"She had to leave every day at 6
a.m. for the one-hour bus ride to
Jerusalem," said Lillian Gold of her
daughter. "Having a cooperative hus-
band and living on kibbutz all
helped."
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5.•
From the pages of The Jewish News
for this week 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50
years ago.
Promises, Promises
An Ordination
Fulfills A Dream
When the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations held its annual meeting
in Israel in March, a Detroiter com-
pleted a lifetime journey.
Marilyn (Miri) Gold Leichman, 49,
was ordained at the UAHC conven-
tion, becoming the third Israeli
woman rabbi.
A product of Berkley High School
and the University of Michigan, Gold
went to Israel as a gift from her par-
ents for graduating from
Congregation Shaarey Zedek's
Hebrew High School. Coming back
from her USY summer trip, she told
her mother, Lillian, Israel was the
place she wanted to live.
Gold spent her U-M junior year
studying at Hebrew University in
Jerusalem. She made aliya in 1976
and lives in Israel at Kibbutz Gezer,
between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, near
R _ amla, because it keeps kosher.
Her decision to become a rabbi
came after officiating at her daughter's
bat mitzvah. Gold enrolled in a joint
program, earning a master's in Jewish
philosophy from Hebrew University
and ordination from Hebrew Union
College in five years.
A black, Jewish mayoral candidate in
San Francisco is borrowing a page out
of Israeli Prime Minister-elect Ehud
Barak's campaign playbook — and
making relations with Israel a center-
piece of his campaign strategy.
Mark "Moshe" Hardie, a 28-year-
old lawyer and convert to Orthodox
Judaism, has adopted "One San
Francisco" as the central theme of his
Republican campaign, "echoing the
successful 'One Israel' campaign of
Barak," according to a report issued
by his campaign team.
Hardie, running against incumbent
Mayor Willie Brown, has promised to
make Jerusalem the primary sister city
of San Francisco and to open a trade
office there. Hardie is also promoting
development of a state-of-the-art
Jewish commercial center in San
Francisco, with kosher restaurants,
Jewish bookstores, Judaic shops and
family-oriented movie theaters; mak-
ing kosher meals available at all city-
owned dining facilities, and placing an
eruv, or a wall, around San Francisco
to facilitate Shabbat observance.
He called on several Jewish mem-
bers of the entertainment industry,
including Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey
Katzenberg, David Geffen and
Michael Eisner, to serve on his cam-
paign committee because, as Hardie
said, "I stand for tzedaka,” or charity.
Remember
When • •
Marla Feldman holds gifts for refugees.
A Housewarming
For Kosovars
On the note of "It is better to give
than to receive," Rabbi Marla
Feldman's housewarming party last
weekend turned into a gathering of
gifts for some soon-to-be new immi-
grants from Kosovo.
Feldman, assistant director for
domestic concerns at the Jewish
Community Council of Metropolitan
Detroit, recently had moved into a new
condo. She was struck, she said, by the
contrast between the blessings of her
life and the tragedies of the Kosovar
refugees who are moving here with lit-
tle beyond the clothes on their backs.
"Literally, the same week I had my
housewarming, we got our first refugee
family at the Jewish Family Service,"
Feldman said. "My hope is that items
that my friends and family brought to
my home will be shared with them."
She gave her friends a list drawn up
by the JFS and told them that she would
rather have their "presence" and have
them share their "presents" with those
who really needed some help. The dish-
es, glasses, flatware and towels will soon
be in the hands of those who need them.
Marking 100 Tears
Of Detroit Jewry
Pictured are members of the first high school
graduating class of the United Hebrew Schools
in 1928. Following graduation, the class organized
an alumni association with Max Weine as its
president. Weine, bottom row, second from left,
later distinguished himself as one of
the community's leading rabbis.
Photo'courtesy of the Leonard N. Simons Jewish Community
Archives/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit.
If you have information about this photograph,
please call Heidi Christein, Jewish community
archivist: (248) 642-4260.
1989
Philip Slomovitz, editor emeritus of
the Jewish News was re-elected to
the board of the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency.
Dr. Susan Hershberg Adelman, a
Southfield pediatric surgeon, was
chosen to be the first woman to
preside over the Michigan State
Medical Society.
1979
The State Correctional Facility at
Auburn, N.Y., a maximum-security
prison, agreed to provide kosher
food for Jewish inmates.
Albert and Libbie Posen, mem-
bers of Adat Shalom Synagogue,
marked their 50th wedding anniver-
sary by donating a fully equipped
ambulance to Mogen David Adorn,
Israel's emergency health service.
1969
Mark Spitz, of Indiana University,
became the ninth swimmer in the
45-year history of the NCAA
championship to win three titles in
one year.
The ruins of an Egyptian temple
to Hather, the cow-headed goddess
of the desert, have been discovered
in the area of Solomon's Pillars at
the southern end of the Negev.
Lawrence W. Crohn was re-elected
to a second term as president of the
Jewish Community Council.
Mr. and Mrs. Henri Goldberg ,/
were honored at a party given by
the Jewish Folk Chorus prior to
their departure for California.
Goldberg was conductor of the
chorus for 17 years.
1949
The Internal Relations Committee
of the Jewish Community Council,
directed by Julius Weinberg, report-
ed that negotiations are under way
to bring frozen kosher meat to the
community.
Henry Bernstein, Harry Glasgold,
M. Solomon and Ben Yomen are
prize winners of the first annual
Michigan Jewish Artists Show.