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Candidates for the Birmingham school board favor
Holocaust education and oppose school vouchers.

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Three candidates
to fill two
board seats.

JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR
Special to the Jewish News

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ewish voters in the
Birmingham school district
will have a tougher time
deciding at the polls this
year, come school board election
time. The reason? Three candidates
are running for two four-year terms
and all have taken the same views on
two key Jewish issues: Holocaust
education and school vouchers. The
positions are not paid.
The candidates, all long-term resi-
dents, are vying for board positions
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ds a bachelor of arts degree from the
etroit and a doctor of medicine degree
State University.
ear resident of Birmingham, is on the
of the Michigan State Medical
as the New Horizans for Rehabilitation
Birmingham Community Coalition. He is the
the Oakland County Medical Society
hospital committees.
and the father of four children.
s of the Birmingham Public Schools
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Ritkk*er, 53, is a food writer and cook-
Wiii;h:s graduated fi-orn both the Fashion
ecIT .togy at the State University of New
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Birmingham, she currently holds
on the board of education, an
'AT*, 549d. in 1996. In addition, she
nt for both the Birmingham
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fficials Network. In her work
was a member of the executive board

that hired the first director, coordinated fund-raising pro-
grams and chaired two Summit Celebrations. She is the
program chair for the Women Officials Network, a posi-
tion that involves coordinating membership meetings and
organizing the speaker's bureau.
Rinschler is married and has two daughters, both
graduates of Birmingham Public Schools.
• Daniel M. Share, 52, is an attorney with the Detroit
firm of Barris, Sort, Denn and Driker, PLLC. He
earned a bachelor of arts degree in history at the
University of Michigan and a juris doctor degree at
Harvard Law School.
Share currently is president of Birmingham's
Board of Education and has been a member since
1996. He is co-chair of the Detroit Jewish Initiative-
Southwest Detroit Community Connection, a pro-
ject that creates opportunities for social-service
interaction in southwest Detroit. He also served
from 1982 to 1994 as past president and as a board
member for the Legal Aid and Defenders Association
of Detroit, an agency that provides legal services to
those who cannot afford them.
Share is married and the father of two children, one
a graduate of Birmingham Public Schools and the
other a current high school student.

LOCAUST EDUCATION IN YOUR SCHOOL DISTRICT? How EXTENSIVE SHOULD IT BE?

OOL VOUCHERS? WHY?

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urday a ath. As part of the diversity pro
rats in the middle schools, they often visit the
Holocaust Memorial Center in West Bloomfield.'
At Gro\Ts High School, there is a course offer-
ing, Holocaust Literature. Due to its popularity,
six to eight sessions are offered each year.
The subject is also discussed in history
courses in elementary school, again in the mid-
dle school and high school under chapters on
Major World Religions and Cultures, U.S.
History, Geographic and Environmental
hcations of Global Issues and Events, to
Arne a few. Is this extensive enough? No, but
in light of the vast material which our, disttict

I oppose the voucher proposal. It will
significandY reduce, funding for public
edticatior.„ .‘provicling, aealstic alterna-
tive for stii $tricts. It will
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