Dr. Marvin Fox,
Director, Lown School of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University
Please join our Detroit community
for the Ohr Somayach/Tanenbaum College
T.O.R.A.* Lunch and Learn program
Tuesday, March 23rd, 12:30 p.m. — 1:30 p.m
hosted by the Agency for Jewish Education
at the Max M. Fisher. building
6735 Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Hills
with special guest speaker
Board of Directors
Co-Chairs
Helen Garden
Jeffrey M. Garden
Lori Garon
Lawrence R. Garon
Marcie Orley
Robert H. Orley
Rabbi Dr. Nathan T. Lopes Cardozo
Ph.D., M.A. Philosophy,
Senior Lecturer Ohr Somayach/
Tanenbaum College
International. Lectures
extensively world-wide and
at Oxford and Cambridge
Universities, London, England.
Rabbi Eric Krohner,
National Director
National Office/Metro Detroit
Agency for Jewish Education Bldg.
21550 W. Twelve Mile Road
Southfield, Michigan 48076
313-352-4870
Topic: "The Chosen People"
a Philosophical Analysis
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family on both sides didn't
• take us in. They were
scared to help the children
of "Communist spies."
Following the Rosenberg
execution in 1953, the
boys were placed in an
orphanage for nine
• months. "Later, we lived
• in semi-secrecy in rural
New Jersey to escape
harassment, but were
thrown out of the public
schools after the local
school board found out
\, who we were," Mr. Meero-
pol says.
The agony he calls a
"long nightmare" did not
end even after the
Meeropols took Robert and
Michael into their home in
\ 1954. "We were abruptly
• removed from their care
when a judge issued an
order in response to a
false claim that the
Meeropols were abusing
us," said Robert.
"We spent more time in
an orphanage, endured
traumatic hearings and
screenings and lived with
' fear and uncertainty until
our adoption was finalized
in 1957."
With the passage of
time, Mr. Meeropol came
to realize how much of a
; debt he and his brother
owe to many concerned
individuals whom he has
never met. "Many gener-
ous individuals rallied to
our support — helping
wage the legal battles to
reunite us with the
Meeropols, raising a trust
fund that enabled us to
obtain counseling and
attend schools and sum-
mer camps where progres-
sive values were appreci-
ated.
"They made us feel safe
and secure. I never would
have survived to build my
life were it not for the
help of so many socially-
aware individuals and
• institutions."
Mr. Meeropol, now a
•
Massachusetts attorney,
has embarked on a mis-
sion to help the children of
today who are suffering
"long nightmares" like the
one he and his brother
have emerged from. To
accomplish this, he estab-
lished the Rosenberg Fund
for Children in 1990 and
serves as its executive
director. "I want my par-
ents to be remembered
with this fund that helps
children and not as spies,"
he said.
"There are hundreds of
these children whose par-
ents have worked for a
better world for all of us,
and as a direct result,
I have followed with interest and enthusiasm the work of Ohr Somayach over a number of
years and am convinced that this is one of the most important and valuable efforts in
Isreal today . . . It is a uniquely valuable achievement to be able to transmit the Jewish
heritage to well educated but Jewishly uninformed men and women.. It requires
not only Jewish learning, but also comprehensive and thorough general education.
The staff of Ohr Somayach is unusually well equipped in these regards.
Their success is a result of the high level and quality of faculty and the
unusual personal dedication of every individual associated with the institution.
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