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Mary Fisher to address community at
Temple Beth El healing service.

a new healing service was created by
members of MJAC and Beth El Rabbi
David Castiglione, the adviser to this
year's annual Lawson Institute. "We will
hen AIDS activist Mary
also honor some of the MJAC family by
Fisher speaks to congre-
having them participate in the service,"
gants at Temple Beth El,
says Dr. Fogelman.
she will connect three
Fisher, a Louisville, Ky., native was
groups present for the synagogue's
raised in Detroit. She attended
Service of Healing.
Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook School,
"We always have our own healing ser-
Wayne State University and the
vice on Dec. 1 which is World AIDS
University of Michigan. Her parents,
Day," says Dr. Burton Fogelman, presi-
Max and Marjorie Fisher, and her broth-
dent of Michigan Jewish AIDS Coalition
er and sisters still live in metro Detroit.
(MJAC) in Southfield, co-sponsor of the
She and her sons, Max, 12,
program.
and Zack, 10, live outside
"This year because Dec.
New York City.
1 is Friday night, we decid-
She gained national atten-
ed to hold it during
tion when she courageously
Shabbat services at Temple
stepped to the podium at the
Beth El," where Fogelman
Republican Convention Aug.
is chairman of the inclusivi-
19, 1992, to speak publicly
ty committee.
of her battle with AIDS and
"Then it became an
urge others to take up the
HIV/AIDS awareness
fight as well.
weekend when it happened
Before the public
to be the Lawson Institute
announcement of her personal
weekend," Fogelman says,
battle, she was best known for
referring to Beth El's annual - Mary Fisher
her artistic work in photogra-
Ellin and Harold Lawson
phy and sculpture, as a television pro-
Youth Institute, chaired by Debbie
ducer and as a former assistant to
Canvasser.
President Gerald R Ford.
The service, held 7:30 p.m. Friday,
Since 1992, she has used her creative
Dec. 1, will provide an opportunity for
and organizational skills to highlight
the congregation and the community to
HIV/AIDS and the needs of those living
reach out to those living with
with it. She has published two collec-
HIV/AIDS.
tions of speeches and personal pho-
Following the service, the youth of
tographs, Sleep with the Angels and I'll
the congregation, attending as part of the
Not Go Quietly, an autobiographical
temple's mandatory high school pro-
memoir, My Name is Mary, and a jour-
gram, will participate in a weekend
nal of caregivers in photographs and sto-
learning experience. They will view a
ries, Angels in Our Midst..
presentation on living with AIDS,
Fisher founded the Family AIDS
engage in training to be an effective
Network, a national organization dedi-
helper and advocate for those with the
cated to heightening awareness and com-
disease and discuss the implications of
passion for the fight against HIV/AIDS.
personal responsibility. MJAC will pro-
This year, it became the Mary Fisher
vide information and materials for
Center for AIDS Research and
Saturday workshops. A Sunday mitzvah
Education (CARE) Fund at the
project will relate to HIV and AIDS.
University of Alabama in Birmingham.
"We are thrilled that over 100 kids
"I believe every time we come togeth-
will be learning at the same time," Dr.
er with another individual, the human
Fogelman says. "If we give information
element of that person's story is what
to one person, and save one life, we're
thrilled."
effects and touches us most deeply," says
Rabbi Castiglione.
The Friday night program will begin
"We hope being together with Mary
with the lighting of yartzeit candles for
will enlighten and empower us to do
those who have died of AIDS, followed
what we can, in terms of helping those
by candles lit for those with AIDS and
terminal illnesses and then the lighting of who are affected and infected with AIDS
and HIV, and help bring a cure."
the Shabbat candles.
In addition to the Friday night service

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