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• think it will be in place in
three years," says Lauffer.
For the moment, Lauffer
and his staff of two have
primarily been planning the
program, meeting with a
variety of university and
Jewish community members
and going after grant monies
from institutions like the
Wilstein Institute of Jewish
Policy Studies and the Wexner
Foundation.
"I can't help but believe that
this program is a seedling that
will grow in the decades
ahead," says Conrad Giles,
Detroit Federation president.
"It wasn't until Marty Kraar
became director (of the Detroit
Federation) that it became
possible to discuss new and ex-
citing possibilities like this,"
says Lauffer.
Lauffer's enthusiasm about
the recently expanded rela-
tionship between Detroit and
U-M is echoed by those 40
miles east of Ann Arbor. "This
is the first direct partnership
between a federation and a
university," says Kraar, ex-
ecutive vice president of the
Detroit Federation. "We have
an enormously successful
resource 40 minutes from us.
It would be silly for us not to
take advantage of it," he says.
"No other community across
the country will have as close
a tie. I think we're looking for
a series of research in-
volvements that will help
mold other programs in other
universities," says Giles.
The aim of Project STaR is
threefold and interrelated:
knowledge development,
training for leadership, and
technical assistance. Perhaps
its most visible component
will be its leadership program
which will train professionals
and lay individuals in Jewish
communal service. Lauffer
eventually envisions quasi-
joint degree programs in
public health, education and
other fields. But for the mo-
ment, the only plans on the
drawing board are for an ad-
vanced degree from the School
of Social Work, including
course work and practicum,
and that's not set to begin for-
mally until September 1990.
With this program, students
will receive a master's in
social work with a certificate
in Jewish communal service.
For a number of people, a
program like this comes a mo-
ment none too soon. "If you
look at the problems that are
facing the continental Jewry
— once we've gotten by (the
issues of) identity and affilia-
tion — it's the development of
human resources to guide
those who will teach us and
those who will lead us,"says
Giles. Says Kraar, "We are suf-
fering from a very serious

manpower shortage in Jewish
communal services?'
"It's clear that there are
resources in place on either
coast (to do this) but between
the Hudson River and the San
Fernando Valley it's barren of
the kind of facility that the U-
M will provide," says Giles.
There are existing programs
in Jewish communal service
that are well known, in-
cluding the Hornstein Pro-
gram at Brandeis and the
School for Jewish Communal
Service at Hebrew Union
College-University of South-
ern California, but with the
exception of a similar program
at Case Western University in
Cleveland there is nothing is
the Midwest.
Lauffer believes U-M's pro-
gram can distinguish itself
from the others. He and the
Fresh Air Society, for example,
have been developing a course
for training camp staff. Lauf-
fer and Sam Fisher of FAS
believe it is the "first course
ever to be offered at a univer-
sity to support the goals of
cultural programming in
Jewish camps?'
Michael Brooks, B'nai
B'rith Hillel director at U-M,
thinks that Project STaR has
much to offer. "Everyone
agrees that the campus is a
critical area for the future of
the Jewish community," he
says. There are an estimated
400,000 Jewish young men
and women on North
American college campuses.
"Yet there's no place that
teaches campus work," says
Brooks, "no program that I'm
aware of specifically that has
placement on campus. We
hope to become such a pro-
gram•'
One of the ironies of contem-
porary Jewish life is that the
more outwardly successful the
community has become the
more problematic it's become
as well. "We've gone from
dealing with Jews at risk to
dealing with a community at
risk," says Lauffer. Project
STaR may serve both needs. ❑

Akiva Wins
Book Contest

Akiva Hebrew Day School
has won top honors in the an-
nual Battle of the Books held
by the city of Southfield.
This year, the first, second
and third place winning
teams were all from Akiva.
Twenty-seven different teams
of fourth and fifth graders
competed.
The Battle of the Books is a
reading incentive program in
which students are given a
list of 15 books to read and
detailed questions..
Akiva's first place team, the