Yukking it up with Irnai Brith; Jewish education creeps ahead; Rudi's coming. Rabbi M. Robert Syme stole the show and upstaged his son Tuesday evening at the B'nai B'rith Great American Traditions Dinner on Nov. 10 honor- ing General Motors Chairman Jack Smith. Before paying tribute to Smith in his invocation, Syme recalled seeing dais guest Frank Stella, a leader of the Italian American community, at so many Jewish dinners that Syme was prepared to give Stella a Temple Israel membership application. "Then I saw him talking with [the Catholic Arch- diocese's Adam] Cardinal Maida," said Syme, to sustained laughter. The rabbi also had a kiss for new B'nai B'rith International President Richard Heideman, a Detroit native who Syme introduced as "one of my bar mitzvah boys." Rabbi Syme's son, pianist David Syme, took back the spotlight at the end of the program. He performed a Broadway review with Cantor Stephen Dubov of Temple Beth El. Syme had the crowd buzzing throughout his "Pumping Ivory" medley and Dubov impressed with his booming voice and tap dance solo. Originally scheduled to make its debut by Rosh Hashanah, a local edu- cational Web site won't be hitting _ cyberspace until January 1999. The $150,000 Michigan Jewish Online Education Project, a partner- ship of the Jewish Federation of Metro- politan Detroit and the University of Michigan's Department of Academic Outreach, got off to a late start, say its coordinators. But when completed, it will offer a whimsically illustrated inter- active Web site with a distinctly local slant. Focusing on b'nai mitzvah in Detroit, the site includes personal anec- 11/13 1998 26 Detroit Jewish News dotes and photographs, descriptions of ritual objects, historical information and links to other relevant sites. "There are a lot of Jewish resources available online, but they tend to be generic and they're never local," said Mark Hass, U-M liaison for the pro- ject and senior counsel to U-M's vice president for univer- sity relations. "They make the assumption that Jewish people everywhere are the same, but this con- nects Jewish learning specifically to this community." The long-term goal is for the b'nai mitzvah site to be Dore Gold part of a much larger site offering detailed programs on all Jewish life cycle events. "We focused on the life cycle because they're common across the board," said Federation Community Outreach and Education Director Harlene Appelman, who is coordinat- ing the project. "Everyone has a rite of passage, and we thought this was the best common denominator." Israel needs a well-defined plan for peace to ensure it will last, said Israel's Representative to the United Nations at the recent Holocaust Memorial Center dinner. "We must be sure that we don't just satisfy our need for peace now, but we satisfy our possibilities for a peace that lasts for generations," said Ambas- sador Dore Gold, speaking before 1,000 guests Nov. 8 at the West Bloomfield-based center's 14th annual dinner at the Westin Hotel in Detroit. "In the five years since the Oslo agreement was signed, we had the same number of fatalities that we lost in the previ- ous 15 years with- out a peace agree- ment," he said. "Something is going wrong." Israel should have peace with security, and a peace with reciprocity, said Gold. Peace, with Jerusalem as the undivided capital, and peace with secure borders for the State of Israel is what is needed, he said. Rudolph Giuliani, New York City's mayor, obviously looking for some national exposure, will add his name to the impressive list of big-name speakers at Sunday's annual Yeshiva Beth Yehudah dinner. "We're always looking for a national figure," said Rabbi Eli Mayerfeld, "and Mayor Giuliani is extremely well known and well liked in Jewish circles." Speakers at the dinners have includ- ed former President Gerald Ford, Jack Kemp, Alexander Haig and Mario Cuomo. Marking 100 Years Of Detroit Jewry .,',, :te r .trtpw5i t .1* • f . ley ft 0'.., t, .., j.., -.." 111, _, ■ _ ,V"...:st 4 . , ,emor • e• 17; . `'' 4 'Pk ' * 4Sta .1' 4 ? 1, W , ZeStl.10.7tilix,'9,`, >,..;.1 ';,a.' • ' '`IN. e f",;`, " ',, is, * 'raXire,"1; tk.2 ,,ate 4 1,1 ,r ' 19k, :7 Cl 0 31 : A :1 rliz , tS These captains raised more than 200 percent of their team quotas in the Allied Jewish Campaign during the 1940s. They are: Mrs. Edward Atlas, Edmund M Sloman and Mrs. Harry Jacobson. Photo courtesy of Leonard N. Simons Jewish Community Archives/Jewish Feder- ation of Meusopolitan Detroit. Remember When From the pages of The Jewish News for this week 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 1988 In Tel Aviv plans for a new Wendy's were revealed for Dizengoff Circle. Though the food will be kosher, the restaurant cannot apply for rab- binical kashrut cetification since it will be open on Shabbat. BBYO and the American/Israel Chamber of Commerce launched a program to promote the purchase of Israeli products at local stores. Members of BBYO will identify Israeli products now available and encourage store owners to sell goods made in Israel. Michigan voters elected the state's first Jewish U.S. senator, Carl Levin. At the same time, Democrat Howard Wolpe of Lansing became the second Jewish congressman in Michigan history. Mrs. William S. Hamburger, head of the department of performing arts at Cass Technical High School, has been named to be the commen- tator at the "Wonderful World of Children Fashion Show" sponsored by Israel Bonds Women's Division. Jytie Three of this year's Nobel Prize winners are Jewish. Boris Paster- nak's Di: Zhivago earned the prize for literature; Dr. Joshua Lederberg received one half of the prize in medicine and physiology and Dr. Igor E. Tamm won for his work in physics. Michael Aller, an 18-year-old Detroiter, has been named official cantor at Hillel House on the cam- pus of the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Fla. The Jewish Community Council is investigating a publication, "Com- mon Sense," received in the mail by Detroit Jews and featuring a vicious attack on Zionism. The document is published twice a month in New Jersey and has been consistently anti-Semitic in tone.