• Are you battling with your
child over food?
• Is your child sneaking food?
Is your child gaining too
much weight?
• Do weight problems
run in your family?
CC WM
Center
for Childhood
Weight Management
Let t e
p rofessiona l
staff of
The Center for
Childhood Weight
Management help you
and your child.
For more information about
classes and locations, call:
(248) 661-6625
"Healthy Kids Are Happy Kids"
Jewish Apartments 8- Services, Jewish Apartments 8- Services Phase
Iv Inc., Jewish Apartments 8- Services Non-Profit Housing
Corporation, and Jcare, Inc. will hold the annual meeting of mem-
bers on Wednesday, June 16, 1999 at 5:30 p.m. at the Harriett and
Ben Teitel Jewish Apartments, 15106 W. Ten Mile Road, Oak Park,
Michigan for the purpose of electing members of the Board of
Directors and for the transaction of such other business as may
properly come before the meeting.
NOMINATIONS FOR THE DIRECTORS ARE AS FOLLOWS:
First three-year term: Neil Gorosh, Cheryl Guyer, Sandra Sherman,
David Steuer, Laurence Tisdale, Harvey Wolf.
Second three-year term: Barbara Cook, Susan Harold, Barry
Lefkowitz, Leo Sklar.
Honorary Life Member: Edythe Jackier Mulivor.
Advisory Committee: Richard Colton, Jack Zwick.
To fill existing three-year terms which were vacated: Doug Stone,
term ending May, 1999 to be renewed for an additional first-year
term; Beth Mondry, term ending May, 2000.
Initial three-year term: Jay Levin, Lisa Pernick.
In accordance with the Bylaws other qualified persons may be nom-
inated for election by a petition signed by not less than fifty (50)
members of the corporation and filed with Marsha Goldsmith
Kamin, Executive Director, not less than ten (10) days prior to the
date of the Annual Meeting. Only one (1) person may be nominat-
ed by each such petition and no nomination shall be valid unless
the nominee shall have consented to such nomination.
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Hadassah Stresses Philanthropy
Greater Detroit Chapter of
Hadassah, the Women's
Zionist Organization of
America, recently hosted a
meeting with Bonnie
Lipton, the incoming
national president of
Hadassah, and Professor
Sammy Penchas, the former
director-general of Hadassah
Hospital.
Lipton gave an update on
Hadassah Greater Detroit Chapter President Beverly
Hadassah projects in Israel
and information on national Apel with Professor Sammy Penchas and Bonnie Lipton,
the organization's incoming national president.
advocacy issues. They
include increasing literacy,
avoiding osteoporosis, fight-
ing against breast cancer,
stopping domestic violence,
preventing genetic-based
insurance discrimination and
increasing voter registration
and participation.
Penchas spoke about the
genetic research department
at the Jerusalem-based
Hadassah Hospital, one of
six in the world. More than
20 gene therapy research
Bonnie Lipton, second from right, with Hadassah
projects are under way on
young
leaders Michelle Rochlen, Wendy Kohlenburg
the Hadassah Medical
and
Randi
Simko.
Organization Campus. The
professor spoke of a trial test
On another subject, Penchas predict-
being done ro inject naked genes direct-
ed that if another war comes to the
ly into the heart, avoiding surgical
Middle East, it will be over water. There
bypass procedures.
is an enormous need for water in the
People of all religions and nationali-
region. As the aquifers are being deplet-
ties are cared for in Hadassah hospitals.
ed, the salinity in the remaining water in
The Hadassah Medical Organization
the aquifer goes up. Penchas is urging
employs Palestinian doctors and nurses
the Israeli government to build big
and 15-20 percent of all patients treated
national desalination plants.
are Palestinian.
Service Corps Seeks Volunteers
The Metropolitan Detroit Jewish
community will hold two open
house/interview sessions to recruit
Jewish volunteers ages 17-24 for City
Year Detroit. The meetings will be
held 6:30-8 p.m. Tuesday, May 11,
and Tuesday, May 18, at the D. Dan
and Betty Kahn Jewish Community
Center Building in West Bloomfield.
City Year, an AmeriCorps pro-
gram, is a national youth service
organization that unites diverse
young people for 10 months of full-
time community service, civic
engagement and leadership develop-
ment. Corps members receive a
weekly stipend of $150, health cov-
erage and are eligible for a $4,725
post-service award to be used for
educational pursuits.
The Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit and the
Detroit Initiative are coordinating
the Detroit Jewish community's
involvement in City Year Detroit,
which had been made possible by
contributions from the United
Jewish Foundation and the Jewish
Fund.
To become a corps member or for
information, call Jeanette
Brownstein, (248) 642-5393.