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o celebrate diversity among people, Wayne State
University has proclaimed April as Jewish Heritage
Month on the Detroit-based campus.
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Carol Mack, WSU director of community affairs,
he last reported instance during a major
called the April 3 announcement the start of a month of Jewish
league baseball game that, during at least one
recognition and programming.
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ers, the event
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was highlighted
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Farmington
Hills. Miriam
Starkman, exec-
utive director of
Talya Drissman with her artwork.
"He was a real genius. I
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Detroit, described the painting as depicting the past, present an
—Yossi Beninstock, a Polish-
future of the Jewish faith.
born Jewish childhood
Starkman was joined at the event by Sharona Shapiro, the
friend
of Pope John Paul II.
American Jewish Committee's Michigan area director; Don Cohen,
The two met up in Israel
executive director of the Anti-Defamation League's Michigan Region;
during the pope's visit there,
David Gad-Harf, executive director of the Jewish Community
after not having seen each
Council of Metropolitan Detroit; and David Weinberg, director of
other in seven decades.
WSU's Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies.
Starkman called the Jewish Heritage Month "an important
"Without peeling potatoes,
statement made by the university — something we should be
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proud of." El

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events (page 47).

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