What A Reunion!
Thank you to all those who participat-
ed in the Oak Park High School Class
of 1969 40th high school reunion.
The Detroit area was abuzz the
weekend of July 3-5 with more than
300 people attending small parties,
golf outings and the culmination of
the big reunion on the Fourth of July at
Somerset Inn in Troy.
The committee spent years working
hard to put together an evening that is
best described as magical.
People came from all over the world
to participate and enjoy seeing old
friends and updating each other on
their lives.
So many people worked hard to
bring this together. I appreciate the
response from our community, our
classmates and my committee.
What a wonderful group of people.

Ken Korotkin, chair

the reunion committee

Bloomfield Hills

Ponzi Punishment

in conjunction with the Max Planck
Institute. He teaches in May, and he has
a meeting in November. We now enjoy
Shabbat at the synagogue, with its
prayer books in German/Hebrew or in
Russian/Hebrew; I was thrilled to par-
ticipate in the Nov. 9 commemoration
of the 60th anniversary of Kristalnacht.
Celebrations of the 60th anniversary
of the founding of Israel were huge, held
all over Munich in all cultural institu-
tions; they kicked off with a big splash
at the Jewish Community Center, with
civic and religious leaders from all over
Bavaria in attendance.
The symphony held a world pre-
miere of an oratorio written in Munich
before the composer made aliyah.
The music school — Hitler's former
headquarters — presented a large
exhibit of important Jewish musical
figures who died during World War II.
This resurgence of Judaism in
Germany is a true sign that Am Yisroel
Chai. It is something about which more
American Jews should know.

Sue Adelman

I believe the 150-year prison term for
Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme crimes
is excessive ("Ponzi Watch," July 16,
page A18).
He should have been sentenced
to only 12 years, as requested by his
lawyers — with a guaranteed and
constant 10 percent annual increment,
regardless of good or bad behavior.

Leslie Schonberg

Farmington Hills

Germany's Jewish Flair

I enjoyed the article "Ordained in
Germany"(July 9, page A8). The
accompanying picture shows two rab-
bis at the altar in the new hauptsyna-
gogue of Munich.
I had the emotional experience of
attending the opening ceremonies for
this synagogue. This was timed to fall
on Nov. 9 (I believe in 2007), the date
of Kristalnacht.
One of the German papers ran a
front page headline, "Shalom" in large
Hebrew letters; and in one of the three
articles on the subject, it emphasized
that this was the date of the 1923 Hitler
beerhouse putch and of the fall of the
Berlin Wall in 1989.
Now both the new Jewish commu-
nity center and the Jewish museum are
open, which along with the synagogue,
make the largest new post-war Jewish
building project in Europe. This is in
Jakob's Platz, the heart of the city.
We are in Munich at least twice a
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Corrections

• The New York-based Jewish
Telegraphic Agency has withdrawn a
conclusion from a story on Jewish day
school oversight that the IN quoted
in the commentary "Stronger School
Leadership " (July 23, page A5).
The IN commentary stated:
"According to a July 14 JTA report, the
Yeshiva University study titled 'Survey
of the Governance Practices of Jewish
Day Schools' concludes that 'lackadaisi-
cal lay leadership and weak boards of
directors at the schools seem content
with making half-hearted attempts at
creating economically viable institu-
tions:"
One week later, JTA deleted that line
from its revised version of the story.
JTA stated "the original version of this
story inaccurately implied that the YU
report offered strong, direct criticism
of the boards of directors of Jewish day
schools."
• In "Vital Signs" (July 23, page C6),
Light Support Services is the correct
name of Susan Light's online program
that provides medical and personal
information for 911 dispatchers.
• The information the JN added at
the end of Rachel Kapen's essay ("The
Early Maccabiot," July 23, page C3)
should have stated that her husband,
Sheldon Kapen, is a native of the U.S.,
not Israel.

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Additions/Corrections
JN Community Directory (July 23, pages B2-B8)

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