• • .Wees-t- wisitesfir he0Ati, her(dely 1 cw) ( OW( wis our family--artb\lrienbs a very healthy, bap py Otto prOsperous new Vear. MAGENE KAL & ADA BANDALENE OM RICHMAN A. a est- 1;0/17, hee c if09 t let0 (C OW` SYLVIA & SUSAN SCHANE Fisher Foundation Grants Benefit Jewish Community The Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit's Max M. Fisher Jewish Community Foundation will award $84,000 in grants to six Jewish community organ- izations for social service, cultural and educational pro- grams for the coming year. The grants were approved on Aug. 14 at a combined board meeting of Federation and its investment arm, the United Jewish Foundation. The Fisher Foundation was established in 1964 to fund the startup period of innova- tive and creative projects that improve the quality of life for members of the community. While Federation's Annual Campaign meets essential, ongoing budgetary needs, the Fisher Foundation provides an additional resource and opportunity for small pilot projects. Fisher Foundation grants are approved twice a year at annual January and June meetings. Funding comes from the annual grant allocated to Federation from the United Jewish Foundation, which owns, manages and invests the assets, endowment funds and real estate of Detroit's Jewish community. Remarking on the grants this year, Mark Hauser, presi- dent of the United Jewish Foundation, reminded the board of the importance of developing new sources of funding. "Due to the down- turn in the economy, we can- not just assume that dollars will continue to be there. We can succeed, but it will take more effort to fund our future." The six programs to receive 2002 Fisher Foundation grants are: • Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills: $18,000 for the nursery/kindergarten Hebrew immersion program. In collaboration with Federation's Alliance for Jewish Education, this pro- ()Tam teaches conversational Hebrew to young children who are in a stage of devel- opment when they can easily learn to speak a second lan- guage. • Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit's Synagogue/Federation Relations Committee: award- ed $6,000 for the bar/bat mitzvah outreach program. With oversight by Federation's Community Outreach and Education Department and the Agency for Jewish Education, this program provides students celebrating their bar/bat mitzvah with a special tzedakah box. • Kollel Torah MiTzion- Detroit: awarded $24,000 for its innovative Israeli-based program that brings a group of Modern Orthodox couples from Israel to serve as teach- ers, mentors and role models in the community. In Israel, the program is well estab- lished, under the auspices of the Religious Zionist Forum, and affiliated with Yeshiva University and the Rabbinical Council of America. • Southfield-based Yeshiva Beth Yehuda: awarded $22,000 for the Maalot, a 3- year college program specifi- cally designed for Orthodox women who have completed a year of seminary study in Israel after high school. • Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit: $4,000 for the Michigan Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, an outreach program created in 1999 to address environmental concerns and build the connection between Judaism and the environment in the Detroit and Ann Arbor Jewish com- munities. This past year, s. /. a geest wishecfi k0/15, heat* t ea, ( Oaf. NORMAN & GLORINE KATANICK Pembroke Pines, FL CONNIE CURIO