Metro

Help For Unemployed
The Jump Start Your Career program
helps chronically unemployed workers
or individuals who have been laid off
or lost a business in the past year.
These folks are invited to a free,
10-session program provided by JVS
in Southfield beginning in October.
The program is offered at no charge
on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
It will motivate job seekers by help-
ing them identify their strengths,
values, skills and life goals; explore
viable career options; develop personal
plans for success; define their per-
sonal brands; create winning resumes;
improve job seeking and interviewing
skills; learn financial tips for tough
economic times; and cope with job
search stress.
Job seekers must pre-register by
contacting April Oikarinen at (248)
233-4234 or aoikarinen@jvsdet.org .

JCC Health Checks
The Jewish Community Center of
Metropolitan Detroit will host Healthy
U on Sunday, Oct. 10, from 10 a.m.-2
p.m. at the JCC in Oak Park, 15110 W.
10 Mile Road.
This free event, co-sponsored by
Humana, is open to the community
and will include a diaper derby spon-
sored by the Oakland County Parks
(winner receives a box of diapers),
exhibitors, prizes, health screenings,
fitness classes including Spin, NIA
and Tai Chai, one-day only member-
ship specials, free karate presentations
where experts will break boards and
information about yoga and nutrition
for children.
To register a baby for the diaper
derby or for information, contact
Judy Front, (248) 432-5605 or jfront@
jccdet.org

Enrichment Seminars

The Success Team, a job search
accountability group, meets on
Thursdays, Oct. 14—Dec. 9, from
9:30-11 a.m., at Temple Israel, West
Bloomfield.
Learn new techniques to use in your
job search and share triumphs with
fellow job seekers. The meetings are
weekly for 1 1/2 hours for eight weeks.
(No meeting Nov. 25.)
The success team will be led by
Karen Gutman, employment specialist
at JVS. For information, contact Elaine
Bertsch, elaine@temple-israel.org or
(248) 661-5700.

The Jewish Community Center of
Metropolitan Detroit's SAJE (Seminars
for Adult Jewish Enrichment) will
host an interactive satellite broadcast
featuring Knesset Member Tzipi Livni
at 8 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 3, at the JCC in
West Bloomfield, 6600 W. Maple.
Livni will present "The State of
World Jewry Lecture" from New York's
92nd Street Y. Audiences around the
country will participate and be able to
ask questions during the talk.
After serving in the Israel Defense
Forces and with the Mossad, Livni
helped establish the Kadima Party in
2005. A year later, she was appointed
vice prime minister and minister of
foreign affairs.
During the Netanyahu administra-
tion, she became head of the Kadima
Party and leader of the opposition.
Cost for Sunday's event is $5 per
person. Advance registration is
requested to (248) 432-5692.

College Loans Available
The JVS Jewish Educational Loan
Service (JELS) is accepting applica-
tions for interest-free, deferred student
loans until Nov. 15.
Loans are need-based and available
to Metro Detroit Jewish residents.
JELS is administered through JVS,
the Hebrew Free Loan Association of
Metropolitan Detroit and the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit.
For an application or information
about college financial aid options,
contact Marvin Berman at (248) 233-
4209 or mberman@jvsdet.org.

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Job Search Help

Voter Registration

Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land
reminds residents that Monday, Oct. 4,
is the last day to register to vote for the
Nov. 2 statewide election.
To register, applicants can stop by
their Secretary of State branch office
or local clerk's office. They must be at
least 18 by Election Day and be U.S.
citizens. Applicants must be residents
of Michigan and of the city or town-
ship in which they wish to register.
Voters may register in person or
by mail. The mail-in form is on the
Department of State Web site at www.
Michigan.gov/sos . First-time voters
who register by mail must vote in
person in their first election, unless
they hand-deliver the application to
their local clerk, are 60 or older, are
disabled, or are eligible to vote under
the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens
Absentee Voting Act.
Voters who qualify may choose to
cast an absentee ballot.