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This
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Stronger Stance Asked
On Guns In Schools

Democratic state representa-
tives are asking the Senate
majority leader to do what their
chamber wouldn't: ban con-
cealed weapons from schools.
Rep. Gilda Jacobs of
Huntington Woods was one of
18 legislators who signed a let-
ter to Sen. Dan DeGrow (R-
Port Huron), asking the senator
to take a "leadership role" in
keeping people who have per-
mits to carry concealed
weapons from carrying their
guns into schools.
Last week, the House passed
a measure allowing the schools
to post signs that weapons could
not be brought into the school.
"Posting is a weak and wholly inad-
equate mean of protecting our chil-
dren from potential gun violence," the
letter read. The posting provision
does not guarantee that guns will not
be carried into our schools."

JFS Meets Kosovo Refugees

Jewish Family Service of Metropolitan
Detroit handled its first intake of a
Kosovo refugee family last weekend.
The family has settled in
Dearborn with members of the
Albanian Islamic community: Dean
Shaska, a member of the Interfaith
Taskforce, has made sure the family
remains in that community, accord-
ing to JFS's Dave Moss.

come later will, Moss said —
although, he noted, "We're not sure
how many refugees we will get."

Discussion Of Sinai
Donor Plaques

What will happen to the donor
plaques on many of the patient rooms
at Sinai Hospital that bear the names
of benefactors? A committee is dis-
cussing that question at the Detroit
hospital as its
merger with near-
by Grace Hospital
is concluded.
The committee
Miss Israel. Rana Raslan models
her national costume bearing
was pulled togeth-
the Star of David during
er a month ago
the Miss Universe National
and no timetable
costume show Sunday at
has been set for its
the Universe Center in
decision, according
Chaguaramas, Trinidad.
to Julie Nemeth, a
Raslan, the first Israeli of Arab
Detroit Medical
descent to be a Miss Universe
Center spokes-
contestant, said the dress "really woman.
did not please the two Syrian
Nemeth said
judges." Raslan also said that
DMC is still on
Miss Egypt had called her
schedule to consol-
an Israeli collaborator.
idate the majority
of the services that
Sinai offers into
Grace by June 11. The psychiatry and
Last Monday, Shaska's mother took
open heart units will remain at Sinai
the family of five to Fairlane Mall to
until September.
get clothing, and his brother brought
DMC, which purchased Sinai in
them to the Southfield offices of JFS
January
1997, decided to close the
for their intake interview.
traditionally
Jewish hospital last
The first refugees did not have fam-
February.
ily in the area, but most of those who

Miss Israel Criticized

Marking
100 Tears
Of Detroit
Jewry

The Mothers' Club of the
Jewish Centers Association
visits the Detroit Flower
Show in 1927.

Photo courtesy of the Leonard N.
Simons Jewish Community
Archives/Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit. if you have infor-
mation about this photograph, please
call Heidi Christein. Jewish community
archivist: (248) 642-4260.

5/28
1999

Remember
When •

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

years ago.

1989

Proponents of admitting women to
the Conservative Movement's Cantors
Assembly outpolled traditionalists,
but still fell 19 votes short of the two-
thirds required to admit women.
The League of Jewish Women's
Organizations honored Sarah Levin
for her long service to the commu-
nity.

1979

Temple Israel in Detroit has begun
construction of a new building on
Walnut Lake Road near Drake in
West Bloomfield.
The Jewish Community Council
of Metropolitan Detroit has elected
Marian Shifman as its first woman
president.

1969

Judge Frank Licht, a Democrat and
vice president of his shul, has been
elected the new governor of Rhode
Island.
The site of the new Porat Yosef
yeshiva in east Jerusalem, the only
major Sephardic rabbinical seminary •
in Israel, was dedicated amid the
rubble of the old building, destroyed
by the Jordanian army in 1948.

1959

Crown Kosher Supermarket in
Springfield,-Mass., won a federal
court ruling against being closed on
Sundays by the Massachusetts
Lord's Days Laws; it was open for
business by permission of the
Springfield police.
Congregation Shaarey Zedek
youth performed a Hebraized ver-
sion of South Pacific; among the
leads were Michael Stulberg, Jan
Berris and Merle Weston.

1949

Liba Richter, a resident of the
Jewish Old Folks Home, was
reunited with a daughter whom she
had not seen in a quarter century.
The government of Panama
raised its consulate at Detroit to the
grade of consulate general and pro-
moted Louis James Rosenberg to
consul general.

