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Redford, Pitt
Film In Israel

West Bloomfield — University of
Michigan alumnus Eric Billes reports
that there now is a street officially
named after his father in Vienna,
Austria. His father was a respected
physician employed as community
doctor by a Viennese suburb until
1938, when he was discharged and
evicted from his home by the Nazis
because of his Jewish religion.
The family was able to escape and
immigrated to the United States in
1940. After the end of World War II,
the community he had served saw fit
to honor Dr. Billes by naming a
street after him. All maps of Vienna
now contain that name. Good
friends in Salzburg were able to
obtain an actual, full-sized replica of
the street shield and presented it to
the family.
Eric Billes, a 1945 U-M graduate,
proudly displays this shield of the
Bernhard-Billes-Gasse in his West
Bloomfield home.

Tel Aviv/JTA — Actors Robert Redford
and Brad Pitt are scheduled to begin
filming The Spy Game in Israel in
October.
Few details are available, but the
thriller will be directed by Tony Scott,
who also directed Top Gun, Crimson
Tide and Enemy Of The State.

Rabbi Daniel Polish
Leads Social Action

New York — Rabbi Daniel Polish,
former spiritual leader of Temple
Beth El in Bloomfield Township, is
the new director of the Commission
on Social Action of Reform Judaism.
The one-time associate executive
vice president of the Synagogue
Council of America succeeds Leonard
Fein. "Social justice is the passion of
my life," he said. "I entered the rab-
binate because of my commitment to
tikun olam, and it's governed how I've
acted in my congregational life and
my personal life."
As director, Rabbi Polish will pro-
vide programming support to the
social action committees of 900
Reform congregations and help them
apply ethical Judaic principles to con-
temporary issues such as civil liberties,
human rights and inter-religious
affairs.
"His ideas, ideals and insights will
bring new vitality to social justice pro-
gramming in our congregations," said
Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the
Union of American Hebrew
Congregations.
The commission, a joint body of the
UAHC and the Central Conference of
American Rabbis, works with the
Religious Action Center of Reform
Judaism in Washington.

Call A Rabbi,
Send a Card

New York — As a mark of building
bridges within the Jewish community,
CLAL-The National Jewish Center for
Learning and Leadership has issued a
New Year's challenge to rabbis in North
America — call a rabbi from a different
branch of Judaism than your own and
wish them a good year.
"Right now, our community is frac-
tured," said Rabbi Daniel Brenner,
director of CLAEs National Jewish
Resource Center in New York. "As Jews
have reached a level of acceptance in
society, external fears are no longer the
ties that bind us.
"The result is that the conflicts now
are more internal. Clearly, we are not
going to resolve our differences with a
single phone call from rabbis — but
their action will help generate a first
step towards achieving an environment
of tolerance."
In addition to the rabbinic challenge,
CLAL has developed a new High
Holiday resource card to stimulate con-
versation and thought on the unity and
harmony of a multivoiced Jewish corn-
muniry.
The High Holiday resource card
offers inspirational meditations on the
value of living in a Jewish world of
multiple voices and opinions. To
receive CLAEs High Holiday resource
card, call CLAL at (21.2) 779 3300, or
visit CLAUS Web site at www.clal.org

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Olympics Film
Changed For Israel

Jerusalem/JTA — Forensic photographs
of the Israeli athletes murdered in the
1972 Munich Olympics massacre were
blurred when a documentary on the
topic was aired Monday night in Israel.
The makers of One Day in
September, which won an Oscar this
year for best documentary, agreed to

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