Front Lines NOTEBOOK Alenlin Life After Breast Cancer Coinciding with National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, St. Joseph Mercy Oakland Hospital (STMO) will host a "Candid Conversation About the Journey: Life After Breast Cancer" at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17, at the Royal Park Hotel in Rochester. Cancer survivor Jill Eikenberry and husband Michael Tucker, from NBC's long- running series L.A. Law, serve as the event's keynote speakers and will address the topic of coping with the emotional aspects of breast cancer from diagnosis to recovery. Jill Eikenberry and In the early 1980s, Eikenberry was diag- Michael Tucker nosed with breast cancer and eventually beat the disease with treatment. As a breast cancer survivor, she has been a vocal breast cancer activist. Eikenberry was installed in the Cancer Survivors Hall of Fame in October 2000 as a result of her work with breast cancer awareness. Today, she works closely with the Susan G. Konen Breast Cancer Foundation and speaks around the country. The event is open to the public and registration is required. Registration is $25 and due this week. For more information or to register, call (800) 372- 6094. - Keri Guten Cohen, story development editor Conservation Tips What you can do to stop global warming: 1.Consider replacing single-pane windows with double pane. Double-glazing generally cuts heat loss by 50 percent. Triple glazing saves even more. 2. Keep storm windows and doors in place during the sum- mer if you use air conditioning. Just as they prevent heat loss, they also prevent heat gain. 3. Replace leaky windows. 4. Consider sealing off north-facing windows entirely in cold weather months. 5. Weather-strip windows and doors conscientiously. Use caulk to seal cracks and holes. 6. Have an energy audit done for your home and/or business. Jewish Thought on the Environment Tikkun olam: The perfection/fixing of the world is in our hands. There is a midrash (rabbinic biblical commentary) that Jewish environmentalists are fond of quoting: "When God created the first human beings, God led them around the Garden of Eden and said: "Look at My works! See how beautiful they are – how excellent! For your sake I cre- ated them all. See to it that you do not spoil and destroy My world; for if you do, there will be no one else to repair it." (Midrash Kohelet Rabbah, 1 on Ecclesiastes 7:13) Please contact Michigan Coalition on Environment & Jewish Life for global warming presentations: (248) 642-5393, ext. 7, or mi-coejl©jfmd.org . Israel Advocacy Neal Lazarus will speak to high school juniors and seniors about "Rules of Effective Israel Advocacy" from 4-5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 25, at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield. Lazarus is an expert in the field of the Middle East, Israel advo- cacy and effective communication training. He has helped train Israeli diplomats and Jewish community and student leadership. He acted as the Israel advocacy policy adviser for Israel's leading reality television program, The' Ambassador. Lazarus has been pioneering the use of the Internet as an educa- tional tool. He developed, in conjunction with the Jewish Agency for Israel and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, online advocacy training seminars for Jewish communities worldwide. More than 2,500 stu- dents participated in the course. His seminars are described as fun, informative and entertaining. The event is sponsored by the Jewish Council for Public Affairs of Metropolitan Detroit, the Frankel Jewish Academy, Yeshivat Akiva and BBYO. Admission is free. For information, call (248) 642-5393. Fieger Decries Erosion Of Rights The First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution have been blatantly disregarded by corporate America and by the administration of President George W. Bush, Southfield attorney Geoffrey Fieger told more than 300 people at the Birmingham Temple in Farmington Hills on Sept. 24. Fieger's talk was the opening event of the 2007-08 Birmingham Temple Forum series. "The only freedom of speech that has any effect on the American people is owned by the corpora- tions," he said. He claimed that six corporations own all the television stations and 80 percent of the radio news organizations. "We've got John Geoffrey Feiger is flanked by Peter Stewart, Bill Maher, Molnar, temple president, and Paul [Keith] Olbermann. They Kadish, Temple Forum organizer, say insightful things both of Farmington Hills. about things that are going on in the country, but — and I'm not denigrating them — they are comedians," Fieger said. "In another era, they would have been court jesters." Fieger said the so-called Patriot Act has trampled both the Fourth Amendment, against unreasonable searches and seizures, and the Fifth Amendment guarantee of due process of the law. Quoting Benjamin Franklin, Fieger said, "Those who would trade security for freedom deserve neither?' Fieger, whose father was Jewish and mother of Norwegian heri- tage, also spoke of his recent indictment on charges of conspiring to make more than $125,000 in illegal contributions to the 2004 presidential campaign of Democrat John Edwards. He referred to a recent article in Harpers magazine that alleged his indictment was part of a "scheme hatched soon after Bush took office" to "fly-speck" the financial records of those identified as likely major contribu- tors to the campaigns of Edwards and Hillary Clinton, pinpointing inconsistencies that would have otherwise been considered minor paperwork errors. 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