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Hannah Iwrey of Farmington Hills
will go to Australia this June as part
of the People to People program. She
is ninth-grader at North Farmington
High School and the youngest per-
son of this particular delegation.

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student journalist and their personal
journalism experiences. The All-Star
Journalist Board was recognized at the
MIPA Spring Conference on April 21 at
Michigan State University.
Also at the conference, Josh Loney,
a sophomore at Bloomfield Hills
Andover High School, was honored
for having the "best comic strip" in
Michigan by MIPA. Loney also scored
an honorable mention in the same cat-
egory with his other strip. Loney has
had multiple cartoons published in
the Detroit Free Press and is cartoon-
ist-illustrator for Andover's newspaper,
The Shield, and for Teen2Teen. L

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he Michigan Interscholastic
Press Association (MIPA)
selected Stephanie Steinberg
as one of 12 All-Star Student
Journalists in Michigan. She was cho-
sen based on a port-
folio she submitted
containing news-
paper articles she
wrote for the North
Farmington High
School Northern
Star, letters of rec-
Stephanie
ommendation and
Steinberg
an essay.
Stephanie, a senior
who is opinion
and copy editor for
her paper, met the
other 11 All-Star
Journalists in East
Lansing, where they
went out to dinner
Josh Loney
and looked over
each other's journal-
ism work. The journalists discussed
story ideas, the difficulties of being a

Orly Benaderet
T2T Staff Writer

E

arly Wednesday morning,
on April 16, a small group
of juniors and seniors from
the Frankel Jewish Academy in West
Bloomfield arrived at the Holocaust
Memorial Center in Farmington Hills,
where we met Catholic students from
Gabriel Richard Catholic High School
in Riverview. After touring the muse-
um together, we all returned to FJA to
enjoy kosher pizza and to talk.
We discussed and explained our
Jewish beliefs while Gabriel Richard stu-
dents clarified their religion to us. These
students knew very little about Judaism,
but wanted to understand our religion.
Many Gabriel Richard students were
interested in our holidays and how
we celebrate them. For example, even
though Purim is quite different from
Halloween, the Gabriel Richard stu-
dents found a similarity in the dressing
up, which helped make a connection to
their understanding of the holiday.
We, as well, wanted to understand
Catholicism, for instance the qualifica-

tions of being a nun and the simple
living conditions they must observe.
When explaining our daily pray-
ing, the Gabriel Richard students
were amazed that many of us pray
three times a day and that there is
almost an hour at our school dedi-
cated to our daily prayer. The Catholic
students liked the idea of the close-
ness and faith we Jews have in God.
Furthermore, the idea of our Sabbath
and the rituals that accompany it fas-
cinated many of the Catholic students,
who now better understand the mean-
ing behind our holy day.
After conversing with us, touring
our school and even sitting in on some
of our Judaic and secular classes, the
Gabriel Richard students were able to
have a feeling and understanding of
our Judaism and its customs. We, too,
benefited from a new
understanding of
their religion. El

Orly Benaderet, 17, Is

a junior at the Frankel

Jewish Academy In

West Bloomfield.