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Adelsons Give $13 Million
To Birthright Israel Fund

of 42,000 participants this year."
Adelson said, "When we discovered
that 5,000 more young adults could still
attend a trip this year if the funding
was available, we felt compelled to act.
With over 20,000 young adults on the
waiting list, we feel that reducing that
list must be a top priority of the Jewish
community. For those young adults still
on the waiting list, we urge them to keep
applying. We plan on continuing to do
all we can to provide this opportunity to
everyone who is interested!'

The Birthright Israel Foundation
announced a new $13 million gift from
Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson in
recognition of the Foundation's 13th
"bar mitzvah" year. This gift follows the
success of a $20 million challenge grant
made by the Adelsons earlier this year.
The Birthright Israel Foundation
Campaign, which is run in partnership
with major foundations and federations
around the country, along with more
than 25,000 individual donors, has thus
far raised $28 million dollars in 2012
in addition to the gifts of the Adelson
family. Together, the Foundation will
be working with donors to meet the
Adelson Challenge and raise a total of
$72 million before the end of the year.
According to Dan Och, Chairman of
the Foundation, "The Adelsons' philan-
thropic investment is without parallel
and is key to building the future of our
Jewish community"
Gidi Mark, CEO of Taglit-Birthright
Israel, said, "This new gift brings their
total giving to over $140 million and
moves us significantly toward our target

Chagall Exhibit
Opens In Moscow

(JTA) — An exhibit on artist Marc
Chagall, whose works were once banned
in the former Soviet Union, opened in
Russia.
The Moscow exhibition looks at the
Jewish and folk art influences on his
art. Communist Russia saw his works as
"bourgeois!'
"Visitors often ask why Chagall's
animals are blue, yellow or pink, why
the bride is flying over the rooftops and
the man has two faces," said curator
Ekaterina Selezneva, according to the

FOUR NEW FACES
FOUR NEW PERSPiCTIVES

Let's Moy

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French news agency AFP. They will now
understand where Chagall drew [his
images) from."
Chagall was born Moishe Segal in
1887 to a poor Jewish family outside
Vitebsk in modern Belarus, in the
Jewish Pale of Settlement, and his paint-
ings recall images of Vitebsk.
Selezneva said the exhibition "must
help people to understand the mystery
of Chagall," who always looked to popu-
lar art in his search for a distinctive
figurative language.
Chagall served for a short time as
commissioner of art in his hometown,
but following an argument with fellow
painter Kazmir Malevich left for Paris.
The exhibit runs until Sept. 30.

Grand Rapids Inmate
Sues For Kosher Meals

(JTA) — A Michigan prison inmate has
filed a federal lawsuit over the prison's
lack of kosher meals.
Bradley Sleighter, 54, has been an
inmate in the Kent County jail in Grand
Rapids since January, where he is serv-
ing a nine-month sentence for retail
fraud.

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He said in a lawsuit filed in the U.S.
District Court in Grand Rapids that he
has lost 30 pounds since his imprison-
ment and is subsisting on a diet of veg-
etables, bread and cereal.
The jail only has a special menu for
medical needs, according to the Detroit
Free Press.
Sleighter's lawsuit calls for sealed
kosher meals or that the jail equip its
own kosher kitchen if it cannot acquire
the meals. The suit seeks a financial
penalty for every day that Sleighter is
not given a kosher meal.

Fundraiser To Aid
Jewish U.S. Troops

KosherTroops (www.koshertroops.com )
is an organization dedicated to support-
ing American Jewish troops with care
packages throughout the year and on
Jewish holidays.
The KosherTroops team will be driv-
ing an SUV on the 4,200-mile dirt road
trail across America, to raise awareness
of Jewish Troops in the U.S. military.
The trip will begin in Tennessee and
end in Oregon. "The Road Less Traveled"
can be followed on Koshertroops.com .

These four candidates are endorsed bty,
Supervisor ftilichele Ecanomou-Ureste,
Treasurer Ted Weingarden, and Trustee
Steven Kaplan. These four candidates
also widorse them.

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Paid for by CTE: Michele EconOmou Ureste, 2984 Saddlewood Rd., West Bloomfield. Neha Patel, 2841 Treyburn Ln., West B oomfield. Jeremy Kaplan, 5824 Dunmore DK, West Bloom ield.
Hartley Harris, 4800 Leonard Ct., West Bloomfield. Al Zara, 5779 W. Maple Rd., West Bloomfield.

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