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Not Here You Don't!
W
ith all the many restrictions
that we feel placed on us by
the government, we should
keep in mind that there are some laws
on the books that are rarely, if ever,
enforced. That is
actually a good
thing if you stop to
consider some of
them.
In Michigan, in
general, persons
may not be drunk
on trains.
• It is illegal to
kill a dog using
Sy Manello
a decompression
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chamber. (See,
Assistant
there; and you
were wondering why your local super-
store was out of them, weren't you?)
• The last Sunday in June of every year
Educational Alliance Reborn
An intergenerational group of Jewish edu-
cators has issued a call to the grassroots
membership of the Jewish educational
community to re-establish the pluralistic
network that was CAJE under the name
NewCAJE—New Coalition for Alternatives
in Jewish Education.
A letter from Rabbi Cherie Koller-Fox,
a founder of CAJE, endorsed by seven
other past CAJE presidents, including Fran
Pearlman, now of New York but formerly of
Metro Detroit, went out to former members
inviting them to become charter members
of NewCAJE and outlining a series of steps
to make the organization viable.
The letter was accompanied by an
endorsement from 40 young leaders
— Jewish educators, rabbis and communal
workers in their 20s and 30s — pledging
their support for "the establishment of
an independent organization that will bring
together Jewish educators across denomi-
nations and teaching settings; will advocate
for Jewish education on a national level;
will create networking opportunities for
educators to disseminate innovative ideas;
and will celebrate Jewish life and culture
and its transmission to a new generation:'
The new organization will be volun-
teer-led and supported by its grassroots
constituency. Money initially raised will
go to buy the intellectual property of the
was named "log cabin day." (I wonder
... was that for building, camping out,
planning to run for president? Hmmm.)
• A woman isn't allowed to cut her own
hair without her husband's permission.
(Do the unmarried ones have to seek
permission from another male relative?)
• There is a 3-cent bounty for each
starling and a 10-cent bounty for each
crow killed in any village, township or
city within the state. (And we thought
that bottle returns were lucrative!)
• Security guards at Joe Louis Arena
in Detroit will confiscate any item they
feel might be thrown onto the ice. (So
keep those octopuses under wraps until
the last minute.)
• Willfully destroying your old radio is
prohibited. (That does not preclude old
TV sets, old cell phones that only make
calls, etc.)
• It is illegal for a man to scowl at
former organization, to outreach to the
next generation of Jewish educators and to
produce the next conference.
The letter sent to former CAJE mem-
bers details how and why CAJE filed for
bankruptcy last March. Because a Chapter
7 bankruptcy was declared, NewCAJE will
be able to purchase the assets of "old" CAJE
without acquiring the debts. However,
the letter suggests a desire to repay the
money owed to CAJE's major creditor, the
University of Vermont, over time.
The letter calls upon its recipients to
become charter members of NewCAJE
and to get involved by contributing funds,
volunteering to help in the preparations
for the next conference, identifying the
next generation of Jewish educators and
supporting the webinars.
For more information about
NewCAJE, contact Cherie Koller-Fox of
Massachusetts at shual@comcast.net or
(617) 55-0045. To get involved or to con-
tribute, go to www.newcaje.org .
Holiday Gift Giving
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his wife on Sunday. (And how exactly
was she to prove that he did it? Now,
of course, one could snap his picture
with a dateline on any new hand-held
device.)
• It is illegal to let your pig run free in
Detroit unless it has a ring in its nose.
(OK, ladies, I think the reference here is
to the four-footed animal; null said.)
• No person shall throw an abandoned
hoop skirt into any street or on any side-
walk under penalty of a $5 fine for each
offense. (Just cut off the material and
use them for hula hoops — the fad may
return. There is also the possibility that
the fashion will renew itself — not!)
The next time you think we are being
unfairly set upon by our legislators,
consider what those great minds have
to contend with and try to be more
understanding. Or, at least, chuckle less
loudly.
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"I conclude that there
were areas where
Roosevelt might have
risked much more. The
reason he didn't until
the light of victory after
Stalingrad became
visible is that the
genocide of European
Jewry was not a matter
of prime concern for
Roosevelt. Winning the
war was.
— Historian Henry Feingold,
professor emeritus at City University of
New York, in an interview in the 2009
newsletter published by the Cohn-Haddow
Center for Judaic Studies, Wayne State
University, Detroit.
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