World.
TV Industry Honors
T
hree members of the Jewish
community earned high hon-
ors from the Michigan Chapter
of the National Academy of Television
Arts and Sciences at its annual dinner
Feb. 25.
Sidney and
Naomi Siegel
of Bloomfield
Hills received the
group's first Gold
Circle Award,
given for more
than 50 years of
excellence in the
television industry.
Henry Baskin
Henry Baskin,
a Birmingham-
based attorney specializing in entertain-
ment and family law, was honored with
a Silver Circle Award, signaling more
than 25 years of significant contribu-
tions.
The Siegels are pioneers in TV. She
was one of the first woman writers,
cinematographers and producers; he
was one of Detroit's first TV cinema-
tographer/videographers. Together they
formed Telespot Productions in the
1950s, serving local and network TV,
major companies, sports syndicates and
new businesses. They have won many
major awards.
Married 63 years, the Siegels belong
to Sholem Aleichem Institute, have
videotaped the West Bloomfield-based
Jewish Ensemble Theatre perfor-
mances for five years, done videography
for the Technion-Israel Institute of
Technology and the Jewish Federation
of Metropolitan Detroit, and recently
donated nearly 67,000 feet of archival
film with Jewish content to Federation.
On-camera, Baskin hosted "Due
Process" on WDIV-TV4, one of Detroit's
longest-running public affairs pro-
grams; off-camera, as an entertainment
attorney, he represents a large percent-
age of the area's on-air talent. Early
on, he represented Marvin Gaye, the
Temptations and the Rolling Stones.
He also has authored Michigan's Child
Custody Act, is responsible for the cre-
ation of Michigan's personal protection
orders and has received the State Bar of
Michigan's "Champion of Justice" Award.
Baskin serves as chairman of Oakland
University's governing board, where
Naomi and Sidney Siegel
he also established the Baskin Family
Foundation, providing need-based
scholarships to students of single-par-
ent families and support for the College
of Arts and Science's Judaic studies
program.
Biblical Women
Cantor Adelle Nicholson will present "Women
in the Bible: Sources for Transformation" in
word and song 9:30 am. Sunday, March 18, at
Temple Emanu-El in Oak Park.
Cantor Nicholson's presentation will show
that Israelite women were not submissive
chattel in an oppressive patri-
archy, but rather strong and
significant people within their
families and society, utilizing
their transforming abilities as
wives and mothers.
She has been Emanu-El's
cantor in residence for the
Linda Permut
past two years and currently
serves unaffiliated Jewish
families in South Florida as
cantor and teacher. She is also
a versatile singer of opera, art
song, cabaret and jazz.
Linda Permut will accom-
pany the cantor on the piano. Cantor
She is a member-performer
Nicholson
with "Friends of Four Hands,"
a local piano ensemble group.
The event is free and open to the communi-
ty. Bagels and coffee will be served. For infor-
mation, call the temple at (248) 967-4020.
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