Community
Workshop Helps
Shoah Survivors
Jewish Family Service will hold an
all-day workshop to assist Holocaust
survivors complete their applications
for compensation from the Slave
Labor Settlement Fund 9 a.m.-5
p.m. Thursday, March 22. Trained
staff and board members of the JFS
will be available to work individually
with each person seeking assistance.
In addition, Arie Bucheister,
director of the Survivor Assistance
Program at the Conference on
Jewish Material Claims Against
Germany, will be available for pri-
vate consultation. Bucheister, an
attorney, has conducted national
training for professionals serving the
survivor community. He has particu-
lar expertise dealing with slave labor
settlements and Swiss settlements.
2001 ADL Women of Achievement: Dr. Nancy Canton Grace Lee Boggs
Although appointments are not nec-
Geneva J. Williams, Dr. Phoebe Mainster and "Nati" Lim Jenks.
essary, JFS requests that people call
nings."
meeting her at a Leadership Detroit
Marianne Wildstrom or Rachel
We have the opportunity, she
conference.
Yoskowitz, (248) 559-1500, to register.
said, to rebuild Detroit with
"She's incredibly impressive,"
Individuals seeking unclaimed
another
set of values, to use our
Hoffman said. "Grace lives by her
Swiss bank assets of their deceased
imagination to create a 21st centu-
principles and has committed her-
relative can also receive assistance at
ry city. "That's why we helped
self to activism that's hard to find.
JFS. The agency has the detailed
found Detroit Summer in 1992,"
She wows you."
applications for the Swiss bank set-
she added. The program involved
Boggs grew up in Brooklyn,
tlement and will assist individuals in
young people from the inner-city
N.Y., above her parent's Chinese
filing these claims. Appointments
and from the suburbs. "We work
restaurant. She was one of the first
can be scheduled by calling (248)
together to plant community gar-
women to receive a doctorate in
559-1500.
dens and create public murals in
philosophy at Bryn Mawr College
Both the slave labor and Swiss
Detroit. It's also a place to explore
in 1940. She threw herself into a
applications must be filed by
new ideas, like economics, trans-
life committed to social action.
August. There is no fee for assistance
portation and social change."
In her weekly column, "Living
with these applications.
When asked who will rebuild
for Change," in The Michigan
Detroit, she quickly replied, "The
Citizen, Boggs writes that the
children from K-12. Just imagine
physical devastation of Detroit
if the curricula included beautify-
"not only challenges us to begin
ing the community. It's important
thinking differently about who we
to give children a positive sense of
are and how we want to live, but
The Adat Shalom seniors —
themselves, and as citizens." ❑
also frees up space for new begin-
ChaZaKaH/Young at Heart — will
hold its annual birthday celebration
honoring the ChaZaKaH group for
11 years of excellence in planning
senior
activities at Adat Shalom
ost unique honorees," said Sue Luria, ADL
12:30
p.m.
Thursday, March 29.
and internationally recognized scientist, besides
The
Rose
Morgan Choral Group will
Nrenity of Michigan, where she has made it her
present an afternoon of song with
Yiddish, Hebrew and popular show
it from the Philippines and became a trailblaz-
tunes.
women, urging them to take a larger role in their
The event is open to all area
of the Asian American Center for Justice.
seniors.
There is a $10 charge for
Site University English professor, has spent 29
members
and an $11 non-member
in Third 'World countries. "She pushes Detroiters,"
fee. Send checks to Alice Cohen,
social perspecnves.
29325 Lancaster Drive, #210,
, executive vice-president and chief operating officer of
Southfield MI 48034. Luncheon
unity Services, has translated discrimination aimed at her and
reservations are required by
'JOSa fife mission to build an inclusive society, ensuring equal rights for
Thursday,
March 22.
0IF,,s the merger of public, private and non-profit organizations to
For information, call the syna-
empower the less fortunate, especially children.
gogue office, (248) 851-5100.
ChaZaKaH
Plans Celebration
orN
3/16
2001
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Holocaust Author
To Speak At JCC
The Holocaust Memorial Center will
host an evening with Professor Mark
Roseman, author of A Past in Hiding:
Memory and Survival in Nazi Germany,
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 21, at
the Jewish Community Center in West
Bloomfield.
Roseman, who teaches modern his-
tory at the University of Southampton
in England and has published on
many aspects of 20th century history,
lives in Birmingham, England. '
A book signing will follOw the pre-
sentation; prior sales are encouraged.
The lecture facility is barrier free
and wheelchair accessible. Reservations
are not necessary The public is invited
at no charge. For information or for
advance book sales, call the Holocaust
Memorial Center West Bloomfield
(248) 661-0840.
Here's Tom
Nate Shapiro of Southfield has
been selected to
be honored as a
Distinguished
Warrior by the
Detroit Urban
League, citing
him as a champi-
on for communi-
ty involvement,
social justice,
Nate Shapiro
human and civil
rights and for his
charitable contributions.
Hannah Leah Cohen, 11, of West
Bloomfield, won
the Eagle
Elementary
School spelling
bee. The fifth-
grader in the
Farminton school
district competed
in the district
finals at Oakland Hannah Cohen
University.
Joshua A. Hearshen, a senior at
James Madison College of
Michigan State University, has
been admitted to the Ziegler
School of Rabbinic Studies at the
University of Judaism in Bel Aire,
Calif. Joshua is the son of Nancy
and Joel Hearshen of Oak Park.