Mother of three Member of Adat Shalom Board Member of JARC Life Member of ORT Lisa Brown is fighting to: Reform state government and make sure our taxpayer dollars are used efficiently. • Make Michigan the best place in the nation for small businesses to grow and create jobs. • Provide our schools with the resources they need to give our children a world-class education. Roundup from page 13 "I've seen firsthand how broken Lansing is and I'm fighting to fix state government so that it works for us." — Lisa Brown • Support stem cell research to help save people's lives. • Hold drug companies accountable when their products harm or kill. ROWN for State Representative Vote for Lisa Brown on Nov. 2! Paid for by the Friends of Lisa Brown • P.O. Box 251532, West Bloomfield, MI 48325 • (248) 953-1050 www.lisabrown4michigan.com I lisa4staterep@gmail.com 1631040 ANDREA FISCHER NEWMAN for University of Michigan Regent We are in a pivotal period of political and economic uncertainty. My specific business and fundraising experience positions me welt to be an effective advocate to help meet these challenges. I have a consistent record of accomplishment and based on that record, I ask for your support as I seek another eight years as a Regent for the University of Michigan. Learn More at: www.FischerNewmanforRegent.com MEYE R * * * * KLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE TR OAUSTEE Educator, Michigan Public Schools, 37 Years B.A. in Education, M.A. in Humanities Native Michigander Community involvement: PTO's AAUW, Board member - 3 boards Journalist, South Lyon Herald, Oakland Press, 4 Years VOTE ADVERTISEMENT TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2ND 16 October 28 • 2010 JN Roundup *QUALIFIED *TRUSTWORTHY *RESPONSIBLE Paid for by Meyer for O.C.C. Trustee Committee, 3926 S. Pine Center Dr., West Bloomfield, MI 48323 The United States has offered Israel several diplomatic and security incentives in exchange for a two- month extension. Netanyahu has said that his government would fall if he extends the freeze, though he offered a freeze extension in exchange for Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state. Meanwhile, Yasser Abed Rabbo, the Palestinian Liberation Organization executive committee secretary, said in an interview published Saturday in al-Hayat that the Palestinians would consider breaking agreements signed with Israel, such as the Oslo Accords, which set up the framework for peace negotiations. "The situation in which one side will be bound by the agreements for- ever while the other side violates them to the point of annulling them entirely cannot continue Rabbo said. "If Israel continues with its current policy, the moment may come when we will re- examine these agreements." Rabbo also accused Netanyahu of "forming an alliance with the American right to weaken President Barack Obama's government!' Russian Census Falls MOSCOW (JTA) -- The Russian cen- sus under way will show a Jewish decline of as much as 25 percent, a specialist on Russian Jewish demog- raphy predicts. The estimate by Mark Kupovetsky, director of biblical and Judaic studies at the Russian State University for the Humanities, for the 2010 census is based on the stable decline of the Jewish population in Russia over the past years, as death rates rise and birthrates fall. Kupovetsky told the Russian news agency MA Novosti at a news confer- ence last week that he believes the current census will show 40,000 to 60,000 fewer Jews than the 233,000 Jews from the most recent Russian census, in 2002. The first post-World War II census, in 1959, revealed 875,000 Jews. Census workers frequently fail to ask respondents to declare their eth- nic origins, Kupovetsky said. Evgenia Mikhalyova, head of the Federal Jewish Cultural Autonomy, told JTA that she declared herself Jewish only to be asked by the inter- viewer, "Are you positive?" Kupovetsky said the Jewish birth- rate is dropping because the majority of the Jewish population is urbanized and families have one or two chil- dren. According to the demographer, half of the Jewish population in Russia lives in Moscow and its suburbs, and 20 percent lives in the St. Petersburg area. The rest reside in cities with populations over 1 million. Ongoing assimilation is another reason for the decline of the Jewish population in Russia, according to Kupovetsky. Up to 90 percent of Russia's Jewish children now come from mixed marriages, he said. In addition, between the census of 1989 and that of 2002, about 40 per- cent of the Jewish population left the country. Emigration does not play a signifi- cant part in the Jewish population numbers, since it is counterbalanced by re-immigration, Kupovetsky said. Berel Lazar, one of the two chief rabbis of Russia, recently told the German President Christian Woolf that the Russian Jews who left for Germany in the 1990s are now streaming back to Russia. The potential inaccuracies notwith- standing, the census will serve as the only source of information about the numbers of the Jewish population in Russia because since the 1990s, no statistical data on mortality, mar- riages and birth have been collected based on ethnic groups. Answering Israel's Critics The Charge This month, UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, warned Israel about its archeological exca- vations in Jerusalem, calling some of the activities "destructive." The Answer When the Muslim religious coun- cil literally bulldozed parts of Jerusalem's Temple Mount earlier this decade, disturbing the arche- ology there, the world remained mainly silent. But when Israel, which has very strict laws on protection of historic sites, takes action, the Arab-dominated United Nations reveals its bias. — Allan Gale Jewish Community Relations Council of Metropolitan Detroit 0 Jewish Renaissance Media, October 28, 2010