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n preparation for a perfor-
mance at December's Machon
L'Torah annual Chanukah
concert, Rabbi Avraham Ja-
cobovitz is founding the Chai
Boys Choir.
The choir, for 9-13-year-olds
in the Detroit area, will be es-
tablished as a way for 18 boys to
learn Jewish songs and develop
a positive Jewish identity.
"The idea for the choir began
following last year's concert,"
Rabbi Jacobovitz said. "The re-
sponse has been very good and
very positive."
So good that Rabbi Jacobovitz
has received phone calls from in-
terested parents who were not
on the initial auditions mailing
list.
The choir director will be Rab-
bi "Rocky" Stewart, a teacher at
Yeshiva Beth Yehudah in South-
field.
"We are trying to give these
kids a positive Jewish feel and
experience," Rabbi Stewart said
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"We are looking for kids who
have a good attitude and want
to do this."
Rabbi Stewart's musical ex-
perience includes 14 years with
the Segulah orchestra, which
plays mainly at Orthodox wed-
dings.
The concert will take place at
West Bloomfield High School,
giving the children the oppor-
tunity to sing in front of a large
crowd. The concert will serve as
a fund-raiser for Machon
L'Torah, the Jewish Learning
Network of Michigan. The pro-
ceeds will fund its educational
programs for Jewish students
on college campuses in Michi-
gan. ❑
. Andy Adelson
810-206-1100
he Russian Jewish Con-
gress, a new group headed
by one of Russia's most
prominent and controver-
sial millionaires, has signed a
landmark agreement with
American Jewry's top umbrella
organization, pledging joint co-
operation and consultation.
But several key members of
the U.S. umbrella group, the Con-
ference of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organizations,
protested that the agreement was
reached without their knowledge.
Vladimir Goussinsky, the
Russian millionaire, signed the
agreement with the Presidents
Conference last April as president
of the Russian Jewish Congress,
a rapidly rising Russian body that
he founded just last year.
The National Conference on
Soviet Jewry, another U.S. um-
brella group that encompasses
many of the same Jewish orga-
nizational members as the Pres-
idents Conference, was also a
signatory.
The written understanding —
the Presidents Conference's first
with a Diaspora organization —
calls for the groups to establish
"an ongoing structured relation-
ship" that will include 'joint ap-
proaches to monitor and contain
terrorism, extremism, anti-Semi-
tism and bigotry."
Some say it marks a milestone
in the emergence of the Russian
group as an influential Diaspora
player on the international stage,
though the top executive of the
Presidents Conference sought to
downplay the agreement's sig-
nificance.
Phil Baum:
No clearance for agreement.