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The Sports Club's

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fitness Open House

sunday, november 24, 1996
10am to 3pm

Workout with fitness Celebrity
Victoria Johnson

Join us for an 11:00 High Low Workout or a 1:00 Iechnifunk Workout

Star of PRIME Sports Network's "Victoria's Body Shoppe."
Producer and sfar of 23 fitness videos.
host and executive producer of "Celebrity Health and filness,"
a national health, fitness and lifestyle show.

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the annihilation of Euro- A suitable accounts secret all these
way to
years precisely to allow us
pean Jewry, would not
r a chance to make an in-
have proven a very corn- remembe
the Six
formed, truly cogent, truly
pelling idea.
Million.
Jewish choice.
Judaism was assumed
Should Third Reich funds in
beyond revival. "Orthodoxy" was
presumed doomed, and the idea Swiss and American banks being
of throwing good money after bad spoken of today indeed prove real
religion would have been quick- and become available, and should
ly squelched by traditional Ju- world Jewry come face to face
with the question of what to do
daism's numerous eulogizers.
How surprisingly enlighten- with Nazi-looted gold, we would
ing, though, is the blessing of be doing deep and holy justice to
hindsight. Most self-identified the souls of the 6 million by help-
Jews agree today on the need to ing assure that their great-grand-
counter the spiritual confusion, children be allowed to proudly
assimilation and Jewish igno- follow in the spiritual footsteps of
rance so rampant among our peo- all Jews' forebears. ❑
ple. And the only tried and
proven inoculation against those
plagues is Jewish education —
the closer to the traditional mod-
el, the more effective.
Thus, with recent reports of
considerable sums of money hav-
ing been involuntarily be-
queathed victims by victimizers,
the Jewish world would do well
to mix the benefits of hindsight A gift of $150,000 from the Ben
with the power of.foresight.
N. Teitel Charitable Trust in De-
There are, sadly, greatly di- troit is being used to establish a
minished numbers of survivors to- new scholarship fund for Michi-
day. Their needs should surely be gan students in the social work
met; no one could possibly feel oth- program at the Jewish Theolog-
erwise. Preservation of important ical Seminary in New York.
Jewish sites in Europe — espe-
The Sylvia and Julius Pollak
cially Jewish cemeteries — should Scholarship Fund for Michigan
likewise be seen as an important Students has been created,
Jewish communal priority.
named in honor and in memory,
Israel, on the other hand, has respectively, of his beloved in-
certainly not fulfilled the dream laws, Sylvia and Julius Pollak.
of its secular founders. It is far
The scholarship is designed to
from being the singular residence benefit Michigan students in
of the bulk of the world's Jews. JTS's social work program. The
Many more Israelis leave the seminary is committed to award-
country for America each year ing one or more scholarships from
than Americans take up resi- the fund each year. If no social
dence in Israel.
work students are eligible, the
Jewish education holds out the award will be offered to Michigan
greatest promise for a bright Jew- students in other seminary pro-
ish future for Jews worldwide. grams.
And it, among Jewish concerns
One of the Pollaks' grandchil-
today, is the very one in most dire dren, Cheryl Cook, is a 1995 grad-
need of funds.
uate of the JTS/Columbia
Jewish teachers are generally dual-degree program. She directs
poorly paid, while many Jewish the Hillel programs at three
schools are bursting at the seams. Philadelphia area colleges—Bryn
A dollar invested in Jewish edu- Mawr, Haverford and Swarth-
cation is a seed planted in fertile more.
Jewish soil. And a million dollars
For information about the
so placed are a million such seeds. scholarship, call Shira Dicker,
One can't help but wonder if (212) 678-8957.
Divine Providence kept the Nazi

Social Work
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