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Old faces have new titles at the Jimmy
Prentis Morris Jewish Community
Center.
Managing Director Leslie Bash has
been named the agency's assistant
executive director and Leslee Magid-
son has been named managing direc-
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Bash has been the managing direc-
tor of the JPM building for 6 1/2
years, overseeing the expansion and
renovation. Magidson has been assis-
tant managing director of the JPM
branch and director of the Jewish Life
and Learning Department. She's been
at the JPM for 5 1/2 years, during
which she developed the Russian
acculturation department and brought
the Jewish Book Fair to the Oak Park
building.

Eilu v'Eilu, a two-year-old adult Jew-
ish learning partnership of the Detroit
Conservative movement, is in growth
mode and is gearing up for its second
pre-High Holidays series entitled
"Elul: A Time to Prepare."
With Shaarey Zedek and Ad _ at
Shalom's recent decisions to join, the
partnership now involves all Detroit
Conservative synagogues except Livo-
nia's Beit Kodesh, Mount Clemens'
Beth Tephilath Moses and the Isaac
Agree Downtown Synagogue. Hillel
Day School and the Women's League
of Conservative Judaism are also
dues-paying sponsors.
While partner congregations are all
Conservative, instructors and students

New titles at the JCC;
education
consortium grows.

come from all streams of Judaism, said
Eilu v'Eilu Program Coordinator
Nancy Kaplan. Last year, there were
200 participants in classes.
Eilu v'Eilu is funded by partner
congregations and tuition revenues,
and is seeking additional money to
hire a part-time project coordinator
and supplement publicity and teach-
ing expenses.

The white supremacist Church of the
Creator is continuing to spread its
bigotry.
Douglas Chastney and Christo-
pher Piligian were both in 43rd Dis-
trict Court in Ferndale last week to
answer to charges of littering. They
were ticketed on April 28 for distrib-
uting anti-gay pamphlets from the
Peoria, Ill.-based group.

"They were trying to dissociate
themselves from the church by saying
it was not anti-Semitic material," said
Don Cohen, executive director of the
Anti-Defamation League. "At its heart,
the Church of the Creator is anti-
Semitic."
The alleged perpetrators are meet-
ing with a probation officer for a pre-
trial investigation. The case will con-
tinue pending the completion of the
investigation.
The church last struck in the sum-
mer of 1997 in Huntington Woods,
when Michelle Wilson and Tara Hop-
kins were ticketed for scattering anti-
Semitic and racist pamphlets around
the neighborhood. Hopkins pled
guilty; Wilson is eluding a warrant for
her arrest after not showing up in
court for hearings late last year.

A Detroit Country Day High School
10th grade student turned a term
paper into a third-place award in a
student writing contest at the United
States Holocaust Museum on July 19.
Jason Buttorf of Bloomfield Hills
was one of 11 winners in two divi-
sions of the museum's annual May
Family National Art and Writing
Contest.
"I wrote the term paper with an eye
on entering it in the contest," he said.
Buttorf submitted "Prisoners," a
fictional essay describing a girl helping
Jews evade Nazi persecution through
Holland by smuggling them in the
false floor of a hay wagon.

The contest drew over 4,000 appli-
cants who prepared artistic and writ-
ten responses to the question: How
you think an individual — whether
acting alone or in a group — could
have helped to rescue Jews being per-
secuted by the Nazis and their collabo-
rators?
Buttorf's third-place prize were
books about the Holocaust and a
Holocaust Museum Shop gift certifi-
cate for his Beverly Hills school.

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Jason Buttorfplaced third in an essay
contest about Jews during the Holocaust.

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Remember When •

When we wander memory lane, all of
us can recall favorite TV shows, popu-
lar tunes and maybe what we were
"doing when." Here are some news
"memories" from the pages of The Jew-
ish News for this week 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.

1988

The first four Israelis to become Con-
servative rabbis were ordained on Mt.
Scopus in Israel.
The release of the film The Last
Temptation of Christ was blasted by
Christian fundamentalists, who
warned that it would fan Christian
anti-Semitism.
Frances Weinberg reviewed the
book Very Much a Lady, an event
hosted by the Jewish Community
Center of Detroit.
Rabbi David Polish, past president

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of the Central Conference of Ameri-
can Rabbis, conducted the installa-
tion of his son, Rabbi Daniel F. Pol-
ish, as the senior rabbi of Temple
Beth El.

1978

The PLO claimed responsibility in
the bombing outside a Tel Aviv mar-
ket that resulted in 49 injured, but no
dead.
Exca.vations at the Temple Mount
in Jerusalem were opened to individ-
ual visitors.
Doris P. Easton was reelected the
president of the Jewish Historical
Society of Michigan.
Mrs. David B. (Doreen) Hermelin
accepted the chairmanship of the
1978 Michigan Premiere Israel Bond
Luncheon Fashion Festival.

1968

International law specialist, Professor
Julius Stone, was named to head the
staff of the Harry S. Truman Center
for the Advancement of Peace.
A second bombing of a Jewish syn-
agogue in Santiago, Chile, was inves-
tigated by authorities.
The B'nai Writh Women's Council
of Detroit participated in the sum-
mer's "Head Start Program" in four
Detroit inner-city public schools.
Sanford. Levinson was awarded a
scholarship toward a year of study at
the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

1958

Premier David Ben-Gurion demand-
ed face-to-face meetings with Arabs to
discuss peace talks.
The publication date of Leon Uris'
novel Exodus was announced.

Louis Klein of Brooklyn, N.Y., suc-
ceeded retired Cantor David Katzman
as cantor of Congregation B'nai Moshe.
Rabbi Hyman Agress was appoint-
ed as the rabbi of the Evergreen Jew-
ish Congregation.

1948

President Truman called on Congress
to admit 400,000 displaced persons
and for the removal of discriminatory
restrictions.
United Hebrew Schools established
a Midrasha, a School for Advanced
Jewish Studies, and adopted a code of
practice for teachers.
Shaarey Zedek Young People's
Society installed its new president,
Dotty Rosen.
Harry Madison was named chair-
man of the Fifth Region committee
for the new J\XrV commander.

