Community

Needlework Guild To Meet

Marilyn Feingold, Gail Gilman and Mechelle Bernard work on a Pomegranate
Guild project.

The Southeastern Michigan Chapter
of the Pomegranate Guild creates
Judaic heirlooms in needlework. They
revive Jewish traditions through work
with textiles.
The Sunday, June 11, meeting will

be at Adat Shalom Synagogue for a
kippa project. For information about
the guild, call Nadine Eder, (734)
434-2827, or Marilyn Feingold,
(734) 476-1592,

AJE Plans
Board Election

Adat Shalom
Hosts Homeless

The Agency for Jewish Education is
holding its annual meeting 7:30 p.m.
Monday, June 19, at Temple Israel in
West Bloomfield. Nominations for the
AJE 2000 - 20001 board of directors
will be presented.
Nominated for a second one-year
term are James L. Jonas, president;
Arthur Horwitz, vice president; Gayle
Burstein, treasurer; Paula Glazier, secre-
tary. Susie Citrin will be nominated for
a one-year term as vice president.
Nominations for a one-year term as
members at large on the executive com-
mittee include Dr. Joan Lessen Firestone,
Joseph Greenberg, Michael Ka.sky and
Dr. Lynda Giles. Nominations for a
three-year term as at-large directors are
Irene Beck and Esther Sherizen.
Nominated for a two-year term as at-
large directors is Andrew Weil.
The following will be nominated as
representative directors for a two-year
term: Karen Gutman, Temple Kol
Ami; Susan Leibowitz, Congregation
B'nai Moshe; Mark Nadel, Young
Israel of Southfield; Jeffrey Schlussel,
Young Israel of Oak Park; Michael
Weinstein, Temple Israel.
The AJE nominating committee
included Arthur Horwitz, chair, Susie
Citrin, Paula Glazier, Michael Kasky,
Bernard Mindell and Dr. Lynda Giles.

Adat Shalom Synagogue will host 30
homeless guests of the South Oakland
Shelter during the week of June 11-
18. For the fourth year, the congrega-
tion will provide transportation to and
from the Royal Oak shelter and 21
meals during those seven days.
Unique to Adat Shalom's project is
the opportunity for medical examina-
tions one evening at the synagogue by
physicians and nurses who are mem-
bers of the congregation. Pediatric
exams will be available for the chil-
dren. Free follow-up medical care,
where needed, will be arranged
through the South Oakland Shelter.
Non-Jewish friends of Adat Shalom
members have volunteered to assist on
Friday night and Saturday. Certain
kosher establishments have agreed to
donate products.
Micki Grossman and Linda Warner
are chairing the homeless project. ,
Synagogue families will be involved in
food preparation, laundry, activity
planning and other tasks. Committee
chairs include Larry Kaplan, Celia and
Michael Lubetsky, Karen Rosender,
Laurie Leeb, Noreen Klein, David
Goodman, Sheri and Jeff Devries, and
Myra Gross.
To help the project, call the syna-
gogue, (248) 851 - 5100.

Young Leaders Are Honored

Lis has been a member of
Three individuals have been recognized
Federation's
Young Adult Division
with awards from the Jewish Federation
since 1986. He has served as
of Metropolitan Detroit for
president, vice president,
their involvement and leader-
campaign and executive
ship in the Jewish community.
committee chair and he is a
Honorees and their awards
member of the Federation's
are: Paul Silverman, Mark
Board of Governors. He is
Family Young Leadership
also a board member of the
Award; Hannan Lis, Frank A.
Anti-Defamation
League, the
Wetsman Leadership Award;
Jewish
Community
Council,
Lisa Lis, Sylvia Simon
Adat Shalom Synagogue and
Greenberg Leadership Award.
the Michigan Chapter of
The Mark Family Award
Paul Silve rman
AIPAC.
recognizes an established
The Greenberg Award rec-
leader in the Young Adult
ognizes the leadership poten-
Division who has shown
tial and service to the Jewish
outstanding commitment
community
on the part of a
and achieved remarkable
young
woman.
success within the division.
Lis is a board member of
• Silverman is the incoming
the Fresh Air Society. She has
president of Federation's
served on YAD's board, is an
Young Adult Division, a chair
active member of the
of Federation's grants and dis-
Women's Campaign and
tributions committee and the
Education Department and
real estate committee. He is
Lisa
and
was
a member of the Young
also a member of the commu-
Hannan Lis
Leadership
Cabinet of the
nity development council.
United
Jewish
Appeal. She is
The Wetsman Award rec-
vice president of Friends of Alyn
ognizes exceptional leadership potential
Hospital and is a chair of Hillel Day
and service to the Jewish community on
School's alumni group.
the part of a young man.

JCCouncil Honors USY Group

programs: an on-going project of collect-
ing new hats for children who have lost
their hair due to cancer therapy, and the
COTS (Coalition on Temporary Shelter)
project, which involved a monthly com-
mitment by the teens to prepare and
serve dinner to COTS clients.
The North American Federation of
Temple Youth received an
honorable mention for
their REACH Retreat
project. The NFTY teens
.partnered with the Oak
Park Business and
Education Alliance to
host 52 fourth- and fifth-
grade students from
Pepper Elementary
School in Oak Park for a
weekend.
Council board mem-
ber Nancy Welber Barr
chaired the award com-
Nancy Welber Barr, back row left, presents the Walter E. mittee. The award is
Klein Youth Award to Congregation Beth Shalom's USY named in honor of the
chapter. Shown are Ellie Levine, Eric Rosenblum,
late Walter E. Klein, a
Alanna Bialick (president), Eve Posen, Sharon Levine
past executive director of
(adviser), Miriam Schloss, Paul Levine (adviser) and
the Jewish Community
Chavie Wexelberg-Clouser.
Council.

The Jewish Community Council of
Metropolitan Detroit honored
Congregation Beth Shalom's chapter of
United Synagogue Youth with the
Walter E. Klein Youth Award.
The award, which recognizes out-
standing social action programming by
area youth groups, was given for two