Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit
Women's Campaign and Education Department
2001-2002 SLATE OF OFFICERS

President

Paula Glazier

Education Vice Presidents

Carol Zamler

Lisa Lis

Barbara Kappy

Annie Cohen

Associate Campaign Chair

Campaign Vice President

Nancy Jacobson

Nancy Grosfeld

Recording Secretary
Baylee Shulman

Corresponding Secretary

Malke Torgow

Designates to the Board of Governors

Cheryl Schanes

Marcie Orley

Nominees to the Board
Second Term

First Term

Leah Davidson
Sue Curhan
Sue Erlich
Hilary Isakow
Mindy Soble Kaufman
Barbara Nemer
Nanci Rands
Abbe Sherbin

Barbara Bloom
Lauren Daitch
Cheryl Guyer
Margot Halperin
Barbara Kappy
Lynne Obron
Rosalie Rosen
Malke Torgow

Third Term

Paula Glazier
Carol Zamler

Nominees to the Advisory Service Council

Barbara Berry
Vivian Berry
Paulette Bonin
Harriet Colman
Barbara Eisenberg
Sybil Jones
Reva Kogan-Grace

Sally Krugel
Marjorie Krasnick
Sharon Upton
Meryl Podolsky
Rosalind Schiff
Janice Schwartz
Helen Shevin

Baylee Shulman
Hope Silverman
Leah Snider
Barbara Stollman
Helen Zuckerman

Women's Campaign and Education Department
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit

BYLAWS

In accordance with the Federations Women's Campaign and Education Department Bylaws,Article VII,

Section I : "The call to the Annual Meeting shall include the slate to be presented for election. Additional
nominations may be made by petition, signed by twenty-five (25) members of the Women's Campaign and

Education Department and submitted at least one (I) week in advance of the Annual Meeting, provided

that such nominees have consented to serve if elected,"

The Women's Campaign and Education Department's Annual Meeting will be held on Thursday, May 24,2001.

If you would like to attend, please call the Women's Campaign and Education Department at

(248) 642-4260, ext. 18 I.

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Trying To Embrace
My Jewish Heritage

are grown and married,
very so often,
we'll go to one of their
mostly around
houses for Passover, I
holidays and
began to respect my par-
religious gath-
ents more and more.
erings, Igain a special,
profound appreciation for
Judaism.
A Family Feeling
Coming home for
Throughout the night, I
Passover, as a sophomore
felt grateful to not only be
at Michigan State
Jewish, but to be sur-
University, this year was
rounded by family as we
no different. As usual, I
practiced Judaism, some-
participated in the tradi-
ERICA BERG
thing so important in my
tional family seder,
Specia / to
life, yet so scarce. What
engaging in rituals and
the Jewis h News
sparked this sensation
even reciting the Four
most was watching my
Questions. However,
mom unfold her chuppah to show our
unlike other seders, I stumbled upon a
guests. It took her several years to
stronger, more defined level of
needlepoint. My oldest sister, Stacy,
Judaism — one I will hopefully pass
got married under it three years ago
on to my children and grandchildren.
and when the time is right, my two
As I entered my house the Friday
sisters and I will get married under it
before Passover, I smelled vegetables
as well.
and matzah balls boiling in the huge
It is one of the most beautiful things
pot my mom brings upstairs only on
I've ever seen. My mom stitched the
special occasions. I smelled Passover
patterns so perfectly that it almost
bagels cooking in the oven, the perfect
takes my breath away. The colors
hollow balls that made Passover bear-
alone are so magnificent that it keeps
able. I watched my parents arrange the
me from blinking so as not to miss a
desserts (my true weakness) in perfect
sight. And when someone asked my
order on little trays, and I knew, right
mom if there were any mistakes, she
then and there, that I had to taste
diligently replied that there were no
everything.
mistakes. "If I made a mistake," she
It's funny, growing up in a Jewish
said, "I would unstitch that part and
household. Whenever I smell the
redo it."
fumes of latkes, matzah balls or maca-
As I sat at our dining room table,
roons, it's like a laser beam that pulls
surrounded by loved ones and half-
me in, teasing my nostrils with every
eaten desserts, listening to my mom
breath I take.
speak about her masterpiece, I began
Throughout the seder, my parents
to realize that religion wasn't only
seemed to plan everything perfectly so
about attending temple or synagogue,
that everyone was happy and had
but it was something more. It's one's
enough to eat. Then again, I don't
individual heritage that cannot be bro-
think I've ever gone to a Jewish func-
ken by war or time. It's something
tion and not had enough to eat.
instilled from the moment one is
I tried to help prepare the seder as
born, continuing to strengthen as one
best I could; however, after setting the
grows. It's practicing and pursuing the
table wrong (twice) and deciding that
traditions and beliefs that make one
in the future, when my sisters and I
individual feel complete, a hollow hole
suddenly filled with one's faith and
Erica Berg is a sophomore majoring in
sureness.
journalism at Michigan State
To me, it's sitting with family and
University in East Lansing. Her parents
friends, looking at an heirloom that
are Mirilynn and Gene Zager of
will exist beyond my years, hopefully
Farmington Hills. The family is affili-
beyond my grandchildren's years. In a
ated with Temple Shir Shalom in West
way, the hollowness inside me was
Bloomfield.

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