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New Detroit cited several programs
of Council that promote racial justice
and cultural collaboration:
• Detroit Jewish Coalition for Literacy
is an umbrella of literacy projects bring-
ing some 230 Jewish men and women
from synagogues and service organiza-
tions into Detroit schools to tutor ele-
mentary students and to donate books.
Helen Pickett of West Bloomfield, a
Temple Israel member, tutors students
in reading at Bagley School in Detroit
along with her husband, Bud.
centers; including the former Jewish
Community Center buildings at Meyers
and Curtis and Woodward and
Holbrook
• Northwest Neighborhood Health
Empowerment Center (NHEC), a
health initiative in the neighborhood
adjacent to Sinai-Grace Hospital. The
Jewish Fund, which administers the pro-
ceeds of the sale of Sinai Hospital con-
tributed funds and the Maimonides
Society, an organization of Jewish physi-
cians, and the Michigan Jewish AIDS
Coalition assist in outreach.
• Southwest Detroit Community
Connection (SWDCC) provides
aid and builds relationships
between Jews and Latinos,
including overnight trips to Fresh
Air Society's Camp Maas for 55
children and parents at a time.
• City Year Detroit encompasses
six teams of teens and young
adults who dedicate a year to aid-
ing projects in Detroit. The
Jewish-sponsored
team of nine
Cheryl Sugerman of Royal Oak, one of the
has assisted in both the Northwest
Jewish volunteers who built a rolling bookcase,
Neighborhood and Southwest
hands over the key to Anthoine Wyatt of the
Detroit endeavors.
Adams Butzel Recreation Center in Detroit.
The Jewish Community
The bookcase will house books donated by the
Council's Detroit-related activities
Detroit Jewish Coalition for Literacy.
are funded by several sources,
including the Jewish Federation, the
"We're trying to make a connection
Jewish Fund, local foundations and pri-
with them," she said. "A lot of the kids
vate individuals.
need one-on-one contact with some-
body and some attention."
• Detroit Israel Youth Ambassadors
swaps a dozen or so Detroit and Israeli
Gad-Harf called the Closing the Gap
students for a month every year to visit
Award
"a statement not only about the
each other's public schools.
Council, but about the renewed energy
Miya Thomas, a senior at Cass
that the Jewish community as a whole
Technical High School in Detroit, went
has
committed to the city of Detroit.
to Israel last November as a youth
"It
is in the interests of the Jewish
ambassador. She stayed with families in
community
for the city to rebound and
Petach Tikvah and Haifa.
thrive,"
he
said.
"We are interdependent.
"I tell my friends Israel is a lot like
The
Jewish
community
itself cannot be
America and they all want to go there
secure,
cannot
be
prosperous
and cannot
on the program," she said.
be
successful
unless
the
total
community
Coalition
for
Immigration
Policy
•
is flourishing."
unites Jewish, Arab, Latino and Asian
The late Bill Beckham, former presi-
representatives to lobby for laws and
dent
of New Detroit, had nominated
policies favorable to immigrants.
Council for the honor. Beckham died
suddenly on April 27, two months prior
to the award ceremony.
Sue Hamilton-Smith, executive vice
The largest, multifaceted program cited
president of New Detroit, said that in
by New Detroit is the Detroit Jewish
Beckham's five years as its president, he
Initiative, which encompasses these
became very much aware of Council's
efforts:
efforts, prompting the nomination.
• Entrepreneurial Partnership Project,
In accepting the award, Gad-Harf
which couples Jewish businesspeople
said, "In Bill's memory, we are commit-
with Detroit entrepreneurs to advise
ted to further expanding our efforts to
them on the nuts-and-bolts of their
bring to Detroit a spirit of cooperation
enterprise.
for the common good." 0
• Detroit Recreation Centers
Recapitalization Project, which funds
improvements to three neighborhood
-
Detroit Jewish Initiative
Expanding Efforts