This & That
Attacker gets four years; Adat Shalom hires an education director.
Marc Vincent Yaden, convicted of
It's called the Jerusalem College of
attacking Dr. Mark Diem outside of
Technology. But its curriculum offers
Diem's clinic in June 1996, was sen-
much more than majors in job-rich
tenced last week to 4-10 years in prison.
fields like computer science, electron-
Yaden was convicted of assault with
ics, applied physics, managerial
intent to do great bodily harm. The
accounting, applied mathematics, high
attack left Diem, the former president
tech marketing and entrepreneurship.
of the Shaarey Zedek Men's Club,
"Our goal is for our students to be
with skull fractures
as well versed in their
and broken bones.
Jewishness as they are in
Macomb County
technology," said
Assistant Prosecutor
Jonathan Feldstein,
Steven Kaplan
executive director of
noted that Yaden
the New, Jersey-based
got the maximum
American Friends of
minimum sentence
the Jerusalem College
and will most likely
of Technology on a
serve four years in
visit to The Jewish
prison.
News offices last week.
The 30-year-old
Oops. We misiden-
undergraduate school
tified Judge Marla
bills itself as a modern
Parker of the 47th
Orthodox college. The
District Court in
750 students take Juda-
Farmington and
ic Studies four hours
Farmington Hills in
each day. Twenty per-
this column last
cent of the students are
week.
immigrants, mostly
Mark Diem's attacker was sent to Parker has
from the former Soviet
jail.
announced that she
Union.
will seek a second term
on that bench. She serves
as president of the Oak-
land County District
Judges Association and
as a board member of
the Oaclii- County Bar
Association and Com-
mission for Children,
Youth and Families.
Metro Detroit District and Ohr
Somayach Detroit.
Finding an interim executive director
for Jewish Family Service didn't take
very long.
Only a couple of weeks after current
boss Alan Goodman
announced he was leav-
ing for New York's Edu-/\
cation Association,
Birmingham native
Karen Fink has been
hired to serve as acting
executive director when
Goodman leaves May 1.
Fink is the former
executive director of the
Detroit Institute for
Children and now runsc
a private marketing
consulting firm.
Missed Rabbi
Mordechai Becher's
lecture on "Israel or
Palestine — The Jewish
Another hiring coup:
Claim" at the Max M.
After almost a year of
Fisher Building on Feb.
Elissa Berg takes Adat
searching nationally for
24? It will be shown in
Shalom job.
a director of education,
its entirety on Media
Adat
Shalom Syna-
One cable TV, Channel
gogue has found one in its own back-
18, at 7:35 p.m. Tuesday, March 31;
yard.
Tuesday, April 21; and Tuesday, April
Elissa Berg, who has served as
28, and at 5:35 p.m. Tuesday, April
Temple
Kol Arni's education director
7.
since
1989,
will join the Conservative
Becher, an Australian native who
synagogue's
staff
this June. Berg, cur-
lives in Jerusalem, is a senior lecturer
rently
the
president
of the local Jewish
for Ohr Somayach International, an
Educators'
Council,
is a graduate'of
outreach and educational organiza-
Hillel Day School and a member of
tion. His lecture was sponsored by the
Congregation Beth Shalom.
Zionist Organization of America-
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• When we wander memory lane, all of
us can recallfizvorite TV shows, po p ular
tunes and maybe what we were "ding
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
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir
requested American Jews not to pres-
• sure Israel into changing its opposition
to an international peace conference.
The board of directors of Congre-
gation B'nai Moshe voted to start a
nursery school.
Forty scouts from Hillel Day
School hosted a Scout Shabbat at
Adat Shalom. Synagogue.
1978
Former Premier Golda Meir was
3/27
1998
30
schedul ed to be released from
ere she h ad been
ivied ediuse of che st
xam
Attorney Carl est
Le ains'
tnrt unce
candidacy for the U mate on
Democratic ticket.
Jeffrey Wachter of David Wachle
and Sons <Creative Jewelers received
the Diamonds Today Award in a
competition sponsored by the
DeBeers Consolidated Mines Ltd.
1988
Two victims of a terrorist's mine,
which exploded under a school bus
on a Negev road north of Eilat, were
buried in Tel Aviv.
The Joint Distribution Committee
shipped 617,500 pounds of rnatzah
and other Passover supplies to Europe
and North Africa for distribution to
Jewish communities.
arm
acen
in an ar
border.
Three gene
dates andpup
director of the
Schools, paid tribute to hires'bii‘ his
60th birthday by presenting him and
his wife with round-trip tickets to
Israel.
Robert A. Steinberg, member of
the board of governors of the Univer-
sity of Michigan Club of Detroit, was
r an
,. " truce in Pales-
tine , estmg t e-ilonvocation
of a s session of the General
Assembly "to consider further the
question of the future government of
Palestine."
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