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ECO QUIZ
A poorly maintained engine can use up to ___ percent more
fuel and produce percent more CO2 than one that runs
properly.
%os :Jamstiv
Please contact Michigan Coalition on the Environment &
Jewish Life for global warming presentations: (248) 642-
5393, ext. 7, or mi-coejl@jfmd.org .
Source: Michigan Coalition on the Environment & Jewish Life
JFK's Words On Immigration
To stimulate wider understanding of immigration policy among high
school students, the Anti-Defamation League is promoting a new dis-
cussion guide to accompany A Nation of Immigrants, President John
R Kennedy's landmark essay. The essay has just been reissued with a
new introduction by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., and foreword
by Abraham H. Foxman, the ADL's New York-based national director.
The guide provides lessons and ideas suitable for the secondary-
level classroom. It includes tools to guide student reading, facilitate
discussion and build critical thinking skills.
"This guide is an invaluable teaching tool that will enhance class-
room discussion about an important and timely topic:' Foxman said.
"It is especially important today, as anti-immigrant, xenophobic senti-
ments have entered the mainstream discourse, and while students
attend increasingly diverse schools.
"It is critical for our youth to have a thorough understanding of
immigration issues and to appreciate the important role immigrants
play in our country's past, present and future!'
Immigration policies grabbed headlines when A Nation of
Immigrants was first published in 1958; Kennedy was a U.S. senator
and had been asked to draft the essay by the ADL
A Nation of Immigrants is available for purchase on the ADL Web
site: www.adl.org/immigrants.
Historic Needs
In anticipation of
the Detroit Jewish
community's 2008 cel-
ebration of the State of
Israel's 60th birthday,
the Jewish Federation
of Metropolitan Detroit
is seeking home
Celebration of Israel Independence Day
movies of the Israel
at the State Fair in 1949.
Independence Day cel-
ebration held at Detroit
Central High in 1948 or movies of any of the major Israel Day celebra-
tions held at the Michigan State Fairgrounds in Detroit in the late
1940s and early 1950s.
Contact Sharon Alterman at the Federation: Salterman@jfmd.org or
(248) 203-1491.
- Robert A. Sklar, editor
Familial Humor
The Jewish Ensemble Theatre hosted a friend raiser for
the opening of its world premiere play Saying Kaddish
With My Sister held in the Jewish Community Center's
conference center in West Bloomfield on Jan. 26. Shown are
Artistic Director Evelyn Orbach, playwright in residence
Kitty Dubin and Allison Luterman, playwright for Saying
Kaddish With My Sister. The comedy about family ties and
values will run at the JET through Sunday, Feb. 17.
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teens, other generations can
check it out, too.
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Roger Goodall, the gentile commissioner of the
National Football League, recently replaced the gen-
tile Paul Tagliabue in that job. All other American
major sports commissioners are Jewish: Bug Selig
(baseball), David Stern (basketball), Gary Bettman
(hockey). Who is the newest Jewish professional
sports commissioner in North America?
-Goldfein
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School Chief To Retire
West Bloomfield School District Superintendent Gary Faber will retire
at the end of this school year. He broke the news to his staff in the
6,626-student district on Jan. 29.
Dr. Faber joined the district as a high school principal in 1983.
Under his leadership, the state twice named West Bloomfield an
exemplary school!" The school also twice received
"national exemplary school" honors.
Faber, 60, was Michigan's Principal of the Year
in 1992.
In 2006, the local Race Relations and Diversity
Task Force designated Faber a "Diversity
Champion." He earned the Southfield-based
Dove Institute's Dove Award in 1999. The John E
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts named
Dr. Faber
him 1 of 5 "Outstanding Principals" nationally.
Faber also was cited among 10 principals nation-
wide by the National Center of School Safety.
In 2006-2007, the Michigan School Administrators Association
named Faber "Superintendent of the Year" for the tri-county area.
He's now legislative liaison representing 86 school districts in Wayne,
Oakland and Macomb counties.
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