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Funding Comes Up Short
Tree Thieves Sentenced
disciplinary action from the university.
The five 18- and 19-year-olds
climbed a fence separating Machpelah
from a small park on St. Louis
Avenue, west of Woodward. When
caught, they claimed they did not
know they were in a cemetery, even
though gravestones were just a few feet
from the trees.
The students had been charged with
trespassing, malicious destruction of
property and larceny.
Five University of Detroit Mercy stu-
dents were each sentenced on Jan. 18
in Ferndale District Court to one year
of probation, community service and
$240 in damages.
The five were caught at 9 p.m. Dec.
6, the night before Chanukah, sawing
down three small evergreen trees in
Machpelah Cemetery to be used as
Christmas trees in their dorm rooms.
Ferndale City Attorney Dan Christ
recommended that the students write
a letter of apology to the cemetery
board. The students also are facing
— Alan Hitsky, associate editor
Oakland County organizations,
including synagogues and other Jewish
organizations and institutions, aren't
included in a Department of
Homeland Security (DHS) budget
recently signed by the president. The
budget includes funding for high-risk:
nonprofits, including Jewish sites as
well as secular hospitals and museums.
"The money can be used for yhysi--:
cal improvements to present a terrorist
act, most specifically, a bombing", said;
Eric Adelman, government relations -
director of the Jewish Community
Council of Metropolitan Detroit.
Of this fiinding, about $500,000
was designated for Detroit. But the
DHS defined the "Detroit Urban
Area" as the city of Detroit and Wayne
County only
"While there is not much that we
can do for this year's funding," Adel-
man said, "we will work with legisla-
tors and other key officials to try to
secure more funding and expand the
definition of the working area in the
fiscal year 2005 budget."
— Robert A. Sklar, editor
A Friday With Mitch
Always the musician, Avy Schreiber of
Southfield doesn't miss the chance to
perform as often, and in as many ven-
ues, as he can arrange.
A freelance musician, who is a
singer, songwriter and pianist,
Schreiber also is the only Detroit-
based member of the a cappella vocal
ensemble group Kol Zimra.
So when the group was hired to play
at a private function in the Detroit
area at the end of January, Schreiber
made sure they will spend as much
time as possible singing.
"I called someone at [WJR 760
radio's] The Mitch Albom Show, where
they air live music during
the breaks," Schreiber
said. "I told them six
members of Kol Zimra
were going to be in town
— and I probably men-
Avy Schreiber,
tioned that we just
IOW far
frOlit
played for the president
right,
and the
at the White House. And
Kol
Zinua
they invited us to come
choir
to the studio on Friday,
Jan. 28, and play during
all the commercial
breaks."
play six or seven times before leaving
With the show beginning at 3 p.m.,
to get ready for Shabbat."
Schreiber said, "We hope to be able
The group performs both English
and Hebrew music. "But on the show,
we'll be doing only English songs,"
Schreiber said. "Oldies, Motown,
R&B, rock and some current music.
We gear our performances toward the
audience, so we'll be showing the pop
side of who we are as opposed to the
Hebrew-music side."
To contact Avy Schreiber, call (248)
443-8793 or e-mail:
avy@avyschreiber.corn
— Shelli Liebman Dorfman,
staff writer
Inaugural Honor
Rabbi Morton F.
Yolkut, who led
Congregation
B'nai David near-
ly 18 years up
until 1994, was
Rabbi Yolkut
the only rabbi to play an invited role
in last week's presidential inaugural
festivities.
Rabbi Yolkut read from the Book of
Isaiah, Chapter 40, at the interfaith
National Prayer Service at the
Washington National Cathedral dur-
ing the concluding inaugural event at
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10 a.m. Friday, Jan. 21. Other clergy
included the Rev. Bill Graham and the
cardinal of Washington.
"I don't know why I was chosen," he
said from his home in Philadelphia. "I
was part of a gathering of rabbis who
met for an hour informally with the
president back in September of 2003.
2005
The team which won the 2004 Grey Cup, the
national championship of Canadian professional
football, has on its roster the only Jewish player in
that league. Which player and which team?
— Goldfein
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I guess I behaved myself, so I was
invited back."
Rabbi Yolkut has been spiritual
leader of Congregation Shaare
Shamayim-Beth Judah in Philadelphia
since 1995.
— Keri Guten Cohen,
story development editor
Do You Remember?
January 1965
"While the entire world focuses on the enormity
of the tragedy, it is important for each of us to
remember that every one of the victims was a
human being with a family, job, home, favorite
food, religious belief and so much more. In fact,
each one of the people who have died in the
tsunami represents a world of connections."
— Rabbi Joshua Bennett of Temple Israel
in West Bloomfield
The London County Council affixed a tablet to
the door of a house in Bethnal Green in London's
east end, where Israel Zangwill lived and worked
between 1883 and 1888. It reads: "Here lived
Israel Zangwill, 1864-1926, Writer and
Philanthropist."
The tablet was arranged at the request of the
Zangwill Centenary Committee on the occasion
of Zangwill's 100th birthday.
— Sy Manello, editorial assistant
1/27
2005
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