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Dag On die Town

Tile dam Birmingham
goes on SALE I

Saturday, July 14 • 10 a.m. -10 p.m.

Bargain hunters know that shopping is not a spectator sport
in Birmingham! The streets will be closed to make room
for clearance merchandise from your favorite stores!
Many restaurants will offer deliciously discounted dishes as well!

Barbara Spectre, founding director of Paideia; Julia Koschitzky, head
of the Pincus Fund; Zev Bielsky, head of the Jewish Agency; Clive
Lawton, founder of Limmud; Miriam Barkai, director of the Pincus
Fund; and Jane Sherman of Franklin, daughter of Max Fisher

Bargains at your favorite stores! • Bike parade at 9:30 a.m.
Wigs 4 Kids hair donations from 10:30 -12:30
Free parking all day • Live entertainment • Kid Zone

In Max's Honor

Free parking all day

Max Fisher education award lauds
rekindler of Europe's Jewish heritage.

www.enjoybirmingham.com 248-433-35 50

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ADAT SHALOM SYNAGOGUE
is proud to support

BOOKSTOCK

– used book and media sale –

A

wide variety of books on sale
including an extensive

JUDAIC COLLECTION DONATED BY ADAT SHALOM

histo ry "ction - biography

children's books

This sulanter's Booltstock sale
is part of the

131/00NIVIELD PLAZA,
SIDEWALK. SALE
SOLI/ 12-'15

Tb.ursday - S aturday 10 asp.. to S
to 5
p in.
Sunday Noon.
Roads

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of
Please note that the Friday night
and Saturday daytime portion.
Bookstock sale is sponsored
lag the Oakland Literacy Council
the

Proceeds
from
the sale
benefit
literacy
and
education
projects
throughout
the
community.

For information or to volunteer,
call 248-645-7840 ext. 365 or go to www.bookstock.info

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T

he founding director of
Paideia, the European
Institute of Jewish Studies
in Sweden, received the 2007 Max M.
Fisher Prize for Jewish Education in
the Diaspora. Barbara Spectre was
honored on June 26 in Jerusalem dur-
ing the Assembly of the Jewish Agency
for Israel.
Paideia was created to provide sub-
stantive education of Jewish texts and
Jewish theology to the young people of
Europe seeking to understand, learn
and participate in their heritage.
Spectre works at Paideia's One-Year
Jewish Studies Program to help build
a cadre of educated, self-confident and
proud leaders of Jewish culture for
societies across Europe and around
the world. Her publications include
A Theology of Doubt (Hebrew) and,
together with Noam Zion of the
Hartman Institute, the two-volume A
Different Light: The Hannukah Book of
Celebration.
Established by the Pincus Fund,
the Max M. Fisher Prize for Jewish
Education in the Diaspora was first
given in 1999 to Max M. Fisher of
Franklin on his 90th birthday in
recognition of his leading role in pro-
moting the advancement of Jewish
education. He established the new
Jewish Agency for Israel, interceded
on behalf of Soviet Jewish emigration
and was directly involved in drum-
ming up support for Israel during the
1967 and 1973 wars. Fisher chaired

the Pincus Fund from 1977 until his
death in 2005.
"It is significant to note — and to
be noted — that the work we do at
Paideia is enriching Jewish education,"
Spectre said.
"With the recent re-surfacing of
anti-Semitic sentiment in Europe, it
is ever more urgent for the younger
generations to be grounded in — and
have an understanding of — their
heritage and culture." P1

Answering

Israel's Critics

The Charge
Citing ongoing human rights con-
cerns, the United Nations Human
Rights Council last month voted
in favor of making Israel's actions
a permanent item on the council's
agenda. Of the council's 47 mem-
ber states, the sole opponent of the
decision was Canada.

The Answer
The council's preoccupation with
Israel belittles the world's real
victims of human rights abuses in
such countries as Belarus, Sudan,
North Korea and Burma.

- Allan Gale,

Jewish Community Relations

Council of Metropolitan Detroit

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