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Cut-A-Thon
For JARC

Claire Kahn holds Jordan and Barry Kahn is with
son Josh.

More than 300 people partici-
pated in the first JARC Cut-a-
thon at Barry K Salon on
Sunday, April 25, raising
$10,000 for JARC's new
Harris Children and Family
Division.
Salon owners Barry and
Claire Kahn organized the
fund-raiser in honor of their
17-month-old son Jordan,
who has cerebral palsy.
Twenty stylists and nail tech-
nicians donated time to the
event.
The Harris Children and
Family Division provides a
range of professional services
and support for families who
have children of any age with
any disability, including
respite care, advocacy, finan-
cial subsidies and outreach to
newly identified families.

AJE Proposes Slate Of Officers

James J. Jonas has been nominated for
president of the Agency for Jewish
Education of Metropolitan Detroit.
The nominating committee's slate
for the executive committee includes
Arthur Horwitz and Bernard Mindell,
vice presidents; Gayle Burstein, trea-
surer; Paula Glazier, secretary; Susie
Citrin, Dr. Lynda Giles, Michael
Kasky and Trudy Weiss.
Nominated for three-year terms as
at-large directors are Susie Citrin,
Linda Goodman, Arthur Horwitz and
Robert Schostak. Nominees for a sec-
ond three-year term
at-large direc-
tors are Sy Finkelstein, Alyssa Martina
and Mindy Nathan.
Nominated as representative direc-
tors for a two-year term are Sari
Cicurel, Congregation Shaarey Zedek;
James Hooberman, Congregation
Shaarey Zedek; James L. Jonas,
Temple Israel; Maxwell Nadis,
Congregation Beth Abraham Hillel
Moses; Laura Rice, Birmingham
Temple.

Nominated as representative directors
for a one-year term are Beth Cook, Adat
Shalom Synagogue, and Nancy Singer,
Temple Beth El.
Elections will be held at the Agency
for Jewish Education's annual meeting,
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 9, at the
Jewish Community Center's D. Dan
& Betty Kahn Building in West
Bloomfield.
The meeting will include a speech,
"And If Not NoW, When: A
Community Conversation on
Educational Change," by Rabbi Saul
Berman; and the video presentation of
AJE and the Alliance for Jewish
Education, "Reaching Toward an
Inspired Jewish Community." More
than 100 teachers who have completed
the AJE's NIRIM Professional
Enrichment Program will be honored.
The 1999 AJE nominating com-
mittee included Bernard Mindell,
chairman; Linda Brodsky, Gayle
Burstein, Susie Citrin, Dr. Lynda Giles
and Joseph Greenberg.

Neurosurgeon Wins Award

A physician who studies new
Outcome Project, a multi-
ways to help patients diag-
center research project track-
nosed with cancerous brain
ing outcomes of patients with
rumors has won national
malignant brain tumors.
recognition.
Sloan, son of Sheila and
Dr. Andrew Sloan of
Richard Sloan of Bloomfield
Birmingham, assistant profes-
Hills, earned a bachelor of
sor of neurosurgery at the
science degree at Yale
Barbara Ann Karmanos
University and his medical
Cancer Institute in Detroit,
degree at Harvard Medical
has earned the 1999 Clinical
School. He completed train-
Dr. Andrew Sloan
Investigator Award for his
ing in neurosurgery at UCLA
research on malignant brain
and a fellowship in neurosur-
tumors.
gical oncology at MD
The American Brain Tumor
Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
Association of Des Plaines, Ill., present-
He joined Karmanos Cancer Institute
ed the award to eight researchers in
in June 1998. He's the neurosurgical
North America.
representative to the Southwest
As part of his duties at the institute,
Oncology Group, a cancer research col-
Sloan is chief investigator of the Glioma
laborative group.

Trudy Weiss Named To Post

Science Forum

On behalf of the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science and in
honor of Irwin Green, who established a And to support Alzheimer research at the
Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, a science forum and cocktail recep-
tion were held at the home of Nancy and Dr. Joseph Jacobson. Professor Joel
Sussman of the institute spoke. Shown are Martin Knzar, executive vice president of
the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science; Dr. Jacobson,
Nang Jacobson, chairwoman of the American Committee-Michigan Region; Irwin
Green; Professor Sussman.

5/21
1999

Trudy Weiss has been named missions
coordinator of the Michigan/Israel
Connection of the Jewish Federation
of Metropolitan Detroit.
Weiss has served on Federation's
Board of Governors and the Women's
Campaign and Education
Department. She has also been a
member of the boards of Hillel Day
School, Adat Shalom Synagogue,

Sinai Hospital Guild, Agency for
Jewish Education, Jewish Community
Council and Hillel Foundation at
Michigan State University. Recently,
she chaired the Teen Unity
Mission/March of the Living to
Poland and Israel.
Weiss is active in the National
Council of Jewish Women, Women s
American ORT and Hadassah.