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High Holiday Services
In Church A Big Success
This letter is written to those in the
Jewish community who could not pic-
ture a conservative synagogue having
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur ser-
vices at a Baptist church.
B'nai Israel Synagogue of West
Bloomfield held beautiful as well as
meaningful services at the Covenant
Baptist Church. ("Creating Comfort,"
Sept. 13, page 70). Our entire com-
munity worked diligently, creating an
amazing worship space. It was such a
joy for all of us to be together.

Carol Wiseman

West Bloomfield

Clergy Letter Supporting
Eagle School Sale Is Suspect
Those seeking to advance the no-bid,
behind-closed-doors sale of Eagle
Elementary by Farmington Public
Schools to the ICA have repeatedly
cited a letter of support from the West
Bloomfield Clergy and Community
Association. Curiously, several rabbis,
synagogues and Jewish institutions
included as member organizations were
never contacted, let alone surveyed, to
find out if they endorse this transaction.
This raises serious concerns as to the
legitimacy of this letter in representing
the broad spectrum of faith leaders in
West Bloomfield. Who authorized the
release of this letter, and did it reflect a
true consensus of West Bloomfield cler-
gy? We in the community have a right
to know which West Bloomfield Jewish
clergy were signatories to this letter
of endorsement. Already, the Jewish
Community Relations Council has said
that its position on this matter was
misrepresented by the CAIR (Council
on American Islamic Relations) of
Michigan.
Moreover, principals of the ICA who
do not live in West Bloomfield are also
members of this West Bloomfield Clergy
and Community Association. One can
only wonder if their inclusion in this
recently reconstituted association wasn't
to influence the outcome of the rede-
velopment of the Eagle school site to
the ICA's proposed sweeping plans.
In the interest of transparency, the
association should disclose the names
of the signatories to the letter of sup-
port for the sale of Eagle to the ICA,
the method used to canvas its constitu-
ent organizations on this issue, and the
criteria used to determine which indi-
viduals and organizations are eligible
for membership in the forum.
Rev. Chris Richards, who heads the
group, emphatically stated during a
recent radio interview that the media

Behind The Srenec Gala

JET Theatre to honor JN's publisher
as "Community Conscience."

j

ewish Ensemble Theatre will
honor Jewish News Publisher
Arthur M. Horwitz at JET'S
eighth annual "Behind the Scenes
Gala!'
Horwitz's award
will be presented
at the fundraising
celebration at 6 p.m.
Monday, Oct. 15, at
Glen Oaks Country
Club in Farmington
Hills.
Arthur
"We want to
Horwitz
honor Arthur with
the Community
Conscience Award
and thank him and
his family for being
here and for car-
ing," said David J.
Magidson, JET'S
artistic director. "We
David
are very aware of
Magidson
what his pioneer-
ing sensibility has
meant and will continue to mean for
this city, state and country."
In selecting Horwitz, JET'S board
cited him as an important role model

who has represented many important
firsts for the 24-year-old JET. "Not
only has Arthur been a supporter of
affiances throughout the community,
as well as the arts," said Magidson,
"but he has also played key roles in
organizing discussions surrounding
the theater's wildly successful Palmer
Park, which pulled together old and
new Detroit in ways that had not been
possible for more than 40 years.
Palmer Park was presented
for a month by JET at the Jewish
Community Center in West Bloomfield
and for two weeks at the Hilberry
Theatre in Midtown Detroit. It drew
thousands of spectators and featured
dozens of panel discussions with mem-
bers of the Jewish, African-American,
Chaldean and other communities and
was supported by the Jewish News and
many other corporate and civic orga-
nizations. The Channel 56 chronicle of
the play won an Emmy Award.
"In more ways than one, Arthur
transcended his role as a publisher
and has become our 'community con-
science;" said Magidson.
"He has truly heroic achievements
that deserve this coveted honor."

The JET event honoring Arthur Horwitz will take place at 6 p.m.
Monday, Oct.15, at Glen Oaks Country Club on 13 Mile east of
Orchard Lake Road in Farmington Hills. It includes dinner, wine
and music by jazz vocalist Barbara Ware. Tickets are $150 and
are available at JET at (248) 788-2900 or www.jettheatre.org .
Congratulatory ads may also be placed in a souvenir program book.

has done a great disservice in trump-
ing up charges of Islamaphobia in this
matter. Such blanket allegations are
unwarranted and irresponsible he said,
when area residents have respectfully
raised legitimate concerns.
The same interview revealed that
the deed to ICKs Huda property in
Franklin was signed by NAIT (North
American Islamic Trust). According
to our government, NAIT is an
allied organization of the Muslim
Brotherhood and was named an unin-
dicted co-conspirator in the nation's
largest-ever terror financing trial for
the bankrolling of Hamas.
Without proper due diligence and
critical analysis, many jumped on the
bandwagon backing the sale and rede-

velopment of Eagle, and now we come
to find they jumped onto a dangerous
platform that has no legs at all.

Linda Stulberg

Farmington Hills

Corrections
• "Lupovitch Lecture Gems On Video"
(Sept. 27, page 6) should have stated
that the free educational series runs at 1
p.m. every Wednesday at Congregation
Beth Ahm in West Bloomfield and that
walk-ins are welcome. Contact Nancy
Kaplan for information: (248) 737-1931
or nancyellen879@att.net .
• The "Goldstrom 60th" anniversary
announcement (Sept. 27, page 73)
should have listed their great-grand-
daughter as Erika.

The Borman, Small and Eisenberg
families had fun building a sukkah

Thank you to

all who helped

make the 2012

ARC Sukkah

Building a

huge success!

There were 110

volunteers —

including multi-

generational

friends and

families, youth

groups, temple

congregants

and ARC Board

members — who

built sukkahs at

15 ARC homes!

32nd Annual
Fall Fundraiser

.

-4:nthanIcd

OCTOBER 23, 2012
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