■ Huntington Banks CD Compiled bt4 Steve Stein 30 Month Term THE NEW Parisian depart- ment store at Laurel Park Place in Livonia will open at 10 a.m. Aug. 1. Grand-opening festivi- ties will last until Aug. 6 at the 150,000-square-foot store, the 31st for the Birmingham, Ala.,- based company headed by pres- ident and CEO Donald Hess. Appearances by the Puppet People and Puppet Monsters, "Teddy Bear Teas" in the chil- dren's department and visits by 5. 50 % 5 .6P Annual Percentage Yield 111 Yuntington Banks Certificates of Deposit are a sound investment and FDIC insured for todays smart investor. They are the investment, at the /0 time, at the bank. TH E DETRO IT J EWIS H NEWS ita 42 1-800-642-INFO anchors at the 65-store shopping center. OMAHA STEAKS has opened retail outlets at the Corners shopping center in Birmingham and the Boardwalk shopping center in West Bloomfield. The stores carry corn-fed beef along with a selection of other meats, plus appetizers and desserts. A 40-page cookbook is included with each purchase. Gary Auerbach, area manag- er for Cleveland, is managing the Birmingham and West Bloomfield outlets. Assistant store managers are Robert Jevince at the Corners and Andy Peistrup at the Boardwalk. A family-owned company which has been in business for more than 75 years, Omaha Steaks has 27 retail outlets in eight states. TAKE OFF those wingtips and put on some Air Jordans. It's time for the second annual Cor- porate Macker 3-on-3 basketball tournament at Oakland Uni- versity. Held in conjunction with Donald Hess Oakland's Gus Macker tourney, the nation's second-largest accessories designer John Macker, the Corporate Macker Michael Richardson, jewelry de- is expected to once again feature signer Ian Pennell, dress de- teams from businesses through- signer Carmen Marc Valvo, out the metropolitan Detroit neckwear designer Ferrell Reed area. Squads will be placed in di- and children's clothing designer visions according to skill levels. Judy Lynn Barranco are on the The Corporate Macker will be grand-opening schedule. played Aug. 27, the first day of Also, daily fashion shows will the two-day Macker. Corporate preview fall styles for women, players will receive T-shirts and men and children and there will sponsor recognition in the Mack- be a Sassy magazine fashion er program and the winners will event for juniors at 1 p.m. Aug 6. take home trophies. All proceeds Nearly 300 will be employed from the Oakland Macker, now by Parisian at its Laurel Park in its sixth year, are donated to Place facility. Parisian will join the college's athletic department. To register a Corporate Mack- Jacobson's as department store er team, call Leslie Sapp or Sta- cy May at Events Marketing at 540-6688. The deadline is Aug. 5. ROCK FINANCIAL is the No. 1 residential mortgage provider in both Oakland County and Southeast Michigan, according to the latest independent Mort- gage Summary report published by Lawyer's Title Insurance Cor- poration. The report measures individual mortgages of $250,000 and under. Rock Financial's dollars loaned were $97,240,410 in Oak- land County and $153,471,030 in Southeast Michigan, which includes Oakland, Wayne, Washtenaw and Macomb coun- ties. Standard Federal Bank ranked No. 2 in both categories with $63,812,505 and $140,414,233, respectively. DENROIT COTI.EGE of Law's (DCL) Alumni Association is hosting a reunion barbeque Aug. 20 at Schuss Mountain Village in Bellaire, near Traverse City. Special weekend room rates and golf discounts are available. For further information, call the DCL alumni office, 965-0686. OAKLAND UNIVERSITY'S Continuum Center is offering workshops on Career Building: Preparing for Change (7-9:30 p.m. Aug. 4, 11, 18 and 25 on campus), How To Design and Present Training (7-10 p.m. Aug. 11 on campus) and Power Writ- ing: Effective Business Com- munication (8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Aug. 12 at the Auburn Hills Hampton Inn). Registration deadlines are Aug. 2, 8 and 9, re- spectively. For further informa- tion, call the Continuum Center at 370-3033 (outside Oakland County, call 1-800-3709-3042). Big Deals Huntington Banks New $157 million Renaissance Fund targets only large Israeli companies. Membe FD C A SMARTER WAY To BANK This rate is effective July 22, 1994, and is subject to change. Low $500.00 minimum deposit required. A penalty will he imposed for early withdrawal. ■ ALLISON KAPLAN SOMMER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS 0 ne might have thought Harvey Krueger had seen and done it all when it came to managing invest- ments in Israel. But the senior managing di- rector with Lehman Brothers — and the closest thing Israeli busi- ness has to a godfather on Wall Street — has found a new vehicle with which to usher in the era of the peace economy. Mr. Krueger has taken a lead- ership role in a partnership in a fund which will privately place in- vestments in Israeli companies. The Renaissance Fund was formed by Claridge Israel Inc., the Bronfmans' Israeli vehicle, and Stockton Partners, an investment company that Mr. Krueger heads. The Renaissance Fund, which has raised $157 million — $137