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Stepping Out

Capitol Steps sing post-election
satire at ADL's annual dinner.

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n the heels of the
midterm elections,
the Anti-Defamation
League celebrated its fall fun-
draiser by entertaining its sup-
porters with the well-known
Washington, D.C.-based Capitol
Steps, a political satire group
performing since 1981.
About 300 people gathered
Nov. 4 at Knollwood Country
Club in West Bloomfield for
ADL's annual fall fundraiser,
complete with dinner and des-
sert.
Originally made up exclu-
sively of congressional staff-
ers, the Capitol Steps is now a
professional troupe. They have
released about 30 albums con-
sisting of song parodies. At the
event, they sang about airport
security, the midterm elections,
Tea Partiers, President Obama,
and former Vice Presidential

candidate Sarah Palin.
Monies raised will help the
ADL with community program-
ming, including security issues
like the recent influx of ter-
rorist-related packages aboard
U.S.-bound planes, combatting
cyber bullying in middle and
high schools and the newest
initiative, No Place for Hate, an
ADL program offered at no cost
to schools across Michigan. The
program is a model for reducing
intolerance, bullying and name
calling and creating a more
inclusive learning environment.
Seen in the crowd were Jay
Hack of Royal Oak, Dan and
Deb Levy of West Bloomfield,
John and State Sen. Gilda Jacob
of Huntington Woods, Detroit
City Council President Charles
Pugh, Earle and Beth Erman
as well as Jon Aaron, all of
Bloomfield Hills. ❑

Attending the ADL event are Melissa Antokal and Jason Gumenick, both of Ann Arbor,
Mike Chosid of Detroit and Megan Ingber of Detroit.

At the dinner are host Renee Laker of West Bloomfield, Betsy Kellman, regional ADL director, Elaine
Sturman, regional ADL board chair, and her husband, Dr. Stephen Sturman of Bloomfield Hills.

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