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"As soon as I'm done with college, I'm
out of Michigan" is currently a very
common saying among high school
and college students. This upsetting
statement has been said or heard by
countless youth in our community
who are frustrated with our economic
situation and the multitude of result-
ing problems.
In your Publisher's Notebook
("Jewish Detroit Must Save Itself,' Nov.
29, page 5), you stated that we need to
move to Jewish Detroit 2.0, the next
stage in our community's economic
development, and we, as youth, strong-
ly agree with your position.
Our community needs not only to
bolster its support for those without,
but even more importantly, to cre-
ate opportunities for them. As you
suggested, this goal can primarily
be accomplished through investing
Jewish communal funds in local
entrepreneurs through research and
development grants as well as educat-
ing unemployed members of the com-
munity with skills necessary to earn
money in today's high tech world.
While we may not be our family's
breadwinners, these communal needs
still affect us. There is no Jewish teen
in this community who does not feel,
or know one who does not feel, the
effects of the current economic hard-
ships that our community is facing.
When we grow up, we want to know
that we can live in our hometown
without fear of unemployment or lack
of support.
Today, the reality is that college
graduates are leaving our home in a
mad dash. Even local youth groups
cannot find or retain advisers due to
the exodus of young adults from the
community. As a community, we need
these people to help build a diverse
and successful economy that is to be
Detroit's future. And as a community,
we need to start now, to invest in the
Signed by 34 students, Frankel Jewish
Academy of Metropolitan Detroit
West Bloomfield
For a complete list of signatories, go to
JNonline.us and click on Local Voices
Generous Mitzvah
What a wonderful way to support Yad
Ezra! Thank you so much for partner-
ing with the Janice Charach Gallery at
the Jewish Community Center in West
Bloomfield to organize the Jewish Stars
auction that benefited our kosher food
pantry ("Be A Star! Buy A Star!" Sept.
13, page 22).
We are very appreciative of how
hard all of you worked to make this
a success. The generous contribution
of $654 raised from the sales is being
used to purchase nutritious food,
toiletries and household cleaning sup-
plies for the more than 1,400 needy
client families on our active client roles
whom we service every month.
On behalf of the clients, volunteers,
staff and board of directors, thank you
again. It is heartwarming to see indi-
viduals and groups partner with us in
our efforts to assist this very vulner-
able population.
Lea Luger,
development director
Yad Ezra, Berkley
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REPO 'cha Don't Know
The U.S. Midwest and the South are often described as more
Jewishly tradition& than other parts of the country. An
example is the fact that there is only one female senior rabbi
in a Conservative movement congregation in those entire
regions. Who and where?
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future, by helping to lay the ground-
work for our generation's future tri-
umphs.
We are the next leaders of our com-
munity, and while our time has not yet
come, we want to have a community
to lead when it does. The realities of
our current situation are harsh, but
not absolute. Our great-grandparents
survived much worse in the Great
Depression, and built for us what
we have today. We want to stay in
Michigan, and we hope that in time
our peers will, too.