Synagogues

Jewry's Role in
Human Advancement

JEWS WITH A GIFT FOR GIVING

Jews number under three percent of the nation's population. Yet in 1993
thousands of Jewish foundations and groups gave about ten percent of the
$12 billion awarded by all U.S. charitable organizations. And the ratio
hasn't measurably changed since that year. Our age-old tradition of
philanthropy continues as we reach out in friendship and generosity to
fellow citizens and nations in need.
More than fifty major hospitals and medical centers across the
country have been built and are supported by Jewish funding. Among other
recipients are schools, libraries, museums, the arts, research institutes,
recreational facilities and community development programs. Significantly,
the giving is largely unconditional--awarded to worthy causes regardless of
religious, racial or ethnic affiliations. Meet a few representative benefactors.

ORTHODOX

AGUDAS YISROEL-
MOGEN ABRAHAM
15751 W. Lincoln, Southfield, 48075,

(248) 552-1971. Rabbis: Dov Loketch,
Asher Eisenberger.

ANN ARBOR
ORTHODOX MINYAN

1429 Hill Street, Ann Arbor, 48014,
(313) 994-0650. Rabbi: Rod Glogower.
Services: Friday at sundown; Saturday
9:30 a.m. and 20 minutes before sun-
down; weekdays during the academic
year 7:30 a.m.; Sunday 9 a.m. Shabbat
and weekday classes.

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BIRMINGHAM BLOOMFIELD
SYNAGOGUE-CHABAD

357 N. Woodward, the Masonic Temple,
Bloomfield Hills, 48304, (810) 258-
2741. Rabbi: Yechiel Polter. Services:
Saturday 10 a.m. Kiddush follows ser-
vices.

BAIS CHABAD OF
FARMINGTON HILLS

32000 Middlebelt Road, Farmington
Hills, 48334, (248) 855-2910. Rabbi:
Chaim Bergstein. Services: Friday sun-
down; Saturday 9:30 a.m.; Sunday 9
a.m.; weekdays 6:50 a.m.

BAIS CHABAD OF NORTH
OAK PARIC/F.R.E.E.

(248) 546-2062. Rabbis: Dr. David

Kagan, Yosef Misholovin. Services: Friday

Adat Shalom Synagogue

Services daily 6:30 a.m.; Shachrit 7 a.m.;
Minchah 15 minutes before sundown;
Saturday Daf Hayomi 8 a.m.; services 9
a.m.

HUNTINGTON WOODS
MINYAN

Huntington Woods City Hall, 26815
Scotia, 48070, (248) 542-4809. Rabbi:
Yerachmiel Rabin. Services: Saturday
9:30 a.m. with a full kiddush and D'var
Torah following.

KOLLEL INSTITUTE

sundown; Saturday 9:30 a.m. Weekly
Shabbat services at Jimmy Prentis Morris
Jewish Community Center. Special
accommodations for Yiddish and Russian
speakers. Kiddush following Shachrit.

15230 W. Lincoln, Oak Park, 48237,
(248) 968-0109. Rabbis: Moshe Schwab,
Shmuel Irons. Services: Saturday 8:30 a.m.;
weekdays 7:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m., 10 p.m.

BAIS CHABAD
OF WEST BLOOMFIELD

15221 W. 10 Mile, Oak Park, 48237,
(248) 967-0888. Rabbi: Avraham
Jacobovitz. Gabbais: Dr. Edward Hurvitz,
Mayer Sherman. Services: Friday 15 min-
utes before sundown; Saturday 8:30 a.m.;
Sunday 9 a.m.; Monday-Thursday 8 p.m.
Ma'ariv.

5595 W. Maple Road, West Bloomfield,
48322, (248) 855-6170. Rabbi:
Elimeilech Silberberg. Services: Friday 15
minutes before sundown; Saturday 9:30
a.m.; weekdays 6:50 a.m. and 15 minutes
before sundown.

BETH TEFILO
EMANUEL TIKVAH

24225 Greenfield Road, Southfield,
48075, (248) 559-5022. Rabbi: Yisroel
Menachem Levin.

B'NAI ISRAEL-BETH
YEHUDAH

15400 W. 10 Mile Road, Oak Park,
48237, (248) 967-3969. Rabbi: Yoel
Sperka.

B'NAI ZION

15250 W. Nine Mile, Oak Park, 48237,
(248) 968-2414. Rabbi: Solomon
Gruskin..

i2DOVID BEN NUCHIM

14800 W. Lincoln, Oak Park, 48237,
(248) 968-9784. Rabbi: Chaskel Grubner.

GEORGE SOROS
(1930 ) b. Budapest, Hungary
Fund Management Executive He is a legendary
money trader regarded by Wall Street as the
greatest hedge fund investor ever. He may also be
the most influential and dedicated philanthropist
of the era. The survivor of the Holocaust and
communism emigrated to the U.S. in 1956. His
company, which buys and sells securities in
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worldwide markets, has amassed $18 billion under management. And his
foundations have donated $360 million to worthy causes in 1996 alone.
Hundreds of millions were earlier spent to help liberate European countries
from the Soviet orbit. Open Society projects were formed to advance
freedom of speech and human rights around the world. More recently, well
over $100 million is funneling to domestic programs to aid emigrants attain
citizenship, help solve the drug problem, improve care for the dying, safely
reduce prison populations, and improve the math and intuitive skills of
American students. His longing: "To change the world for the better."

MACHON L'TORAH

MISHKAN ISRAEL, NUSACH
H'ARI, LUBAVITCHER CENTER

14000 W. Nine Mile Road, Oak Park,
48237, (248) 543-6611. Services: Friday
at sundown; Saturday 9:30 a.m.; week-
days 6:45 a.m., 7:45 a.m., sundown;
Sunday 7:45 a.m.

OR CHADASH

Rabbi: Eliezer Cohen. President: Susann
Codish. (248) 547-2814; P.O. Box 7056,
Huntington Woods, MI 48070. Services:
Saturday, 9 a.m., 5 p.m. at 14111
Ludlow, Oak Park. Sunday 8:30 a.m. at
14111 Ludlow, Oak Park, followed by
breakfast.

SHAAR HASHOMAYIM

115 Giles Boulevard East, Windsor,
Ontario, N9A 4C1, (519) 256-3123.
Services: daily 7 a.m.; Saturday 9 a.m.

WALTER ANNENBERG
(1908- ) b. Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Publisher/Diplomat The self-made billionaire
built a communications empire from his late
father's Triangle Publications, publishers of The
Philadelphia Inquirer and the failing Daily Racing
Form. Restoring the latter to health, he added
such titles as Seventeen and TV Guide which
became the world's largest circulation magazine.
Annenberg eventually sold these properties to put time to charitable works,
and was named by Forbes "America's greatest living philanthropist." Many
millions have financed a major charitable foundation and school of
communications that bear his name. He generously endowed museums,
libraries, hospitals and the United Negro College Fund. And spurning $1
billion offered by a Japanese syndicate for his art collection, he donated it
to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Further serving our nation,
Annenberg was appointed U.S. ambassador to England (1969-74).

WILLIAM DAVIDSON
(1923 ) b. Detroit, MI Industrialist In 1957, he
assumed the presidency of Guardian Industries, a
Detroit-based corporation which he grew to
become the world's fourth-largest glassmaker-
with its focus on architectural "float" glass. In the
process, he broke the stranglehold of the American
glass monopoly and established an international
network of factories in Europe, Asia and Israel.
Guardian is also active in the auto and flat glass markets. A managing
partner with a 70% stake in the Detroit Pistons, Davidson is equally a
philanthropist involved in funding educational programs in the U.S. and
Israel. His multi-million dollar grants have endowed an institute within The
University of Michigan's School of Business Administration that helps
newborn Eastern European democracies develop . market economies...a
world-class business school at Israel's prestigious Technion Institute of
Technology...and a forthcoming graduate school to train teachers and
principals at New York's Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
-- Saul Stadtmauer

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COMMISSION FOR THE DISSEMINATION OF JEWISH HISTORY
Walter & Lea Field, Founders/Sponsors
Harold Berry & Irwin S. Field, CO-chairmen
Harriet F. Siden, Secretary

10/31

1997

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