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THE INSTITUTE FOR RETIRED PROFESSIONALS PRESENTS
Michigan's "First Gentleman"
and author of
Everyday Leadership: Getting Results
in Business, Politics and Life
Speaking on:
"Everyday Leadership:
Leading in Tough. Times"
Wednesday
April 1, 2009 - 7:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public
Generously sponsored by a gift
from Shirley Harris
Stand With Israel
We wish to express our appreciation
to Editor Robert Sklar for highlighting
the international Israel educational
organization StandWithUs in his
Insider commentary "Priming Our
Defenses" (March 12, page A8).
SWU's informative pamphlets,
booklets, PowerPoints, videos and
other materials are available to belea-
guered Jewish college students who
need Israel facts in order to challenge
the demonizing anti-Israel statements
encountered in their classrooms, in
talks by visiting speakers and student
rallies on campuses.
The very recent Israeli Apartheid
Week events are an obvious manifesta-
tion of the anti-Israel hatred that is
increasingly invading higher educa-
tion environments across the U.S. and
Canada. Our Michigan chapter, SWU-
MI, provides local university student
advocates with SWU materials to place
in the hands of attendees at anti-Israel
events.
Thank you for publishing the
national SWU Web site. Additionally,
SWU publications can be more imme-
diately obtained by contacting the
Michigan chapter. In-state, SWU-MI
provides educational materials, speak-
ers and panels of college students to
local religious schools to enhance their
students' Israel education so they can
become informed Israel advocates
before they go off to college.
Also, by providing materials to
the Holocaust Memorial Center in
Farmington Hills, we are able to edu-
cate many hundreds of touring stu-
dents and educators from Southeast
Michigan. Through the efforts of
Michigan chapter volunteers, SWU has
donated a variety of Israel education
books, CDs and DVDs to public and
private day school libraries as well
community libraries statewide.
Contact the Michigan chapter by
e-mail at: swumichigan@standwi-
thus.com or by mail: StandWithUs-
Michigan, PO Box 251153, West
Bloomfield, MI 48325.
Eugene Greenstein, chair
Please join us for a book sale
and signing after the program
Barbara Moretsky, education chair
StandWithUs-Michigan
West Bloomfield
For information, please call IRP Director
Sharon Levine,
248.967.4030 ext. 2018
THE CENTER
INSTITUTE FOR RETIRED
PROFSSS;ONALS
Greco-Jewish Bonds
Recently, the Holocaust Memorial
Center Zekelman Family Campus
in Farmington Hills partnered with
several Hellenic groups in the metro-
politan area on an excellent and infor-
Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit
D. Dan & Betty Kahn Building
Eugene & Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus
6600 W. Maple Road, West Bloomfield
1494840
A6
March 26 • 2009
mative lecture and slide presentation
about the Holocaust and the Greek
Jews.
Those who came to the lecture
delivered by Dr. Mimis Cohen from
Chicago, a Greek Jew himself, learned
about the horrors experienced by the
Jews of Greece at the hands of the
Nazis — 87 percent of the Jewish
population was killed — and the
extraordinary, unselfish actions
of very heroic Greek clergy, police,
politicians and ordinary citizens who
risked their own lives to save the
remainder.
Not only was it an incredibly
well received and attended event,
the whole project also has been the
beginning of what we hope will
develop into a wonderful friendship
between the Detroit area Jewish and
Greek communities.
The Holocaust Memorial Center's
staff was touched by the warmth and
camaraderie shown by those in the
Greek community who assisted us in
the organization of this event.
We were honored by the presence
at the event of the Greek general
consul from Chicago, Ambassador
Anastasios Petrovas. He provides
Greek consular services to the entire
Midwest. Also in attendance was His
Eminence Metropolitan Nicholas
of Detroit, a bishop of the Greek
Orthodox Archdiocese of America.
Large numbers of area residents
of Greek descent turned out for this
standing-room only event, alongside
equally large numbers of the Jewish
community. We thank the Greek com-
munity for its support and interest. It
is collaborations like this one that pave
the way to greater understanding and
acceptance among all of us.
Steven D. Grant, M.D.,
chairman, board of directors
Guy Stern, Ph.D., interim director
Holocaust Memorial Center
Zekelman Family Campus
Farmington Hills
Correction
• In "Civic Pride" (March 12, page
B10) about young musicians in the
Detroit Symphony Orchestra's Civic
Youth Ensembles, it should have stated
that Arden Shwayder is a ninth-grader
at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook and a
serious cellist who studies with David
Levine, formerly of the DSO.
• In 'Honoring a Humble Titan"
(March 19, page A22), the name of
Jewish War Veteran Jack Backalar was
misspelled in the photo caption.