OLD DAR400

lie was the only person in the world who could actually make sense of the dreaded math
1homework He was the guy who never minded pitching you baseball after baseball
after baseball, when you missed 90 percent of the time. He was the kind of person who
hugged you in the middle of the night after you woke from a nightmare.

Bar/Bat Mitzvah

shire Middle School, where he
currently runs track. Jon also
plays Pony League baseball in
the Franklin Baseball League
and is a member of the 1997 De-
troit Maccabi Baseball Team.

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softball, skiing and especially
acting.
A party in her honor will be
held at Wabeek Country Club.

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for our upcoming Father's Day issue. Written submissions should be typed and double-
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Curing The
Continuity Blues

Jessica Wax

Jessica Lynn Wax was called to
the Torah as a bat mitzvah on
Friday, May 9, at Temple Shir
Shalom. She is the daughter of
Fay and Barry Wax and sister of
Samantha. She is the grand-
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Harry
Wax and the late Philip and
Lenora Silberman.
Jessica assisted as a tutor at
the Hebrew school and helped
with Yad Ezra as her mitzvah
project. She is an honor student
at Orchard Lake Middle School
and enjoys dancing, acting and
soccer.

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Brooke Bendix

Brooke Joy Bendix will celebrate
her bat mitzvah on Saturday,
May 17, at Congregation
Shaarey Zedek. She is the
daughter of Lauren and Stephen
Bendix, sister of Scott, Jason
and Matthew. Her proud grand-
parents are Lucille and Norman
Bendix of Boca Raton, Fla., and
Lois and Seymour Levine of
Bloomfield Hills.
Brooke assisted the elderly at
Fleischman Residence as part of
her mitzvah project. She is a stu-
dent at West Hills Middle
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When it comes to Jewish out-
reach, you can't beat Hillel, the
international campus program
started by B'nai B'rith. So it's
hardly surprising that Hillel di-
rector Richard Joel and his gung-
ho campus troops have one of the
slickest Jewish Web sites going.
The site opens with a collection
of pictures showing smiling Hil-
lelers.
The left side of the screen —
the left "frame," in Netscape par-
lance — includes choices that
lead you-to detailed information
about Hillel programs.
So click on Campus Life and
you can read the news from Hil-
lel chapters around the country,
get the inside scoop on Hillel pub-
lications or learn about the "X-
Change" program, an "interactive
marketplace for the ideas which
will transform how students ex-
perience student life on campus
for the next decade."
There's also career informa-
tion and information on intern-
ships, fellowships, mentoring
programs and employment ser-
vices.
The "Jewish.Edu " section of-
fers studies of Jewish texts and
"Rabbi Cyberstein": ask a ques-
tion about Jewish life — "no ques-
tion is too simple, no question too
complex," they say — and get an
answer back by e-mail.
The "SlunOoze Cafe" offers ac-
cess to on-line discussion groups;
eventually, it will be the gateway
to chat rooms where Hillel par-
ticipants worldwide will be able
to get together for real-time Jew-
ish cyber-chatter.
The right side of the screen,
with cute animated icons along
the bottom, is more geared to ca-
sual visitors: an e-mail Jewish
quiz game, links to Jewish news
services and organizations, and
a contest section that eventually
will feature ... well, contests.
Right now, it's still in the plan-
ning stages.
The bottom line? An attractive,
well-designed site with a wealth
of Jewish information for college
kids — and for older folks who
are tired of all the doom-and-
gloom stories about Jewish con-
tinuity.
Check it out at http://www.hil-

lel.org.

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— James D. Besser

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