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oel Jacob, the national president
of MAZON: A Jewish Response to
Hunger (www.mazon.org ),
briefed the U.S. ambassador to the
Rome-based U.N. Agencies for Food and
Agriculture, of which addressing hunger is
a key element.
"Of all the programs the U.N. does:' said
Jacob, a West Bloomfield businessman,
"this one is probably the most productive."
"It was a pleasure and privilege to
represent MAZON at the U.S. Embassy in
Rome he added.
Ambassador Ertharin Cousin, on behalf
of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and
President Barack Obama, thanked Los
Angeles-based MAZON and the Jewish
community for the quick response to the
devastation in Haiti. Cousin lauded the
quick response of the Israeli government.
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Long an advocate for hunger relief,
Cousin served Feeding America and was
an International Food and Agriculture
Development board member before
Obama named her ambassador.
Jacobs' visit with the ambassador includ-
ed two of his kids and a family friend from
Bloomfield Hills.
"All of us do the work of MAZON each
day, and when we can include our children,
and for some of us our grandchildren, this
becomes even more meaningful," Jacob said.
"From generation to generation, MAZON
allows us to connect our children with our
next generation in tikkun olam — repair of
the world. And most of the time, the chil-
dren come up with the next good idea."
So it was.
In their meeting with the ambassador,
Jacob said the discussion turned to future
relief efforts in Haiti and how Jewish youth
could continue to make a difference there.
"We were told that 2 million children and
Remember The Warsaw Ghetto
The local Michigan Workmen's Circle/Arbeter
Ring has been commemorating the Warsaw
Ghetto Uprising for 67 years. The organization
remembers the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto
and their courageous battle in 1943.
The annual commemoration honors the
bravery of the Jews during the battle that raged
for 42 days, beginning on Passover in 1943.
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commemora-
tion includes a candlelighting ceremony, music
and readings. Holocaust survivors participate
and the commemoration also remembers the 6
million Jews who perished at the hands of Nazi
Germany.
The 2010 commemoration will be at 7 p.m.
Monday, April 19, at the Holocaust Memorial
Center, Farmington Hills. For reservations:
(248) 432-5677 or micirclel@gmail.com .
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"Hamas and the other terror
groups should know that they
are responsible for their deeds."
— Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at
the start of a recent weekly cabinet meeting in
Jerusalem.
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Joel Jacob, right, with the ambassador and
two Jacobs kids, Andrew, left, and Autumn,
and Autumn's friend Anne Slabotsky
families are still living in tents with not
enough food',' Jacob said. "And the ambas-
sador mentioned that their are not enough
fruit trees to produce fresh fruit."
So the kids with him suggested that
MAZON follow the Jewish National Fund
model and raise money to buy fruit trees
that will produce food year after year
— an equal number of trees for Israel and
Haiti to feed hungry kids, fulfilling the
mitzvah of comforting the Jewish commu-
nity and non-Jewish neighbors in need.
"We need to engage Jewish kids in a
meaningful, purposeful way and this could
be the start of something," Jacob said. 0
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What you can do to stop global warming.
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Jewish Thought on the Environment
"No shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field
had yet sprung up; for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon
the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground; but there went
up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground."
—Genesis 2:5/6
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