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. 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