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This & That

NCJW/ goes to Washington; Jews and Arabs prepare for camp.

Detroit Jews and Arabs will host a
March 1 fund-raiser for Seeds of
Peace, a camp in Maine that teaches
conflict resolution skills to young
Israelis and Arabs from the Middle
East.
Speakers at the invitation-only
event will include U.S. Senators Carl
Levin and Spencer Abraham, as well
as two recent alumni of the five-year-
old program. The visiting alums, 14-
year-old Shani Raz-Silbiger, who is
Jewish, and 16-year-old Abdasalem Al-
Khayed, who is Palestinian, will meet
with local Jewish and Arab teens
throughout the week and will speak at
the Temple Emanu-El Youth Group
Shabbat at 8:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27.
For information, call the Jewish
Community Council, (248) 642-
5393.

Young Israel of Southfield presented
50 electric candlestick sets last
Saturday night to the Jewish
Community Chaplaincy Program of
Jewish Home and Aging Services.
Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Posner
financed the purchase of the sets,
which will be presented to Jewish
nursing home residents by Rabbi
Simon Feld, the full-time chaplain for
area nursing homes.
The gift was part of Young Israel's

participation in the Federation's
Rekindling Shabbat program.

Twenty officers of the National
Council of Jewish Women-Greater
Detroit Section are heading to
Washington Saturday for a weeklong
up-close-and-personal look at the
goings-on in the nation's capital.
The group will meet with govern-

ment officials and senators and repre-
sentatives, attend workshops and get
briefed on issues related to the
Mideast peace process, women's issues,
religious pluralism and immigrant
absorption. President Bill Clinton will
address the group.

Rabbi A. Irving Schnipper, itinerant
chaplain, presented a Jewish National

Rabbi A. Irving Schnipper presents a Jewish National Fund certificate to residents at
Bloomfield Hills Care Center.

Fund certificate for a tree to Jewish
residents at the Bloomfield Hills Care
Center last week.
Schnipper distributed donated JNF
tree chits to eight area nursing facili-
ties he routinely visits to chat with res-
idents and perform religious services.
Each certificate equals a tree planted
in Israel.

Rabbi Laibl Wolf, head of the
Institute for Jewish Development in
Melbourne, Australia, an authority on
Jewish meditation and Kabbalah, is
stopping in Detroit on a worldwide
tour. At 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the Max
M. Fisher Building on Telegraph,
south of Maple, Wolf will speak on
harnessing the positive energy in
anger, reducing stress and resolving
tensions in relationships.
Wolf's appearance is sponsored by
the Bais Chabad of Farmington Hills,
World Wide Financial and the Daniel
Sobel Friendship Circle. Tickets are $5.

Yad Ezra, the kosher food bank in
Oak Park, will receive 3,000 pounds
of food from Empire Kosher Poultry
as a result of Empire's "Pound for
Pound" Thanksgiving promotion.
For every turkey label people sent
in to Empire, the company matched
the total weight on the label with
poultry products and distributes
them.
According to Elaine Ryke, director
of human services at Yad Ezra, the
food bank received 1,000 pounds
more this year than last.

1111 II III

When we wander memory lane, all of
us can recallfizvorite TV shows, popular
tunes and maybe what we were "doing
when." To help jog those memories, here
are some news "billboards"frorn the
pages of The Jewish News for this week
10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago.

1988
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir signed
a back-to-work order to end the 11-
day strike of government hospital
workers in Israel.
Allan Gale was named acting execu-
tive director of the Jewish Comthunity
Council while a search committee
finds a successor to Alvin Kushner.
A freedom seder for Soviet Jewry

2/20
1998

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was being planned at the
Maple/ Drake JCC, coordinated by
the Soviet Jewry Committee of the
Jewish Community Council.

1978
A bomb explosion wrecked an Egged
bus in Jerusalem, killing two and
injuring 46.
Rabbi Pinhas Kahlenberg, chief
Jewish chaplain with the Belgian
armed forces, was made a Knight of
the Order of Leopold.
Workmen's Circle began a prepaid
legal benefit for its members.

1968
Artillery fire from Jordanian positions

on the East Bank caused casualties in
Jewish settlements and Israel defense
units.
Unemployment in Israel dropped
2,800 due to employment in citrus
groves.
Mrs. Max Biber was honored with
a Heart of Gold Award by the
Volunteer Award Council.

1958
Qualified approval of mergers of
Egypt and Syria, Jordan and Iran was
expressed in Jerusalem so Arab
nations could establish independence
from foreign pressures.
Morris Garrett, local attorney, was
named to head the Jewish Book Fair

at the JCC.
William A. Rothman was appoint-
ed assistant director at Sinai Hospital,

1948
Edward Martin, United States senator
from Pennsylvania, endorsed the
demand that Jews in Palestine be
armed for self-defense.
The newly formed Joint Council
on the Resettlement of Displaced
Persons planned a nationwide survey
of resettlement opportunities for
100,000 displaced persons in Europe.
Leonard Baruch and Barbara
Greenberg were named to chair the
Junior Division of the Allied Jewish
Campaign.