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the community. "We try to get a rabbi
from most every congregation to par-
,_,ticipate," she says.
AJE's adult educational planners are
looking "at other venues besides Barnes
& Noble — people have really taken to
the one-shot or short-series program,"
she says.
Most Jewish events at Barnes &
Noble are arranged through the AJE,
but a few are independent, like Robert
Rockaway's Oct. 17 signing and talk
L) about his book, But He Was Good To
His Mother: The Lives and Crimes of
Jewish Gangsters.
Born in Detroit, educated at the
University of Michigan and currently
a member of the Department of
Jewish History at Tel Aviv University,
Rockaway approached Stumpo, check-
ing to see if the store carried his book.
Stumpo was intrigued and invited
(2 Rockaway to speak. "That's why I like
these things — I always learn some-
thing. I'm not Jewish, but I like to
know what's going on," Stumpo says.
More than 100 people attended a
March 26 panel on domestic terrorism
— including some members of the
Michigan Militia, according to Tanya
Mazor-Posner, Campaign associate at
Federation's Young Adult Division.
Militia men usually don't attend
Jewish community functions, but
Mazor-Posner thinks they came
because of the location.
"It added to the excitement of the
program — people came up to me
after and said, 'Wow, I can't believe
the Michigan Militia came to our
event, but you might have been able
to avoid it if it were held in a syna-
gogue: [A synagogue is] a place to
pray; it's not a dynamic place to have
an event," she says.
Most YAD events are held in secu-
lar spots like B&N, Lonestar Coffee
Co. and an upcoming January event,
on Internet anti-Semitism, at the Big
Surf Cyber Cafe (which has computers
and coffee). "These are the types of
places where young adults hang out in
their free time; they want to go to
place not only where they'll learn
something, but where it'll be fun for
them to hang out," Mazor-Posner
says. Synagogue-based programs often
turn off people of different denomina-
tions, she says.
"This place is so convenient and it's
so comfortable that it really makes for a
nice setting — both for civic organiza-
tions as well as for us," Stumpo says.
Programs finish around 9 p.m., leav-
ing a couple hours for attendees to
browse the stacks or have a cup of cof-
fee. It's hard to tell whether sales have
benefited from the programs, Stumpo
says.
After Susann Codish's Nov. 3 talk on
modern Orthodoxy, Jewish and other
outside programming will take a hiatus
until after the holiday season. But in
January, events will pick up and "race
through early summer," Stumpo says.
Says Phillips, "It's sort of like when
you're a student and you go to the
University of Michigan and there's a
program at the University of Michigan
— you feel like you're in school.
There's something nice and credible to
it, but it's also nice to learn in places
that you don't have other associations
with. You can come in, drink some cof-
fee, be a part of the program and you
can leave, too." ❑
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Janice and George Erdstein enjoy Robert Rockaway's discussion about Jewish gangsters.
10/24
1997
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