Opinion offth,a,irta/AfAciceto-tio-& Safe and affordable housing in a Jewish Communal Setting Kosher meals, activities, professional staff and transportation Immediate Occupancy Prentis Jewish Apartments Teitel Jewish Apartments Residences of Jewish Senior Life of Metropolitan Detroit 15100 & 15106 West Ten Mile Road, Oak Park, Michigan 48237 A. Alfred Taubman Jewish Community Campus For an application or more information, call Jewish Federation ■ 3 bedroom \ Nit 11 garage starting at $1,023 2 heciroom with ourakve starting at $870 SpacionsW 131(x)ilifield honies with private entrances '248-624-3388 Pet Friendly Walled Lake community esigned for families 2 bedrooms starting @ $825 3 bedrooms starting @ $930 248-824-6600 Pet Friendly Eagle Pond Heights 1 bedroom starting @ $540 2 bedrooms starting @ $690 Convenient mid-rise living in Walled Lake 248-926-3900 Pet Friendly 32 October 15 • 2009 iN priate response strategies for each particular client base. This will ensure that any person in our community in need of service will get the full range of services available to them. October is National Domestic Violence Awareness month. Please know that domestic violence is not only a black eye, but also is always coercive control. If someone you know lives in fear or seems isolated or ashamed, encour- age them to call (248) 592-2335 to speak to someone confidentially who will offer support, encouragement and safety. As a community, we can help to make lasting change! Fl Ellen Yashinsky Chute is chief community outreach officer of West Bloomfield-based Jewish Family Service of Metropolitan Detroit. FSU Renaissance from page 30 Vt.f:,,, , lita. Or:rot Sikerbrooke Villa 4 We are in the process of coordinating all community efforts for prevention and intervention in the area of domes- tic abuse. Our goal is to raise community concsiousness about this devastat- ing condition and to create uniform best-practice standards for our Detroit Jewish communal professionals. The local Jewish Women's Foundation has been a key supporter of our coalition for the past three years and has recently awarded $5,000 for the JCADA Training Project. Over the next year, we hope to provide train- ing to three primary groups of "first responders" in our community: rab- bis, educators and the intake or triage professionals in our coalition member agencies and organizations. The training will provide education about the recognition of the signs of domestic abuse and will teach appro- 248-661-1836 www.jslmi.org Security Deposit Reduced at Silverbrooke Villa Domestic Violence from page 29 professional. Throughout the FSU, as well as in organizations in the United States and Israel that serve Russian- speaking populations, there are Jews like Dasha Privalko, who was a teen- ager when I met her on my first trip to Kiev and, today as an adult, is a senior member of the Hillel Ukraine team. We were introduced to the power of service. Years before it was as fashion- able as it is today, dozens of young Jews from inside and outside the FSU traveled throughout the region each spring to help lead Passover sederim. Jews who thought no one knew or cared about them shared an educa- tional and emotional Jewish experi- ence with young people who, in turn, received at least as much in return as those to whom they brought great joy. We also were exposed to the value of providing young Jews from one region with opportunities to work alongside their peers from other communities and countries. This is a lesson that Taglit now employs so effectively to help strengthen Jewish identity. Finally, the vitally important con- cept of "meeting people where they are" emerged from the earliest days of the FSU Hillel program and now has become the generally accepted approach to outreach in America. It took almost no time at all for us to realize that for Judaism to flourish anew in the FSU, especially among those young Jews for whom the post- Soviet lifestyle is all they have ever experienced, Jewish life in the region must be one of their own making. It is at a time like this, one of reflec- tion and rebirth, that we can draw inspiration from the revival of Jewish life in the former Soviet Union. It is a story that embodies the enduring values of our heritage, the remark- able resilience of our people and the unlimited potential of our future. Fl Sandy Cardin is president of the Schusterman Family Foundation. Answering Israel's Critics The Charge Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and some of his supporters claim that Israeli sol- diers provided assistance to those who executed a coup and installed their own government in place of Zelaya. The Answer The charges are a recent example of scapegoating Israel for a country's internal problems. Israel has con- sistently respected the established governments in central America. - Allan Gale, Jewish Community Relations Council of Metropolitan Detroit (c) Oct. 15, 2009 Jewish Renaissance Media