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Staff Notebook

Art In Alley

Cap & Gown Rules Changed__

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'Rue have `changed the
rules from previous
years! The Jewish News
on May 10 would like to
honor all Michigan high
school graduating seniors
who are Jewish and have
a fou•-year cumulative

— Sharon Zuckerman

From Blessed Aliyah

w

est Bloomfield's
Right:
Rachel Kapan is
After
arriving
in
beaming with pride
Palestine,
Sarah
over the photo essay, "From
Ivashkovsky and a
Sapotkin to Tel Aviv, A
group of other
Woman's Journey," about her
late mother, Sarah, in the spring young women were
sent to Meshek
issue of Women's League Outlook,
Poalot,
a farm for
a quarterly magazine for sister-
women
workers
in
hoods of the Conservative
Nahlat
Yehuda.
movement.
In 1921, Zionist Sarah
Ivashkovsky, 19, won the bless-
ing of her devoutly observant
father, Reb Avrom Shmuel
Ivashkovsky, to make aliyah to
Palestine. She was living in the
shtetl of Sapotkin, near Gordno,
Belarus, according to the infor-
mation that Rachel wrote to accompany the photo
essay.
Sarah arrived at the port of Jaffa and was sent to
Meshek Poalot, a farm for women workers in Nahlat
Yehuda, near Rishon Lezion. "During the day, the
women were trained to work the land and farm,
while at night they sang and danced," Rachel wrote.

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2002

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grade point average of
3.60 or higher on a 4.0
scale (or 4.0 and higher
for schools using 4.5 as-
their top grade).
In previous years, the
number of submissions from
each school was limited.

To be included in our
Cap & Gown section,
go to our Web site detroir-
jewishnews.corn to obtain
submission guidelines.
Deadline for applica-
tions is April 19.

— Alan Hitsky

alono with courses for
high b school students in
Hebrew, biblical history
and Holocaust studies.
A nonprofit organiza-
tion
formed in 1912,
— Robert A. Sklar
ACIS accredits 625 post-
secondary institutions in
the United States and
abroad, with a total enroll-
he Michigan Jewish ment in 2001 of more
Institute, the state's only
Rabbi David Kagan, Michigan Jewish
than 302,000 students.
accredited four-year Jewish iaute
president, and Dr T Hershel
Inst i tute
Rabbi David Kagan, ,
college, has been re-accredited
Gardin, the school's academic dean, display MJI president, said he was
through December 2007 by the
MJI's accreditation certificate.
pleased the school's accred-
Accrediting Council for
itation had been extended
Independent Colleges and Schools
for the maximum number of years possible, follow-
(ACIS). The school was first accredited in April
ing a complete review of its operations.
1998.
"This demonstrates the confidence of ACICS in
MJI is located in Oak Park, with a satellite loca-
the competence and strength of MJI's academic pro-
tion at Andover High School in Bloomfield Hills. It
grams, " he said. El
offers bachelor's degree programs in computer and
— Diana Lieberman
business technology, education and related areas,

Sarah and Yosef Garber were
married in Tel Aviv in 1929. Sarah
never saw her mother again after
leaving Sapotkin. Sarah died in
1988 at age 88.

MJI Renewed

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mists are sought, of any age, professional or
not, for Art in the Alley, a project of Harms
Elementary School in Detroit.
Fifteen artists will be selected to draw the outlines
of designs chosen by students onto garages and
fences in alleyways near the school.
"Our goal is to remove trash, cut back overgrown
shrubs and paint murals on 22 city block alleyways,"
said project director Janet Ray of Communities in
Schools at Harms.
Each alley has a theme — rainbows, poetry, Torn
and Jerry, and many more. Much of the cleaning has
already begun and will continue through early April
when the drawing will begin.
Organizations including Norup Middle School in
Oak Park and Temple Shir Shalom will join Harms
families and faculty to paint by the numbers and fill
in the murals the artists outlined in the alleyways
around the school. The painting will take place
Saturday, April 27.
"We want to take back the alleys through Art in
the Alley," Ray says. "The program also gets kids
and neighbors to build mutual trust and confidence
by working together to improve the neighborhood."
Having worked on past projects with the Jewish
Community Council, Ray looks forward to continu-
ing the connection.
"The Jewish community's involvement in south-
west Detroit has demonstrated what community
building is about," she says. "It's about all having
gifts to share with each other and building on rela-
tionships between people."
Artists and others who want to volunteers can call
Janet Ray at (313) 554-8269.

Corrections

• In a story about Sylvia Zukin's surprise 80th
birthday party at the West Bloomfield Jewish
Community Center ("Sylvia's Magic," March 8,
page 37), her son should have been identified as
Stanley Zukin.

• In the Editor's Notebook on the Taylor Street
Shul ("When Pages Talk," Feb. 22, page 5), the
wrong year was given for when Rabbi Max J.
Wohlgelernter came to Beth Tefilo Emanuel
(the Taylor Street Shul) in Detroit. The correct
year is 1936.

• In editorial, "Shrine Of Healing, Not Hate,"
(March 15, page 33) there was reference to
President Woodrow Wilson condemning the anti-
Semitism of Father Charles Coughlin of the
National Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak.
Wilson died in 1924 before Father Coughlin began
to broadcast his vitriol nationally in the 1930s.

• In a story on single-parent families ("The Good
Life," March 15, page 38), an incorrect date was
given for an upcoming program. "When More
•
Than Two Say 'I Do begi n s at 8:45 a.m. Sunday,
April 14, at the Max M. Fisher Federation
Building, 6735 Telegraph Road, Bloomfield
Township. For information, call (248) 205-2542.

