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Michigan's next generation of lead-
ership must create a community of
entrepreneurs and give Detroiters the
opportunity to start their own busi-
ness so that they, too, can create jobs
here, open a world headquarters here
and reinvest in this city.
In the end, we cannot put our faith
and fate completely in government.
Our future does not rest in their
hands; it lies in our own. That is
why I helped draft the Southeastern
Michigan Jewish Declaration. The
Declaration is not about what the
government can do for me; it is
what we can do together. It is about
responsibility, not just to us, but also
to each other — to our community. It
is about accountability and being able
to stand up and ask what can we do
with each other.
As a result, it is important that you
vote, but it is just as important that
you write yourself in as a member
of this community, as a Detroiter
and as someone who cares in seeing
our community, our region and our
state thrive. This November, you can
choose business as usual or you can
stand up and change the course of
our community.
From the Paris of the Midwest,
the City of Churches and Trees,
the Motor City, Detroit Rock City,
Motown, Hockeytown and the City of
Champions, Detroit is my town and it
is time to reclaim it as our town. It is
time to regroup, rebuild and re-brand
this city as a new city and shining
example of seizing a challenge and
turning it into an opportunity. ❑

Daniel Cherrin is an attorney, lobby-

ist and public relations executive with

Detroit-based Fraser Trebilcock and

Fraser Consulting. He is the former

communications director for the city of

Detroit and former press secretary to

then-Detroit Mayor Kenneth V. Cockrel,

Jr. Cherrin is one of the original draft-

ers of the Southeastern Michigan Jewish

Declaration.

Southeastern Michigan
Jewish Declaration

Add your name to this
recent declaration advocating a
vibrant, vital future for Jewish
Detroit and Southeastern
Michigan. The declaration is the
handiwork of an independent
group of 14 young Jewish
leaders convened by the Jewish
News. Go to: www.thejewishnews.
com/declaration

At The Helm

New VP for
Conservative
Jewish women.

oyce Berlin Weingarten
of Bloomfield Hills will
be installed as a national
vice president of Women's League
for Conservative Judaism, the largest
synagogue women's organization in
the world, at the 2010 biennial conven-
tion on Dec. 12 in
Baltimore.
Founded in 1918,
Women's League,
the parent body
of 500 affiliated
women's groups in
Conservative syna-
gogues across the
Joyce Berlin
continent, is dedi-
Weingarten
cated to the perpetu-
ation of traditional
Judaism in the home, synagogue and
community.
Weingarten, a former president of
Adat Shalom Synagogue Sisterhood
in Farmington Hills and the Michigan
Region of Women's League, is a bar/
bat mitzvah tutor at Adat Shalom's Beth
Achim Religious School. She has served
on the Women's League region board
since 1998, the synagogue board (where
she is now on the executive committee)
since 1993 and the Auxiliary of Jewish
Home and Aging Services.
She is a member of the board of
Women's League (www.wlcj.org) and is
on the convention cabinet.
Women's League's convention, which
will bring almost 1,000 women to the
Baltimore harbor, will focus on creating
and celebrating community. Key speak-
ers include Dr. Arnold Eisen, chancellor
of the Jewish Theological Seminary
(JTS) in New York; Rabbi Bradley Shavit
Artson, dean of the Ziegler School of
Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles; and
Rabbi Gilah Dror, of Rodef Sholom
Temple in Hampton, Va., the first woman
president of both the American and the
Israeli Rabbinical Assemblies.
Rabbi Avis Miller, president of Open
Dor Foundation, Inc., will moderate
a panel discussion on creating com-
munities.
Delegates will study with scholar-
in-residence Dr. Anne Lapidus Lerner,
a pioneer in the field of Jewish
women's studies and director of the
Jewish Feminist Research Group and
a member of the Jewish Literature
Department at JTS. H

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