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Detroit
Tigers star Hank
Greenberg, one of
he original inductees
into the Michigan Jew-
ish Sports Hall of
Fame, is now a member
of another Jewish
sports hall of fame.
The late Mr. Green-
berg and eight others
were placed into the
New York Jewish
Sports Hall of Fame
during ceremonies last
month at the Suffolk Y
JCC in Commack,
Long Island. The New
York Jewish Sports
Hall of Fame was cre-
ated in 1993.
Besides Mr. Green-
berg, the other 1995
New York inductees
were ex-Chicago Bears
and Columbia Univer-
sity quarterback Sid Hank Greenberg
Luckman, former New
York Giants coach Allie Sher- City marathon creator Fred
man, ex-New York Yankees Lebow, track star Margaret Lam-
broadcaster Mel Allen, early bert and college All-American
NBA star Dolph Schayes, ex-City and professional lacrosse player
College of New York basketball William Beroza.
coach Nat Holman, New York
A Slam Dunk Scholarship
orth Farmington
High School se-
nior Seth
Kessler shared his ex-
citement about earning a $1,000
college scholarship with thou-
sands of basketball
fans.
Mr. Kessler and
the 11 other winners
of Detroit Pis-
tons/Builders Square
scholarships were honored at
halftime of a recent Pistons vs.
New York Knicks game at the
Palace of Auburn Hills.
More than 700 students
applied for the scholar-
ships, which were
awarded based on
academics and an
essay on the importance
of a college educa-
tion. Mr. Kessler
plans to attend
the Massachu-
setts Institute of
Technology.
Volunteers Hope To Have An Impact
plunteer Impact's fourth an-
11V nual
Volunteer-A-Thon will
be held Saturday, June 3.
Hundreds of volunteers from
across the metropolitan area will
gather at 8:30 a.m. in the
Matthaei Building at Wayne
State University for a day of vol-
unteering and fund-raising.
. Projects include painting, re-
pairing, renovating, planting
flowers and trees, beautifying
parks, packing food boxes and
providing other services for 60
non-profit agencies throughout
Detroit.
"It'll be a day of hard work and
community spirit," said event co-
chair Judy Berger.
More than 700 took part in
last year's Volunteer-A-Thon and
raised $30,000.
For information on Volunteer-
A-Thon, call Deborah Duyck,
(810) 353-6830.
Dawn At Decades Domestic Violence Discussed
In The Afternoon At Theological Seminary
D
awn Wells, who played
Mary Ann in the popular
1960s television series "Gilli-
gan's Island," will be in downtown
Royal Oak on Saturday, April 22.
She will make an appearance
at the Decades nostalgia store at
110 West Fourth from 1-4 p.m.
In addition to signing auto-
graphs, Ms. Wells will sign
copies of her new cookbook.
"We're expecting a huge
crowd," said Decades co-owner
Barry Shulman. "Since it was
announced a couple of weeks ago
that Dawn is going to be here,
people have been calling con-
stantly asking about "Gilligan's
Island" merchandise."
Rabbi Breaks
around In
nlabama
yndie Culpeper will make
history in August when
she becomes the first fe-
male to serve as a rabbi at a Con-
servative synagogue in Alabama.
Rabbi Culpeper will head
Agudath Israel in Montgomery.
Currently a student rabbi, she
has been traveling to Agudath
Israel once a month from the
Jewish Theological Seminary of
America in New York to conduct
services.
Rabbi Culpeper will succeed
Rabbi Aaron Krupnick, who took
a position in Cherry Hill, N.J.,
last summer. Since then, Agu-
dath Israel congregants have de-
livered sermons and conducted
Torah readings.
C
Potential Donors
Flock To Clinic
w
hat attracted nearly 900
people to the B'nai B'rith
building in North York,
Ont., on a recent Sunday?
They were there to be tested as
potential bone-marrow donors for
Jay Feinberg, a New Jersey man
who is suffering from chronic
myelogenous leukemia.
The testing was paid for by
Barry Sherman of the Apotex
pharmaceutical company.
One of the drive organizers
was Jerome Stanleigh, whose son
Audi received a bone marrow
transplant last summer from a
Windsor man who was original-
ly tested for Mr. Feinberg.
F
or the first time, a con-
ference on domestic
violence was held at
the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America in
New York.
Called "Until Death Do
Us Part," the three-day
seminar was hosted by the
seminary's Va'ad Gemilut
Hasadim community out-
reach program.
Conference topics in-
cluded avoiding date rape,
teaching rabbis how to rec-
ognize spousal abuse and
combatting denial within the
Jewish professional community.
"People leaving the conference
should not be unaware that this
is a Jewish problem," said Carol
Davidson, coordinator of com-
munity outreach for Va'ad Gemi-
lut Hasadim.
oob for Tlioustit: Kostier
JApAnese
kosher Japanese dinner held
last month in Vancouver
raised $12,000 to help repair
the Ohel Shlomo synagogue in
Kobe, Japan, which was damaged
by the earthquake there.
Former Kobe resident Ruth
Erlichman, who moved to Cana-
da with her family in 1975 at age
18, organized the dinner. It was
held at the Tami Sushi restau-
rant, which brought in food and
utensils from New York.
Ms. Erlichman said 105 peo-
ple attended the dinner, of which
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about 75 percent were Jewish.
Because there are many former
Kobe Jews who live in Vancou-
ver, several dinner guests had
ties to the Japanese city.
Air Canada donated a round-
trip airline ticket to Kobe so Ms.
Erlichman could deliver the mon-
ey personally, but Ms. Erlichman
auctioned the ticket and the win-
ning bid added $1,300 to the cof-
fers.
The funds will be forwarded to
Kobe by the Jewish Federation
of Greater Vancouver.
A Reward Is Offered In Winnipeg
w
hen students at Joseph
Wolinsky Collegiate in
Winnipeg arrived for
school one day last month, they
found anti-Semitic graffiti spray-
painted near the Jewish high
school's middle entrance.
The graffiti included "Die Jews"
and "88 Brothers" (88 is neo-Nazi
shorthand for Heil Hitler).
In an effort to catch the
culprits, the Winnipeg Jew-
ish Community Council is
offering a $1,000 reward for
information leading to their
arrest and conviction. It's
the first time the Winnipeg
JCCouncil has taken such
an action.
Wolinsky Collegiate prin-
cipal Jerry Cohen speculates
the TV documentary Hearts
of Hate, which aired in Win-
nipeg the night before the
vandalism, may have pro-
vided inspiration for the cul-
prits.