Sobel Fund
AJC Hosts
Consul General
The American Jewish Com-
mittee, Detroit Chapter will
host Midwest Consul General
of Israel Arthur Avnon at an
open board meeting 8:15 p.m.
Oct. 18 at the Max M. Fisher
Building, Bloomfield Hills. Mr.
Avnon will speak on the
Middle East Peace Accords
and current issues facing
Israel today.
Mr. Avnon holds a master's
degree in international rela-
tions from Haifa University
and attended the College for
National Security. In 1980 he
served as assistant to the
Israeli director general of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
and was nominated director
of the Great Powers
Department at the Research
Center of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs.
A light reception will follow
the evening's program. There
is no charge.
Daniel Sobel
The Lubavitch Foundation an-
nual dinner will take place
5:30 p.m. Oct. 25 at the Grand
Manor of Fairlane in
Dearborn.
The dinner will benefit the
Synagogue Campus of Living
Judaism, complex of educa-
tional, religious, cultural and
rehabilitative institutions to
be established on the
Foundation's site in West
Bloomfield.
This year's event will hon-
or the memory of the late
Daniel B. Sobel, who passed
away a few months ago at the
age of 28. Lubavitch
Foundation will establish, as
part of the Synagogue
Campus, the Daniel B. Sobel
Friendship Center and
Counseling Fund.
The goal of the center will
be to offer an informal atmos-
phere for any individuals —
particularly the young — who
wish to discuss personal con-
cerns or problems and to at-
tempt to seek solutions
through a Jewish approach.
The emphasis in the
Friendship Center will be on
personal counseling.
The dinner will feature
Chicago's Maxwell Street
Klezmer Band and a major ex-
hibition of the life and times
of Michigan Lubavitch
Founders and supporters.
There is a charge. For in-
formation, call Lubavitch
Foundation, 737-7000.
The List
A sampling of Jewish com-
munal events:
OCT. 10
12:30 p.m. Walk for Yad
The Birmingharn/Bloomfield-Chabad recently celebrated a Sefer Torah ded-
ication, a new aron kodesh (ark) and the opening of a new facility. The
event attracted nearly 200 people who enjoyed the dancing with the new
Sefer Torah.
Ezra, Maple-Drake JCC.
5:30 p.m. Israel Cancer
Assn. dinner-dance, Adat
Shalom.
OCT. 14
6 p.m. JNF dinner, Shanrey
Zedek.
At the Metro Detroit Israel Bonds Women's Divison 11th Annual Sponsor
Society Art and Home Tour, $325,560 was realized in new Israel Bonds in-
vestments. Guests enjoyed breakfast at the home of Edna and Philip
Minkin and toured the homes of Dee and Seymour Brode and Lois and
Paul Katzman. Shown are Bluma Schechter and Marjorie Krasnick, tour co-
chairwomen; Edna Minkin; Meryl C. Podolsky, immediate past Women's
Division chairwoman; and Rochelle Lieberman, Women's Division chair-
woman.