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Thursday, December 25

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Participate in

Federation's Mitzvah Day

With pride and tears, supporters break ground on
the Naval Academy's first Jewish chapel.

with hundreds of other volunteers

We'll start with breakfast and briefing at the
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit.

Max M. Fisher Federation Building
6735 Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Hills (south of Maple).

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After briefing, we will carpool to the volunteer sites.

Reservations are filled first come, first served.
Phone reservations not accepted.
You will receive a confirmation and check-in time in
the mail.

Projects last between two and four hours.

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Reservation deadline - December 8

Following the deadline, responses will be waitlisted.

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or e-mail: waldshan@jfmd.org

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el Fisher began his
studies at the U.S.
Naval Academy in
Annapolis some 50
years ago on little more than a whim.
The Orthodox Jew from Cincinnati
arrived a bright-eyed young man,
ready to see the world — and
resigned a mere three days later,
unprepared for the demands of plebe
life.
It was the academy's Jewish chap-
lain, Rabbi Morris D. Rosenblatt,
who talked him into staying. And as
Fisher, a 1955 graduate of the acade-
my, spoke at the groundbreaking of
the school's first Jewish chapel Nov. 2,
he choked up at the decades-old
memory.
"Without [Rabbi Rosenblatt], I
would not be standing here to-day," a
teary-eyed Fisher told the nearly 500
attendees at the 45-minute ground-
breaking ceremony for the new Uriah
P. Levy Center & Jewish Chapel on
the Naval Academy campus.
When construction is completed in
2005, Navy will no longer be the only
American military academy without a
Jewish chapel.
Now an Ohio businessman, Fisher
and his colleagues with Friends of the
Jewish Chapel, the local non-profit
group that fought for the facility's
construction, are hoping more Jewish
midshipmen will be able to receive
the kind of inspiration he did, he told
the crowd. The group has raised more
than $13 million from more than

1,500 donors — many of whom are
not academy alumni — in its nine-
year fundraising drive.
Among those non-Navy contribu-
tors was Harold Berry of Bloomfield
Hills, who attended the groundbreak-
ing with his wife, Barbara, and two
grandchildren.
Berry first learned about
Commodore Uriah Phillips Levy on a
tour of Monticello, the Virginia home
of President Thomas Jefferson. The
first Jew to achieve a high ranking in
the U. S. Navy, Levy purchased the
home in 1834 and spent years reno-
vating it.
After reading the book Navy
Maverick: Uriah Phillips Levy by
Donovan Fitzpatrick and Saul
Saphire, Berry became something of a
Levy groupie.
"He lived a fascinating life," Berry
said. "He was in the Navy for 50
years, was court-marshaled six times
and spearheaded the effort that finally