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Association and the Jewish Federation
of Metropolitan Detroit. Applicants
project. For information, call him at
(248) 855-1212.
its homebound residents; Shif serves as
a translator for Russian immigrants.
must demonstrate a financial need and
academic progress toward a career and
should attend a Michigan educational
institution.
The deadline for applications is
Nov. 16. For information, call Marvin
Berman at (248) 559-5000.
Mary Baroff, Mona Cohen, Dorothy
Mazer, Itshok Prikupets, Rose Roth,
Molly Sallen and Beatrice Epel all
Michael Rubyan, a fourth-grader at
Hillel Day School, has won a certifi-
Days of Decision, the Jewish Federa-
tion of Metropolitan Detroit's spring
Electronic artistry wins prizes; Postal Service joins the hunger cause.
Miron and Esfir Shamban just
snagged the distinction of receiving
the 1,000th Neighborhood Project
interest-free loan to buy a house. They
and their two children will move to
Oak Park.
Neighborhood Project is a 10-year-
old program of the Jewish Federation
of Metropolitan Detroit that provides
interest-free loans for down payments
and improvements on homes.
received Gertrude F. Edgar Lifetime
Achievement awards for their years of
volunteer work with Jewish Family
Service.
Also honored at JFS's annual volun-
teer recognition luncheon program
April 22 were Volunteers of the Year
Shirley Lerner and Gengrikh Shif.
Lerner tutors New Americans and vis-
cate of merit from the ORT Resource
Center in New York in its "My Israel"
painting/drawing competition to cele-
brate Israel's 50th. Over 1,000 entries
were received.
Rubyan, 10, created a computer-
ized poster titled "The Land of Milk
and Honey." Honorable mentions
went to schoolmates Barak Lebovitz, a
second-grader, and fifth-grade students
Erin Lifton and Alexa
Lipman Cool. All created
their works on computer.
Hillel will receive a pack-
age of ORT-developed
Jewish educational soft-
ware.
The 3-year-old Daniel Sobel Friend-
ship Circle has launched a boys volun-
teer division to complement its girls
division, whose 150
volunteers, from high
schools throughout
the area, work with
children with special
needs.
A grant from the
Max Fisher Founda-
tion will enable the
Friendship Circle to
offer programs and
training seminars to
boys, ages 12-16,
interested in working
two hours each week.
Rabbi Levi Shemtov
of the Friendship Cir-
cle noted that the pro-
gram is ideal for boys
Hillel student Michael Rubyan's winning entry in the national
of bar mitzvah age
`My Israel" painting/drawing competition.
who need a mitzvah
Interest-free college loans
are available through the
Jewish Educational Loan
Service (JELS).
Full-time Jewish students
pursuing undergraduate
or graduate degrees or
professional education are
eligible to take advantage
of the loans, which are
administered through
Jewish Vocational Ser-
vice, Hebrew Free Loan
fund-raiser, netted $1,241,608 from
1,350 pledges — $100,000 over last
year's take.
The increase was attributed to a
few factors, among them the increased
giving among donors in the Young
Adult Division and major donors and
the Blumenstein/Hermelin 1998
Campaign Challenge Fund, which
matched every increased dollar over
last year's gift.
Dollars raised from March 22 to
April 6 will go toward the 1998 Allied
Jewish Campaign goal of $29 million.
Last year, the Federation raised $27.8
million, making it one of the top
fund-raisers in the nationwide net-
work of federations.
Oakland County residents: Your mail
carrier will be happy to collect your
non-perishable foods Saturday as part
of a food drive in conjunction with
Gleaners Community Food Bank.
All you need to do is leave items
like canned goods, pasta and rice on
your porch or near your mailbox.
Over 200,000 pounds of food are
expected to be collected during the
day. ❑
Remember Men
When we wander memory lane, all of
ident of the National Association of
us can recall favorite TV shows, popular Synagogue Administrators.
tunes and maybe what we were "doing
Leonard Trunsky was named gen-
when." To help jog those memories, here - eral chairman of the Fund for Reform
are some news "billboards" from the
Judaism. dinner.
pages of The Jewish News for" this week
10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago.
1978
More than 8,000 needy Jews in
1988
Romania received matzah parcels and
The United Nations vetoed a resolu-
financial assistance to celebrate
tion in the Security Council that con-
Passover.
demne,d Israel's incursion into south-
Former Israeli Premier Golda Meir
ern Lebanon.
celebrated her 80th birthday,
An 82-year-old neo-Nazi in Ham-
Joseph Handelman was honored
burg backed away from a legal show-
by Friends of Dropsie University at its
down over his claim that the Diary of annual scholarship luncheon.
Anne Frank was a falsification.
Dr. Hugh Beckman was named.
Thomas Jablonski was elected pres- chairman of the department of eye,
5/8
1998
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ear, nose and throat at Sinai Hospital.
Congregation Beth Shalom Sister-
hood planned its 22nd annual donor
luncheon.
1968
Franz Rademacher, former aide to
Adolf Eich.mann, was sentenced to
five years in prison at hard labor.
Some 5,000 mourners attended a
reburial on Mt. Herzl for 89 Israeli
Soldiers killed in action in the Sinai
and Gaza Strip the previous year. The
bodies were in a temporary cemetery
near Kibbutz Beerin.
Mrs. Isadore Winkelman became
the eighth president of the Women's
Guild of Sinai Hospital..
Louis Berry was named the chair-
man of the annual dinner of the Jew-
ish National Fund.
1958
A banquet at ZOA Hotise in Tel Aviv
honored Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, veter-
an American Zionist leader.
The Workmen's Circle convention
in Montreal demanded action be
taken on the Arab boycott.
Robert Joel Denison, a Mumford
High School senior, was one of the
19 Detroit winners of a National
.Merit scholarship.
Harry Packman won the top prize
for an oil painting in the Wayne
County Art Exhibition.
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