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Shiar ege students by college studen41-:: FEBRUARY 11, 2010 / 27 SHEVAT 5770 ewish I • • edu VOLUME 1, NO. 1 Freshman Ari Berlin and sophomore Lindsey Wagner, both of West Bloomfield CMU Hillel: Motivated by Ilene Crane Welcome! jewish@edu is for you if you are a Jewish college student from Metro Detroit — no mat- ter what school you attend or where it might be. jewish@edu is for you if want to stay connected with other Detroiters, with your Jewish identity and with your hometown. Your parents and grand- parents might like it, too, but really it's for college students by college students because you know what you like and because it's good to share what gets you excited and what might make a difference. Look for jewish@edu at www.thejewishnews.com . Ken Guten Cohen, executive editor kcohen@renmedia.us Mount Pleasant A year ago, if you had asked a Jewish student at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant if they were involved in Hillel, they would have replied, "What Hillel?" Happily, this is changing. In the fall of 2009, CMU Hillel was energized through the combined efforts of Michigan State University Hillel and a small, but dedicated group of Jewish students. We are a motivated group planning events including bowling, Israeli culture nights and a Chanukah dinner. We have high hopes and plans for the future growth of our Hillel. By reaching out to Jewish students, we're expand- ing our circle and making a name for Hillel at CMU. Hillel members also took part in a statewide Hillel Leaders Retreat in January where we learned about leadership, engagement and programming. These skills will help CMU Hillel bloom. Our board also will recruit Jewish CMU students for a summer Taglit-Birthright Israel trip that will give them amaz- ing experiences. While we still have a lot of work to do to, the members of CMU Hillel are enthusias- tic. We are setting goals and working to create a vibrant and ever-growing Hillel on our campus. @ Ilene Crane is a CMU sophomore from Farmington Hills. Israeli's Video Goes Viral by Kale Davidoff East Lansing Adam Duke, left. uses technology to check the energy efficiency of a home's door. Jacob Smith takes a reading on a thermal camera. Their business is energy audits. Environmental Concern Best friends go green with energy consulting firm. by Zack Colman East Lansing here most people would see a burning house, Adam Duke saw opportunity. When he heard his family home in Waterford had been reduced to smoldering ashes in August 2006 — just days before starting school at Michigan State University in East Lansing — Duke's busi- ness-oriented mind already was ticking. He now had the chance to build a truly green, energy- efficient home. "In retrospect, it's probably the best thing to ever happen to me," he said half-jokingly, adding his family's winter gas bill now is about $200 monthly. "I told my parents I really, really wanted a green house, which, in 2006, wasn't a buzz word; people weren't really doing that kind of thing." Now Duke and lifelong friend Jacob Smith, in the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, have partnered to create Go Green Energy Consulting in an attempt to change buzz words into real- W life results — and keep college graduates in Michigan. "I loved growing up here," Duke said. "I don't think there's any better place. And it really bothers me that I have to see my friends move away because they have noth- ing to do." The pair want to bring fresh life to a stale industry with their energy consulting firm, emphasizing that younger generations have more reason to cure the world's ailments. The company initially will perform energy audits — a four- step process — and recommend where people can save the most money by upgrading certain elements of their home. They hope people will realize that by purely offering a service — not products, like many other auditors — Go Green Energy Consulting simply cares about advancing the green movement and Michigan. "It may sound corny, but tikkun olain (healing the world) is a tenet of Judaism that motivates us," Smith said. "This is a business opportunity, but we view this as our duty to Environmental Concern on page JE2 Israeli singer/songwriter Oren Lavie has stunned the viral video world with his Grammy- nominated music video for his song, "Her Morning Elegance." Lavie's mesmerizing song is comple- mented with an equally mesmerizing video. It features Lavie and Israeli model/actress Shir Shomron in a stop-motion fantasy that takes them on a long journey — all in bed. With help from animators and filmmakers Yuval and Merav Nathan and photogra- pher Eyal Landesman, Lavie uses more than 3,000 photos to create a flawless stop- motion video that will have you watching it over and over and over again. You can watch it by search- ing Youtube or going to Oren Lavie's myspace page: www. myspace.com/orenlavie . @ Kale Davidoff of West Bloomfield is a sophomore at Michigan State University in East Lansing.