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Region chair of the Weizmann
Institute of Science in Israel. She
is an accomplished fundraiser and
cares deeply about the Jewish com-
munity in Detroit and in Israel.
Schwartz served as president of
Federation's Women's Department
and is a board member of
Federation's Board of Governors,
the Jewish Community Relations
Council, Sinai-Grace Hospital,
Harper-Hutzel Hospital and the
Greater Detroit Area Health Council.
She is a life member of the Jewish
Women's Foundation. She was
president of Sinai Hospital Guild.
She is a founding member of the
Cancer Thrivers Network for Jewish
Women. Her passion is reaching out
to women in our community, mak-
ing them feel connected with their
community.
National Philanthropy Day is a
day set aside to recognize and pay
tribute to the great contributions
that philanthropy — and those peo-
ple active in the philanthropic com-
munity — have made to our lives,
our communities and our world. It
celebrates the extraordinary impact
of the charitable sector and the
increasing role it plays in our societ-
ies and countries around the world.
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he Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit will
honor two longstanding
community leaders, Nancy Jacobson
of Bloomfield Hills and Sandra
("Sandy") Schwartz of Franklin.
They will be recognized as
Federation nomi-
nees for the 2010
Distinguished
Volunteer Awards
presented by
the Association
of Fundraising
Professionals at
AFP's National
Nancy
Philanthropy
Jacobson
Day dinner on
Thursday, Nov. 18,
at the San Marino
Club, Troy.
Jacobson's
commitment
to the Detroit
Jewish com-
munity includes
Federation's Board
Sandy
of Governors and
Schwartz
as Campaign chair
of the Women's Department. She
has served on the boards of Jewish
Family Service, Fresh Air Society/
Tamarack Camps and Jewish Home
and Aging Services (now Jewish
Senior Life). She is a former vice
president of JARC and is Midwest

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Religious Sites' Ruling

JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called
the decision of a United Nations body
to define the Cave of the Patriarchs and
Rachel's Tomb as Palestinian "absurd."
The United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization,
the U.N. body in charge of preserving
historical sites, at the end of its biannual
session last week adopted several pro-
posals by Arab states classifying Jewish
and Muslim holy sites.
The Cave of the Patriarchs, according
to the Bible, is the place where the Jewish
forefathers Abraham, Issac and Jacob are
buried. The Muslims call it Al-Ibrahimi
Mosque, also because Abraham is bur-
ied there.
Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem has been
identified as the Bilal bin Rabah Mosque
since 1996; prior to that it was referred

to in Arabic as Qubat Rachel. The board
voted 44 to 1 with 12 abstentions to call
the site "an integral part of the occupied
Palestinian territories and that any uni-
lateral action by the Israeli authorities is
to be considered a violation of interna-
tional law."
"The attempt to detach the people
of Israel from its heritage is absurd:'
Netanyahu said in a statement. "If the
places where the fathers and mothers of
the Jewish nation are buried, Abraham,
Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Leah and Rachel
some 4,000 years ago are not part of the
Jewish heritage, then what is?"
"The organization established to pro-
mote historical heritage sites worldwide
is trying for political reasons to detach
the ties between the Jewish people and
their heritage," he said. Israel, he said,
"will continue to preserve freedom of
religion at these sites."

