This & That
Rubbing elbows with the president; students teach the Holocaust.
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President Bill Clinton wowed a dele-
,9gation of 20 members of the National
Council of Jewish Women, Greater
Detroit Section with a speech last
vices at Temple Israel in West Bloom-
field recently. She's a 1972 Southfield
High graduate. Many of her friends
and relatives were among the congre-
gants that weekend.
week in Washington on topics near
and dear to them.
While he was visit-
The group was in
ing metro Detroit
the nation's capital for
last week, Russell
four days of workshops
Robinson, the
on issues ranging from
New York-based
affirmative action to
executive vice pres-
Israel's 50th birthday
ident of the Jew-
and visits to legislators.
ish
National
The president spoke to
vowed to
Fund,
them about his $21 bil-
streamline national
lion child care proposal
management of
and a program founded
the 97-year-old co-
by NCJW to help
administrator of
undereducated parents
much of Israel's
provide education for
land and natural
their preschool chil-
resources. He
dren.
pledged to boost
"It was truly excit-
the level of cam-
ing. There's this aura
paign
funding that
about him and this
President Clinton
goes to Israel from
charisma about him
50 to 70 percent
which puts the entire
room in the palm of his hand. He did- within three years.
This year's $16 million operations
n't use notes, he spoke from his heart,"
covers leadership training,
budget
outgoing
presi-
said Marta Rosenthal,
public education, debt retirement and
dent of the local chapter of NCJW
research and development. Another
It was a homecoming of sorts for Can- $17 million is earmarked for Israel —
new saplings, woodland, park, picnic
tor Lori Corrsin of Larchmont Tem-
area, reservoir and infrastructure
ple in Larchmont, N.Y., when she
development, and reclamation of diffi-
served as guest cantor for Shabbat ser-
When we wander memory lane,
us can recall favorite TV shows,
tunes and maybe what we wet"'
when.' To help jog those memories, here
are some news "billboards" from the
pages of The Jewish News for this week
10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago.
1988
One year after the sentencing of
Jonathan Pollard and his wife, the
families are seeking a presidential par-
don for the two.
Forrrier refilsenik Natan Sharansky
was inducted into the Israel Defense
Forces.
An Israeli car manufacturer, Elkin
Bros. Ltd., announced an automobile
ern Southfield and Lathrup Village
during his three decades on the corn-
mission. Gregory, a Wayne County
Sheriff's deputy, beat out independent
candidate Suzanne Goldstein and
Republican Roderick Fracassi.
cult terrain. JNF has 325,000 donors.
Robinson was honored at a recep-
tion at the home of Sue Ellen Eisen-
10th-grader Samantha Ashley and
11th-grader David Zaks, directors of
the Berkley High School Student
berg.
Holocaust Curriculum Committee,
New York-based recording artist
Chaim Fogelman will perform his
children's songs at 6:30 p.m. Monday
at the Kahn Jewish Community Cen-
ter in West Bloomfield.
The free concert is co-sponsored by
the Daniel Sobel Friendship Circle, a
non-profit organization that serves
families of children with special needs,
and The Jewish News. For informa-
tion, call the Friendship Circle at
(248) 855-1212.
Find out the truth behind Purim at a
play to be performed at 10 a.m. next
Friday at Akiva Hebrew Day School.
"The Second-To-Last-Laugh: The
True Story of Purim" stars Rabbi D.,
Mrs. C. and Mrs. S. as Haman, Vashti
and Esther, respectively. The show is
free, but board members are expected
to make a donation of $250,000, says
Rabbi Avram Goldstein, Akiva's assis-
tant principal.
In a special election Monday, Democ-
rat Vince Gregory won an Oakland
County Board of Commissioners seat
vacated when longtime Commissioner
Lawrence Pernick died in November.
Pernick, a Democrat, served north-
are among students who will teach
their classmates about the Holocaust
during the school's annual Holocaust
curriculum, March 9-16.
The committee, under the supervi-
sion of history teacher Sheryl Young,
will perform a series of educational
events, including an opening assembly,
survivor presentations and musical
and dramatic performances. The week
will culminate in a program for the
public at 7 p.m. Monday, March 16.
Berkley High's 612 students will
devote an hour each day to Holocaust
studies during the week.
Will it be Harvard, Stanford or Duke
for U-M senior Ryan Field?
The 21-year-old Andover High
School graduate, featured in USA
Today last month as a member of the
"All USA College Academic Team,"
has won accolades for his cancer
research and he's still an undergrad.
Ryan received a $20,000 grant for
research he is doing at the University
of Michigan and in April he'll present
a paper for the American Association
for Cancer Research in New Orleans.
Ryan has been concentrating his
research in the area of gene therapy.
Monter, aunt and uncle of the
ers.
jouiii'
Zionist Congress offer .
prognosis for the future of the
dish press.
The Jewish Home for Aged pre-
sented a program in honor of
Women's Week. Rose Rubinstein gave
a lecture at Borman Hall on "The
Women's Movement."
1988
Morris Abram, senior adviser to the
United States Mission at the U.N.,
has been named president of Brandeis
University.
Institute
ing at Th i rd
reported
The Bodzin Family
Mr. and Mrs. David Bodzin were in
New York representing the group at
the surprise 30th wedding anniversary
celebration in honor of Mr. and Mrs.
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economy.
A cornerstone laying was planned
for Congregation Beth Shrnuet's new
synagogue on the corner of Dexter
and Buena Vista.
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