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Yad B' Yad — Hand in Hand with Israel
is a program of the National Council of
Jewish Women (NCJW) providing grants to
Israeli grassroots organizations that focus on
literacy, educational development and
enrichment programs for at-risk and
disadvantaged children and families.

This year, Yad B'Yad has awarded grants to
twenty-one organizations that work with the
needy populations of all ethnic and religious
backgrounds.

.. .THANK YOU TO OUR *PARTNERS IN THE FOLLOWING PROGRAMS:

NOW Greater
Miami Section

Jewish-Arab Community Association — "Transitions" Project
providing literacy materials for after-school enrichment

Kidsline, Inc.

ELEM, Youth in Distress — Providing laptop computers for
Internet access in outreach vans

NOW Greater
Detroit Section

Nahef Development and Welfare Association—Offering a computer
literacy program for children in a remote Arab village in the Galilee

Max M. and
Marjorie Fisher

Mahapach — "Return to Reading" Program providing books for
literacy leadership

Victor Sobel Fund

Israeli Association of Jewish Immigrants from the Caucasus —
Providing books for Kavkasi children from the former Soviet Union

NOW Kew
Gardens Section

Esra Community Fund — Supplying computers for a community
center in Netanya

To learn more about other Yad B'Yad grant
recipients or to make a donation, please call
1-800-829-NCJW or visit the NCJW website at
www.ncjw.org .

Alan A. May, Kathleen Straus, Lee Bollinger and Sanford Cloud Jr.

Transforming Communities

At its 54th annual Humanitarian
Dinner Nov. 8, the National Conference
for Community and Justice bestowed its
most coveted awards. The theme for the
evening was "Transforming
Communities."
Alan A. May, president of NCCJ
Michigan Region, introduced two of the
evening's honorees.
The William Beckham Community
Service Award was given to Detroiter
Kathleen Straus, president of the
Michigan State Board of Education and
board member of The Michigan Tax
Information Council, Detroit Science

Center, Jewish Community Council and
NCCJ. .
May presented the National Human
Relations Award to Lee Bollinger, presi-
dent of the University of Michigan.
The National Charles Evans Hughes
Award was given to historian, author
and educator John Hope Franklin by
NCCJ president and CEO Sanford
Cloud Jr. Franklin is a professor emeri-
tus at Duke University, Durham, N.C.
The event was held at the Marriott
Hotel Detroit Renaissance Center in
Detroit.

Play Joins Arabs, Jews

Members and friends of the American
Arab & Jewish Friends gathered Nov.
11 for a special fund-raiser at the
Jewish Ensemble Theatre's West
Bloomfield performance of Romeo &

Juliet.
Evelyn Orbach, director of JET
and on the Cultural Outreach
Committee of the Friends, coordinat-
ed the event with Shelly Komer
Jackier and Ahmad Ezzeddine, corn-
mittee co-chairs.
The co-chairs had selected this JET
performance since the setting of the
play was in Palestine in the 1920s and
Romeo was Arab and Juliet was
Jewish. It was only after the death of
the these two main characters that
their respective families extended their
hands to one another.
Following the performance, both
the actors and director, Gillian Eaton,

participated in an interactive discus-
sion responding to a series of ques-
tions, including the reason for chang-
ing the setting from Italy to Palestine
and how the actors, several of whom
are of Arab descent, felt about their
roles in light of the Sept. 11 tragedy.
The next activity of the Cultural
Outreach Committee will be the third
program in a series titled "Religion,
Roots and Ritual-Islam, Judaism and
Christianity." This will include a visit
to the Islamic Center of Detroit in
which the Imam, the religious leader,
will speak about Islam. Other pro-
grams included a visit to the Melkite
Christian Church in Warren and
Congregation Shaarey Zedek West
Bloomfield.
For information about the Friends,
call Shelly Komer Jackier, (248) 503-
1241.

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of Jewish Women

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NCJW is a volunteer organization, inspired by Jewish values,
that works to improve the quality of life for women, children and
families and to ensure individual rights and freedoms through
research, education, advocacy and community service programs
initiated by its network of 90,000 volunteers, supporters and
members nationwide.

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