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in Israel has involved children. "A bill
was passed that Moshe put on the table
for school lunches to be provided;' Poris
said. "Now 150,000 children get lunches
at school on a daily basis?'
And the plan goes beyond just

in cooperation with
The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman
Family Campus &

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present

CONFRONTING EVIL, Now
AND THEN
TERRORISM AND NAZISM

SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2008
2:30 PM • NO COST

On the U.N. international Holocaust Remembrance Day and
Anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp
in the auditorium of the Holocaust Memorial Center :
28123 Orchard Lake Road, Farmington Hills, Michigan.
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Mr. Henry Gleisner, HMC Speaker, Docent and author of "Defying
the Fates" and Chief Warrant Officer Eric T. Howe, U.S.Marine Corps.
After the program, Mr. Gleisner will conduct a short tour of the HMC.
Coffee and cookies will be served. Kashrut laws observed.
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For more information, contact Lisa Glazer at
(248)282-0088 or by email: limainizastisai

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About the Speakers

HENRY GLEISNER

Born Vienna, Austria
Escaped LWOW ghetto in Poland
Traveled occupied Europe as a Polish
interpreter (using false documents)
while witnessing Nazi horrors
Joined Italian underground
Helped American milttary government
liberate Ebanese Concentration Camp
• Available to sign his book "Defying the Fates"

CHIEF
WARRANT OFFICER HOWE

• Enlisted in Marine Corps 07-26-87
• Participated in Operation Just Cause in
Panama
• Participated in Operation Southern Watch
(Iraq), Operation Vigilant Warrior (Kuwait) &
Operation Restore Hope (Somalia)
• Served as ammunition officer and
commander in Operation Enduring
Freedom & Iraqi Freedom
• Grandson of Henry Gleisner

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lower cost through mass purchases,
share trucks, knowledge and expertise
in fundraising and are not competing
for private sector donations?'
Through Jacob, Wal-Mart has
become involved in Leket. "They have
acquiring any food product. "Everyone
been a leading supporter of food banks
needs healthy food',' Hilou said.
in America," Jacob said. "They will be
"Without it, people can't work, kids
sending a volunteer team of logistic
cannot think and learn. It also affects
engineers to Israel to help with the
their physical development?"
information technology and to set up
Added Schockman, "The indepen-
the Leket distribution center. Many of
dent hunger groups are
Wal-Mart's good food suppliers
run without standards
are located in Israel. They will
of safety. Leket will make
work together with them to
sure the food is safe and
support Leket in a very mean-
nutritious?'
ingful way:'
Mazon has been involved
Aid From Detroit
with Leket for the past 41/2
Detroiters, many of whom
years, working with the Forum
already advocate alleviat-
to Address Food Insecurity and
ing hunger in Israel with
Poverty in Israel to determine
time and energy, have
food needs of Israelis. "We
also made significant
Rabbi Eric Yanoff
became the lead entity to get
monetary contributions
information to Israel on how to
to Leket.
get Leket started:' Schockman
The visiting Israeli
said. "We brought the U.S.
contingency attended a
undersecretary of agriculture
gathering hosted by Karen
and the president of America's
Davidson of Bloomfield
Second Harvest to Israel?'
Hills, chaired by Davidson
With the Israeli govern-
and Jacob that remarkably
ment's new support for the
raised $7 million in funds
establishment of Leket, the
for Leket.
hope is that funding will fol-
"The meeting was
low and laws will be passed to
Dr. H. Eric
historic," Jacob said.
allow for the country's surplus
Schockma n
"Included in the dona-
food to be utilized at the food
tions was a $1 million gift
bank.
from a young Detroiter
"They produce enough
and a $3 million challenge
food; Schockman said. "It's the
grant from the Harry
distribution that's a long-term
and Jeanette Weinberg
answer for the hunger issue in
Foundation in Baltimore?"
Israel, and the government is
Mazon, a fiduciary
part of that answer?'
entity for raising money
And Mazon continues to be
for matching funds from
a part of the fundraising, advo-
the Weinberg Foundation,
cacy and lobbying within the
has been collecting dona- Karen Day idson
Israeli government, "because
tions for Leket for the past
it's the right thing to do:'
eight months, having raised $2.5 mil-
Schockman said. Mazon is in it because
lion before the Detroit gathering.
we owe Israel. The land of milk and
"One-third of the $15 million needed honey should remain the land of plenty
to get Leket off the ground has been
for future generations!'
fundraised," Schockman said. "We are
in the formation stages, an executive
For information on alleviating
director has been hired, and we are
hunger
in the U.S., Israel and
looking for donated space between
around
the
world, access the
Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. By this summer,
Mazon
Web
site at: www.Mazon.
we should be in a physical location,
org
.
To
make
a donation to Leket
looking for volunteers!'
—
which
will
be
matched by the
In the meantime, Israelis are already
Weinberg
Foundation
— send a
benefiting from the food bank?'
tax
deductible
check
to:
Mazon,
"Many of the smaller, independent
cio
Leket
Food
Bank,
P.O.
Box
anti-hunger groups are now working
250250,
West
Bloomfield,
MI
along with Leket," Schockman said.
48325.
"Working together, they get food at a

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