Staff Notebook

Droz Fund Fights
Closed Head Injuries

Those who want to pay tribute to the
late Matthew Droz, who died Feb. 16
of seizure disorder, may contribute to
a new fund established in his memory.
Memorials may be sent to
the Matthew Droz
Memorial Fund for Closed
Head Injuries in care of
Jeffrey Ellis, 2855 Coolidge,
Suite 103, Troy, MI. 48084.

Lvov University who immigrated to
Oak Park last year. Although the
exhibit, through March 20, contains
57 photographs, he has more than 700
photographs here, and another 3,000
or so back in Lvov.
According to Karpenchuk, more
than 50 percent of the buildings and

Akiva Girls
In Tourney

Coach Kenneth Kohn of
Yeshivat Akiva praised his
team's "courage, skill and
leadership" in the Hillel of
Miami Girls Invirational
Asya Dolbir of Oak Park and granddaughters
Basketball Tournament.
Anna, 12, and Eleanor Kotov, 11, of West
Southfield-based Akiva
Bloomfield view the exhibit.
didn't win a game in the
field of eight Hebrew day
all of the synagogues no longer exist.
school varsity teams from around the
Nineteen photographic panels each
country Feb. 22-25 in North Miami
show
three black and white photo-
Beach, Fla. But halfway through
graphs
of architecture and a thriving
Shabbat, the tournament director
Jewish
culture
at the turn of the cen-
invited the ream back next year
tury, despite rampant anti-Semitsm.
because it played hard and with heart.
Riva Latinsky, head of the Russian
Rachel Kohn and Audrey Kleiman
Acculturation Program at the Oak
led the team in scoring. Brittney Kohn
Park J.CC, said the exhibit came about
in steals and Shira Schreiber in
because
"I want Russians to know
rebounds.
more
about
Jewish life, and also show
"More importantly," the proud
to
the
American
people it is part of
coach said, "Akiva led all schools dur-
their
history.
too."
ing Shabbos by giving the only four

divrei Torah (Torah discussions) at the

Shabbaton." He said Molli Spalter,
Sara Schwartz, Rachel Kohn and Jeana
Beneson "proved to be religious lead-
ers."

—Robert A. Sklar

Photos Show
Russian Life

Asya Dolbir from Oak Park has told
her granddaughters about her wonder-
ful childhood inZhtomer, a town in
western Ukraine, and used personal
descriptions of the city streets and
buildings.
Last week, she rook them to a photo-
graphic exhibit in the Jewish
Community Center's Jimmy Prentis
Morris Building lobby, 15110 W 10
Mile, in Oak Park where pictures of the
nearby city of Lvov show Jewish life
before World War I.
The pictures come courtesy of Oleg
Karpenchuk, a history graduate from

— Harry Kirsbaum

Death Frustrates
School, Police

Ari Caroline believes the Jewish com-
munity should be Outraged.
At the same time, the Southfield
police are baffled.
Caroline is director of operations at
the Michigan Jewish Institute in Oak
Park. His friend, Barbara Burstein of
Southfield, was a student at MJI. Last
September, someone entered her
Franklin Road apartment and bludg-
eoned the wheel chair-bound woman.
Burstein remained in a coma until
her death Feb. 17.
Caroline and others at MJI helped
arrange for Burstein's funeral. The
woman has few relatives in the Detroit
area. Fifty people attended her service
at Hebrew Memorial Chapel.
"People should be more involved
and aware of the situation," said an

angry Caroline last week.
Southfield Police Sgt. Matt Collins
said his department is still investigat-
ing the case, but they have no new
leads. "It's pretty sad," he said.

— Alan Hitsky

New Kosher
Caterer In Town

Named for the Hebrew word for bon
appetite or "with good appetite,"
B'Tayavon Catering plans to live up to
the expectation of its name.
Experienced in the supervisory food
service field, owner Chaim Goldgrab
introduced his business to the com-
munity by catering a lunch following
Shabbat services at Ohel Mohed
Shomrey Emunah synagogue, where
he also celebrated his annual Torah
reading on the anniversary of his bar
mitzvah.
In addition to offering his kosher
food services throughout the commu-
nity, Goldgrab has been official caterer
at the Sara Tugman Bais Chabad
Torah Center since last October. He
prepares a weekly kiddush there.
In December, he began his newest
innovation, hosting a monthly meat
and parve dinner for the community
on the third Sunday of each month at
the Torah Center in West Bloomfield.
The next scheduled dinner will be a -
Chinese meal 6-8 p.m. Sunday, March
18 (815/adult; 58/Younger than b'nai
mitzvah age).
Future dinners may include Spanish,
Southern and home-style cooking.
There will be an American menu of
hot dogs, burgers, fries and vegetarian
items offe
red at each dinner.
Goldgrab, who prepares the meals,
gets serving help from a few waiters
and waitresses and his wife Shaindle.
For information, call Rabbi
Elimelech Silberberg at the Torah
Center, (248) 855-6170; or Chaim
Goldgrab at B'Tayavon Catering,
(248) 966-3838.

— Shelli Liebman Dorfman

Bikur Cholim
Office Closes

With the retirement and move to
Israel of Ed Rosenthal, former head of
the Michigan sector of the American
Association of Bikur Cholim Hospital,
came the January closing of its
Southfield office.
"Mr. Rosenthal has worked untiring-
ly for the hospital ever since joining
our organization," says Nochum

Grund, national director of Bikur
Cholim. "Because we have been unable
to fill the void that he has left, it was
necessary to close the Michigan office."
The 150-year-old, 200-bed hospital
in Jerusalem is named for the Hebrew
term for visiting the sick.
Correspondence and contributions
may be sent to: American Association
for Bikur Cholim Hospital, 156 Fifth
Ave., New York, NY, 10010; or call
(212) 989-2525.

— Shelli Liebman Dorfman

JET Boosts Sales
For Anne Frank Play

Ticket sales for the Jewish Ensemble
Theatre's student performances of The
Diary of Ann Frank have increased
50% since last year, Evelyn Orbach,
JET artistic director, said this week.
A program of the JET's Educational
Outreach Series (JET-YES), Diary will
be performed to an audience of about
9,000 students this month, compared
with 6,000 last year. All performances
will rake place at the 1,600-seat
Scottish Rite Theatre at the Masonic .
Temple, Second and Temple, in
Detroit.
School performances run from
March 12-23, with no performance
March 22. A public performance will
take place at 3 p.m. Sunday, March
18. All student tickets are 55; adult
tickets are 510.
Student groups from fifth grade
through high school have signed up to
see the play, from schools as near as
West Bloomfield and as far away as
Southgate. West Bloomfield-hosed
JET-YES provides a study guide for
classroom use and conducts a talkback
after each performance.

— Diana Lieberman

Correction

• A photograph of
Rabbi Sasson Natan
in the Community
Calendar (March 2,
page 38) was incor-
rectly identified.

• A story on tourism in Israel
misreported the last death of a
foreigner in a terrorist incident
("Destination Israel," March 2,
page 14). The 1996 bombing of a
Jerusalem bus killed American
students Matthew Eisenfeld and
Sara Duker as well as 24 Israelis.

3/9
2001

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