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Richmond 206; Nate Fine 201.

Eight Named
To Sports Hall

Los Angeles/JTA — Eight athletes and
sports personalities have been elected
to the International Jewish Sports Hall
of Fame.
Honored Americans are:
• Harry Lewis, a welterweight box-
ing champion from 1908-1913.
• Eugene Selznick, who in 1956
became the first American elected to
the honorary All-World Volleyball
Team. He was named an All-American
every year from 1951 to 1964.
• Julia Jones Pugliese, national colle-
giate fencing champion and coach at
New York University from 1931-1938.
• Allen Tolmich of Wayne
University in Detroit, a hurdler who
broke a series of world and American
records in the late 1930s.
• Joseph Shane, "the father of tennis
in Israel," built the original tennis
complex in Ramat Hasharon.
Other Hall of Fame members are:
• Tatiana Lysenko, a Ukrainian gym-
nast who won three Olympic medals
at the 1992 games.
• Victor Zinger, who was goalkeeper
on five consecutive Soviet Union
world championship ice hockey teams,
from 1965 through 1969.
• Kenneth Gradon, who served for
almost two decades as president of
Maccabi Europe and of Maccabi Great
Britain.
Since 1979, more than 300 athletes
and sports personalities have been
elected to the International Jewish
Sports Hall of Fame, whose museum
is located on the campus of the
Wingate Institute for Physical
Education and Sport in Netanya,
Israel.

Security Tighter

Signup opens for metro Detroit's summer teen mission to Israel.

comfortable as I am, but is willing to
wait until the trip is closer to decide."
Special to the Jewish News
The teen mission is a great opportu-
nity
to learn what Israel is all about,
arah Crane is a North
politically, culturally and religiously.
Farmington High School
"Teens will meet Israeli students from
freshman eager to visit Israel
our Partnership 2000 region, the
next summer.
Central Galilee, as well as other
"I was there three years ago in the
Detroit-area teens," says Temple Israel
winter," said Crane, 14, whose family
board member
is affiliated with
Rob Gordon,
Congregation
Teen Mission
Shaarey Zedek. "I
2002 chairman.
want to learn more
"Plus, it is
about Israel and see
fun
and educa-
what I didn't get to
tional.
Our goal
see in the winter."
is
to
create
a
She will, on metro
sense of com-
Detroit's fourth teen
munity for
mission to the Jewish
those attending
homeland.
this trip.
"It is heart-
warming to see
the connection
between the kids
and their con-
nection to Israel
and how they
view themselves
Sarah Crane, 14
as Jews,"
The trip will
traverse the
Rob Gordon, mission chair
entire country,
beginning and
ending
in
Jerusalem.
In
between, it will
The Farmington Hills resident is
head
south
to
Masada,
Eilat
and the .
aware of the unrest in the Middle East
Negev and north to the Galilee region.
as a result of the 14-month-old
It will take in all major sites.
Palestinian intifada (uprising). But in
Held every other year, most of the
the wake of heightened security, she
Reform and Conservative congregations
said, "I am looking forward to having
typically take part. Rabbis are either bus
a good time."
leaders or trip advisers. In addition to a
The Jewish Federation of
rabbi, each bus also will have an armed
Metropolitan Detroit-sponsored trip is
guide — a practice in effect for years
scheduled for June 30 to July 31, 2002.
with student bus tours and not a result
Teens who will enter the 10th, 11th or
of the Sept. 11 disaster in America.
12th grade in fall 2002 may apply.
Last year, 282 Detroit teens and 45
Stacey Crane registered her daughter
Israeli
students made up Teen Mission
for the month-long trip before the
2000.
Israeli
teens visit the metro area
Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on America.
the week before Passover to learn about
"The events did not change my mind
the American Jewish community and
about the trip," Stacey said. "I have
meet the Detroit mission-goers. "Many
been to Israel 12 times, four times this
of the Detroit participants from 2000
year, and I have never felt unsafe travel-
have remained friends with Israelis
ing. I trust the Federation and its lead-
through e-mail and have even gone
ership to take the necessary precau-
back to Israel to visit," Gordon said.
tions."
Rabbi Daniel Nevins of Adat
She added, "I have the same concerns
Shalom Synagogue has been a leader
as any other parent. I would never put
in all of the teen missions. "The expe-
my child at risk. I feel confident that
rience of visiting Israel is extraordinar-
she will be safe. My husband is not as

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ily powerful for teens," he said. "We
are constantly aware of being the
minority in the United States. In
Israel, we see the land of our roots. It
is a mind-changing experience. It is a
place of conflict, but conflict is just a
small part of the big picture."

Security Precautions

Because of the recent terrorist attacks
both in Israel and in the U.S, the pace
of mission enrollment is down this year.
"People are concerned with what's
going on," Gordon said.
But, he added, local organizers are in
" constant contact with the Security
Department of the Jewish Agency for
Israel, which helps with the land
arrangements. They are in contact with
police, army and other intelligence
sources. If there is a need to modify
plans because of security issues, it will
be done. As long as the rabbis and secu-
rity think it is safe, the trip will go on."
In light of Sept. 11, the $100
deposit to hold a teen's spot for this
trip is fully refundable. The actual
cost of the trip is $6,000 per teen, but
with the Federation subsidy from its
Annual Campaign, the net cost per
teen is $3,600. Teens are encouraged
to get applications in as soon as possi-
ble. Pre-trip educational sessions will
begin at the end of January.
"We are currently in the planning
stages to hold four or five educational
sessions for all participants to attend,"
Gordon said. "In previous years, the
students were educated weekly at their
own religious schools."
Rabbi Joshua Bennett of Temple
Israel was on the planning committee
for the 1996 teen mission and a chap-
erone on all three trips. He's confident
of "a safe experience for those that
choose to attend."
He went on to say, "We understand
the decision about going to Israel is a
hard one to make at a difficult time.
This year, the state of Israel needs our
support even more."

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For more information, contact
Trudy Weiss, the Federation's
youth missions coordinator, at
(248) 203-1485 or via e-mail at

TrudyWeiss@JFMD.org

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