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ends at 3:30 p.m., but my JAMD education will
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of Metropolitan Detroit

Jewish Academy of
Meiropolten Detroit

6600 West Maple Road
West Bloomfield, MI 48322
Phone: (248)592-5263
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Come June 6, I will leave the Jewish Academy as part of its third
graduating class. I came here without a clear picture of what I wanted
or where I was going. Now, I am part of a community that has helped
me discover interests and abilities I didn't even know I had.

I never really thought of myself as an artist, but when I met my
teacher, Patti Tapper, her passion for creativity helped me find my
own creativity and love for art. Now all over my room are works of art
that I have created in my spare time. The individual attention of my
teachers and the variety of academic and extracurricular opportunities
at JAMD have opened my eyes to different cultures, my ears to
different music, and my heart to new challenges.

a community that
shapes who you are and encourages who
you want to be.

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ailing for a dedicated effort
from its board members,
agency executives and commu-
nity volunteers to meet an aggressive
fund-raising goal of $5 million during
its 2005 Campaign Countdown, the
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit will conduct a weeklong
phone-a-thon to "Bring the Campaign
Home" April 10-15.
To achieve maximum results in
securing pledges and encourage new
gifts, Federation has announced for
the first time in many years that all
its "business as usual" will be
deferred for the week in order to
focus the community's attention on
the primacy of the Campaign in
meeting critical needs.
As Federation President Peter M.
Alter explained, "We are not proceed-
ing with 'business as usual' because
business as usual will not permit us to
get the job done. By securing gifts
now, we are able to secure our funding
for next year.
"Our challenge is to raise our level
of achievement now in order to plan
our allocations to our partner agencies
in an effective and sensitive manner.
We must hit our mark, and to do that
we look for support throughout the
community.
"In short," said Alter, "we're asking
people to help us pick up the pace,
pick up the phone when we call, and
to respond."
To date, Federation's Annual
Campaign stands at $25.5 million
with an additional $3.6 million raised
for the Samuel and Jean Frankel
Challenge Fund. The overall
Campaign goal is $35 million.
"While we can take great pride in
our achievement to date, to keep pace
with last year's Campaign we've set a
goal of $5 million by the end of
April," said Marta Rosenthal, who co-
chairs the Campaign with Michael
Horowitz. "We believe it's an aggres-
sive, but very feasible goal and critical-
ly important.
"Our Campaign is the essence of all
we do at Federation. We must focus
to close the Campaign as early as pos-
sible so our allocation process can
begin. For our agencies and the serv-