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Meeting Again In D.C.

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JENNIFER FINER STAFF WRITER

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ennifer Grossman, a Uni-
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in charge of getting the U-
M delegation together for
the annual AIPAC conference,
has a problem other student
leaders would love to share.
Instead of actively recruiting
students to go to Washington,
D.C., for the annual American-
Israel Public Affairs Commit-
tee policy conference, she is
recruiting funding for the 125
students who have expressed
interest in attending the three-
0 .0-v meeting. Last year's Ann
Arbor- clo-e-gation sent 64 stu-
dents to the nation,. ,Ditai.
AIPAC officials said- U--iv _
consistently sends more stu-
dents than any other universi-
ty.
"Every year that I've been in-
volved in the policy conference,
other schools have said 'We
want to be 'The Michigan" and
send the most students,' " said
Rachel Weinberg, director of
AIPAC's political leadership de-
velopment program. "Schools
hoping to send more represen-
tatives than U-M have called us
up this year and asked how
many Michigan students will
be attending."
Ms. Grossman, a Chicago na-
tive, is not sure why U-M sends
he largest student delegation,
ub • -he speculates word of
mouth bur-.3, enthusiasm on
campus.
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going to the conference will be
a very exciting three days," Ms.
Grossman said. "There is a
hotbed of activism in Ann Ar-
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lege students because they go
to meetings full of people who
look like the kinds of people
they want to be — doctors,
lawyers and other profession-
als," said Michael Brooks, ex-
ecutive director of U-M Hillel.
"The students see these people
taking time out of their sched-
ules to help the Jewish com-
munity, and the Jewish
community sees there is a gen-
eration of young people who
care about Israel."
The conference begins on
March 13 with Vice President
Al Gore delivering the keynote
address. Israeli Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin also will
speak. 0

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Jennifer Grossman at last year's conference..

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groups fighting for Israel."
Now Ms. Grossman and oth-
ers are trying to raise money to
pay for the bus trip and week-
end in Washington, where stu-
dents will join other pro-Israel
activists in examining U.S.
Mideast policy.
Some funding has come from
AIPAC and the Pitt Founda-
tion, a private scholarship foun-
dation funded by Farmington
Hills residents Irving and Sarah
Pitt, but these Wolverines still
need to raise as much as $4,000.
Registration for the conference
alone costs $200 per person.
"Attending the conference is
the best Jewish identity-build-
mg t-...Prience for Jewish col-

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LESLEY PEARL STAFF WRITER

T

o some, the high school
courses offered at Tem-
ple Israel may look more
like a small college cat-
alog than a congregational
school listing.
This winter, students can
choose peer teaching with
JARC (Jewish Association for
Residential Care) residents,
theater production, pondering
the role of Jewish women in
history or discussing the Holo-
caust and righteous resistance

with video assistance from "60
Minutes" and "The Jerry
Springer Show."
Students appear to like it
that way. Two hundred and
sixty are enrolled in Monday-
night school, weekly classes for
teens, similiar to what has
been called Hebrew High in
the past. The program at Tem-
ple Israel boasts a retention
rate of between 80 and 90 per-
cent following bar and bat
mitzvah.

The era of straight siddur
and history, nose-in-the-books
teaching for high school stu-
dents has been set aside by
many instructors for years. Yet
extracurricular activities and
assimilation threaten the con-
tinuity of education for the
same students.
The problem facing most in-
structors and educational di-
rectors is not only attracting
students — parents are often

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