This & That
Two Coopers are holding onto their seats;
Haggadot for the blind and visually impaired.
Judge Stephen C. Cooper has
announced a second re-election bid
for his seat on the 46th District
Court in Southfield.
Cooper, a former Southfield City
Councilman, was first elected to the
district court in 1986 and was re-
elected in 1992. He is a board mem-
ber of the Anti-Defamation League
and formerly served as president of
the Michigan District Judges Associa-
tion.
Judge Marla Cooper (no relation to
Stephen) also has announced her
intention to run for a second term on
the 47th District Court in Farming-
ton and Farmington Hills.
Cooper serves as president of the
Oakland County District Judges
Association and board member of the
Oakland County Bar Association and
the Commission for Children, Youth
and Families.
and national Zeta Beta Tau board
member, said 10-15 U-M students
have expressed interest in the fraterni-
ty, which will officially become a
"colony" when it reaches 25 members.
Then it can apply to the national
supreme council to become an official
chapter.
Oseff is confident that by "select-
ing some good young men," the
revived fraternity will overcome its
hard-drinking past. "We're always
concerned on all campuses about
problems with drugs and alcohol, but
by following the fraternity's
risk management policies and
taking the right type of per-
son, we can avoid those prob-
lems," he said.
The Indianapolis-based
Zeta Beta Tau was founded in
1898 and has more than 80
chapters and colonies
throughout North America.
Who says Jews don't drink? Three
years after alcohol and drug violations
led Zeta Beta Tau to close its Univer-
sity of Michigan chapter, the nation's
largest Jewish fraternity is in the
process of "recolonizing" in Ann
Arbor.
Harold Oseff a Southfield attorney
Friday the 13th lived up to its
reputation in the ongoing case
of Michelle Wilson, who was
ticketed on July 13 for dump-
ing anti-Semitic pamphlets in
Huntington Woods.
Last Friday, March 13, the
day Wilson was supposed to
When we wander memory lane, all of
us can recall favorite TV shows, popular
tunes and maybe what we were "doing
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'
Kitty Dukakis was campaigning in
Detroit for her husband, presidential
hopeful Gov. Michael Dukakis.
Dr. Maurice S. Opperer was named
chairman of the solidarity walk with
Israel sponsored by Federation.
A Sefer Torah for Jewish Unity was
completed and received at Congrega-
tion Dovid Ben Nuchim for Bais
show up in court to contest the ticket,
her attorney asked to withdraw from
the case, Judge Marvin Frankel of
45-B District Court in Oak Park
removed himself from hearing the
case, and Wilson didn't show.
Wilson has filed formal grievances
against Frankel and Judge Benjamin
Friedman, who has heard portions of
the case and plans to withdraw from
the case, as well. The situation is now
in the hands of the state court admin-
istrator, who will choose a new judge.
The case should resume on April 7.
Photo Krisra Husa
/—
Been on the brink? National Council
of Jewish Women's SPACE for
Changing Families is accepting regis-
trations for its Near-Death-Experi-
ence Support Group.
The group will meet for 4 weeks
beginning Tuesday, April 7, at NCJW
offices, 26400 Lahser Road, Suite
100, in Southfield. There is no
charge.
NCJW also is welcoming Sammie
Moshenberg, director of Washington
operations, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 7,
at NCJW offices. The lecture is free,
and dessert and coffee are included.
For more information, call (248) 354-
9936 by April 3.
Large-print Passover Haggadot are
available at no cost from the Brook-
lyn-based Jewish Heritage for the
Blind.
To obtain a copy, send or fax a
note from your eye care specialist to
Jewish Heritage for the Blind at 1655
East 24th Street, Brooklyn, NY,
11229, or call (718) 338-0653.
Braille Haggadot are also available
at no cost for the blind. The phone
number at Jewish Heritage is (718)
338-4999.
Oak Park District Judge Marvin Frankel has
removed himself from a littering case.
1978
A Christian church council in Seattle
sent a copy of the Jewish Holy Scrip-
tures to Anatoly Sharansky, Soviet
Jewish dissident.
Mark A. Siegel, the Carter admin-
istration liaison with the American
Jewish community, resigned over dif-
ferences with the administration's
Middle East policy.
Nora Lessman received a founders
award from the American Mizrachi
Women.
1968
President Zalman Shazar was officially
nominated by the Knesset for a sec-
ond term:"'
The National Hockey League is
conducting an investigation of a clash
between Larry Zeidel of the Philadel-
phia Flyers, the only Jewish player in
the league, and a member of the
Boston Bruins over anti-Semitic slurs
by the Bruins.
Joshua Joyrich, cultural director of
the Chaim Weizmann Society, will
read portions of the iviegillah at the
organization's meeting at Congrega-
tion Beth Yehudah.
1958
The Department of Justice is investi-
gating the bombing of Jewish centers
in Miami and Nashville.
An estimated 1.3 million
deutschmarks have been earmarked
for compensation to Nazi victims in
the West German federal budget
being prepared for the coming year.
Rabbi Herman Deutsch, formerly
rabbi in Sandro, Hungary, recently
arrived in the United States and has
taken up residence in Detroit.
1948
Sen. Warren Austin, head of the U.S.
delegation to the United Nations, for-
mally announced at the Security
Council the American proposal for
establishment of an international
trusteeship for Palestine.
3/20
1998
21