k4. trj 61: 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 26 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.