4...1.1.12S.4.27.111111.011,64 Staff Notebook The printout details how to check labels to assure items are kosher for Passover and informa- tion on products that may be used without special "kosher for Passover" certification. For questions regarding products not on the list or for a copy of the Koshergram, contact the council at (248) 559-5005 or (248) 968-3057, or send an e - mail to: cordetroit@hotmail.com A list of many of the medications deemed kosher for Passover is available by calling the Kollel Bais Avrohom of Los Angeles at (323) 933-7193. The Jewish News will honor Michigans brightest Jewish high school seniors in our • • plement May 16. Deadlne i for nominations, nomnations s s April 25. Participants must have a 3.60 or higher grade point average (=weighted, on a 4.00 scale). If you feel you qualify but have not been contacted by your high school, download the information directly from our Cap & Gown icon on our Web site: detroitjevvishnevvs.com JTS Pesach Online HMC Tour On TV T 'nai Brith Presents — Holocaust Memorial Center Toti7; a locally produced hour-length video, will have its first airing on broadcast television at 9 p.m. Tuesday, April 22, on Channel 56, metro Detroit's public television station. Holocaust survivor and B'nai B'rith Einstein Lodge President David Kahan narrates the tour and provides a gripping firsthand account of the horrors he personally experienced at age 15 while at the infamous Auschwitz death camp. The B'nai B'rith Einstein Lodge, a group of Holocaust survivors and their children, is dedicated to keeping alive the memory of the Holocaust. The program was produced by Steve and Db.D. Fisher of A.A.A. Productions Inc. in Oak Park, under the guidance of B'nai B'rith Great Lakes Regional President John Rofel, and with the help and support of Marsha Rofel, regional community relations-program director. Plans are under way to bring B'nai B'rith Presents to broadcast television as a regular weekly series, shown on Sunday afternoons, probably in September 2003. The program series has been seen on local-access cable channels for the past year-and-a-half. — Keri Guten Cohen he Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York City has prepared online infor- mation on Passover observance and history, ranging from sending online holiday postcards from the JTS library's photo collection to book excerpts and children's projects. Also included are links to sites, including a con- versation on the holiday between JTS Chancellor Ismar Schorsch and National Public Radio personal- ity Larry Josephson and an essay titled "Pesach: A Liberating Experience for Women" by Dr. Judith Hauptman, professor of Talmud and rabbinics. Excerpts from The Road to Redemption: Lessons from Exodus on Leadership and Community, a book on the Israelite exodus from Egypt and the story of Passover by Dr. Burton Vistozky, are also offered. Links to a printable holiday color- ing book and the Passover Torah and Haftorah readings are included. To log on to the JTS Passover Web site, go to: http://learn.jtsa.edu/passover Schorsch — Shelli Liebman Dorfman B Military Care Packages oved by a Jewish News cover story on a cookie drive for soldiers at Temple Emanu- El in Oak Park ("On The Homefront," March 28), Melanie Gorman made a suggestion at work to create care packages that could be sold to send overseas, with a percentage of the proceeds going to the Family Readiness Group, a non-profit organization that supports the 127th Wing at Selfridge Air National Guard Base. The idea was approved wholeheartedly. So now The Great American Basket Co. at 29594 Orchard Lake Road in Farmington Hills has American-themed gift baskets available packed with an assortment of snack foods, toiletry items and boredom busters (crossword puzzles, mini footballs, playing cards, etc.) and a 60-minute AT&T calling card. Personal messages and photos can also be included. Boxes are available in two sizes, $45 for large and $30 for small. Prices include shipping to any APO or FPO address. For information, call (248) 626-9050. NI — Keri Guten Cohen Cooking Interrupted? Passover Koshergram Correction L T The photo on page 3 of the April 11, 2003, edition of the Jewish News is misidentified. The man in the photo is Bernie Jonas of West Bloomfield. ast Wednesday, Ed Kohl, a volunteer with the Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit, called the Council's offices in Bloomfield Township, somewhat distraught. He and his neighbors in the Greenpointe One neighborhood near 14 Mile and Halsted in West Bloomfield had received notice from DTE Energy (Detroit Edison) that residential power would be cut off for a time on Wednesday, April 16. That day being erev Passover, con- cerns were expressed that cooking for the seder and other preparations would be disrupted. A series of phone calls then fol- lowed between Council Executive Director David Gad-Harf and DTE CEO Tony Earley, whom Gad-Harf had come to know through mutual civic involvements. On Friday, Earley called Gad-Harf to inform him that the scheduled shutoff would be post- poned. he Council of Orthodox Rabbis of Greater Detroit has compiled a Passover Koshergram, that includes a list of food items permissible for use on Passover as well as information on the holiday. Mobile Mission Message D riving home the message for the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit's Michigan Miracle Mission 4 to Israel, John Marx of West Bloomfield has launched his own brand of transit adver- tising campaign. As associate chair of "MMM4," Marx can seen about town promoting the mission, which goes April 18-28, 2004. Co-sponsors of the mission include Federation, the Jewish News and the Michigan Board of Rabbis with the support of many congregation and community organiza- tions. Call Sally Krugel, mission director, at (248) 203- 1485 or visit vvvvvv.thisisfederation.org — Keri Guten Cohen — Allan Gale, JCCouricil 4/18 2003 11