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ROBIN ADELSON LITTLE

Special to the Jewish News

A

ing collaborations with institutions in
the U.S. and abroad, national and inter-
national field placements for students,
enhanced recruitment, faculty and stu-
dent exchange programs, a continuing-
education program for Jewish commu-
nity professionals and volunteers, and
facilitating interactions with other initia-
tives to help Jewish communities.
The keynoter, Larry Moses, president
of the Wexner Foundation, praised

the University of Michigan
School of Social Work cele-
brated Project StaR's 10th
anniversary, the program's
friends and supporters gathered to honor
its founder, Professor Armand Lauffer.
The evening reception on Oct. 29
was part of the inaugural Project STaR
alumni institute, a two-day
program of workshops and
meetings at the Jewish
Community Center in West
Bloomfield, coordinated by
Robin Axelrod.
Lauffer founded Project
STaR (Service, Training, and
Research in Jewish Communal
Development) with the sup-
port of many benefactors from
the Detroit and Ann Arbor
Shown at the Project STaR anniversary celebration
Jewish communities. They
are Jeff Levin, executive director of the Jewish
included Herb Amster, Bob
Federation ofWashtenaw County; the Jewish
Aronson, Bill Berman, Judge
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit's Kari Alterman,
Avern Cohn, Sol Drachler,
associate director, community outreach and education,
Sam and Jean Frankel, Stanley and Andrew Echt, assistant campaign director; and
and Judy Frankel, Dr. Conrad
University of Michigan Professor Armand Lauffer.
Giles, David Hermelin,
Lawrence Jackier, Carol and Irving
Smokier, Joel Tauber and Gerald Cook,
Aronson, the Detroit Jewish community
with additional support from the Ben
and U-M for understanding the impor-
N. Teitel Charitable Trust and grants
tance of training leaders. He described
from the Max M. Fisher Jewish
the American Jewish community as at a
Community Foundation and the
crossroads, with a need to strengthen
Wexner Foundation.
educational, cultural and spiritual insti-
The mission of Project STaR is to
tutions; to develop new meanings in
train Jewish communal leaders who
Jewish community life; and to train a
work in federations, community centers,
new generation of leaders.
synagogues and other organizations
The program included praise for
throughout the U.S. and the world.
Lauffer by Project STaR alumni, who
Aronson, chief executive officer of the
announced fund-raising efforts to sup-
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
port travel and internship programs in
Detroit, was master of ceremonies for
Kiev (Ukraine) and Israel.
the October program. He described
The alumni institute attracted 49
STaR as one of the premier Jewish com-
alumni and current students. They took
munal programs nationwide.
part in workshops on leadership, profes-
Paula Allen-Meares, dean of the U-
sional challenges in the workplace, lay-
M School of Social Work, recognized
professional relations and their implica-
Lauffer's achievements as a social work
tions for communal professionals, cur-
scholar, including his research in the
rent issues in Israel, evaluation of profes-
areas of nonprofit Rind-raising and
sional practice, and balancing personal
resource allocations, community self-
and professional obligations.
help, and ethnic identity as a source of
As organizers said, the program cele-
social activism.
brated Project STaR's bright future, in
Allen-Meares articulated her vision
which it will build on the accomplish-
for the project's future, including part-
ments of the last 10 years and continue
nerships with other U-M units, develop-
its tradition of excellence. 0

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