PONSIVENESS Obituaries 48076. Arrangements by the Ira Kauf- man Chapel. David Techner Reverend Sanznly Senzp F or 57 years, every call to THE IRA KAUFMAN CHAPEL has been answered by a member of our staff. We would not entrust this responsibility to an answering service. Whether you are calling regarding Shiva information, the time and place of a service, or to advise us of a loss, you deserve a personal response. When it comes to availability, we would not have it any other way. THE IRA KAUFMAN CHAPEL Bringing Together Family, Faith & Community The Jewish Histori- THE KAUFMAN COMMUNITY CORNER cal Society of Michi- Jewish Historical Society of Michigan Annual Lunch Honors Judith Levin Cantor, Sun, June 14, 1998 gan honors Judith Levin Cantor at its Annual Lunch, Sun, June 14, 1998 at 11:00 a.m. at Adat Shalom Synagogue. Carl Levin is the speaker. His subject is: Retrospective: Two decades on the Hill. Tickets are $22 per person and everyone is welcome. Lubavitch Leader Dies In Accident For more info, call P. Strome at (248) 646-2092 RONA S. HIRSCH Special to The Jewish News 18325 West Nine Mile Road, Southfield, MI 48075 • Telephone. 248.569.0020 • Toll Free: 800.325.7105 Please visit us at our web site: www.iraicaufinan.com The Family of the Late ROBERT JACKSON Announces the unveiling of a monument in his memory 11:00 a.m. Sunday, June 14, at Hebrew Memorial Park. Rabbi Nelson will officiate. Relatives and friends are invited to attend. The Family of the Late MAX SIMON Announces the unveiling of a monument in his memory 12:00 noon Sunday, June 14, at Machpelah Cemetery. Rabbi Yoskowitz will officiate. Relatives and friends are invited to attend. Special people touch our lives in everything they do, and leave us changed long after they have gone. The gifts they gave us can become a part of.who we are — A legacy of beauty that will always live on. The Blackman Family Announces the unveilings of our loved ones. Sunday, June 14, 1998 ETHEL BLACKMAN 6/5 1998 162 STUART ZUCKERMAN, 59, of Novi, died May 24. He is survived by his wife, Cheryl Zuckerman; son, Brandon Zuckerman of Novi; daughter, Jaimee Zuckerman of Novi; brother and sister-in-law, Steven and Beverly Zuckermsan of West Bloomfield; sister and brother- in-law, Doree and Kenneth Soble of Orchard Lake. Private family services were held. Contributions may be made to a charity of one's choice. Arrangements by Dorfman Funeral Direction. KAREN BLACKMAN Hebrew Memorial Park Nusach Hari Cemetery 11:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. Relatives and friends are welcome to attend irt abbi Aryeh Leib Kaplan, founder of a thriving Lubavitch Chasidic corn- munity in the northern Israeli city of Safad,where he also had once served as vice mayor, died in a car accident May 12 while traveling in the former Soviet Union. He was 50. Rabbi Kaplan, who was called Leibel, was the older brother of Rabbi Shmuel Kaplan, the Maryland region- al director of the Lubavitch move- ment. "He was brilliant and respected by all of the rabbis in Israel," Rabbi Shmuel Kaplan said in a telephone interview from Safad. "He was excep- tionally well organized, a man of action. And his kindness was unlimit- ed. Everyone who comes during shiva has the same story, 'He helped me, he helped me.' There never was a time he didn't help." The late Rabbi Kaplan was travel- ing to Minsk to dedicate a new Lubavitch school and mikvah, or ritu- al bath, that he helped to establish. Outside Minsk in Belarus, his limou- sine was struck by an oncoming truck that swerved in its path, said his brother. Rabbi Kaplan and the limou- sine driver died instantly. A Lubav- . itcher student from England, one of _two students accompanying Rabbi Kaplan, was in serious condition at a hospital in Smolensk. Rona Hirsch is a writer for the Balti- more Jewish Times. ti Obituary Procedures Ira Kaufman Chapel, Hebrew Memorial Chapel and Alan Dorf- man Funeral Direction send notices of all funerals they have handled to be printed in The Jew- ish News. Families whose funeral has been handled by one of these homes should not contact the paper to place an obituary. Rabbi Kaplan's body was flown May 13 to Israel, where it was met by about 1,500 people at Ben-Gurion Airport. The funeral was held that day, in Safad. The second of four children born to Rabbi Moshe and Sonia Kaplan, Rabbi Kaplan was born in Paris and grew up in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y. About 25 years ago, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Men- achem Mendel Schneerson, sent Rabbi Kaplan to the centuries-old city of Safad to establish a Lubavitch comma nity. "The city was atrophying. The ' mayor of [Safad] came to the Lubav- itcher Rebbe and asked him to help rebuild the city," said Rabbi Shmuel Kaplan, a Greenspring resident. Within the next five years, the first I building in a new residential section was completed. Safad now boasts a number of Lubavitch educational institutions with a total enrollment or" more than 1,500 students including a boys elementary and high school; a girls elementary and high school; a women's seminary; Yeshivas Men- achem, a post-graduate institute of rabbinical studies; and Collel Tzemach Tzedek, a yeshiva program for married students. Rabbi Kaplan served as dean of Yeshivas Menachem and Collel until his death. Rabbi Kaplan is also survived by his wife, Sora, their nine children, ages 4 to 24, and two grandchildren; his par- ents, Rabbi Moshe and Sonia Kaplan of Har Nof, Jerusalem; a brother, Rabbi Nochem Kaplan of Brooklyn, N.Y.; and a sister, Cherry Ulman of Jerusalem. O