Metro

Berkley High student Brittany

Danzig, 17, of Huntington

Woods, who will be going on

the Family Mission to Israel in

December, talks with Tziona

Shriki, 38, of Nazareth Illit in

Israel's Central Galilee. "Tziona

was telling me about her

daughter who is 15 and that

maybe we could get together in

Israel and become friends,"

says Brittany.

Altruistic Israelis
tour Detroit to
catch our
volunteer spirit.

It's a good basis for real rela-

tionships," a Central Galilee

activist said. "Not a connec-

tion based on money, but a

connection that will build and

grow a project that can be

common to the two areas."

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David Sachs

Senior Copy Editor

hey're up-and-coming,
professional and idealistic.
Mostly in their 30s and
many with young families, they
volunteer to help others in their
hometowns in Israel — sharing
a vision to repair the world, the
commitment to make a differ-
ence and the real-world skills to
get things done.
Sixteen of Israel's "best and
brightest" came to town for five
days last week. The intent of
their visit was to connect with
nine like-minded Detroit Jewish
leaders, also in their 30s, and to
take back ideas to put into action
at home.
The altruistically focused
Israelis included business peo-
ple, educators, high-tech entre-

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preneurs, social workers and
lawyers, all from Israel's Central
Galilee, the Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit's
Partnership 2000 sister region.
The area includes the kibbutzim
and small towns in the Jezreel
Valley and the cities of Nazareth
Illit and Migdal HaEmek.
The Partnership 2000 pro-
gram that has brought together
the 16 Israeli and nine Detroiters
is called Shutafim L'Atid, or
"Future Partners!" The local par-
ticipants are Susan Krakoff of
Southfield; Lorne Gold of
Huntington Woods; Carey
Sherman of Ann Arbor; Craig
Erlich and Elyse Kolender of
Bloomfield Hills; and Darren
Colton, Seth Gould, Dona
Stillman and Lorne Zalesin of
Birmingham. Zalesin serves as
Detroit chair of Gesher L'Kesher

September 29 2005