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COMPILED BY STEVE STEIN
Help For The Arts
spiring artist Ilya As-
trakhan of Oak Park, a
recent Russian emigre,
helped prepare the scenery which
will entertain guests at tonight's
Galactic Gala fantasy fund-rais-
ing party in Southfield sponsored
by the Fanclub Foundation for
the Arts.
The Fanclub is a tax-exempt
private foundation whose mis-
sion is to provide funding and or-
ganizational management sup-
port for emerging non-profit arts
organizations in the metropoli-
tan Detroit area.
This year, the Fanclub's bene-
ficiaries are the Metropolitan Bal-
let Theatre, Eisenhower Dance
Ensemble and Youtheatre.
John Bloom of Southfield is the
Fanclub's executive director.
The Dog Days
Are !Here
ooking for an unusual
Chanukah card to send to
friends and family?
The national non-profit Paws
With A Cause group is offering
one which sends 75 percent of
the purchase price back to the or-
ganization, which is based in By-
ron Center, Mich.
'L
John Bloom
watches Chris
Briney of
Femdale, left,
and Ilya
Astrakhan work
on a 30-foot
"alien space
tree."
w
, ant to help feed the purchased between Nov. 15 and
hungry? The folks at Nov. 30. In return, they'll receive
Empire Kosher say an official certificate of appreci-
ation for their mitzvah and a
there's no time to "weight."
For the second consecutive coupon from Empire Kosher.
Labels should be sent to
year, Empire Kosher is asking
consumers to send in labels from Pound for Pound, Empire Kosher
Empire turkeys purchased dur- Poultry, P.O. Box 165, Mif-
flintown, PA 17059.
ing the Thanksgiving season.
The total weight of those
turkeys will be matched
pound for pound in Empire
poultry product donations
to food banks
Some 572 Empire
Kosher customers
mailed labels last
year, resulting in al-
most three tons of
poultry going to food
banks
This year, customers
should send in labels
from Empire turkeys
The cards are being sold for
$10 in a package of 10 which in-
cludes 10 envelopes.
Paws With A Cause trains
dogs to work with people with
disabilities. For information on
how to order cards, call the Paws
With A Cause corporate offices,
800-253-PAWS.
Fund-Raiser Is On
The Right Track
olunteer Impact and the Coe
Railroad have joined forces
for a Halloween fund-rais-
ing event which will be held this
weekend. Face painting, pump-
kin decorating and rides on a vin-
tage train are some of the
activities planned at the Coe Rail-
road site at 840 North Pontiac
Trail in Walled Lake. The event
will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 3
p.m. Saturday and 10:30 am. to
2 p.m. Sunday.
Admission is $7 for adults, $6
for children ages 2-10 and senior
citizens ages 65 and older. Pro-
ceeds will benefit Volunteer Im-
pact; call (810) 353-6830 for
information.
AJC EN S IP YC ‘41.. TT NEWSLETTE
The first issue will appear in mentalism throughout the
- • is out with the old and in about
six weeks. It will be sold by world.
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u.„
(,) I with the new at the Ameri-
can Jewish Congress (AJC).
After publishing The Boycott
I _ Report for 18 years, the AJC is
o dropping that newsletter and be-
,cf ginning a new one tentatively ti-
Lu tled Update: Radical Islamic
Fundamentalism.
The new publication, an eight-
=
page bi-monthly presentation, will
be edited by Will Maslow, who
was editor of The Boycott Report.
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subscription but sent free to li-
braries, academic institutions,
and Arab and Jewish organiza-
tions.
The AJC made the switch be-
cause of the Gulf states' recent
decision to virtually end the
Arab boycott of Israel. The new
publication will monitor and re-
port developments and trends
involving radical Islamic funda-
k
new television show is about
hit the local cable air-
new
waves, and it promises to be
spellbinding.
Scrabble World will premiere
at 8:30 p.m. Nov. 14 on Metrovi-
sion Cable of Farmington Hills.
The show is produced by Gary
Moss, a Farmington Hills resi-
dent and avid Scrabble player
who has competed in more than
100 tournaments sanctioned by
the National Scrabble Associa-
tion (NSA). He has won divi-
sional titles in Lansing, Ontario
and Tennessee.
Moss' guests will include club
and tournament Scrabble play-
ers who will share their exper-
tise.
Most shows will include a seg-
ment where Moss plays an exhi-
bition with his guest, giving
viewers an over-the-shoulder
view of the tile racks before the
tiles are placed on the board.
Moss is director of a Scrabble
club which meets at 7 p.m.
Wednesdays at the Maple/Drake
Jewish Community Center in
West Bloomfield. He also directs
an NSA-sanctioned tournament
at the JCC on the last Sunday of
each month.
Star Trek Movie
Premiere Benefits Brandeis
The Chanukah Card
aome Poultry For The Poor
Here's The Word
On A New TV Show
AJC executive director Phil
Baum said his organization has
no quarrel with purely religious
Islamic groups or beliefs, "but we
regard the form of radical fun-
damentalism that seeks to
achieve its end by terrorism or vi-
olence as menacing not only the
countries in which these groups
live, but peace in the world as
well."
T
he 24th century will col-
lide with the reality of to-
day at the first showing of
the new movie Star Trek Gen-
erations.
The Nov. 17 premiere on the
lot of Paramount Pictures in
California will be a benefit for
the new Benjamin and Mae
Volen National Center for Com-
plex Systems at Brandeis Uni-
versity in Waltham, Mass.
Scientists at the center, which
has been called one of the most
comprehensive institutions for
brain research in the world, are
conducting basic research to bet-
ter understand diseases like
Alzheimer's, stroke and schizo-
phrenia.
Sumner Redstone, chairman
of the board of Viacom, which
owns Paramount, is a Brandeis
visiting professor. She is chair-
ing the benefit premiere along
with Brandeis graduate and
Star Trek actress Gates Mc-
Fadden (Dr. Beverly Crusher)
and Brandeis trustee and alum-
na Barbara Rosenberg.
In Star Trek Generations, a
mysterious astrological phe-
nomenon brings Captain James
T. Kirk (William Shatner) and
Captain Jean Luc Picard
(Patrick Stewart) face-to-face.
Kuwait Backs Down
GrAnts Visa
ollowing protests lodged by ham Foxman wrote to the
the Anti-Defamation Kuwaiti ambassador to the Unit-
League (ADL), an Ameri- ed States, the U.S. State De-
can Jew with an Israeli-stamped partment and the general
U.S. passport will be granted a manager of the Sheraton Kuwait
visa by the Kuwaiti government. and the problem was resolved.
"Kuwait's decision is consis-
Paul Newman of California
(not the actor) wanted to accept tent with its public pledge to re-
a Sheraton Kuwait promotional nounce the secondary boycott of
offer extended to him as an trr Israel, which discriminates
Sheraton Club International against Americans," Foxman
said.
member.
"In the wake of the Gulf Co-
However, he was told by the
hotel to obtain a new passport operation Council's decision to
because his current passport had officially end the secondary boy-
been stamped by Israeli cus- cott, we hope there no longer will
be individual cases of discrimi-
toms.
ADL national director Abra- nation."