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program and plans to use some shop will take place once a month
of the tools she learned to teach until January. Other programs
her students. Although she is not will focus on the characteristics
aware of any student having a of learning disabilities, teaching
defined learning problem, the techniques and classroom disci-
tools will be helpful, she said.
pline issues.
"Dr. Sharpe is fantastic. When
The program, part of AJE's
she lectures, she teaches acade- NIRIM professional enrichment
mic things in a simple way," Ms. series, is the first to address the
Levit said.
needs of students with disabili-
"Some kids are slower than ties not severe enough to warrant
others and you have to respect special educational programs.
the way they learn," she said.
The Giles Commission dealt
"This is a wonderful enrichment with the lack of adequate pro-
program."
grams for special education in its
Additional parts of the work- report issued in 1992.

Hadracha Program
Fosters Leadership

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efore 1987, Larry Lax, like
so many of metro Detroit's
96,000 Jews, greeted
phone calls from Allied
Jewish Campaign solicitors with
a dose of caution, doubt and con-
fusion.
"Before 1987, I was not very
-,
involved
with the Jewish corn-
-
munity," he says. "I didn't know
where my money was going."
Today, seven years later, Mr.
Lax initiates face-to-face Cam-
paign solicitations and has tak-
en on lay responsibilities with the
Agency for Jewish Education.
The turning point for this on-the-
periphery Jew? In a word:
Hadracha.
) Hadracha is a 14-year-old pro-
gram started by the Jewish Fed-
eration of Metropolitan Detroit

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eration executive director. "It is
an opportunity for us to identify
and cultivate individuals whom
we believe have the potential for
leading this community in the fu-
ture."
Hadracha only targeted young
men until 1988, when Federation
sponsored its first of two women's
groups. A third women's
Hadracha is in the planning
stages.
Mr. Berke says names of for-
mer participants are testimony
to Hadracha's success. Dan Guy-
er now chairs the Max M. Fisher
Community Foundation, Irwin
Elson is past president of the
Jewish Community Center and
was a bus captain on the Michi-
gan Miracle Mission, Ben Rosen-
thal is an Allied Jewish

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in an attempt to cultivate fresh Campaign activist, and Bob
leadership. Through a series of Slatkin is co-chairman of this
seminars, here and in Israel, par- year's Campaign.
ticipants learn about services the
"The nice thing about
Jewish community offers local- Hadracha, from my perspective,
_ ly and overseas.
is that the new leadership is not
"Hadracha is a very important limited to Federation," Mr. Berke
leadership development pro- says.
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