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ground and contacts with Detroit
educators. A native of Seattle,
Wash., with a degree in Jewish
communal service from the He-
brew Union College, Locke di-
rected school services at AJE for
four years.
To ease the transition, Locke
recommended that Detroit native
Blumenberg serve as interim
principal. The former director of
AJE's Midrasha (adult education)
program, Blumenberg is fluent in
Hebrew and has years of experi-
ence in such diverse fields as Jew-
ish education, marketing and
plant physiology.
Last month, Blumenberg start-
ed the new job, working closely
with Locke. With Locke now in Is-
rael, the two plan to keep in touch
via e-mail.
And they have a lot of plans for
the school. They hope to move the
K-5 school forward by beefing up
its teaching staff, expanding its
Hebrew language immersion pro-
gram, strengthening the secular
curriculum and increasing en-
rollment to 120 students. Enroll-
ment is currently 85.
Both Locke and Blumenberg
say they are excited about work-
ing with the Ann Arbor Jewish
community. "I saw this as a real-
ly wonderful opportunity," said
Locke. "It's a community that
made the decision to move for-
ward." ❑
Connecting To Israel
A Hebrew U. fellowship in honor of West Bloomfield's
Jeddy Hood will further peace efforts with Jordan.
LYNNE MEREDITH COHN STAFF WRITER
y
ou just can't understand
the politics of the Middle
East unless you've been
there, says Jeddy Hood,
West Bloomfield Township su-
pervisor who returned last week
from her first visit to Israel and
Jordan.
And now that she understands
the situation, Hood is designating
a Hebrew University fellowship
in her honor to research projects
at the Truman Institute for the
Advancement of Peace.
"Attitudes must change; people
must learn to live together," says
Hood, who visited the Middle East
on a mission to determine how to
spend the quarter of a million dol-
lars which the American Friends
of Hebrew University hope to raise
in her name this fall.
The trip laid the groundwork
for a Sept. 15 fund-raising dinner
at Temple Israel in Hood's honor,
says Stacy Klein, director of the
Michigan Chapter of the Ameri-
can Friends.
Hood was selected by "a num-
ber of people in the community
who are also associated with He-
brew University who have worked
with her on different projects,"
Klein says, especially one at the
Holocaust Memorial Center, film-
ing personal stories of Holocaust
survivors.
"In working with her, the peo-
ple were saying how devoted she
seemed to the project and how de-
voted she seemed to the Jewish
community and [they wanted] to
let her know how much they ap-
preciated it," Klein says.
Hood, who is not Jewish, beat
challenger Larry Wasserman in
the township supervisor race last
summer, despite insinuations of
anti-Semitism in an ad placed by
Wasserman in The Jewish News.
Harvey Grace, a former leader
of the Michigan Chapter of Amer-
ican Friends of Hebrew Universi-
ty,. and his business colleague,
Steven Wild, spearheaded the trip
and fund-raising effort, Klein says.
,
West Bloomfield at the Western Wall: Jeddy Hood and Harvey Grace.
The pair run a film production
company in Farmington Hills
called Grace and Wild Studios.
Hood's trip to Israel included
stops at Hebrew U.'s Mount Sco-
pus campus, the Knesset, Yad
Vashem and Yitzhak Rabin's
grave. She also traveled to Jordan.
While waiting for a flight in Tel
Aviv, Hood sketched out a posi-
tion paper on how to spend the
money. Her main concerns are the
future handling of shared water
resources and whether or not the
peace process can prevail.
She chose to focus on the work
of the Truman Institute because
of several impressive projects al-
ready going on — including one in
which Hebrew U. professors work
with professors from the Univer-
sity of Jordan in Amman to
rewrite textbooks, eliminating dis-
criminatory wording.
Another project involves Jor-
danians presenting Israeli busi-
nesses with a questionnaire,
asking how they perceive their
role in Jordan's economy. `The re-
sults will give them an idea of per-
ceptions on doing business across
the lines," Hood says.
"They really look to the U.S. as
a neutral source for the Camp
David agreements," says Hood.
She wants the fellowship to be
in the honor of West Bloomfield
Township, which she says has
made strides in teaching respect
for cultural differences. ❑
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