TOP: A changing role for the

JCC's Mort Plotnick.

CENTER:

Irving Hermelin dies

at age 99.

BELOW: The first lady

keynotes the NCJW national

convention in Detroit.

DECEMBER

Alleged Nazi concentration
camp guard. Ferdinand Hammer
is arrested in his Sterling Heights
home and accused of serving with
the Waffen SS.
Investors buy up Sinai Hospi-
tal tax-exempt bonds totaling $75
million. The money will help the
42-year-old Sinai expand.
The JCC looks for an executive
director.
Southfield Councilwoman Vic-
ki Goldbaum, 58, dies.
Temple Beth El announces the
hiring of Rabbi Daniel Syme.
Councilwoman Vicki
Adam White, 12, of Huntington Goldbaum dies at age 58.
Woods, wins The Jewish News
Chanukah Art Contest.
The community loses Irving M. Hermelin, 99.
The Teen Mission embarks on a learning and training
program. Detroit takes a lead in its link to Israel. Called
Partnership 2000, a series of experts in medical, educational
and civic leadership from Detroit and Israel's Central Galilee
create endless opportunities during their many exchanges.

JANUARY

Whether or not Christmas music should be played on the
streets of Birmingham is a much-debated issue.
Sinai Hospital is growing with a healthy prognosis.
Morton Plotnick, the JCC's former executive director, is
moved from the JCC into a leased Southfield office to fund-
raise.

FEBRUARY

Representatives of 100 Jewish federations voice their
opinions about a proposal to merge four of the top North
American Jewish organizations (United Jewish Appeal,
United Israel Appeal, the American Joint Distribution Com-
mittee and the Council of Jewish Federations). The idea is
to form a more efficient national system.
Machon L'Torah opens a new center in Ann Arbor.
The fund-raising branch of Sinai Hospital has split from
its parent institution to sprout roots of its own in Detroit. It
is called the Sinai Health Care Foundation.
Rabbi Marla Feldman comes to the Jewish Community
Council.
After 14 years of state. office, Maxine Berman
calls it quits.
The Council of Orthodox Rabbis blasts assisted
suicide Dr. Jack Kevorkian on the eve of one of
his trials.
Bias and hate crimes in Michigan and the
United States drop dramatically in 1995.
Shaarey Zedek puts the brakes on plans to
build classrooms at B'nai Israel Center in West
Bloomfield and instead has its sights on a new
location, Walnut Lake Elementary School.

MARCH

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Young Israel of Greenfield merges with Young
Israel of Oak-Woods to form Young Israel of Oak
Park. The congregation plans a massive reno-
vation and expansion of the Greenfield shul.
Cantor Stephen Dubov joins Rabbi Daniel
Syme at Beth El. Rabbi David Castiglione joins
the staff as does Education Director Joyce Seglin.
Detroit's National Council of Jewish Women
hosts the organization's 40th national conven-
tion with First Lady Hillary Clinton as keynote
speaker.
Community members mix the high of Purim
with the low of more brutal news of Hamas sui-
cide bombers in Israel.
Gov. John Engler announces he will plan a trip to Israel.
Experts gather in Troy to discuss Jewish medical ethics.
Local Jews mourn the passing of show business great
George Burns.
Bob Weiss of Grand Blanc is named chair man of Michi-
gan State University Board of Trustees.
Anne Frank Remembered opens at the Detroit Film
Theatre.
Shaarey Zedek purchases Walnut Lake Elementary
School for $1.5 million.
Summer missions to Israel are hurt by the bombings in
Israel.