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Stem Cell. Research:

Surviving
The Storm

You be the Judge!

What is stem research? What does Judaism say about it?
Why has it become such a controversial topic? You be the judge.

Monday, September 26, 2005 •7:30 p.m.

New Orleans Chabad rabbi shares his story
of living through Hurricane Katrina.

Members: $5 • Non-Members: $8
Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit • D. Dan & Betty Kahn Building
Eugene & Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus • 6600 West Maple Road • West Bloomfield
Marion & David Handleman Hall & Auditorium

Speaker: Cathie Miller, Ph.D., Hermelin Brain Tumor Center, Henry Ford Health System
Primer on stem cells

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Speaker: Rabbi Yechiel Morris, Young Israel, Southfield
Stem cell research from a Jewish perspective

Moderator: Sharona Shapiro, American Jewish Committee
Stem cell research from a political point of view

Organizational Sponsors: American Jewish Committee, Greater Detroit Chapter of Hadassah,
Detroit, Jewish Community Council, National Council of Jewish Women Greater Detroit 'Section,
Medical Student Association at Wayne State University

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his journey to a recon-
structed life that began in
the winds and waters of New
Orleans, Rabbi Yossi Nemes will make
a stop in West Bloomfield.
During his Friday-Saturday, Sept.
23-24, visit to the Shul-Chabad
Lubavitch, he will meet with commu-
nity members and speak of his experi-
ence.
"We invited Rabbi Nemes here
because we feel the community is
looking for a way to feel a personal
connection to where their help is
going," said Itty Shemtov on the Shul.
"We thought this would be a good
way to hear firsthand what happened
and to be touched by hearing the
rabbi's perspectives and his efforts.
In an article published on the
chabad.org Web site, Rabbi Nemes,
Chabad-Lubavitch emissary of Metairie,
a suburb of New Orleans, recounted the
feelings and actions of living through
the life-threatening act of nature.
Right from the start of the pre-hur-
ricane warnings, the rabbi and his
wife, Chanie, received calls from
stranded vacationers and desperate
locals seeking advice about where and
how to go. The couple managed to

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locate rooms in French Quarter hotels
for some of them. In addition, they
counseled those determined not to
leave on how to fortify their homes
and prepare for the storm.
"A pair of female tourists were
kicked out of their hotel and, as the
hours advanced, ran out of options,"
he wrote. "They wanted advice.
Instinctively, I invited them over to
our home. Chanie invited over a cou-
ple more girls, too.
Some elderly people had no way of
leaving and needed to be walked
through a virtual checklist of items
that they should bring up to the high-
est floor. In the rare lull between calls
we packed what we could."
As the winds picked up and reports
of hours of highway backup came in,
he wrote, "We discovered that leaving
by car now bore a significant risk fac-
tor." Instead they decided it was safest
for the 13 guests and family members
to stay in the Nemes home.
"We filled the bathtubs with water.
We brought the Torahs (removed from
the nearby Chabad Center) upstairs,
along with our important documents.
"We prayed for the best but tried to
prepare for the worst. We spent our
time reading psalms, asking God to
spare us, the entire Jewish community
and all the people of New Orleans,

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the passing floats. In response, the
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Cantor Stephen and Christine Dubov
are former residents of New Orleans.
The cantor leads Congregation Chaye
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