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Stretch To Help
As a way of uniting women for a com-
mon cause, the Women's Department of
the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit will offer yoga, Pilates and other
fitness classes throughout the day on
Sunday Feb. 7, during the second annual
"Stretch to Help" event.
Fifteen fitness centers and studios will
offer 30 classes throughout the Detroit
area for women of all ages and abilities.
Women are required to make a minimum
pledge of $18 to the Jewish Federation's
2010 Annual Campaign in order to
participate and they must register in
advance. Space is limited; reservations
will be granted on a first-come, first-
served basis.
"We are asking that Jewish women
across the Detroit metropolitan area par-
ticipate as one to help our community,"
said Illana Greenberg, event co-chair.
"Stretch to Help offers the reminder
that collectively, we are stronger;' said Gail
Mondry, event co-chair. "In these times of
economic struggles, it serves up the oppor-
tunity for all of us to contribute to the heal-
ing of the Jewish community at large."
"The goal of Stretch to Help is to raise
the awareness and consciousness of
women to the needs of our community
while, at the same time, creating energy
and excitement and larger sense of purpose
among the participants," said Marcie Orley,
Women's Department Campaign chair.
"We want to emphasize that every donor is
important and that every pledge, in what-
ever amount, will make a difference."
You can register online at stretchtohelp.
org by Feb. 1. A confirmation e-mail mes-
sage with location and time will be sent
one week prior to the event.
For more information, call (248) 642-
4260, ext. 183.
High Honors
Washingtonian magazine
has named Rabbi Robert
Nosanchuk of Northern
Virginia Hebrew
Congregation and Imam
Mohamed Magid of the
All Dulles Area Muslim
Rabbi
Society among its
Nosanchuk
Washingtonians of the
Year for 2009.
"An imam and a rabbi in Northern
Virginia are working together to increase
understanding between their religious
communities:' the magazine writes about
their award.
Nosanchuk says he is "completely
humbled" by the honor.
"I am hardly the architect of interfaith
understanding, but am proud to symbol-
ize our Jewish community's approach
to building understanding and dialogue
with people of different faiths:' he told
the Washington Jewish Week Jan. 7.
Roadway Nativity Overruled
U.S. District Court Chief Judge Gerald
Rosen ruled in Detroit last month that
a Warren family's annual nativity scene
on the Mound Road median at Chicago
Road (13 1/2 Mile) could not continue.
Rosen sided with the Macomb County
Road Commission in ruling that the
63-year-old, log-cabin-like display was a
safety hazard and that the median was
not a traditional public forum.
John Satawa's family had been erecting
the display since the 1940s. After some-
one complained about the display last
year, the road commission told Satawa to
apply for a permit this year. After he did,
the road commission denied the permit,
citing safety concerns.
Satawa sued, with the help of the
Thomas More Law Center in Ann Arbor.
Judge Rosen's order effectively ended the
case and the display.
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Paintings Of Euporean Shuls
Beginning in mid-January, Temple Israel's
Goodman Family Judaic and Archival
Museum will feature "Old European
Synagogues: Paintings by Andrea
Strongwater."
Strongwater, a New York artist, used
historical photos to identify significant
European synagogues, most of which were
completely destroyed in the 1930s and
1940s during the Holocaust.
Each painting is accompanied by infor-
mation that Strongwater has researched,
bringing to light an important part of
Jewish history and preserving that which
was meant to erased.
The unique exhibit will be on display at
the West Bloomfield temple through mid-
March.
Quotable
"It is a moribund Jewish world, continuously losing its young
people, whose tzedakah has dramatically changed where only
a small fraction of total philanthropy is going to Jewish causes;
interest in Israel is declining; the number of American Jews going
to Israel is not growing; where the culmination of Jewish life
seems to be [for the young person] the bar mitzvah — and from
there it is all downhill."
— New York mega-philanthropist and Birthright Israel co-founder Michael Steinhardt on the
state of diaspora Jewry, in a Jan. 7 interview with Rabbi Mark Golub on Shalom TV.
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