Three Kosher Meals Daily •Medication Administration •Health Clinic •Around the Clock Security •Respite and Guest Rooms Available •Daily, Shabbat, and Holiday Services in our Synagogue •Daytime and Evening Activities 'Transportation, Laundry, Housekeeping •Educational Classes •Registered Nurse & Personal Care Assistance • Nosh Nook, Gift Shop, Beauty/Barber Shop •and Much More. Aging Services • The Club in the Plaza -an Adult Day Program •LeVine Institute on Aging 'Jewish Chaplaincy Program •Guardianship Program The Marge & Robert Alpem Life Enhancement program supports planting and gardening activities for residents. from left: Fay Margolis (Fleischman Residence); Jackie Smith, Life Enhancement Coordinator; Frieda Kates (Fleischman Residence); and Margaret Parker (Federation Apartments). Jewish Home & Aging Services Fieiscbman Resioence/Biumberg Plaza 6710 W Maple Road, West Bloomfield (248) 661-2999 contact: Tracey Proghovnick, M.S.W. - Director of Admissions SAVE THE DATE ROSEN-GOLD PHILANTHROPIC FUND THE JEWISH NEWS TO HONOR ISRAEL'S 50THANNIVERSARY present the 20th Annual 3113DISII CONCERT IN TIE 1/11111{ featuring MARK LEVY SINGER & GUITARIST SONGS OF OUR FOREBEARS 7:00 P.M. SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 1998 SHEPHERD PARK, OAK PARK CHURCH & NORTHFIELD 7/17 1998 40 IN COOPERATION WITH THE CITY OF OAK PARK NO ADMISSION FEE connections, mounts a major assault on Washington. Barak, who will travel with Knesset members Yossi Beilin, Ori Orr and Ephraim Sneh, is planning an extensive round of meetings with key lawmakers. Sneh, chair of the Knesset Comptroller Subcommittee on the IDF and Defense, generated head- lines in Israel this week when he warned that Israel's preparedness is slipping even as the danger of war increases. They'll also fan out to make the rounds of Mideast think tanks and meet with State Department and White House officials — although Barak reportedly is not seeking a White House audience. Auschwitz Controversy Tuesday, October 20 7:30 p.m. Orchestra Hall presenting Rita Rudner WORKMEN'S CIRCLE/ARBETER RING SHOLEM ALEICHEM INSTITUTE or Bring Chairs & sunshade for your comfort This was the week a consortium of Jewish groups and the Polish govern- ment were supposed to sign an agree- ment laying out procedures for the final disposition of the Auschwitz- Birkenau site. Instead, leaders of the coalition, which includes the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Yad Vashem, the American Jewish Committee, the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and the Ronald Lauder Foundation, were coping with a last-minute about-face by another member, the World Jewish Congress. Critics, led by Rabbi Avi Weiss, have insisted that the pending agree- ment will allow Christian religious symbols to remain and encourage commercial development that will deface the site. Rabbi Weiss has been particularly vehement in criticizing Miles Lerman, chairman of the board that oversees the Holocaust Museum and the lead negotiator. "It's not only a bad agreement, it's a desecration of the 6 million," Rabbi Weiss said this week. "[Lerman] is ready to sign an agreement that will allow the cross to remain forever. The Birkenau church, in the only build- ing remaining of Nazi headquarters, is a far greater desecration because Birkenau was the primary theater of death for the Jews." Rabbi Weiss also rejected the role of the museum in the negotiations. "The mandate of the museum is education and memory, not to negoti- ate and sign international agree- ments," he said. "It's not a legitimate function; I believe it is so serious there should be a congressional investigation about the misuse of federal funds."