This
Sophia Loren Film
Lands 2nd Showing
Bus Pals
Thirty members and friends of Temple
Emanu-El came together for the Walk
for Israel, part of Sunday's Israel Fest
in Oak Park. Wearing their Bus 14 T-
shirts, the group was part of Michigan
Miracle Mission III to Israel in April.
"We decided as a group to show
other Derroiters that we support Israel
by taking part in the Walk," said
Linda Kaploe.
Award to William Clay Ford Jr., who
chairs the Ford Motor Company board.
The invitation to the June 23 trib-
ute says "Bill's leadership of the com-
pany is characterized by a dynamic
commitment to continuous growth —
not only for Ford Motor Company,
but equally so in the realms of civic
engagement, social responsibility and
environmental concern."
Assault Reported
Hymie Cutler, director of the
Detroit-based Michigan Committee
starring
Sophia
The French film Soleil,
for a Safe Israel, was passing out
At a dinner where Farmington Hills
Loren, will have a second showing on
informational literature at Sunday's
philanthropist Max Fisher is honorary
Sunday, June 13, at the Star Southfield
Israel Fest, outside the Jewish
chair, the American Jewish
Entertainment Complex as part of the
Community Center's Jimmy Prentis
Committee/Detroit
Chapter
will
pre-
Jewish Corrirnunity Center of
Morris Building in Oak Park, when,
sent
its
National
Human
Relations
Metropolitan Detroit's Lenore Marwil
he said, he was assaulted.
Jewish Film Festival.
"He wouldn't even look at
Due to popular demand, a
the
stuff and didn't want me
10:15 p.m. screening has
to
pass
it out," Cutler said of
been added to the program.
his assailant, who doused him
The original 7:30 show, with
with water and threw his
300 seats available, sold out.
pamphlets, challenging the
Tickets for the second
Clinton-Administration's sup-
performance are available at
port
of the PLO, in a nearby
the door one hour before
dumpster.
show time for $6; $5 for
Cutler said this wasn't the
seniors.
first
time he's encountered
This first JCC-hosted
resistance
from people who
Jewish Film Festival runs
didn't
like
his grass-roots dis-
through Wednesday, June 16.
tribution
efforts,
but he said
For more information, call
he
isn't
planning
to
press
Sophia Loren will be on the big screen twice this Sunday
the JCC Jewish Life and
charges.
Said
Cutler:
"The
at the Star Southfield Entertainment Complex in the
Learning Department at
world
didn't
come
to
an end."
French film "Soleil."
(248) 661-7649.
Tribute To Bill Ford
189
Marking
100 Years Of
Detroit Jewry
Remember
When • •
From the pages of The Jewish News
for this week 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50
years ago.
1989
Memoirs by Soviet Jewry activist
Natan Sharansky and a study of
black-Jewish relations by Jonathan
Kaufman were recipients of
National Jewish Book Awards from
the Jewish Book Council.
The Anti-Defamation League of
B'nai B'rith called on the U.S.
House of Representatives to allocate
$500 million this year for Japanese.
Americans interned during World
War II.
1979
A proposal to build a Holocaust
Memorial Center adjacent to the
Jewish Community Center at
Maple and Drake was approved.
Allen Wolf of Southfield won
two first-place awards in state-wide
broadcast journalism competitions.
1969
A young Palestinian woman said in
Amman that she planned and exe-
cuted a supermarket explosion that
killed two people and injured nine
others in Jerusalem this past winter.
David Ben-Gurion, former pre-
mier of Israel, said Hebrew must
replace Yiddish as the universal
Jewish language in the diaspora.
1959
Stanley Michael, civic leader and
owner of Camp Nahelu in
Ortonville, has been elected chair-
man of the Detroit chapter of
Americans for Dernocthtic Action.
Jewish organizations in Paris have
complained to police about repeated
acts of vandalism at the Tomb of the
Jewish Martyr. Workmen removed
large ink stains that vandals recently
smeared over the tomb.
1949
Some Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit Junior
Division members pose in a
lighthearted moment in 1953.
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.
6111
1999
30 Detroit Jewish News
Mrs. Joseph M. Welt, president of
the National Council of Jewish
Women, was elected president of
the International Council of Jewish
Women at its meeting in Paris.
Two Detroiters, Morris Camene-
tzky and William Gold, are among 16
young men ordained at the Hebrew
Theological College of ChiCago.
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