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To Read!

Help teach Detroit kids.

T

he Jewish Community
Relations Council is rally-
ing the Jewish community
to enlist in the Detroit Public Schools
Reading Corps. A volunteer training
for those who sign up through the
JCRC will be held from 6-7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, March 3, at the Jewish
Community Center in Oak Park.
The Detroit Reading Corps is seek-
ing thousands of volunteers willing to
give an hour a week to help young chil-
dren develop reading skills. As a com-
munity sponsor of the Reading Corps,
the JCRC is calling upon its member
organizations and the rabbinical com-
munity to actively recruit volunteers.
Those interested in information or
being trained as a literacy tutor can
go to www.detroitjcrc.org or call the
JCRC at (248) 760-3820.
"The DPS Reading Corps is already
well under way, and we don't want
to be left behind;' said Mary Ellen
Gurewitz, JCRC Poverty Task Force
chair. "The outpouring of direct social
action we saw on Mitzvah Day tells

me our community has the potential
to do more the rest of the year."
The Detroit Free Press, with DPS,
called for citizens to volunteer 100,000
hours collectively to tutor reading in
DPS schools. That call to action comes
on the heels of recent test scores
showing Detroit school children
ranked lowest nationwide of partici-
pants on the National Assessment of
Educational Progress (NAEP) test.
Richard Nodel, JCRC president, cre-
ated the Poverty Task Force to develop
programs and/or identify opportu-
nities for the Jewish community to
participate more extensively as a corn-
munity in this essential work.
"Engagement in the city of Detroit
is vital to the success of us all:' he
said. "And literacy is a key to making
an impact on the city and an impact
on poverty."
The JCRC continues to operate the
Detroit Jewish Coalition for Literacy
(DJCL), which places reading volun-
teers at various schools in Detroit
and its suburbs.

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Answering
Israel's Critics

The Charge
The editor of Tishreen, the semi-official newspaper of Bashir Assad's regime in Syria,
described Israel's leaders last week as "having crime flowing through their veins."

The Answer
Tishreen's editor's comments were false, biased and hypocritical coming from the
mouthpiece of a brutal, murderous regime.

- Allan Gale, Jewish Community Relations Council of Metropolitan Detroit

0 February 18, 2010, Jewish Renaissance Media

Peters On Iran
Washington — The
Iranian government said
Feb. 9 that it has acceler-
ated its nuclear program,
commencing with
higher-grade uranium
enrichment. With this
Rep. Peters
action, Iran moves closer
to possessing the raw material needed to
build a nuclear weapon. Following Iran's
announcement, U.S. Rep. Gary Peters, D-
Bloomfield Townshiip, issued the following
statement:
"While Iranian sanctions languish in
Congress, Iran continues to accelerate its
nuclear program. Iran's defiance is wholly
unacceptable and represents a clear threat
to the United States, Israel and to inter-

national stability. It is long past time for
the global community to unite on tough
sanctions. The United States, and the world,
must make perfectly clear that a nuclear-
armed Iran must never exist:"
Peters has cosponsored several measures
to introduce new sanctions and strengthen
existing ones to crack down on Iran's rogue
nuclear program, including H.R. 1327,
the Iran Sanctions Enabling Act of 2009;
H.R. 2194, the Iran Refined Petroleum
Sanctions Act of 2009; and H.R. 3922, the
Accountability for Business Choices in Iran
Act. The first two passed the House last
year and similar measures recently passed
the Senate, but the bills from each cham-
ber need to be reconciled before a final
vote. The third, introduced in the House in
October, is still awaiting a House vote.

Books For Crete
Amherst, Mass. — The national Yiddish
Book Center has issued an appeal after
two separate arson attacks in January
devastated the 600-year-old synagogue
on Crete and left its extensive library and
archives in ruins.
Two Americans, two Britons, and a
Greek citizen have been arrested. The
Yiddish Book Center is helping replace
some of the books that were destroyed. A
current list of needed titles is at the Web
site: www.yiddishbookcenter.org/crete.
Most of the needed books are in

English, Hebrew and Greek (there are no
Yiddish readers on Crete).
To save time and money, books may be
transshipped at domestic rates through an
American APO address. Send any books
directly to: Lorenzo Garcia, PSC 814 Box
36, FPO AE 09865-0036.
Use the Web site to let the center know
which books are sent so it can update the
online list and avoid duplication.
Locally, organizers of the Bookstock
Used Book & Media Sale in April are
checking their donations to see if any
match the Crete list.

Israel's Haiti Support
Jerusalem/JTA — An Israeli aid agency
has established a child education center in
a refugee camp in Haiti.
IsraAID partnered with local aid agencies
to open the center in the Petionville Refugee
Camp, the largest refugee camp in Port-au-
Prince, on the site of a former golf course.
The camp has 60,000 Haitians living
under the patronage of the American
ambassador. The Israeli team already has
provided medical post-trauma treatment
to thousands of refugees in the camp.
The child education center is operat-

ing in tents that had been used for an
Israeli field hospital donated by the Israel
Defense Forces. Activities such as teaching,
music, sports and earthquake readiness
training will be held for 250 children at a
time.
The IsraAID missions to Haiti are
funded by the American Jewish Committee
and UJA Federation of Greater Toronto,
B'nai B'rith International and the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Chicago as well
as a number of other Jewish federations,
including Los Angeles, Cleveland, St. Louis,
San Francisco, New York and Miami.

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