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Children Of Chernobyl

Shown at the Chabads Children of Chernobyl benefit concert on Nov. 8 are
Alyssa Martina, award presentor; Phyllis Meer, local president of Chabad's
Children of Chernobyl; Shelley Nadiv, honoree; and DuDu Fisher, performer.

Naftalys Honored

At the Congregation Shaarey Zedek State of Israel Bonds tribute dinner honor-
ing Anita and Robert H Naftaly, recipients of the State of Israel Declaration of
Independence Award, $5,550, 000 was generated in new investment capital for
the economic development of the State of Israel.

Shown seated at the event are Robert. Aronson, CEO, Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit; Attorney General Jennifer Granholm; Robert Naftaly and
Anita Naftaly, honorees; Rabbi Irwin Groner, Congregation Shaarey Zedek;
standing are Irving Laker, dinner co-chair; Cantor Chaim Najman,
.Congregation Shaarey Zedek; Dottie Wagner and Dr. Lynda Giles, dinner co-
chairs; Penny Blumenstein, president, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit; Lawrence Wolfe, metro Detroit Israel Bonds general chair; and Rabbi
Joseph Krakoffl Congregation Shaarey Zedek.

NAACP Salutes City Of Oak Park

On Exhibit

Above: Sharon Lipton and Barbara
Nemer, co-chairs of the opening night
event of the Jewish Federation o f
Metropolitan Detroit's Menorah Art
Show 2000, and Janis Wets-man,
owner of the Wetsman Gallery in
downtown Birmingham and Menorah
Art Show curator, stand near Herb
Babcock's piece at the Somerset
Collection in Troy More than 25 other
menorot were featured in the show.

Right: Farmington Hills residents Sue
Minkus and her sons Michael and
Jacob admire an original menorah cre-
ated by Annette Berenholz, also of
Farmington Hills.

At the Oak Park City Council's Nov.
sity and open equally to all."
4 meeting, State Reps. Gilda Jacobs
Both Jacobs and Quarles, who is
of Huntington Woods (35th
president of the Southern Oakland
District) and Nancy Quarles of
County NAACP Chapter, nominat-
Southfield (36th District) joined in
ed Oak Park for the honor.
presenting the
Southern Oakland
County NAACP's
Present Crisis
Service Award for
2000 to Mayor
Gerald Naftaly and
his fellow city coun-
cil members.
The award is given
annually to the
municipality that,
according to a panel
of judges, "has best
demonstrated the
mission, values and
goals of the NAACP." Shown at the award presentation are
Councilman Michael
These include "creat- Seligson, Councilman Willie Horton, State Rep. Jacobs,
ing an integrated
Mayor Naftaly, State Rep. Quarles, Councilman Raymond
society rich in diver-
Abrams and Mayor Pro-Tern Arthur Frohlich.