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. 7/17 1998 26 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.