for college students by college students
The Jewish Theological Seminary presents
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Destination Detroit
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MSU Hillel and Jewish Student Union launch a
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2012 Detroit Dinner
uring the fall semester, MSU Hillel and the Jewish Student Union piloted an
innovative program called Destination Detroit-Building Bridges. Designed to
bring diverse student groups together to participate in community service
projects in the city of Detroit, the program focuses on embracing the cultural differences
Monday, June 4, 2012
14 Sivan 5772
5:30 p.m.
Congregation Shaarey Zedek
27375 Bell Road, Southfield, Michigan
present in schools, workplaces, communities and society at large.
While planning the program, various organizations from the MSU community
were brought together, and a committee of student leaders was born from the ranks
of the Black Student Alliance, Arab Cultural Society, Asian Pacific American Student
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Organization, Cultural de las Razas Unidas, the Alliance of Queer and Ally Students, and
the student aides of the Office of Cultural and Academic Transitions. Ben Falik of Repair
the World and a co-founder of Summer in the City also signed on to help the team
develop the initiative.
Join us for a fun-filled evening honoring community
leaders and celebrating JTS alumni. Your attendance will
enhance the "agony and ecstasy" of triumph and defeat as
our rabbis, cantors and educators compete for the title of
The Destination Detroit team organized two trips that incorporated meaningful com-
munity service work focused on the youth of the city. During our first trip to Detroit,
we hosted a field day for the students of Glazer Elementary School. Next, we toured
Focus:Hope, a nationally renowned civil and human rights organization that works to
bridge the racial divide in southeast Michigan through a food program, career training
and the HOPE Village Initiative.
Our second trip was focused on working with young children active in the Latino
Mission Society. We spent more than four hours engaged with students during a field
trip to Belle Isle. Additionally, we received a tour of southwest Detroit and visited the
Heidelberg Project, an open-air outdoor art project in the heart of Detroit's East Side.
join us as we honor our
Manny and Nancy
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Steven and Linda
Mondrow
Mitch Parker
Congregation
Beth Ahni
Congregation
Wnai Moshe
Wnai Israel
Synagogue
Steven Parzen
Jeffrey and Debra
Supowit
Eric and Renee
Zacks
Congregation
Shaarey Zedek
Destination Detroit continues on facing page
Recipients:
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MSU students leaders Sam Appel, a senior from Huntington
Woods; Monica Shamas, a senior from Sylvania, Ohio; Emily
Berlin, a senior from Whitehall, Mich., hang out with children •
from the Latino Mission Society.
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special guest speaker
Rabbi Daniel Nevins
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Jewish
The next issue of the JN's jewish@edu section comes out Nov. 8. If you are
a student from Metro Detroit and have an interest in writing about Hillel
events at your university, contact your Hillel director. If you would like to
propose other feature stories, personal essays, opinion pieces or Jewish
campus life photographs, contact Keri Guten Cohen at kcohen@renmedia.us .
We welcome your input. Enjoy the summer!