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Temple Beth El To Host
Morris Dees Jr. On Shabbat

Morris S. Dees Jr., chief counsel and
co-founder of the Southern Poverty .
Law Center, will be the Milton M.
Alexander
Guest
Lecturer at
Temple Beth
El's Shabbat
services on
Friday,
March 31.
They begin
at 7:30 p.m.
Known as
the man who
takes bigotry
to
court,
Morris S. Dees Jr.
Dees has
been victori-
ous in lawsuits against such groups as
the KKK and the White Aryan
Resistance.
Klanwatch, a 20-year-old program
of the SPLC, monitors hate groups
and develops legal strategies to protect
citizens from violence-prone groups. It
also publishes Teaching Tolerance, a
classroom guide that reaches thou-
sands of schools nationwide.
Dees chronicled some of his and
the center's efforts in several books,
including his autobiography, A Season
for Justice. His latest book, Gathering
Storm: America's Militia Threat, expos-
es the danger posed by domestic ter-
rorist groups. •
His awards include Common
Cause's 1988 Public Service
Achievement Award, the American
Civil -Liberties Union's 19,89 Roger
Baldwin Award, the National
Education Association's 1990 Martin
Luther King Jr. Memorial Award and
the National Bdr Association's 1998
Civil Rights Award. Dees' life was the
subject of a 1991 NBC television film,

Line of Fire.
Like Dees, the late Milton
Alexander, a Temple Beth El member,
worked on behalf of the powerless.
His concern for youngsters with men-
tal disabilities led to his being among
the founders of the Wayne County
Training School. Alexander was vice
president and chair of the United
Jewish Charities educational commit-
tee, first president of the Jewish
Centers Association and board mem-
ber of the Jewish Community Center,
United Hebrew Schools and Jewish
Unemployment Emergency Relief

Council.
In 1936, a stroke left Alexander
partially paralyzed. Yet his daughter,
Helen Rowin, remembers that "he
refused to give up ... he managed to
convey his love, his strength, his ideas,
his wisdom, morality, sense of justice
and integrity ... to his wife, his chil-
dren and his community." Alexander
died in 1947.
Helen and Gerald Rowin and
Ackerman and Ackerman PC are
sponsoring the lecture series in honor
of the bat mitzvah of Elana Rachel
Ackerman, daughter of Alan and
Sharyl Ackerman.

NCJW Program
On Gun Control

With "the issue of violence in the
schools and in the community more
in the forefront"
than ever before,
what could be
more timely than
a program on the
topic, suggested
Judy Rosenberg,
state public affairs
chair for the
National Council
of Jewish
Judy Rosenberg
Women/Greater
Detroit Section.
NCJW's
upcoming lunchtime program,
"Deadly Consequences of Guns and
Gun Violence," supports the organiza-
tion's national policy in favor of gun
control, Rosenberg said. State Rep.
Gilda Jacobs (D-Huntington Woods)
and Marj Jackson Levin, president of
Michigan Citizens for Handgun
Control, will discuss the current status
of state and federal gun-violence
issues.
The free program is being held
11:45 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Monday, March
29, at the NCJW offices, 26400 -
Lahser Road, Suite 100, in Southfield.
Bring a bag lunch; coffee and dessert
will be served.
Event organizers are Doris
Blechman and Jeannie Weiner, public
affairs co-chairwomen, and Roz
.
Blanck, public affairs vice president.
For information, call (248) 355-
3300.

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