Over 60 Homes Sold In 2013 Top 1% of Realtors Nationally JEFF MATT 248.425.6000 jeff@jeffbarkerhomes.com I www.jeffbarkerhomes.com $2.00 Nov. 7-13, 2013 / 4-10 KISLEV 5774 A JEWISH RENAISSANCE MEDIA PUBLICATION BARKER theJEWISHNEWS.com » New Blood Younger volunteers help rejuvenate local Jewish War Veterans and auxiliary. See page 22. » 50th Anniversary Birmingham Temple and Humanistic Judaism reach a major milestone. See page 16. DETROIT JEWISH NEWS » Community Needs Economic needs still play a significant role in Federation allocations. See page 18. Mona Gubow, Art Fishman and Linda Zyla help gather clothing for vets at VA hospitals. » cover story Seeking Cures Israeli and American medical researchers connect at U-M symposium. Ruthan Brodsky I Contributing Writer Ann Arbor 0 ur collaborations are bottom up rather than top down," says Alan Saltiel, Ph.D., Mary Sue Coleman Director of the Life Sciences Institute (LSI) at the University of Michigan. "When scientists need something, they often find it in a relat- ed field and cross boundaries to work with other scientists based on scientific interests:' Opportunities like these were featured late last month at the third scientific symposium sponsored by the University of Michigan- CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 • After Kristallnacht, Germans walK 'Night Of Broken Glass' Local survivors share horrible memories on the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht. Dr. Gilad Kunis, a scientist from Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science, is ready for Jewis stores in Madgeburg, Germany, to check out the damage Esther Allweiss Ingber I Contributing Writer a symposium session. Printed In Michigan 1942 - 2013 Covering and Connecting Jewish Detroit Eve y Week 8 1 1 08805 A 'though 75 years have passed since Kristallnacht ("the Night of Broken Glass") on Nov. 9-10, 1938 — time cannot diminish the damage this event did to the Jews of Germany and Austria. During the Nazi-instigated pogroms, more than 1,000 syna- gogues were burned, 7,500 Jewish businesses destroyed and 30,000 Jewish men arrested and removed to German concentra- tion camps. Hundreds of Jews were beaten or killed outright. Kristallnacht forever changed Jewish life in Europe as it set in motion Germany's Final Solution, the attempted murder of an entire people. Prior to Kristallnacht, "the National Socialist government had ordered the deportation of all Jews who had immigrated to Germany from Eastern European countries, even if that event occurred during past generations:' said Professor Guy Stern, director of the Institute of the Righteous at the Farmington CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 93363 5