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Inspiring Future Jewish Leaders

W

e're doing a good job inspir-
ing future Jewish leaders, but
we're doing only half the job,
the publisher of the Detroit Jewish News
declared in the keynote address before
Michigan State University Hillel support-
ers last week in Southfield.
"We need to inspire
them and give them
reason to stay in
Michigan or come
back," the IN's Arthur
Horvitz told 350 guests
at MSU Hillel's annual
dinner in Oakland
County.
Horwitz applauded
"the wonderful tradi-
tion and rich history of leadership that has
come from the Detroit Jewish community.
"We witnessed, and continue to wit-
ness, a model of inspiring leadership that
requires a Jewish communal leader to
also be a leader in the general commu-
nity:' he said.
"Quite simply, our fate as a Detroit

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Jewish community is intertwined with the
fate of our city, region, state and country."
Horwitz observed that with some
notable exceptions, most of our leaders
who model this behavior are in their 70s,
80s and even 90s.
He acknowledged that we do have
Jewish leaders who are younger. "But
their energy, efforts and talent have large-
ly been channeled to leadership roles in
Jewish organizations — without strong
linkages to the general community,
region and state in which we live:' he said.
While Jews from the Detroit area, espe-
cially those in their 20s, have often gravi-
tated to other cities outside of Michigan
to build their careers and expand their
social circles, the 2005 Jewish Federation
of Metropolitan Detroit demographic
study documented an alarming trend
— our 20-somethings were leaving the
area in droves and not planning to come
back, Horwitz said. The current economic
downturn has exacerbated the problem.
Detroit Jewry is a model in many
respects for how we raise money and

• Plant evergreen shrubs and trees on
the north side of the building to block
cold winds. Plant leafy (deciduous)
trees on the southern and western
sides of the building to block the sun
and to cool the building.
• Reduce lawn size and plant drought-
tolerant native plants and herbs.
• Dig up unneeded concrete and plant
there.
• Restore native plants along streams
and repair stream erosion.
• Join a community garden.
• If fertilizing, use organic or slow-
release fertilizer.
• Better yet, reduce or eliminate the
use of fertilizers. Use organic com-
post instead.
• Reduce or eliminate the use of weed
killers.

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What you can do to stop global warming.

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provide a support network to help send
our kids to religious school, day school,
summer camp, and on teen trips to Israel
and on Marches of the Living to Poland
— and to help make sure our Jewish
students on college campuses across the
state have access to Hillels.
"Then, after investing years and mil-
lions of communal dollars in their Jewish
identity and education, we wave goodbye
to them as they head to Chicago, New
York, Washington or Los Angeles and
tell them: 'We don't blame you ... there's
nothing here for you:" Horwitz said.
We need a better economic and social
climate to keep our future Jewish leaders
here, to bring those who have left back
and to attract Jews from other areas who
see our overall quality of life, and Jewish
life, as exceptional.
"We need to reconnect with our city,
region and state and recognize, as some
of our wise leaders have, that future
Jewish leaders are needed to lead all of us
to a more prosperous future, not just the
Jewish community."

Jewish Thought on
the Environment

"Then the LORD God formed man of
the dust of the ground, and breathed
into his nostrils the brath of life; and
man became a living soul.
"And the LORD God planted a garden
eastward, in Eden; and there He put
the man whom He had formed."

—Genesis 2:7/8

"When it comes
to deciding how to
spend your last 25
years, what do you
have to lose?"

— Bonnie Brooks, who with her husband
of 21 years, Harvey Brooks, 65,
a bass guitar player who performed with

Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, the Doors

Please contact Michigan Coalition on
the Environment & Jewish Life for
global warming presentations:
(248) 642-5393, ext. 7, or
mi-coejl@jfmd.org .

and B.B. King, on making aliyah
later during "the golden years,"
as quoted by JTA in an April 12 story.

Source: Michigan Coalition on the Environment Si Jewish Life

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