Metro The Jerry Ross Band •Rumplestiltskin •L'USA • Nightline •Persuasion •Cassens Murphy Band •Simone Vitale Band •Intrigue •Sun Messengers •Radio City Visit our web site www. lorioross.com Newsmaker Joyride Hot Ice LOAM BOSS STIALING INTIATAIMITENT Call for free video consultation Since 1972 248-398-9 71 1 15781,30 Temple Israel's Robert Sosnick Family Life Center, in Conjunction with The Caring Community, Presents an Afternoon of Music With the Ban Joes of Michigan at the Senior Adult Program Thursday, July 19, 2007 1:30 PM Open to the public Free of charge Bring your friends for all the fun! Partially funded by the David Arthur Stulberg Memorial Fund, the Harry and Phyllis Kellman Memorial Fund and the Bertha & Harry Kifferstein Memorial Fund. Co-sponsored by the Temple Israel Treasures. For additional information, please contact Kari K. Provizer, ACSW, in the Robert Sosnick Family Life Center at Temple Israel at 248-661-5700. Temple Israel 5725 Walnut Lake Road • West Bloomfield, MI 48323 1211510 14 July 12 • 2007 IN Aiding Women, Girls Foundation awards $174,304 in grants. T he Jewish Women's Foundation of Metropolitan Detroit (JWF), a grant-mak- ing and educational foundation estab- lished to enhance the lives of Jewish women and girls through philanthro- py, has awarded $174,304 in grants. JWF has awarded nearly $600,000 since its inception seven years ago. "Our funding will provide seed money for projects addressing a diversity of issues, touching the lives of women and girls from all ages and walks of life," said chair Sharon Hart. JWF's 2007 grants are as follows: • $10,000 to Central Station Detroit for "Getting to Know Yourself:' an after-school, evening and week- end healthy lifestyles program for Orthodox high school girls in the Oak Park area at the drop-in center, where volunteer mentors, professionals, trainers and experts on nutrition work with girls to promote healthy choices and to prevent at-risk behaviors. • $12,500 (renewal grant) to Friendship Circle's Friendship House "Welcome Back" program, to provide incarcerated Jewish women with advo- cacy, friendship, support, guidance and support for reintegration into the community, helping them find hous- ing, jobs, treatment and friendship. • $20,000 to Hebrew Free Loan Association for "Building My Tomorrow," loan capital for interest- free loans to women in crisis, helping them to begin new lives after domestic abuse and subsequent divorce. Loans will help women re-enter the job mar- ket and support their children. • $10,000 to Hillel Eastern Michigan University for "Under One Roof: Muslim and Jewish Women Coming Together," a program to promote understanding and friendship. • $8,680 to Jewish Apartments & Services for "Women Create:' an arts enrichment program that will offer art, storytelling and culinary art. • $10,000 to the Jewish Community Center for "Club Kavod," a health and fitness program for Orthodox girls in the sixth through 12th grades. • $20,000 to Jewish Ensemble Theatre for A Women's Minyan: A Play, about universal issues of domestic abuse and violence facing the Jewish community, but set in an Israeli reli- gious community. The play will be performed during JET's 2008 season. • $15,000 to Jewish Family Service for "Caregiver Connections:' an out- reach program offering information, and services to women who are care- givers of aging and ill relatives. • $15,000 to Jewish Family Service for "Mentors for Girls:' to match more Jewish girls with volunteer mentors as part of JFS's "Mentor Connections" and to market the program. • $11,124 (renewal grant) to JVS for "Senior Service Corps:' to continue a program that provides opportuni- ties for senior Jewish women to come together at JVS to do projects that support area nonprofit organizations. The Senior Service Corps offers often- isolated senior women an opportunity to engage in fulfilling service projects, to socialize with peers and to receive necessary social services. • $15,000 (continuation grant) to Jewish Women International for "Building a Coordinated Response to Domestic Abuse in the Detroit Jewish Community," to present the results of the JWF funded Domestic Abuse Needs Assessment Survey to rabbis, educators, social service profession- als and community leaders, including the trustees of the Jewish Women's Foundation; and to begin the task of building a community coalition to respond to domestic abuse. • $20,000 to Yad Ezra, the Jewish community food bank, for "A Two Pronged Approach: Healthy Minds and Bodies," a pilot project. The program will provide nutrition education and counseling for students, parents and staff at Beth Jacob School for Girls throughout the 2007-2008 school year; and a revamped, nutritionally sound school lunch program that will offer fresh fruits and vegetables in lieu of starch and fatty foods. A portion of the grant will provide lunch ticket subsi- dies for students whose families fall below Yad Ezra's poverty guidelines to ensure their participation. • $7,000 (end of three-year grant totaling $30,000) to PACT-Netanya in Israel, for its "Well Baby Clinics for Ethiopian-Israeli Mothers and Children." The grant supports the training and salaries of Ethiopian- Israeli home health liaisons who work with pregnant women and new moth- ers in the Ethiopian community. I I