Circle
Of
Thanks
COMING HOME
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Franklin Bank's Affinity Program
Chanuka Marked
At China Shul
New York (JTA) — A synagogue in
Shanghai celebrated Chanuka for the
first time in 47 years.
Jewish leaders, diplomats and their
families participated in the celebration
at the Ohel Rachel Synagogue, which
was restored in recent years after hav-
ing been used as a warehouse.
U.S. Library
Has Looted Books
David Herrnelin
The business community has
been very good to us. We
want to give back to the
community with a
reward to JARC
for the good
BUSINESS
work it does for
OWNERS
so many.
The "Circle Of
Thanks" program
is our way of
thanking you and
JARC for honoring
us with your business
banking.
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arc
Affinity
Program
Franklin
Bank
Direct dollars to JARC by
directing your business to us. Open
your business checking account today and
we will make an automatic donation to JARC
in your name. JARC must be mentioned when
account is opened.*
Call Julie Rollins
248.358.6493
Franklin Bank
Thank you Metro Detroit Business Community...and thank
you JARC for making such a difference to so many.
12/10
1999
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New accounts only, transferring account balances not permitted. Contribution based on activated
account's third month balance. Certain high volume cash and coin accounts such as food stores,
beauty salons and vending companies are excluded from this program (call for details.)
Entertainment, which owns the Palace
of Auburn Hills and Pine Knob enter-
tainment centers. He is chairman of
American-Israel Flat Glass Ltd. in Israel's
central Galilee region.
His local involvement has included
the Jewish Federation, Hillel Day
School, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer
Institute and Jewish Community
Center. He also has been active in cul-
tural, interfaith and higher education
circles. He helped shape Federation's
adult miracle missions to Israel.
Max Fisher, the dean of Detroit's
Jewish business and philanthropic lead-
ers, said Hermelin's can-do attitude
endears him to everyone he comes in
contact with.
"He was available to everybody —
the UJA, Federation, Israel Bonds —
you name it," Fisher said.
"I always kidded him that he should
join the PMA Club. That stands for
Positive Mental Attitude. Finally, he sent
me a sweatshirt, engraved with the ini-
tials PMA."
Fisher said his longtime friend had
endeared himself to the Norwegian peo-
ple just as he has to the many Michigan
residents he's served over the years. "He
did a great deal of good for Israel and
America, and I'm happy to have him
back home.
This opinion was echoed by David
Gad-Hart, executive director of the
Jewish Community Council of
Metropolitan Detroit. "Everyone loves
David and wants to be a part of what
he's a part of," Gad-Harf said.
Hermelin has been involved in —
and frequently initiated — every signifi-
cant community enterprise in the
Detroit area, Gad-Harf said.
'All of us are delighted that he has
returned to Detroit to continue these
activities." ri
Washington (JTA) — Followina a
b
recent inquiry by JTA, the Library
of
Congress acknowledged that after
World War II it received 5,708 books
that the Nazis had looted from Jewish
Holocaust victims.
The library said it received the
books from Jewish Cultural
Reconstruction Inc. After the war,
JCR sought to find homes for
500,000 books that were deemed
without heirs.
Robert Waite of the Justice
Department's Office of Special
Investigations said he found no evi-
dence the books were acquired
through improper means.
Released Captive
To Go To Israel
Jerusalem (JTA) — A Jewish teenager
recently released by Chechen kidnap-
pers is expected to arrive in Israel to
participate in an educational program
run by the Jewish Agency for Israel,
according to the Israeli daily Ha'aretz.
The father of Vladimir Fayil, 14, who
will take part in the Jewish Agency's
Nialeh program, lives in Israel.
Soldiers' Bodies
Found In Sinai
Jerusalem (JTA) — The bodies of two
Israeli soldiers missing since the 1973
Yom Kippur War have been found in
the Sinai Desert in Egypt.
The Israeli army's missing-in-action
unit found the bodies of Corporals
Leon Cohen and Mordechai Nadiv
under sand dunes near the Suez
Canal, an army spokesman said.
"Twenty-six years after the battles
we are bringing the dead to a grave in
Israel," Prime Minister Ehud Barak
said later in a statement.