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DPS Offers Bricks
As School Mementos
The Detroit Public Schools Foundation
has added three new schools to its
Commemorative Brick Program,
launched in conjunction with its 2012
Give Back to Detroit Schools Annual
Appeal, active through Oct. 31. King
High School, Mackenzie High School and
the iconic blue bricks of Mumford High
School join the schools already available,
expanding the opportunity for alumni
to purchase a tangible memory of their
schools, while supporting current Detroit
Portnoys Honored By
St. Joseph Oakland
Harold Portnoy, MD, and Lynne Portnoy,
RN, of West Bloomfield, received St.
Joseph Mercy Oakland's highest honor,
the Mercy Legacy Award, at the hospi-
tal's annual premier fundraiser, the Fall
Spectacular. Pictured at right is former
University of Michigan Head Football
Coach Lloyd Carr, who was the celebrity
speaker at the event. Nearly 400 people
attended the Fall Spectacular, whose pro-
ceeds will benefit the Cardiac Care Unit
of the hospital's new South Patient Tower,
scheduled to open in early 2014.
Israel Advocacy
Expert To Speak
Guest lecturer Professor Roberta P. Seid,
education/research director for the interna-
tional Israel education nonprofit organiza-
tion StandWithUs (SWU),
will be in town for several
addresses. Seid teaches
a course on Israel at
University of California-
Irvine. She writes or
co-authors all SWU
responses to misinforma-
Roberta Seid
tion about Israel. A mem-
ber of the America Israel
Demography Research Group, she is the co-
author of The Million Person Gap: The Arab
Population in the West Bank and Gaza.
At a lunch and learn at noon Friday, Oct.
26, she will talk about "Israel Advocacy:
Exploding Myths, Promoting Facts" at the
Max M. Fisher Jewish Federation building,
Bloomfield Township. Cost of lunch is $10.
RSVP to gale@jfmd.org.
At 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 28, she will
speak about "Successes in Challenging the
Anti-Israel Campaign" at Temple Beth
El, Bloomfield Township. The program
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students. All of the bricks are authentic
structural bricks from each of the historic
high school buildings.
Proceeds for purchases of bricks
from the previous Cass Tech, King and
Mumford school buildings benefit the
current students at the newly built
schools.
Gold, silver and bronze options are
available for each school, priced at $145,
$90 and $60 each, respectively. Gold
bricks are complemented with a gold
plate that can be personalized with a
recipient's name and class year, a case and
display stand. Silver options include a sil-
ver plate for personalization and a display
stand, and bronze level bricks come with
a bronze plate.
All prices include postage and handling
for each brick ordered. Due to the high
demand for Cass Tech bricks from alumni
across the country, a limited supply
remains. Orders for Cass Tech bricks will
continue to be fulfilled as supplies last.
Visit www.detroitpsfoundation.org/
commemorative-bricks for more infor-
mation or to order a brick, or call Erica
Sanders at (313) 873-8976.
is sponsored by the Temple's Israel Chai
Committee.
She will talk about "Israel on College
Campuses Today" at 7:30 p.m. Sunday,
Oct. 28, at Adat Shalom Synagogue,
Farmington Hills. The talk is presented
by the StandWithUs-Michigan chapter
and co-sponsored by the Israel Advocacy
Group of Adat Shalom Synagogue.
Registration begins at 7:15 p.m.
For more information on any of the lec-
tures, contact Barbara at (248) 325.5306 or
email standwithusmichigan@gmail.com.
Shir Shalom Sets
Online Auction
Temple Shir Shalom in West Bloomfield is
conducting a month-long online auction
to raise money for scholarships and to add
positive and fun programming for chil-
dren and their families. The online auction
begins Thursday, Nov. 1, and runs through
Saturday, Dec. 1.
Items to be bid on include great trips
into Northern Michigan, a luxurious din-
ner at PRIME29 in West Bloomfield, high-
end jewelry, fine art, toys, clothing from
upscale local merchants, autographed
sports memorabilia and even a ProFlo
Comfort High Toilet from Plumbing
Professors valued at $425.
Shir Shalom is still looking for and
accepting auction items from business
owners, congregants and private citizens.
New items and or gift certificates can be
dropped off at Shir Shalom from 9 a.m.-4
p.m. weekdays. For questions, call (248)
737-8700.
Once the auction opens Nov. 1, inter-
ested bidders can go to www.shirshalom.
org and click on the auction link and begin
to bid. The fundraising goal is $50,000.
facing anti-Semitic harassment and
intimidation. He has been a vocal advocate
in the defense of Israel against its enemies
and to protect Israel's security needs.
There is no charge to attend this event.
Contact ZOA-Michigan Region at kobi@
mizoa.org, or call (248) 661-6000 for more
information.
ZOA Head Will
Speak On Elections
Morton Klein, national president of the
Zionist Organization of America (ZOA),
will speak at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov.
14, at Adat Shalom
Synagogue, Farmington
Hills, on "The Impact
of the U.S. Elections on
Israel and the Middle
East."
Under his direction,
the ZOA, the first
Morton Klein
pro-Israel advocacy
group in the U.S., has
campaigned successfully against anti-
Israel bias in leading textbooks, travel
guides, universities, churches and in
the media. The ZOA has led the effort
to protect the civil rights of Jewish
students on campuses, resulting in the
U. S. government's policy to enforce and
extend the protection of Title VI of the
Civil Rights Act of 1964 to Jewish students
Jerusalem Activists
Speak On Peace Efforts
Dr. Rabbi Ron Kronish, founder and direc-
tor of the Interreligious Coordinating
Council in Israel (ICCI), an umbrella for
75 organization of Christians, Muslims
and Jews working for peace, and Qadi
(Judge) Iyad Zahalka, head of the Sharia
court in Jerusalem, will speak about their
efforts to bring peace on Oct. 25 from
noon-1:30 p.m. at Wayne State University,
2339 Faculty Administration Building,
and from 7-9 p.m. First Presbyterian
Church of Birmingham, 1669 W. Maple,
Birmingham.
The event is sponsored by 12 local
organizations, including the American
Jewish Committee, Jewish Community
Relations Council, the Bloomfield Hills-
based Pathways To Peace Foundation and
the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies
at WSU.
Email pathways2peace@comcast.net for
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Adat Shalom Offert
College Prep Proram
Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington
Hills is offering a series for students in
grades 10-12 and their parents entitled
"College Bound: Where does your journey
begin?"
Set for Sundays, Oct. 28 and Nov. 11
and 18, the workshops will focus on one of
the most exciting and anxiety-producing
times in a family's life cycle: when a teen
prepares to transition from high school
to college. This college prep program will
help you answer questions such as: Which
college should I choose? What is Jewish
life like on campus? What resources are
available in our community to help pay for
college?
Sessions will be held from 10:30 a.m. to
12:30 p.m. at Adat Shalom.
This program is possible thanks to the
generosity of the Mandell and Madeleine
Berman Foundation. There is no charge and
the program is open to the community.
Register by contacting Jodi Gross at
jgross@adatshalom.org or (248) 626-2153.
Wooden Acres
To Host Reunion
Wooden Acres Camp will hold a
reunion from 4-6 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 4, at
Paradise Park, 45799 Grand River, Novi.
Participants will be able to choose two
activities from among mini golf, Laser tag,
mini bowling and go-carting. Cost is $10,
including pizza, pop and 2012 summer
video. Bring additional money for arcade
games. RSVP to (248) 543-5697 or info@
woodenacres.com.
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Oldest-Known Auschwitz
Survivor Dies In Poland
(JTA) — The oldest-known former pris-
oner of Auschwitz reportedly has died at
the age of 108.
Antoni Dobrowolski died Sunday in the
northwestern Polish town of Debno, the
Associated Press reported, citing Jaroslaw
Mensfelt, a spokesman for the Auschwitz-
Birkenau state museum.
Dobrowolski was arrested and sent
to Auschwitz in 1942 for holding secret
lessons past the elementary school level
— any education beyond four years of
elementary school was banned by the
Germans in an effort to destroy Polish
culture.
Dobrowolski was liberated from
Sachsenhausen in 1945.