ANC Something Extra NOTEBOOK JCC Construction 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JCC — Harry Kirsbaum, staff writer When Joey Met CarL — Robert A. Sklar, editor Memories of summer trips may have been replaced by homework, but Joey Jubas of Southfield will long recall his visit to Washington, D.C. He and his younger brother Jason went with their parents, Judy and Mark,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. . — 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 I ALeFnetcha Don't Know The faith community of Islam will observe Ramadan, the month of daytime fasting, almost simultaneously this year with the High Holiday season, both in October. 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