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Joining The Fight

The orange cones and yellow tape blocking the main entrance to the Jewish Community Center in West
Bloomfield will disappear Nov. 1.
The Arlene R. Victor Memorial Garden, named for the Bloomfield Hills philanthropist and social activist
who died July 26, 2002, won't be dedicated until next May, but will contain boxwoods and nearly wild roses
through the winter.
The garden is located to the right of
the traffic circle, named the Steven I.
Victor Family Plaza.
"It's the last refreshening of the
Center, a wonderful garden, a place
where people can meet:' said Mark Lit,
JCC executive director.
The Center also is adding some
handrails to the brick wall to help sen-
iors and disabled people ease the walk
from the parking lot, he said.

To help fight breast cancer, the Ira Kaufman Chapel will only use
the "Fund the Cure-Find the Cure" breast cancer awareness stamps on
all its regular outgoing mail. These
stamps cost 45 cents each instead of the
usual 37 cents. The difference goes
toward breast cancer research. By law 70
percent of the net amount raised is
given by the U.S. Postal Service to the
National Institutes of Health and 30 per-
cent to the Medical Research Program at
the Department of Defense.
The American Cancer Society esti-
mates that 212,000 new cases of invasive
breast cancer will be diagnosed in 2005,
along with 58,000 new cases of non-
Herbert Kaufman
invasive breast cancer. And 40,000
women are expected to die from the disease. Breast cancer incidence
in women has increased from one in 20 in 1960 to one in seven today.
"All over this community," said funeral director Herbert Kaufman,
"breast cancer has affected someone we know — or will soon. Its
effects are devastating. Research into a cure has to be a priority for all
of us:"

Rendering courtesy JCC

— Harry Kirsbaum,
staff writer

When Joey Met CarL

— Robert A. Sklar, editor

Memories of summer trips may have been replaced by
homework, but Joey Jubas of Southfield will long recall his
visit to Washington, D.C. He and his younger brother Jason
went with their parents, Judy and Mark, in June to visit
their grandparents, but they also got to spend a little time
with Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., in his Capitol office.
The senator carefully perused Joey's fourth-grade report
on Michigan, where he learned the state has a little more
than 9.9 million people. He admitted he had underestimat-
ed Michigan's population in a meeting earlier that day.
Sen. Levin autographed the front of Joey's report and
took official photos with the family, which he signed later.
"This was such an exciting experience for me:' Joey said.
"I was proud of my hard work and the senator was
impressed specifically with what the students of Akiva
Hebrew Day School — and the students in Michigan —
are learning:"

AEPi Honors Hero

Michigan State University Hillel and Alpha
Epsilon Pi Fraternity will host the annual
Homecoming Shabbat Dinner at 7:15 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 21, at the Lester J. Morris Jewish
Student Center in East Lansing.
The event will honor Michael Henry
Schwerner (1939-1964), one of three civil rights
workers murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in
Mississippi _in June 1964.
Michael
Schwerner attended MSU in 1957-58, and was
Schwerner
initiated into the MSU (Chi) Chapter of Alpha
Epsilon Pi in June1958. He then transferred and
graduated from Cornell University
Alpha Epsilon Pi, memorializing Schwerner's connection to MSU,
will present a plaque to Hillel.
The dinner is free to MSU students; $10 for non-students. RSVP to
ad@msuhillel.org or (517) 332.1916.
Some 350 MSU students, faculty, alumni and parents are expected
at the event as well as AEPi International, MSU and Cornell represen-
tatives.

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— Keri Guten Cohen, story development editor

Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., in his Capitol office
where he looks over Joey Jubas' fourth-
grade report about Michigan.

— Alan Hitsky, associate editor

Israer. FeLLowships

High School seniors interested in being chosen as one of 26 students to take part in the Bronfman Youth
Fellowship, five weeks of intensive study in Israel, can apply at wwwbronfman.org .
"Our hope is to open lines of communication among a group of outstanding young people on the major
issues confronting the Jewish people in all its diversity," said Edgar M. Bronfman, president of the Samuel
Bronfman Foundation, which founded the group 20 years ago. "In that process, they will discover that there
is a common Jewish agenda that transcends the differences among them:'
The fellows participate in seminars and dialogues with diverse rabbinic faculty, and spend a week with a
group of Israeli peers who have been chosen through a parallel selection process as part of the Israeli
Youth Fellowship.
The Fellows represent diverse Jewish backgrounds and, of the 495 Fellowship alumni, many have includ-
ed former Rhodes, Fulbright and Marshall scholars, authors, journalists and news producers.
High school students in the United States and Canada who will be in the 12th Grade in the fall of 2006
may apply online starting Oct. 15.

— Harry Kirsbaum, staff writer

October 20 2005

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