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United Jewish Foundation, Irwin Green
earned Federation's 1981 Butzel Award
for distinguished community service.
At the University of Michigan,
Green funded construction of Hillel
Auditorium and recently created a
$250,000 endowment for program-
ming. U-M Hillel Executive Director
Michael Brooks described Green as
smart, caring, visionary.
"He knows there is a point where
young people make serious decisions
about what they'll do with their lives,"
Brooks said. "He's genuinely con-
cerned about the future of Jewish life
and the importance of engaging the
next generation of Jews."
"I already support Hillel in
Michigan and I feel it is a very impor-
tant program," Green said from his
Florida home.
His own children attended
Michigan colleges and he sees Hillel as
"doing a great job involving the kids."
Green further said he was happy to
address a need when approached by
Robert Aronson, Detroit Federation
CEO, who suggested the new fund
would provide "a missing link" in the
Millennium Campaign's list of contri-
butions in areas including adult and
day school education.
Stressing the importance of a good
Jewish experience in college, Aronson
called the campus a place for "young
Jews to meet other young Jews."
"Irwin Green is the -kind of person
who cares a lot about college life,"
Aronson said. •
"This is the beginning for me, with
Michigan State," said Green.
Rabbi Philip Cohen, executive
director of MSU Hillel, authored the
school's proposal for grant funding.
Hillel will receive monies to hire a sec-
ond Jewish Campus Service Corps fel-
low, to be called a "Green fellow,"
whose position will be "to work exclu-
sively with first-year students, meeting
every Jewish freshman we identify,
bringing them into Hillel's orbit." "
"Many universities have Hillel
chapters," Green said, and the hope is
to get students "already affiliated with
some organizations and those not yet
affiliated to participate."
In addition to their Hillel involve-
ment, the Greens funded construction
of three pre-kindergartens in Kiryat
Shemona, Israel, in the names of their
children, Margo, Richard and Don.
They started a community center in
the village of Shlomi.
Israel's Technion-Israel Institute of
Technology, Weizmann Institute and
Hebrew University all have recognized
the Greens for their generosity.

A supporter of Israel Bonds, Irwin
Green chaired Shaarey Zedek's
Presidential Toast of Israel and
received Israel Bonds' Sword of
Haganah Award from Israeli leader
Yigal Allon. Detroit Men's ORT
named him its man of the year.
Avid art collectors, the Greens are
major contributors to the Detroit
Institute of Arts and the Israel Museum.'
Irwin Green's concern for refugees
led to helping resettle Russian Jews in
Detroit. He traces his concern for the
American Jewish community and
Israel to leaving Russia as a young boy.
"I can never forget how fortunate I
am that I was saved by escaping from
Russia in the nick of time," he said. "I
feel there's a debt I have to repay.
"I visited Israel for the first time
shortly after it became a state, and Lsaw
how it became a haven for those who,
like me, were in dire need of rescue. It's
very rewarding that I have had the
opportunity to help build — if only in
a small way — a new nation." ❑

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Three well planned daily meals
Emergency call systems
Housekeeping and linen services
Round the clock staffing
Licensed Nurses 24 Hours Daily
Personal care assistance
Medical supervision
Spa with pool and exercise room
Scheduled activities
Game room
Library
Hair salon
Sundries shop
Transportation
Plus--For the Memory Impaired

TOURS AVAILABLE DAILY

Settling Up
Shoah Claims

Washington/JTA
fter nearly two years of work, the
-international commission seeking
to settle unpaid Holocaust-era insur-
ance claims launched a global effort to
reach out to Jews who may have
claims against European insurance
companies.
Lawrence Eagleburger, former U.S.
secretary of state who chairs the
International Commission on
Holocaust Era Insurance Claims, said
people who believe their relatives
bought life, education or dowry insur-
ance policies with any company
between 1920 and 1945 but never
received the proceeds are eligible to file
a claim with the commission.
The commission so far has been
joined by only five insurance compa-
nies, but the commission is seeking to
add more and will ask all companies
to process claims.
Write the International Commission
on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims at
P.O. Box 1163, Wall Street Station,
N.Y., NY 10268 USA; visit the Web
site at vvww.icheic.org or call 1 (800)
957-3203. All claims must be filed by
Feb. 1, 2002, and are promised to be
resolved within two years of filing.

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THANK YOU

to all our family and friends
for all your prayers and good
wishes during Rose's recent illness.

ROSE and HARRY JACOBS

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