n esto S invite you to speak to business experts in Israel via satellite HIGAN / ISRAEL Employment and Business Opportunities in Israel Today Sunday February 27 2 p.m. Agency for Jewish Education Building 21550 W. 12 Mile, Southfield For reservations call the Michigan/Israel Connection, (810) 645-7878 EDE. f C 0 RA Moderated by CNN Correspondent Mike Greenspan, our panel will include Israel Minister of Finance Avraham Schochat and Uri Gordon, head of the Aliyah Depart- ment of the Jewish Agency. This broadcast is co-sponsored by Bank Hapoalim and the Israel Ministry of Tourism. P., CAPITAL MORrrGAGE FUNDING WHY CALL ANYWHERE ELSE? • Jumbo mortgages (loan amounts above $203,150) • Conventional fixed rate mortgage 10,15, 20, 30 year terms available. • 9 month new construction interest rate protection. • Home Equity Loans • Neighborhood project/Hebrew free loan participating lender. • V.A./F.H.A. approved lender. Cr) DON'T DREI AROUND, CALL ME NOW!! w FUNDING C/) (810) 652-4040 DOWNTOWN ROCHESTER 824 MAIN STREET LLJ CC I- LL1 LLJ MBA 8 MAIN OFFICE 20475 West 10 Mile Southfield, MI 48075 ( 810) LOW-RATE 569-7283 IPIL IE D B V - r el NI S T E V E Allied Jewish Campaign TED EFROS Asst. Vice President ;1, " EQUAL HOUSING LENDER CAPITAL MORTGAGE FUNDING IS A FANNIE-MAE APPROVED LENDER Co-owners NEAL LEVY and JACKIE ZBIKOWSKI of West Bloomfield's Salon Bellissima made Valentine's Day extra spe- cial for six teen-age girls from one of the Orchards Children's Service group homes. Each girl was given a new hairstyle and a make-up appli- cation. Snacks were provided by the Simsbury Plaza's Kroger store, and the Macaroni Grille donated complimentary lunch- es. Bellissima staffers HOLLY LUKASON, LISA PILNICK and CINDY HARRIS took part in the event. Orchards Children's Service Murray C. Slomovitz is a non-profit, non-sectarian, community-based child welfare — MURRAY J. SLOMOVITZ has joined the Southfield-based agency. Sommers, Schwartz, Silver & — WENDY ROBINS has Schwartz law firm. Mr. Slomovitz, a Southfield joined MDI Creative, Inc., in De- resident, has devoted his prac- troit as a writer. Ms. Robins, who spent the last 11 years as tice to municipal law. He retired an independent consultant in 1993 after 32 years with the through her RB Productions Wayne County Prosecutor's of- writing and video production fice, where he served as a prin- business, will work on video cipal attorney, trial division. He scripts, speeches, proposals and also has acted as prosecutor for the city of Taylor and Van Bu- other assignments for MDI. ren Township. — STUART EPSTEIN of Ban- ner Lumber was elected to the — MITCHELL J. WOLFF of board of directors of the Michi- Cranbrook Associates, Inc., in gan Lumber & Building Mate- Franklin has been named one rials Association. His term will of the top real-estate profes- sionals in the country by Unique nin through January 1996. Homes, the national magazine — MARK R. FILIPP and of luxury real estate. JOEL W. JONAS have joined the Kemp, Klein, Umphrey & — KEITH B. BRAUN of West Bloomfield, an attorney who Endelman law firm in Troy. Mr. Filipp practices civil lit- specializes in nonprofit corpo- igation with concentration in la- ration law and probate and es- tate planning at Honigman, bor and employment. Mr. Jones concentrates his Miller, Schwartz & Cohn, has practice on workers compensa- been admitted to the Florida Bar. tion and appeals. Israel Economy Up 3.5 Percent Israel's economy rose 3.5 per- cent in 1993, a growth rate higher than all but one of the 24 industrialized nations that make up the Organization for Economic Cooperation and De- velopment (OECD), the Central Bureau of Statistics has re- ported. The country's Gross Domes- tic Product (GDP) was between 6 percent and 7 percent during the past three years. According to revised second quarter fig- ures, the GDP fell 0.8 percent. However, the trend was re- versed and in the third quarter the GDP jumped 3 percent The country's unemployment rate of 10.4 percent ranked it 13th among OECD countries. Spain had the highest unem- ployment rate while Luxem- bourg had the lowest at 1.9 percent. The trade deficit, excluding defense imports, reached ap- proximately $5.9 billion com- pared to $5.4 billion last year. The first woman rabbi in the United States was ordained by the Hebrew Union Col- lege-Jewish Institute of Re- ligion in 1972. She was Sally Priesand.