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 38 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.