Because we always make time for you.

moved to Louisville, Ky., in. 1967, and
Ted died there last year, several
months before his son's election.
Richard's brother and sister-in-law,
Mickey and Carol, were co-presidents
of the Detroit AZA and BBG councils
at the same time. Carol's father, the
late Morrie Zeiger, was a vice presi-
dent of B'nai B'rith District 6.
Richard and his wife, Phyllis, who
is from Washington, D.C. and Rhode
Island, met at a BBYO international
leadership training conference in
Starlight, Pa., in 1963. They married
in 1968. Both have been involved in
B'nai B'rith all their lives. She is the
administrator of his law firm.
Heideman, 52, is a graduate of
Bagley Elementary, Post Junior High
and Mumford High School in
Detroit, the University of Michigan

"Most people
don't realize it,
but B'nai Kith is
the conscience
against those who
try to bash Israel."

— David Bittker

and George Washington University
Law Center. After law school, he
served as a B'nai B'rith lodge presi-
dent, district president, international
and senior international vice presi-
dent, and chair of the BBI Center for
Public Policy. He also chaired the BBI
Young Leadership Committee and the
BBI Political Action Network.
The Heidemans' three daughters
were active in BBYO. Phyllis
Heideman chairs the B'nai B'rith
Klutznick National Jewish Museum in
Washington, belongs to the BBI
Executive Committee and will chair
the BBI convention next August.
Republican presidential candidate
George W. Bush accepted Richard
Heideman's invitation last month to
speak at the convention. All major
candidates will be invited.
Asked how he juggles his law prac-
tice and B'nai B'rith International,
Heideman quotes his late father:
"Hard work pays off."

Seedlings To
Grow In
Rev. Lyons'
Memory

The Jewish National Fund will plant
4,000 trees in Israel, thanks to sup-
porters who at a recent dinner hon-
ored the memory of the Rev. Dr.
James R. Lyons, founder and long-
time head of the Ecumenical Institute
for Jewish-Christian Studies.
The Nov. 8 dinner drew 150
patrons, who paid $180 each to watch
Rabbi Norman Roman of Temple Kol
Ami, on behalf of the JNF's Greater
Michigan Region, present the 1999
Keter Shem Toy (Crown of the Good
Name) Award to the
family of the late
Rev. Lyons.
JNF officials said
the dinner, at
Congregation
Shaarey Zedek,
should net about
$20,000, which will Rev. Lyons
go toward trees in
the envisioned James Lyons Peace
Project near Jerusalem, said Priscilla
Smith, JNF senior campaign associate
in Southfield.
Beloved by Jews and Christians
alike, Rev. Lyons died last year at age
63 from complications of diabetes. He
was an executive board member of the
National Christian Leadership
Council for Israel.
The Southfield-based Ecumenical
Institute strives in a non-conversional
way to shatter barriers of prejudice
and indifference and build bridges of
understanding and tolerance between
Jews and Christians.

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Correction

The film Train of Life (see "The
Holocaust Goes Hollywood" on
page 75 of this week's Arts &
Entertainment section), original-
ly scheduled to open Nov. 24,
has been tentatively rescheduled
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