Front Lines TEB00 1 - JNenlin JNF's Green Sunday Help raise funds for Israel, eat and have a chance to win prizes as a volunteer for the Jewish National Fund's Green Sunday phone-a-thon on Sunday, Dec. 2. It's also a chance to show the people of Israel that the Jewish community of Michigan stands with them. Volunteers can choose the time and place most convenient for them. Shifts are from 9:20 a.m.-noon or 2-4 p.m. Dec. 2 at either the Weight Watchers Building, 28555 Orchard Lake, Farmington Hills or the Quaker Office Building, 27600 Farmington (southeast corner of Farmington and 12 Mile), Farmington Hills. Please be prompt for a brief training. Volunteers at the Quaker location need to bring per- sonal cell phones. Volunteers can register by Nov. 30 by e-mail at tgutkovitch@jnf.org or by calling (248) 324-3080. Include your name, e-mail address, cell phone, mailing address and which session and location you will attend. Walk-in volunteers also will be accepted on Dec. 2. - Keri Guten Cohen, story development editor Synagogue Library Goes Electronic The library catalogue at Congregation B'nai Moshe in West Bloomfield is the first Jewish library in the area to be electronically accessible. Using a Web site established by the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit — www.JewishLibrariesDetroit.com — both synagogue members and non-members can now see if B'nai Moshe has a book and if it's available for loan. B'nai Moshe will allow non-members to borrow books, said librar- ian Sherry Wasserman, but they will have to come into the synagogue library to register. Wasserman said several area Jewish libraries are working toward converting their catalogues, including Temple Beth El, Congregation Beth Shalom and the Jewish Community Center library. She said Temple Israel and Hillel Day School also own the software. The JewishLibrariesDetroit Web site also links to the National Association of Libraries, which has a number of electronic resources, including Jewish Values Finders that reviews new Jewish children's books. Wasserman, of Huntington Woods, who works with an electronic users group through the Jewish Library Association Michigan Chapter, hopes to eventually see a Web site with links to many Jewish librar- ies and an inter-library loan system. "We are very proud to be No. 1," she said, "but we don't want to be the only one. We very much want to make this a broader-based community resource." Founding students of the Lubavitch cheder in the 1960s with teacher Rabbi Bentzion Stein of Oak Park are Rabbi Chaim Block of San Antonio, Alan Zekelman of Bloomfield Hills, Rabbis Yossi Potter of Acton, Mass., and Yossi Shemtov of Toledo. Zekelman Funds Lubavitch Cheder At a gathering in Manhattan on Nov. 11, after the International Chabad Conference, about 100 alumni of Oak Park's Lubavitch Cheder and Yeshiva honored Alan Zekelman with song and dance at the Puck Building at New York University. Zekelman has given the yeshivah about $3 million to build the future Harry and Wanda Zekelman Center at the boys' school. A veteran of the University of Rochester's Chabad House from his undergraduate days, Zekelman started coming to the Lubavitch Cheder more regularly when he needed a place to say Kaddish for his mother. Though the students and faculty were warm and welcoming, Zekelman was appalled by the deteriorating state of their building. The new structure will be nearly twice the size of the existing build- ing. "This building needs a coat of paint:' Zekelman said. "This is prob- ably the most intensely used building in the city of Detroit, but it is also showing it." Alumni had important memories of the schools. "The cheder has an impact on what I do today:' said Avraham Berkowitz, 31, now a Chabad emissary in Russia. "It was in this cheder — this school — that the seeds were planted, that I would devote my life to the service of the Jewish people." Said Zekelman, "These people — each and every one of them — are scattered around the globe on a mission of shlichos, bringing Yiddishkeit [Judasim] to far-flung places. So my family's investment in the yeshivah isn't just a local investment. We will have the opportunity to see the investment touch the entire world of Jewry" - Sharon Udasin, special to the Jewish News - Alan Hitsky, associate editor Leslie Kleiman agrees with kosher consumers that there was a short- age of turkeys before Thanksgiving. Kleiman is owner and president of Morris Kosher Poultry on Eight Mile Road in Hazel Park, the sole area wholesale distributor of Empire Kosher Poultry. He also handles other kosher brands. "Demand was extremely high this year:' says Kleiman, "and there were some shortages:' especially in larger-size, frozen birds. The week before Thanksgiving, Kleiman began receiving fresh turkeys in the 20-24-pound range. Kleiman says prices were higher this year. "In the past, the markets would use turkeys as a loss-leader:' charging less than the cost to bring customers into the store. "Then they'd make it up on cranberry sauce." But this year, he says, prices were affected by rising prices for feed, production and fuel. In addition, Kleiman says Empire has cut its poultry production and some of its products in order to remain profitable. Other produc- ers have tried to fill in the gap, he says, "but supply was having a hard time meeting demand." - November 29 s 2007 www.JNonline.us Teen2Teen Site You've seen the printed sec- tion each month in the JN, now Teen2Teen goes online! Though the Web site is for Jewish teens by Jewish teens, other generations can check it out, too. 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Beaumont staff screened approximately 250 students recently at the high school for conditions that may lead to sudden cardiac arrest. Several student athletes from Metropolitan Detroit have died in recent years due to this condition, signs of which are typi- cally not included in a high school physical. The Royal Oak- based Beaumont staff have screened about 1,000 students to date, including ones at West Bloomfield High. Find weekly listings of births, b'nai mitzvah, engagements, weddings and anniversaries online as well as past sim- chahs all online. They are all bundled under each week's publication date. Just visit JNonline.us and click on Lifecycles on the left. This week's poll question: Is cost the major reason peo- ple don't join a synagogue? Visit the JNonline.us homepage, below the left menu, to cast your vote.