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COMPILED BY STEVE STEIN
Thousands Will Race For The Cure
im
ore than 10,000 runners and walkers are ex-
pected to take part in the fourth annual Su-
san G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
Race for the Cure on Saturday, April 22, at the De-
troit Zoo.
Michigan's largest foot race features a 5K
run/walk/racewalk and a one-mile fun walk. The
event is present-
ed by the Michi- The Susan G. Kornen
gan Cancer Breast Cancer Foundation
Foundation and
among the spon-
sors are Jacob-
son's and the
Taubman Com-
pany.
Entry forms
will be available
soon at Jacob-
son's, JC Penney,
Pier 1 Imports
and area running
stores. Prospec-
Hosted by the
tive participants INICIIICF
Michigan Cancer Foundation
also can call the
Michigan Cancer Foundation, (313) 833-0715, or
the Motor City Striders hotline, (810) 544-9099,
for a form.
The early entry fee of $13 is due by Friday,
March 31.
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OR
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Kengo Tanaka hands the apology to Rabbi Abraham Cooper.
Apology Is Hand-Delivered
T
A scene from last year's Race for the Cure.
A Talk On Communications
A
re You The Opposite Sex Or from the Ralph Nichols Corp.,
Am I?" That's the strange ti- will focus on the communications
tle of a talk Elliot Gold will problems often encountered in
deliver at the next monthly meet- mixed-gender groups.
ing of the Entrepreneur's Club,
The meeting will be held at
a networking group sponsored by 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21, at the
the Business Enterprise Devel- BEDC offices. For further infor-
opment Center (BEDC) in Troy. mation, call BEDC, (810) 952-
Mr. Gold, a public speaker 5800.
Offensive Pajamas Won't Be Sold
p
line of men's striped pa- pletely misunderstood has caught
jamas has been taken off the me by surprise and made me feel
market by a Japanese fash- very sad," she said. "I have
ion designer after Jewish officials always deeply respected the
claimed the nightwear resembled
Nazi concentration camp
uniforms.
Leaders of the European Jew-
ish Congress were particularly
outraged because Rei Kawakubo,
the designer and president of
Comme des Garcons (Just Like
Boys), included the pajamas in a
Jan. 27 show in Paris.
That's the same day the world
marked the 50th anniversary of
the liberation of the Auschwitz
death camp.
During the show, according to
a Jewish Telegraphic Agency re- -.&
port, one pair of pajamas was dis-
played by an emaciated model
with closely cropped hair and Jewish people and felt close to
protruding ears.
them in my heart."
Ms. Kawakubo insisted that
Adrian Joffe, Ms. Kawakubo's
the theme of the pajama col- husband and managing direc-
lection was relaxation and sleep. tor of Comme des Garcons, is
"The fact that it was so corn- Jewish.
A Yom Kippur
Challenge Is Met
T
hey're celebrating in Par-
adise Valley, Ariz., where
Temple Solel has paid off its
mortgage balance.
According to a story in the
Jewish News of Greater
Phoenix, on Yom Kippur, an
anonymous donor offered to pay
half the debt if the congregation
could raise the other half by the
end of 1994.
The congregants met the
challenge, raising nearly
$250,000, and the synagogue is
debt-free.
Temple Solel moved to its
present site in 1979 and had a
major building expansion in
1986.
he Simon Wiesenthal Cen-
ter has received a letter of
apology from Kengo Tana-
ka, the president and CEO of
Bungei Shunju Ltd., Japan's pre-
eminent publishing firm, in the
wake of a controversial article in
the firm's Marco Polo magazine.
The article denied anyone was
gassed to death at Auschwitz. Af-
ter the Wiesenthal Center
launched a campaign against
Marco Polo's endorsement of the
article, the magazine was per-
manently shut down by Mr.
Tanaka.
The apology, addressed to the
victims of the Holocaust and
world Jewry, was handed to Rab-
bi Abraham Cooper by Mr. Tana-
ka during a meeting in Tokyo.
Rabbi Cooper is the associate
dean of the Wiesenthal Center,
which is headquartered in Los
Angeles.
Medals Commemorate
Jerusalem's 3,000th Anniversary
This Is A Good
Time To Catch Up
w
hat's new on the list of
kosher for Passover
foods? The people who
make Gold's Horseradish say
they've come up with a new
taste treat: Gold's Ketchup With
Horseradish.
"The two work in harmony to
spawn a gentle kick and yet still
allow the individual flavors to
come through," the press release
boasts. "This new dimension
gives a '90s touch to old stand-
by meals."
The Jerusalem medals set.
T
he Israel Government Coins cient and modern scenes of the
and Medals Corporation has Holy City.
issued an album to help
The cover of the album is
launch next year's trimillenium illustrated with a detail of the
celebration of Jerusalem as the "King David" mosaic, found in an
capital of Israel.
ancient synagogue in Gaza, and
Titled "Jerusalem — The City a bird's eye view of Jerusalem.
of King David: Three Thousand
For information on ordering
Years," the album features sev- an album, call J.J. Van Grover
en copper/nickel medals with an- Ltd., (800) 562-6467.