\•%' .\\\1, 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 - 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. - • - "AIL • TO • 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. " 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.