This & That

A local surgeon is on standby for VPs visit;
Jewish multiculturalism is on tap at U-M Hillel.

Dr. Steve Tennenberg has been
tapped to serve his country, albeit in a
surgeon's gown.
Tennenberg, past president of
Young Israel of Oak Park, will be one
of a half-dozen physicians who will
stand by for potential medical traumas
during Vice President Al Gore's visit
to Detroit May 8.
Gore will be in town for the
renaming ceremony of the new John
D. Dingell Veterans Affairs Medical
Center in downtown Detroit. Tennen-
berg, a staff general surgeon and direc-
tor of the surgical intensive care unit
at the VA Hospital, an assistant pro-
fessor of surgery at Wayne State Uni-
versity and a trauma surgeon at Grace-
Sinai, said his duty is to deal with any
major injuries that could befall the
dignitaries at the ceremony or the up
to 1,000 others expected to attend.

Hillel Day School eighth grader Dena
Roth is headed for Lansing next week.
As second-place winner of a
statewide Farm Bureau Insurance-
sponsored essay contest, Roth and
other top-ten winners will attend an
awards day, where they will meet with
top government officials at the State
Capitol, attend an awards banquet,

receive $500 savings bonds and sing
the national anthem on the field of a
Lansing Lugnuts game.
Three thousand eighth-graders
from over 380 Michigan schools

Jewish women artists, poets and writ-
ers will gather at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at
the Hillel building on the University
of Michigan campus (1429 Hill
Street) in Ann Arbor for an evening of
readings and discussion.
"Jewish Feminism, Poetry, Art and
Multiculturalism" will explore
Sephardic, Ashkenazic and Mizrachic
cultures and themes. The event, which
is sponsored by the literary journal
Bridges, the U-M Women's Studies
Department and the U-M Institute
for Research on Women and Gender,
is free of charge. For information, call
Ruth Behar, (734) 769-5680.

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entered the contest, writing on "How
My Community Inspires Me To
Become A Better American." Roth's
essay describes her involvement in
Huntington Woods, Hillel and the
Jewish community.

Dena Roth is headed to Lansing to claim
a writing award.

Also on Sunday...
Arlene Frank of the Women's Cen-
ter of Oakland Community College is
among those who will speak at a 6
p.m. Take Back The Night rally at
the Royal Oak Farmer's Market.
HAVEN, Oakland County's center
for the prevention and treatment of

domestic violence, sexual assault and
child abuse, is sponsoring the event,
which also features a march through
the streets of Royal Oak, live music
and a candlelight vigil. For more
information, call (248) 334-2343, ext.
16.

Jewish Family Service is offering free
and subsidized housekeeping and
transportation services to Holocaust
survivors. Available are housekeeping,
personal care, meal preparation,
bathing, shopping and other services.
The program is funded through a
grant from the Conference on Jewish
Material Claims Against Germany. For
information, contact Carolyn David-
son, (248) 559-1500, ext. 399.

The selfsame Conference on Jewish
Material Claims Against Germany
has extended the deadline for claims
for restitution of Jewish property in
the former East Germany to Dec. 31
of this year.
The Goodwill Fund, administered
by the Frankfurt office of the Claims
Conference, shares net proceeds from
the recovery of properties which the
Conference obtained as legal successor
to unclaimed Jewish property.
Applicants should write to the
Claims Conference Successor Organi-
zation, Goodwill Fund, Sophienstrasse
26, Frankfurt am Main, Germany,
60487, and include the address of the
property, the name of its original
owner and their relationship to the
original owner.

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anniversary of the uprising.
Charlotte Nussbaum of Adat Shalom
Synagogue was installed as president of
the Michigan branch of Women's
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