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The Detroit Jewish News, 1994-03-11

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Passover Help
For The Hungary

For the third consecutive year,
the Moies Chitim organization
of Detroit and Yad Ezra are
combining efforts to help feed
hungry local Jewish families for
Passover. Last year, over
24,000 pounds of free food was
distributed to 964 families.
This year, it is anticipated
that 1,200 needy families will
receive complete Passover food
packages containing chicken,
matzah products, eggs, fresh
fruits and vegetables and grape
juice. Food distribution will take
place from Yad Ezra's ware-
house on March 13-15.
If you are aware of anyone
who is in need of assistance,
please call the Yad Ezra office,
548-3663.

Jewish Survival
is Rabbi's Topic

Rabbi Leonard Gordon of
Columbus, Ohio, will continue
Congregation Beth Shalom's
year-long examination of "Cru-
cial Issues in Today's Jewish
Living' as he explores "Keys to
Jewish Survival" March 12 fol-
lowing Shabbat services.
Rabbi Gordon is active in na-
tional havurah movements and
serves as director of the newly
founded Greater Columbus
Havurah. Published widely in
scholarly and popular journals,
Rabbi Gordon focuses on issues
of gender and Judaism, the his-
tory of early rabbinism, and
contemporary Jewish theology.
For reservations, call the syn-
agogue, 547-7970, or Norbert
Reinstein, 967-3544.

Avineri To Speak
At Yom Hazikaron

Shlomo Avineri will address the
community's observance of Yom
Hazikaron-Israel Remem-
brance Day 7:30 p.m. April 12
at the Maple-Drake Jewish
Community Center.
The program will begin with
the memorial siren for the Is-
raeli soldiers who have sacri-
ficed their lives and the
dedication of the permanent
memorial on the grounds of the
Jewish Community Campus.
Presentations by teen-agers will
be featured. The evening is
chaired by Dennis Bernard and
Adina Laks
Mr. Avineri oversaw the dis-
engagement of forces on the
Syrian and Egyptian frontiers
as director-general of Israel's
foreign ministry following the
Yom Kippur War.
A professor of political sci-

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ence at the Hebrew University
in Jerusalem, he has chaired
his department and served as
dean of the faculty of social sci-
ences.
Bus transportation to the
event will be available at 5:45
p.m. from the Jimmy Prentis
Morris Jewish Community.
Center in Oak Park and will re-
turn following the program.
Babysitting at the Maple-Drake
JCC will be available free of
charge from 7 p.m.
For information, call the
Michigan/Israel Connection,
645-7878.

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Memorial
Is Dedicated

The Ann Arbor Holocaust
Memorial Foundation will host
a dedication ceremony to unveil
Ann Arbor's first Holocaust
memorial, and to convey own-
ership of the memorial to the
University of Michigan. The
ceremony will begin at 3 p.m.
March 13 at the Rackham Au-
ditorium.
Presenting the ceremony's
keynote address will be Profes-
sor Todd Endelman, director of
the University of Michigan's
Center for Judaic Studies, who
will speak on the search for
meaning in the Holocaust and
the role of memorials in trans-
mitting knowledge of horrors to
future generations.
During a brief outdoor cere-
mony adjacent to the Rackham
building, the memorial sculp-
ture — which was created by
artist Leonard Baskin — will
be unveiled by Dr. Robert Levy,
president of the Ann Arbor
Holocaust Memorial Founda-
tion, who will convey title of the
memorial to Dr. James J. Dud-
erstadt, president of the Uni-
versity of Michigan.
Plaques at the site will ex-
plain the purpose of the memo-
rial and will pay tribute to
Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish
diplomat and a 1935 graduate
of the University of Michigan,
whose actions saved tens of
thousands of Hungarian Jews
from the Nazi death camps.
A fund-raising campaign has
raised approximately $240,000
of a $300,000 goal. Tax-de-
ductible contributions can be
mailed to: AAHMF, P.O. Box
8342, Ann Arbor 48107. GI

Eight Jews have won the
Nobel Prize for Literature:
Paul Heyse of Germany in
1910, Henri Bergson of
France in 1927, Boris
Pasternak of the USSR in
1958, Shmuel Yosef Agnon
of Israel and Nelly Sachs of
Sweden in 1966, Saul Bellow
in 1976, Isaac Bashevis
Singer in 1978 and Elias
Canetti of Bulgaria in 1981.


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