Seymour Subar of West Bloomfield is
one happy zayde.
His 11-year-old grandson, Evan
Subar, won first place for an essay he
wrote about his grandfather in a con-
test coordinated by public schools and
local agencies on aging in Florida. The
winners were published in The Tampa
This
Tribune.
Evan, a student at Schwarzkopf
Elementary in Hillsborough County,
wrote that Subar, a CPA, knows num-
bers, works hard, always finds time for
his family, makes
a minyan if he's
needed, talks to
his grandson
about sports, and
has great stories.
"Finally,
although Zaidy
has six other
grandchildren,
he always makes
me feel like I am
important and
extremely spe-
cial. Never has
he told me that
he didn't have
time to hear
what I have to
say," Evan wrote.
Subar, of the
accounting firm Seymour Subar, super zayde,
Subar and
with his grandchildren Sara and
Company, P.C., Evan, the writer who made him
noted that
famous, and his wife, Phyllis.
at
Another thrilled zayde;
anti-Semitism lives on.
From the pages of The Jewish News
for this week 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50
years ago.
1988
Ten Palestinians were expelled from the
Ga72 Strip and the West Bank after an
eruption of violence in Jerusalem.
Jewish organizations lobbied the
United States to continue issuing
refugee visas to Soviet Jews.
Wayne State University exceeded
its goal of raising $15 million to
finance construction of Elliman Med-
ical Building in the Detroit Medical
Center.
Iris Kaufman, chairman of the
Detroit Educational Television Foun-
dation board of trustees, was named
top public broadcasting volunteer by
the Michigan Corp. for Public Broad-
casting.
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1998
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Evan received a commenda-
tion from President Clin-
ton.
His essay was one of two
first-place winners among
8,000 entries.
When Shawn Locke, former
director of school services at
the Agency for Jewish Edu-
cation, returned from a year
in Israel she had a new job
and a new name.
Locke, who started work-
ing July 1 as principal of the
Hebrew Day School of Ann
Arbor (replacing Interim
Principal and former AJE col-
1978
American Nazi propagandist, William
Grimstad, was paid $20,000 by Saudi
Arabia in appreciation for his anti-
Semitic book Antizion.
During an invasion of southern
Lebanon, Israeli forces discovered
documents linking Palestinian terror-
ist groups and the Soviet Union; also
discovered was an Arabic translation
of Mein Kampfwith a foreward by
Yassir Arafat.
The Jewish Community Center
began taking registration for its new
child-care program.
Bernard L. Kaufman was installed
as the men's club president and the
synagogue vice-president at Congre-
gation Beth Abraham Hillel Moses.
1968
Thirteen El Fatah saboteurs were
league Naomi Blumen-
Masorti (Conservative)
berg), now answers to
day school.
her Hebrew name,
Locke's children,
who now "all speak flu-
Sheva.
While in Israel,
ent Hebrew," will be
Lccke kept busy writ-
well-prepared for HDS,
which recently expand-
ing a book for teachers
ed its Hebrew immer-
and administrators of
sion program to include
Jewish schools on how
all five grades.
to bring spiritual life
into the school. "It
Not only is Detroit
talks about looking at
c—/
the routines of the day
native Aviva Panush a
and year and seeing
longtime Jewish educa-
tor, but a wandering
what's Jewish about it,
one at that, with the
seeing how we can cre-
mileage on her car to
ate a sense of meaning
Aviva Panush : Hired by
prove it.
in the school from a
Kehillath Isra el.
Having recently accept-
Jewish perspective," she
ed the 3/4-time job as
explained, adding that
education director at Lansing's Con-
she hopes to complete the book next
gregation Kehillath Israel, the Ann
summer.
Other highlights from Locke's "phe-
Arbor resident will be trekking west-
ward several times a week. This follows
nomenal" year
a year of shlepping out to Toledo,
in Jerusalem
where she served as interim director of
included
the Toledo Board of Jewish
learning with
Education. Panush served as education
world-
director at Ann Arbor's Beth Israel
renowned
Congregation from 1982-97.
scholar Aviva
At Kehillath Israel, a Reconstruc-
Gottlieb
tionist congregation with 130 member
Zornberg and
families, Panush will replace Rabbi
getting to
Stephen Booth, who completed his
know the
three-year contract at the end of June.
families of her
Panush will be responsible for family
children's
and adult education, along with run-
classmates at
Sheva, formerly
ning the 50-student afternoon school.
Jerusalem's
Shawn, Locke
killed and one was captured in a clash
with Israeli soldiers north of Jericho.
Republican Congressmen charged
that the administration was deliber-
ately deferring action on the sale of
Phantom jet fighter bombers to Israel
to maintain leverage to influence
Israeli policies on peace negotiations.
The Jewish Center library dedicat-
ed its Judaica section in memory of
Rabbi Isaac Paneth.
1958
A party of 25, Jews and non-Jews
alike, were the first group of tourists
from the Soviet Union to visit
Israel.
Dr. Hans Eisele, former Bucken-
wald concentration camp physician
who had been responsible for the
deaths of 200 Jews, was captured by
Interpol in Cairo, Egypt.
Detroiter Chayyim Zeldis was
awarded the $250 John Day Novel
Award for his novel Streams in the
Wilderne3-s.
Robert M. Lupo was named the
director of publicity and public rela-
tions for the Detroit Jewish Commu-
nity Center.
1948
Israel declared its determination to
make Jerusalem its capital.
Aubrey Eban was recognized by
the U.N. security council as a repre-
sentative of the State of Israel rather
than the Jewish Agency in Palestine.
The Eva Lansky Memorial Educa-
tion Fund was established to provide
scholarships and loans to worthy and
needy students at the University of
Michigan.