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lectures or card games? No, says
Sorkin, but maybe a monorail
between the Kahn JCC and the
Hechtman apartments. Just kidding.
ICC service with a smile;
an Israel connection for
teachers; yukking it up;
ubiquitous Hadassah.
In July, 1997, six Jewish Community
Center of Metropolitan Detroit
administrators went to Orlando, Fla.,
for a four day Disney University Pro-
fessional Development Program crash
course in improving customer service.
Next month, JCC staffers will stay
closer to home to get a next lesson.
Leslie Bash, the assistant executive
director, will go to Zingerman's Deli-
catessen in Ann Arbor for Zingtrain,
the restaurant's $450-per-person, one-
day customer service seminar.
According to JCC Executive Direc-
tor David Sorkin, Zingtrain will
design a program that can be taught
to staff members at the JCC.
Does this mean that overstuffed
corned beef or whitefish sandwiches
are going to start popping up at JCC
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Seventy-one percent of local Hebrew
school teachers
have visited or
lived in Israel.
That's accord-
ing to a voluntary
survey of 80
teachers at a con-
ference of the
Agency for Jew-
ish Education of
Metropolitan
Detroit.
The survey,
which AJE Inter-
im Director
Judah Isaacs
described as a
"snapshot" of
Sheila Kay
Jewish educators,
also found that 73 percent are
between the ages of 18-54, 76 percent
are graduates of religious school, 28
percent are graduates of day schools,
56 percent have participated in youth
groups and 37 percent have taken
college courses in Judaic studies.
These preliminary findings may be
followed by a more elaborate and
more scientific study of Jewish educa-
tors to aid the newly formed Alliance
for Jewish Education in long term
planning, said Isaacs.
Isaacs estimates that there are
approximately 350 Hebrew school
teachers in the community.
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How about a nice big hand for
Detroit's Sheila Kay! Better yet, Kay
says, call or hop on the Web and vote
for her to become Stand-Up Female
Comic of the Year in the 13th annual
American Comedy Awards.
The awards are run by
Comedy Central and
voting starts today at
www.comedycentral.com
or 1-900-370-5040.
Kay, who got her
start at The Comedy
Castle in Detroit, says
she loves the area. "I was
born, bred, married,
spawned and divorced
in Detroit — and to
make matters worse I
did most of that twice."
A lobbying delegation
from Hadassah was mak-
ing its Capitol Hill calls
last week to push an ambi-
tious agenda of bills. The organization
is working for legislation to prevent
discrimination by health insurance
companies based on genetic informa-
tion and stiffer penalties for certain
kinds of crimes against women, and
against school voucher and school
prayer measures.
The six Hadassah leaders kept
bumping into Vice President Al Gore
as they made their rounds of Congres-
sional offices. After the third or fourth
hallway encounter, Gore cheerfully
told the group "you Hadassah ladies
are everywhere.
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Marking
100 Tears
Of Detroit
Jewry
Ada OF UNITED NAIIONS
FIV.ST ogRTHPAY
The Cantors' Chorus pel forms
at the Michigan State Fair-
grounds Coliseum on the first
anniversary of establishment of
the State of Israel in 1949.
More than 160 congregations
and community organizations
joined in the celebration.
Photo courtesy of Leonard N. Simons Jewish
Community Archives/Jewish Federation of Met-
ropolitan Detroit.
1/22
1999
32 Detroit Jewish News
Remember
When
From the pages of The Jewish News
for this week 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50
years ago.
1989.
Anne Pollard has been abruptly
transferred from medical treatment
in a Connecticut hospital back to a
prison facility in Rochester, Minn.
Pollard, whose family says she suf-
fers from a rare digestive disorder, is
serving two consecutive five-year
prison terms for being an accessory
to her husband Jonathan Pollard, a
former civilian Navy defense ana-
lyst sentenced to life imprisonment
for spying for Israel.
The Metropolitan Detroit Chapter
of Hadassah is presenting an all-day
conference on 'American Foreign
Policy Decision Making in the
Middle East," at Temple Emanu-El.
The conference will have Professor
Raymond Tanter, chairman of the
political science department at Uni-
versity of Michigan, and Nancy
Good, a graduate student in inter-
national relations at U-M.
Mrs. Karriinska, the first lady of the
Yiddish stage, will appear at
Carnegie Hall with her troupe to
perform drama, poetry readings
and songs.
Purchase of the property at
Woodward and Canfield in Detroit
for construction of offices and a
workshop for the Jewish Vocational
Services Community Workshop has
been completed.
1959
Israel's statistical office reports that
the country's population has
reached 2,022,500. Of this num-
ber, 1,801,806 are Jews.
1949
A secret French intelligence report
has reached Trygve Lie, secretary
general of the United Nations, and
President Harry Truman, charging
that the British have released 6,000
former Nazi prisoners of war for
training in Egypt to participate in
the war against Israel. President
Truman has been asked to investi-
gate the charges.