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Bill Martin Awarded

Disengagement Debate

Ann Arbor
years and has donated park-
University of Michigan Athletic
land to the city.
Director Bill Martin will receive
He was an Ann Arbor
the Jewish Federation of
Public Schools Educational
Washtenaw County's
Foundation board member
Humanitarian Award on
and created the "Superball 3-
Saturday evening, May 2.
on-3 Basketball Tournament"
Jeffrey Levin, Federation exec-
that raises $40,000 a year for
Martin
utive director, called Martin
the Foundation.
"Maimonidean in his humanitari-
The dinner will be held at
an approach."
the Ypsilanti Marriott at Eagle Crest,
"He quietly and consistently does the
5:30 p.m. cocktails, 6:30 p.m. program.
right thing and puts others first," Levin
Proceeds from the dinner will help
said of the real estate developer and for-
local Federation programs. A portion
mer U.S. Olympic Committee presi-
will also be given to the Ann Arbor
dent. "This is a guy who seeks no glory
Public Schools Educational Foundation.
for himself and quietly made things hap-
Tickets are $180 per person. For
pen for others."
information, call (734) 677-0100.
Martin was the president of the
— Harry Kirsbaum, sta f f writer
Washtenaw Land Conservancy for 10

Sure, Israel is struggling with the
Palestinians, "but we are also struggling
with ourselves," said Israeli Admiral Eli
Marum regarding Israel's plans to "dis-
engage" from the Gaza Strip and four
northern West Bank settlements in May.
Marum spoke before a standing-
room-only audience of more than 200
persons April 3 at Congregation Shaarey
Zedek West Bloomfield, B'nai Israel
Center at a Michigan Friends of the
Israel Defense Forcesbreakfast.
"It is legal and it is going to happen,"
Marum said of disengagement, "and
afterward, we will stay united or we will
separate" into competing societies. But
you must remember we are a democra-
cy, and if you don't have a debate in
Israel, you feel as if you don't exist. I
think Israel will come out stronger in
this debate as long as the law is kept."
While recognizing that it will be "a
very painful move," Marum predicts,
"there will not be big numbers of
refusals" of soldiers tasked with carrying
out the evacuations. But he is certain
that any problems will be highlighted.
"There will be 4,000 reporters,"

LUNGevity Rocks

The fund-raising walk for
LUNGevity held April 3 at
the University of Michigan
raised $10,000, with addi-
tional donations still corn-
ing in, said Kate Schmier
of Birmingham, a U-M
student who organized the
200-walker event.
The national
LUNGevity Foundation
Ready to walk for the cause are Michael Lumberg of
was started by Melissa
Zagon of Deerfield, Ill., for- West Bloomfield, Hannah and Melissa Zagon of
Deerfield Ill., Kate and Ellen Schmier of
merly of West Bloomfield,
and six other cancer patients. Birmingham and Glenn Zagon of Deerfield,
Donations are earmarked for
Zagon's mother, Sherri Lumberg of
research.
West Bloomfield, plans to form a
When ABC-TV news anchor Peter
LUNGevity locally. Those interested can
Jennings announced on April 5 that he
contact her at (248) 539-3773. To make
had just been diagnosed with lung can-
contributions, go to www.lungevity.org.
cer, WPGN-TV in Chicago interviewed
Zagon at her home that day. She talked
— Keri Guten Cohen,
about the effects of the chemotherapy
story development editor
treatment Jennings will start this week

'cha
Don't Know©

U-M Sorority Is Closed

Alpha Episilon Phi, a sorority presence
for 83 years at the University of
Michigan in Ann Arbor, will be shut
down at the end of the semester next
month due to hazing, alcohol and drug
abuse.
The sorority had been on social pro-
bation since the fall of 2004, when a
report by the U-M Dean of Students
Office found evidence of underage
drinking and marijuana use on the
grounds of the sorority house, Bonnie
Wunsch, executive director of AEP
national organization, said in an Ann
Arbor News story.
According to the story, an anonymous
letter and photographs showing inap-

Yiddish Limericks

2005

Synagogues in the United States generally have a
Hebrew name. There is an unusual exception in
New Mexico. What is it?

— Goldfein

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Marum said. "Do
you know what they
will all be looking
for? They will all be
looking for one pic-
ture of us killing one
another."
Marum was born
in 1955, just three
months after his father,
a German Holocaust survivor and his
Asian mother, moved to Israel from
Shanghai where his father had taken
refuge. He has spent 31 years in the
Israeli _navy.
Marum received two ovations from
the audience for the operation that cap-
tured the Karine A, a Palestinian
Authority-owned, 4,000-ton freighter
loaded with 50 tons of weapons, includ-
ing Iranian-supplied mortars, long-range
Katyusha rockets and anti-tank missiles.
The January 2002 capture prevented a
serious escalation of violence and was
key to convincing President George W.
Bush to support Israel's policy of isolat-
ing PLO leader Yasser Arafat.
— Don Cohen, special writer

Last Pesach, my shviggee kvetched,** "Nat,
You're no ballehbosteh***
that's that!
Your zaltz vassers**** faulty ...
It came out too salty,
And frankly, your matzah fell flat!"

- Martha Jo Fleischmann

mother-in-law
** complained
*** capable homemaker
**** saltwater, used ritually as part of the seder

propriate behavior in the chapter house
were sent to the university last month,
then forwarded to the national organiza-
tion, which made the decision to close
the chapter.
"What in the world would have pos-
sessed them?" said Judy Berne of West
Bloomfield, a member of the sorority at
U-M from 1957-1961, who was upset
about the closing. "If they want to do
those things, why not live in an apart-
ment where there are no rules. I can't
image what they were thinking."
All attempts to contact the sorority by
the Jewish News were met with a "no
comment."
— Harry Kirsbaum, staff writer

Do You Remember?

April 1975

Joseph Katz, owner of several Detroit-area
McDonald's franchises, was recognized by the
McDonald's Corp. as recipient of the Ronald
Award in this region.
Katz was rabbi of Saginaw's Temple B'nai Israel
for 18 years and was cited for his work with the
Allied Jewish Campaign.

— Sy Manello, editorial assistant

4, TN

4/14
2005

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