This & That
Jewish educators on the move;
the copper crew raises over $6, 000 for charity.
They started out as gifts for guests at
the Cooper family's seder. Then
Howard Cooper decided to print a
bunch of the Passover "Just Say No"
T-shirts that feature a piece of bread
encircled in the universal "don't" sym-
bol. They sold like hotcakes.
Feeling confident, the New Jersey
Jewish educator came up with five
other designs, including the Kosher T-
shirt with a slash through a silhouette
of a swine; a Shabbat T-shirt with the
words, "Just make it!" under drawings
of candles, challah and wine; and one
featuring a construction symbol that
bears the words, "Mensch At Work."
For information, contact Palin-
drome Graphics at (609) 427-9756.
Doors keep on revolving.
In the last month, Congregation
B'nai Moshe and Temple Beth El
decided not to renew the contracts of
their educators, and Temple Kol Ami's
religious school director accepted the
same job at Adat Shalom's religious
school. Hillel Day School's Dr. Helene
Cohen stepped down as assistant prin-
cipal, and executive searches are on at
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One of Palindrome Graphics' holiday
greetings.
American Zionist Movement-Michi-
gan Region, initiated the celebration
Jewish Vocational Service, head-
quartered in Southfield, is grow- _/
ing again by opening a Macomb
County office in Warren.
According to JVS Executive
Director Barbara Nurenberg, the
move was necessary because more
Macomb County residents are
being referred to JVS by the
Michigan Jobs Commission
Rehabilitation Services.
The move into Macomb comes a
year after the agency opened two
offices in downtown Detroit.
I I 5
When we wander memory kne, 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
Jo, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago.
1988
Jewish members of the Michigan
Senate and House of Representatives
called for the resignation of Austrian
President Kurt Waldheim.
The Peace Now movement cele-
brated its 10th anniversary in Tel
Aviv.
The Finance Ministry in Israel
averted suspension of ambulance ser-
vices in Israel when it agreed to turn
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Oakland County Executive L. Brooks
Patterson has designated the week of
April 26 to May 4 as Jewish Heritage
Week in Oakland County. That means
he is urging people to check out the
displays of famous Jews (Barbara
Streisand, Albert Einstein, Jonas Salk,
etc.) in various schools and store-
fronts, the Agency for Jewish Educa-
tion building, both Jewish Communi-
ty Centers, and the Wayne State Uni-
versity Student Center.
Ann Barnett, president of the
The 500 children who partici-
pated in the Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit's Penny
Harvest Tzedakah Experience
raised $6,844 in pennies this
year.
Since 1994, children have har-
vested over $26,000, which has
gone to agencies ranging from the
Fresh Air Society to Jewish Voca-
tional Service to Yad Ezra.
VAV AP, Amor-
I
4/10
1998
of Jewish Heritage Week here in
Michigan.
the AJE and Detroit's newest Jewish
high school, the Jewish Academy of
Metropolitan Detroit.
Now, Robin Axelrod, director of
the Agency for Jewish Education's Jew-
ish Experience for Families program,
announced that she will be resigning
as of this summer. A Project STaR
graduate, Axelrod joined the AJE early
last summer. Jeff Maza, hired last
summer to be Darchei Torah's first
development director, is no longer
working there. Neither he nor the
school's principal returned phone calls
requesting further details.
over funds to Magen David
Adotn to
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renew its insurance
nsurance on its vehcles,
The first adult b)not mitzvah in
the history of Congregation B'nai
Israel of \West Bloomfield involved
Barbara Kirshner, Judy Zola, Barbara
Klein, Sheila Miller and Hazel Fisch-
er.
1978
Frank Sinatra was honored by mem-
bers of the Knesset for "his financial
baCking of Hebrew University"
Rabbi Levi I. Horowitz, the
"Bostoner Rebbe," attacked the "Hus-
tle" and similar dances at weddings as
contrary to all Jewish standards of
modesty
Congregation Shaarey Zedek
1968
Max Delvalle has been elevated to the
office of president of Panama.
Dr. Samuel Belkin marked his
25th anniversary as president of
Yeshiva 'University.
Mrs. Murray Shekter and /qrs.
Milton Jacobs, vice presidents of
Detroit Women of Alpha Omega,
were two of the models at the group's
donor luncheon fashion show.
1958
A new trade and financial agreement
was signed with Israel in Buenos
Aires, broadening the exchange of
inscribed Torah was presented
in Tel Aviv to Minister of Religious
Affairs Moshe Shapiro to mark his
recovery from wounds incurred when
an Iraqi immigrant threw a bomb in
the Knesset.
Registration was being accepted for
the JCC's bdating course at the Great
Lakes Yacht- Club,
Sam Magid was elected commander
of the Lt. Eli Levin Post of the JWV.
1948
A dusk-to-dawn curfew was imposed
on all counter roads in Palestine while
fierce battles continued to rage in var-
ious parts of the cou.ntry.