and passports to
Jews living in
Raoul Wallenber„,a's
safe houses. Basch
was eventually cap-
tured and sent to
Buchenwald and
Dachau.
The 2004 recipi-
ent of the Raoul
Basch
Wallenberg Medal,
Basch delivered the
Wallenberg Lecture on Oct. 28 at the
University of Michigan's Rackham
Auditorium in Ann Arbor.
The medal is named after the
Swedish citizen who graduated from the
University of Michigan in 1935.
Wallenberg saved 100,000 Jewish lives
before disappearing.
Past recipients of the medal include
the Dalai Lama, Elie Wiesel and Miep
Gies, who hid Anne Frank and her
family.
The Wallenberg Lecture and Medal
ceremony is co-sponsored by the
Wallenberg Endowment, the Horace H.
Rackham School of Graduate Studies
and U-M Hillel.
For information, call (734) 615-
2133.
— Sharon Luckernzan
Meditation Center
T
he Ahavat Shalom Retreat
Center of Traverse City, the
only Jewish retreat and medi-
tation center in the Midwest, will
announce its new name and direc-
tion at a retreat with author Rabbi
Rami Shapiro Oct. 31-Nov. 2 at
Northport Bay Retreat.
The new Hebrew name, Or
Tzafon, meaning both "northern
light" and "light of the hidden," is
in keeping with the center's empha-
sis on Northern Michigan beauty
and deep spiritual practice, says
Rabbi Stacie Bahle, director of the
center and rabbi of Congregation
Ahavat Shalom of Traverse City.
The center, a project of Ahavat
Shalom, has served participants,
both Jewish and non-Jewish, from
across the Great Lakes region for
three years.
The retreat, "Spacious Heart,
Spacious Mind," offers teachings
from Jewish mysticism.
For information, call Congregation
Ahavat Shalom at (231) 929-4330.
—Sharon Luckernzan
An Election Rarity
In Oak Park
ALAN HITSKY
Associate Editor
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ak Park's mayor, Gerald Naftaly,
is doing something Tuesday that
he hasn't done in 12 years: He's
facing an election opponent.
Naftaly, 51, and a 50-year resident of
the same house on Kenosha Avenue, is
opposed by a write-in candidate who
filed and began campaigning just in the
last few weeks. Many cities are holding
local elections on Nov. 4.
Charles Robinson, Naftaly says, has
been selected by the Oak Park police
officers union to run against him
because the officers don't like the city's
overtime and performance evaluation
policies.
"I just want to
continue doing
what we've been
doing for the last 12
years," Naftaly says.
"That's bringing
residents and busi-
nesses together."
Property values con-
tinue to grow in the
city, but revenues
Naftaly
are capped and
Naftaly is con-
cerned about state
and federal funding
cuts.
Naftaly is a vice
president-invest-
ments with the
Robert W. Baird
firm in West
Bloomfield.
Robinson, 54, lives Robinson
on Oneida and has
been an Oak Park resident for 18 years.
He's worked for the state for 24 years as
a fish and game officer and now as an
environmental investigator — which
explains his support from police officers.
"I filed late," Robinson says, "because
when I was approached to run, the
deadline had passed." He believes Oak
Park government and city jobs need
change, new ideas and diversity.
Robinson states that Oak Park needs
to look at its relationship with local
businesses and encourage owners to
improve their buildings. The city also
needs "more open discussion," he says,
about the recent annexation of parts of
Royal Oak Township, how the annexa-
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