AN EVENING OF SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL. COME TO THE ZOA DINNER. The ZOA Justice Louis D. Brandeis Award Dinner will be honoring exemplary leaders of the Jewish Community for outstanding pro-Israel Activism Ice Flashes Strong routines send local skaters to junior nationals. Jeffrey decided to try figure skating three years ago. "I thought it might be fun and I could go somewhere with it." Now he skates 10 hours and has 3 1/2 oshua Leggett and hours of off-ice training weekly, and he Laura Perry are helps at learn-to-skate classes at Arctic headed to the 2007 Edge in Canton. He's a member of Arctic U.S. Junior Figure Skating Figure Skating Club. Championships Nov. 28 Joshua, Laura and Jeffrey are through Dec. 2 in Strongsville, looking for sponsors to help defray Ohio. That's no surprise. expenses. Their families are Jeffrey Fishman also will com- spending more than $20,000 pete in the junior nationals. annually for ice time, coach- That's a big surprise. ing, off-ice classes, equip- This is the second con- ment and travel. For infor- secutive trip to the mation, go to www.josh- junior nationals uaandlaura.com or www. for juvenile ice freeweb.com/jifish- dancers Joshua man. Tax-deductible and Laura, both donations in their age 10. They fin- names can be ished 14th of 36 duos sent to the New Leggett, Perry last year in. Westminster, England Amateur Colo. "Their goal once Skating Foundation, again is simply to do well',' P.O. Box 6881, Providence, R.I., 02940. said Cheryl Leggett, Josh's mother. "It'll help that they know more about what's Heisman Nominee expected of them from being there last Last spring, Stephanie Crawford led year:' the Novi High School girls soccer team Joshua is a home-schooled sixth- to its second consecutive Division 1 grader from West Bloomfield. Laura, state championship. The high-scor- who lives in Bloomfield Hills, is a fifth- grade student at Way Elementary School. ing forward also earned a berth on the Michigan High School Soccer Coaches They've been skating together since Association's 2003 out of the Detroit Skating Club in Dream Team. Bloomfield Hills and have done well at Now Crawford many competitions. is in the running Their most recent accomplishment for a national was winning the juvenile dance title honor. The at the Eastern Great Lakes Regional senior has been Championships at the Ann Arbor Ice nominated for Cube, providing a junior nationals berth. the Wendy's High During the summer, Josh and Laura Crawford School Heisman finished first in juvenile compulsory Award, which is dance at the Lake Placid (N.Y.) Ice presented to a boy and girl in conjunc- Dance Championships and they won tion with the Heisman Trophy that goes two gold medals at Skate Detroit. to the top college football player. Jeffrey punched a ticket to his first Crawford has a 3.79 grade point aver- junior nationals age while playing soccer and basketball by placing third at Novi. She's in her second season as in juvenile boys the starting point guard for the Wildcats, at the regional who were 12-2 through their first 14 championships. games this fall. Crawford also plays club It was only the soccer for the Michigan Hawks. second time he "I use all my free time to do my competed in the homework ; ) she said. juvenile boys Fishman The University of Michigan is the division. next stop in Crawford's soccer career. An 11-year- She made a verbal commitment to U-M old sixth-grader at Sarah Banks Middle when she was a sophomore. School in the Walled Lake Consolidated School District, Jeffrey lives in Wixom Please sen•sports news to with his parents , Boris and Irina, and sports@thejewishnews.com . brother, Steven. Steve Stein Special to The Jewish News Keynote Speaker and recipient of the Defender of Israel Award Dinner Co-Chairmen Justice Louis D. Brandeis Award MORTIMER B. ZUCKERMAN RONALD S. LAUDER Chairman, Boston Properties & Editor-in-Chief, US News and World Report, Former Chairman, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations JAMES S. TISCH R. JAMES WOOLSEY, JR. Former Chairmen, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations Former Director of the CIA, Served five U.S. Presidents j O Distinguished Leadership Award Ben Hecht Award for Outstanding Journalism on the Mideast KENNETH S. ABRAMOWITZ Managing General Partner & Co-Founder, NGN Capital ITAMAR MARCUS Director, Palestinian Media Watch Sunday, November 19, 2006 Marriott Marquis Hotel, 1535 Broadway (at 46th Street) Reception 5:30 p.m. Dinner 6:30 p.m. For more information, call Felice Capustin at MORTON A. KLEIN National President, Zionist Organization of America Dr. Michael Goldblatt, Chairman of the Board Dr. Alan A. Mazurek, Chairman, National Executive Committee Henry Schwartz, National Treasurer ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA 4 East 34th Street, New York, NY 10016 Tel. (212) 481 1500 Fax (212) 481 1515 Email: email@zoa.org www.zoa.org 1176810 - - DAV I D State Representative "Representative Law has been a strong voice for us in Lansing; he is a true friend of our communities and of individuals with special needs:' -Rabbi Levi Shemtov DAVID LAW AT WORK FOR OUR COMMUNITY • Increased funding for the Jewish Federation to ensure organizations such as the Friendship Circle, which helps special needs children, can continue their important work for our community. • Secured the first-ever state funding for the Holocaust Memorial Center, ensuring that all remember the tragedies and victims of the Holocaust. By illuminating the past we are enlightening the future. • Rep. Law worked with the Michigan Jewish Conference and Holocaust Memorial Center to honorarily rename Northwestern Highway the Holocaust Memorial Highway. For more information, please contact me at: (248) 520-5071 or e-mail DavidLaw06@gmail.com Paii/for br Committee to Re-Elect David Law State Rep. • 8627 Cooley Lake. Rd. •i,308 • Comm:rte. Twp., 48382 October 26 • 2006 47