Young Adult Division
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit
Report of the 2001 Nominating Committee

President
Joshua F. Opperer

President-Elect
Scott Kaufman

Officers

Michele E. Goldstein
Amy Carson Schlussel

Joshua A. Lerner
Lee P. Trepeck
Barbra Tunick

Executive Committee
James D. Hooberman
David Kreis
Bryce A. Sandler

Dawn M. Faxon
Lorne B. Gold

Jeffrey B. Schlussel
Sheri L. Wagner

Advisor to the Executive Committee
Paul R. Silverman

Directors Nominated from the Current Board

Michael M. Benchetrit
Ian M. Burnstein
Lisa Rose Granitz Chottiner
Jeffrey L. Dwoskin

Jacquelyn A. Bell
Richard H. Bernstein
Heidi L. Brode-Krugel
Gayle H. Friedman

Jonathan W. Dwoskin
Daniel Friedenzohn
Gene J. Goodman
Joel M. Krugel
Julie H. Leib

Newly Nominated Directors
Rabbi Hal Greenwald
Michael L. Kahan
Jeremy P. Kahn
Gabriel H. Karp
Tracey L. Proghovnick

Aaron G. Pergament
Melissa Seligman
Donna Traub
Robin K. Trepeck

Rachel Ruben faer
Lowell D. Salesin
Brian Y. Satovsky
Bradley ("Bubba") Urdan

Submitted by the Nominating Committee:
Emily!. Sherman, Chair; Dan Friedenzohn, Josh Opperer, Jeff Schlussel,
Jennifer Silverman, Paul Silverman, Barbra Tunick

You are invited to attend the election and installation of new officers
and board members at
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit's
Young Adult Division Annual Board Meeting
June 14, 2001
6:30 p.m.
Townsend Hotel
100 Townsend St., Birmingham

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ed teenager can see if they want to and
figure our how to go see it."
• Video Games — Ballmer admits
Microsoft's upcoming X-Box video
game system will include violence and
nudity aimed at the 18-30-year-old_
market. "We are holding line in trying
to have higher standards, but we need
to participate in that market," he said.
He indicated that the Nintendo
video system is more suitable for chil-
dren age 6 12.
• Shag Web site — Microsoft creat-
ed a Web site in partnership with the
Boys and Girls Clubs of America and
professional basketball player Shaquille
O'Neal, Ballmer said. "There's a dia-
logue in there of both parents and
kids, talking about good practices and
good guidelines in terms of safe use of
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said, 'First of all, never say how old
you are. Second of all, if you see some-
body who you wouldn't talk to some-
place else, if they use words that we
don't like, if they behave in a way that
we don't do in our family, I want you
to get out of there.'
"And I told him there's bad guys
everywhere in the world, they're not
just outside the playground at school
or lurking in the neighborhood."
Ballmer said he can either restrict
his children's char room access, or
"decide I'm going to trust he's going to
use all of the rules that we've set forth
in our family." •
• Trust — "I will admit I occasional-
ly go in and peek," Ballmer said. "And
the kids are good. They do the right
thing.
"We certainly are a little further
down the line in using parental trust,
as opposed to technological control,"
he said. "Bur I think that's the way we
want to raise our kids anyway — with
that kind of trust.
"I don't want to make this sound
like a we-them thing," Ballmer added,
but the kids will understand this stuff
well enough that's there's still a basic
level of trust and good values that you
must impart.
"Because all the technology in the
world will not control what an educat-

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