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Fellowships Train
Students To Fight Bias
HEIDI PRESS
News Editor
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AWARD WINNING RECORDING ARTISTS
SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1989
9:30 P.M.
Admission: $10.00
Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit
6600 W Maple Road, W Bloomfield
661-1000
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AMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESS
GREATER DETROIT CHAPTER
and
Jewish Community Council
of Metropolitan Detroit
invite you to attend
American Jews and Israel:
Stresses and Strengths
Featuring
Dr. David Clayman
Director, American Jewish Congress
Israel Office
Headquartered in Jerusalem
Martin S. Kraar
Executive Director
Jewish Welfare Federation
of Metropolitan Detroit
Monday, May 15, 1989
7:30 p.m.
United Hebrew Schools Building Auditorium
21550 W. 12 Mile Road, Southfield
Topics will include:
• Divergent Positions on "Who is a Jew" Legislation
• Mideast Peace Proposals
• Responses to Intifada
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abbi David Green is
looking for a few good
men — and women.
Green, the executive director
of the Jerusalem Fellowships,
is looking for knowledgeable
university students to become
active in Jewish causes and
who can battle anti-Israel
propaganda on college
campuses.
Green was in Detroit
recently to widen the finan-
cial support base for the
fellowships which were
created by Aish Halbrah, the
World Zionist Organization
and the Jewish Agency for
Israel. A Detroit board is in
formation to help raise funds.
However, Rabbi Green's
mission was not only for fund-
raising. It was to interest col-
lege students in the six-week
Israel study program. "We're
trying to set up shop in
America," he said. "We're try-
ing to develop Jewish leader-
ship in America and at
universities, and to
strengthen identity and sup-
port for Israel."
The Jerusalem Fellowships
are offered each summer, to
50 college students who are
chosen by application. The
students are offered organiz-
ed tours, time for exploring on
their own, discussions on
topical Jewish issues, lectures
by leading political and
military personnel, jour-
nalists and other experts on
Israeli and Jewish life.
A full-day seminar is of-
fered at the institute for pro-
paganda analysis, where
students are trained to res-
pond to anti-Israel propagan-
da on campus. Fee for the pro-
gram is $2,500, however
$1,550 of it is subsidized. This
year's program will run June
15-July 30.
Since its founding in Ibron-
to in 1984, more than 250
students have been awarded
Jerusalem Fellowships.
Students have come from
England, Canada, the United
States, and plans are to ex-
pand the program to
Australia and South Africa.
Students must be 21 years
old, but Green said persons as
young as 19 may be allowed
to participate because "we
want alumni to be on campus
long after they're in the pro-
gram!'
Detroiters Stuart Newman
and Marcie York are alumni
of the Jerusalem Fellowships.
Newman, a legislative aide to
State Sen. Jack Faxon (D-
Farmington Hills), said he
was impressed by the quality
of the lectures. "We were ex-
posed to people that the heads
of the United Jewish Appeal
are exposed to, " he said. He
met members of the Knesset,
the chief of staff of the Israel
army and the only living
signer of the Israel declara-
tion of independence.
But what really made an
impact was the program gave
Newman "a real desire to
learn more!'
"They said, 'here's Judaism
and here's what it's all
about!"
York, a sales engineer, got
a "better understanding of
my heritage!' She gained in-
sight into Israeli politics, the
Arab-Israel conflict, the
plight of Soviet Jewry and the
Ethiopian Jews. "It broaden-
ed my knowledge of political
issues around the world," she
said.
Rabbi Green said he hopes
the experience will "create a
stronger base for students in
their communities to use the
tools they learned in Israel!'
Some of the students have
already become leaders in
their communities' UJA and
AIPAC campaigns.
A limited number of spaces
are available for this sum-
mer's program. For an ap-
plication or information, con-
tact the North American Ad-
visory Committee for the
Jerusalem Fellowships, 1220
Broadway, Suite 610, New
York, NY 10001, (212)
643-8800.
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Techner Speaks
To Students
The Jewish Parents In-
stitute announces David
Techner of the Ira Kaufman
Chapel will speak to students
of Club 6 on Sunday at
10 a.m. at the Maple/Drake
Building of the Jewish Corn-
munity Center. Techner's talk
will focus on death.
Machon Begins
New Semester
Machon ETbrah, the Jewish
Learning Network of
Michigan, announces its
spring semester of
JudaiCollege will begin May
21.
The topics of discussion for
the Monday evening program
are as follows: "Truth,"
"Chosen Language," "Life,"
"The Pleasure Principle and
the Jewish Family," "Torah:
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