Ambassador on the
mend; scholarship
money arrives;
volunteers for literacy.

Despite undergoing 10 hours of
surgery to remove a brain tumor on
Jan. 6, David Hermelin remains as
upbeat as ever, according to his doctor.
Mark Rosenblum, the neurosur-
geon who operated on the Detroit
businessman/philanthropist and U.S.
Ambassador to Norway, said Her-
melin's condition is "extraordinarily
good." Radiation treatments began
on Monday, and will likely continue
for six weeks.
"We only see secondary indications
that cells are still there," Rosenblum
said. "Well repeat the imaging studies
in one or two months and that's when
we would see significant change."
According to Rosenblum, Her-
melin attended a grandson's bar mitz-
vah last weekend, announcing to the
crowd, "I'm back."

Council of Metropolitan Detroit has
Not only have the checks been
formed the Detroit Jewish Coalition
mailed, but they've arrived.
for Literacy to help teaching reading
Last week the Jewish Federation of
in local public schools.
Metropolitan Detroit sent out checks
According to Rabbi Marla Feld-
totaling $500,000 to 20 area congre-
man, the Council's assistant director
gational, or supplemental, schools.
for domestic concerns, 14 Jewish orga-
The money provided tuition scholar-
nizations, almost half of which are
ships for 1,800 students, approximately
36 percent of those enrolled
in supplemental schools,
which provide several hours
per week of Jewish studies.
Every child for whom
the schools submitted
scholarship requests to
Federation received at
least $230 for the 1998-
99 school year, with stu-
dents enrolled in more
than four hours per week
of classes receiving an
extra $50 and those
demonstrating greater
need receiving an addi-
tional $100.
The money is a qua-
Di: Mark Rosenblum
drupling in Federation
assistance to supplemental
school students; last year,
shuts, have joined. The 14 already have
it gave $122,500 for 800 students.
literacy projects and, she said, "will
Approximately 5,000 children
lend their expertise" to build a larger
attend supplemental schools versus
volunteer base for the initiative, a part
2,000 in day schools, which offer a
of the U.S. Department of Education's
full day of Jewish and general studies
America Reads Challenge.
and got $1.5 million from the Federa-
The aim is to have the program "up
tion for 1998-99.
and running" by fall. The coalition is
seeking an Americorps Fellow as a
In a local fight against a national
coordinator.
problem, the Jewish Community

Marking
100 Years Of
Detroit Jewry

Members of the U.S. Armed
Forces are interviewed at a
United Service Organization
(USO) meeting in 1943.
At left is Henry Meyers,
president of the local USO
and chairman of the Detroit
Army and Navy Committee.

Photo courtesy of Leonard N. Simons Jewish
Community Archives/Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit. If you have identifica-
tion information about others in this photo,
please call Sharon Alterman, Detroit Jewish
community archivist: (248) 203-1491.

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1999

30 Detroit Jewish News

Remember
When •

From the pages of The Jewish News
for this week 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50
years ago.

Sinai Hospital officials are consider-
ing making this month's communi-
ty-wide screening for Tay-Sachs dis-
ease an annual event.
Denied a seat in the Knesset,
Rabbi Meir Kahane took his cam-
paign for an independent Jewish
state in the West Bank and Gaza to
the United States this week.

The bomb death in Beirut of Al
Hassan Salameh, who engineered
the 1972 Munich Olympics mas-
sacre, was greeted with grim satis-
faction in Israel.
An Israeli newspaper reported
that Jordan expressed interest in an
Israeli plan to connect the Mediter-
ranean with the Dead Sea by canal.

1969

Detroit Jewry will protest Iraq's pub-
lic hanging of 14 people, including
nine Jews, for alleged espionage.
High school students planned a
protest in Kennedy Square.
El Fatah is finding champions in
the youthful ranks of the American
New Left. One Jewish student
claimed the Palestinian Liberation
struggle brought freedom while
Israelis were imperialist exploiters
trying to make the Mideast safe for
the Coca-Cola company.

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Cuban Jews feel secure under the
new regime of Fidel Castro. Anti-
Semitism is not a factor for the
Jewish community of 12,000.
While Jews celebrate Tu B'Shevat,
the Jewish National Fund in Detroit
has undertaken to plant 250,000
trees in the Independence Forest near
Jerusalem over the next two years.

1949

President Truman's former haber-
dashery partner, Edward Jacobson
of St. Louis, along with his wife
and daughter, attended the presi-
dential inauguration.
France became the 23rd nation to
recognize Israel. Truman is expected
to grant de jure recognition soon.