All Heart

Attorney Wins Fulbright Grant

Erica Guyer, daughter of Cheryl and
Dan Guyer of Huntington Woods, has
earned a grant to research Canadian
aboriginal rights law as a Fulbright
scholar at McGill University and the
Canadian Department of Justice.
Guyer, living in Montreal, is one of
2,000 U.S. grantees traveling abroad
for the 2004-2005 academic year
through the Fulbright Program, an
international educational exchange
program. The program is sponsored by
the U.S. State Department.
In Montreal, Guyer is also volun-
teering with Rights and Democracy,
an international human rights group.
She's doing legal research on issues
relating to indigenous peoples
throughout the world.
In 2002, Guyer was a legal intern
at the Amerindian Legal Services

Center in Georgetown, Guyana,
researching international law in abo-
riginal title cases.
This fall, she'll begin work as an asso-
ciate at the New York law firm of Fried,
Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson,
practicing litigation and corporate law.
Guyer earned a degree from the
University of Chicago Law School in
2004. She has a master's degree in
anthropology from Arizona State
University and a bachelor's degree
from Brown University in Providence,
R.I. She's a graduate of Berkley High
School and Hillel Day School of
Metropolitan Detroit.
While in law school, she interned at
the ACLU national office in New York.
She researched racial profiling after 9-
11 and did clinical legal work on police
violence on Chicago's south side.

Cheryl Guyer with villagers from
Kamarang, Guyana.

"The law firm training, combined
with my other experiences, will put
me in a strong position to practice
human rights, environmental and
international law in the public and
private sectors," Guyer said.

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Robert A. Sklar, editor

Bound And Determined

One of Detroit Jewry's top bridge
builders for religious harmony is leav-
ing for the Middle East to try to help
lay groundwork for a lasting peace
between Israelis and Palestinians.
"We can watch as our world
explodes or we can take charge," says
Arnold Michlin of Waterford, a
Congregation Shaarey Zedek member.
"We can sit down with each other and
talk to each other without letting any-
one let us be pushed headlong into
the abyss."
Michlin, 84, is slowed by a stroke
suffered in 1999. The retired business-
man no longer can walk without assis-
tance. But his mind and spirit are
sharp.
He'll travel with his daughter and
son-in-law, Leslye and Phil Borden of
Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif, to Tel
Aviv to take part in the Meretz USA

Israel Symposium Feb.
20-27. The group will
explore the prospects
for peace, post-Arafat.
They'll meet Palestinian
and Israeli leaders,
Israeli military officers,
Michlin
peace activists, journal-
ists and U.S. represen-
tatives.
Meretz USA is an independent
Zionist organization that advances
peace, pluralism, civil rights and
democracy in Israel. It's linked with
Yahad, the Social Democratic Israel
party.
Michlin is guardedly optimistic.
"I've been there before, many times,"
he said. "So this time I'm afraid. I just
hope God gives me the opportunity
to see the results of my constant
pushing for peace. I'm trying any-

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— Robert A. Sklar, editor

Yiddish Limericks

Don't Know©,..,

— Keri Guten Cohen,
story development editor

Leah Zekelman, Amanda Danowski
and Xander Raff with some of the
valentines they have collected for
Elizabeth Milsap, a leukemia patient.

Do You Remember?

February 1975

While all Jewish eyes were turned to Gal
Friedman as he won Israel's first Olympic gold
medal last summer, another competitor became
the first Jew in his native country to win a medal.
Who is he?

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way."
Michlin co-founded the Detroit-
based American Arab and Jewish
Friends in 1981. The volunteer group
has worked hard to spark friendships
based on trust without the burdens of
history, politics or conflict. It also rais-
es money for student scholarships. It
stays away from publicly discussing
the white-hot Middle East.
In a position paper on religious and
ethnic conflict, Michlin wrote:
"Our leaders must abandon the
claim that only their way is the right
way, as if there is only one way to
worship the one God who created us
all, the one God who has given us life
and taught us all to be good to our
neighbor. We are to have compassion
for all our brothers and sisters."

Young volunteers made Valentine's
Day bright for Elizabeth Milsap, an 8-
year-old third grader with leukemia at
Belle River Elementary School in
Marine City, Mich.
Because of the efforts of Amanda
Danowski, 10, of Kensington
Community Church in Troy; Alex
Raff, 13, of Temple Beth El and Leah
Zekelman, 10, of Congregatiion
Shaarey Zedek, Elizabeth received
more than 500 valentines.
Assisted by Elizabeth's two school
friends, Erin Smith and Isabella
Casadei, the group's "Hearts for
Elizabeth" project has garnered valen-
tines and get well wishes from as far
away as Antarctica, Australia and the
Philippines. The goal is to let
Elizabeth, who is undergoing treat-
ment, know that she is not alone and
that people all over the world are
thinking of her.
Get well wishes can be sent for the
next six months to Hearts for Eliza-
beth, P.O. Box 443, Bloomfield Hills,
MI 48303-0443.

Though Oil for Food's what they call it,
The U.N.'s been lining its wallet.
It ought to reform
Its ganaivisheh* norm
So shandas**like this don't befall it.

— Martha Jo Fleischmann

Goldfein

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su Tepain 1QA1TS E UOM UOSQ121.1id ITIAED :nAttSTIV

* thieving, crooked
** disgraces

Gideon Rafael, Israeli ambassador to Britain, has
been appointed first Israeli ambassador to the
Irish Republic.
He will combine the two assignments, residing
in London and visiting Dublin periodically.
The Irish have not yet named their ambassador
to Israel.

— Sy Manello, editorial assistant

JN

2/17
2005

