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Earhart and Noonan, and their brood of offspring, arrived at
New York's LaGuardia Airport late this afternoon to throngs of
cheering well-wishers. Earhart refused to answer reporters' ques-
tions but did say through a spokesperson that she is "thrilled to
be back home despite the fact that the airline that flew her here
lost her luggage'
Dateline: Sept. 18, 2032. Though it won't be available for two
more years, lines are already forming at Apple stores to buy the
627th updated version of Apple's popular iPhone. The all-new
appy, healthy 5775 to you and yours! My, where
iPhone 628 is the technology giant's biggest, fastest, longest,
have the centuries gone? Which raises the ques-
widest, shiniest and coolest cellular phone to date. However, it's
tion, what exactly does the future hold for us? For
receiving mixed reviews, with critics especially upset over the
that, I dust off my trusty crystal ball and give you another
fact that at 20 inches by 32 inches, the phone's screen is so gigan-
installment of Tomorrow's News Today.
tic that the 628 had to be engineered with wheels and a handle so
Dateline: Oct. 22, 2014. After having completed its 442-mil-
consumers can transport it around.
lion-mile journey to Mars, NASA's Maven spacecraft
Hands down one of the features that is guaranteed to
has begun sending back its initial findings. Though
please celebrities is the fact that the iPhone 628 comes
its main mission is to study Mars' upper atmosphere,
with an innovative camera that automatically digitizes
the craft revealed an unexpected and shocking find-
out private parts on selfies. Plus, kids will love the 628's
ing today when it verified the existence of a Walmart
texting technology that is said to be so advanced that
and Starbucks on the surface of the Red Planet.
they'll never have a reason to talk to another human
As if that weren't incredible enough, NASA
ever again.
Finally, Dateline: April 11, 2047. Major League
announced at a press conference today that a second
Starbucks had been located and it was less than a
Baseball announced today the formation of a separate,
mile away from the first one! The discovery of the
new league that will play its games only in Venezuela,
coffeehouse is expected to save the budget-strapped
Cuba and the Dominican Republic. The big news is
Alan
space agency millions of dollars because of the acces-
the leagues will be made up of only American players;
Muskovitz
sibility of Starbucks free wifi service.
not because Hispanic players aren't welcome — there
Jewish
News
Dateline: July 15, 2017. In what arguably has to
just aren't any left in those countries. Tigers shortstop
Columnist
be considered one of most amazing stories of our
Bobby Miller, who, before his retirement last year, was
lifetime, it has been confirmed that Amelia Earhart
the last American to play baseball in the United States,
and her navigator Fred Noonan were found alive last
says, "This is a welcome relief for American kids who
week on a remote island in the Pacific. Earhart, now 120 years
still love our great national pastime and who took three years of
old, and Noonan, age 124, were said to be in amazingly good
high school Spanish:' ❑
condition considering they had been missing since 1937. The
two flying legends attributed their survival to the support they
Alan Muskovitz is a writer, voice-over/acting talent, speaker, emcee
received from the 14 children they conceived while stranded on
and a regular guest host on the Mitch Albom Show on WJR AM 760.
their desert island.
Visit his website at laughwithbigal.com and "Like" Al on Facebook.

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Akiva students Sander Eizen, Ari Eizen,
Zachary Herschfus and Noah Adler with
a Nechama worker, center.

Reaching Beyond

Akiva students end
summer by clearing
a flooded basement.

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n high school, many young people
begin to expand their view beyond
their immediate surroundings. Some
begin to think about politics, others get
involved in the community and others look
for involvement beyond their own com-
munity.
At Akiva Hebrew Day School in
Southfield, students have opportunities to
do all of these things. And often students
bring their own agendas and open up the
entire student body to new things. Some of
the opportunities include pre-holiday vis-
its with senior citizens, monthly tutoring
at Stevenson Elementary, packaging food
at Yad Ezra and working at JARC. Students
can also participate in a Model United
Nations, lobby for Israel through AIPAC
or Panim, or intern with Stand with Us, a
campus Israel advocacy organization.
Recently, students were able to reach out
to the larger community when the devas-
tating flooding struck the area. Nechama,
a national Jewish disaster relief organiza-
tion, deployed help here in conjunction
with the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit. Workers were overwhelmed with
requests for help, especially from the unin-
sured or underinsured.
A group of Akiva students, led by parent
volunteer Michal Korman and three of the
school's Israeli shlichim, spent their last
day of summer vacation hauling decay-
ing trash from the flooded basement of
an Oak Park home. The work was truly
grueling, but Nechama staff and students
related how they stuck with the work and
gave it their all for the entire day.
Student volunteers included Ellen
Peysakhova, Yardena Schwarcz, Andrew
Korman, Sander Eizen, Ari Eizen, Nati
Faber, Avi Greenbaum, Zach Herschfus,
Alter Klausner and Noah Adler. Several of
the students said they enjoyed the experi-
ence because it gave them the opportunity
to interact with and learn about something
so outside of their normal experience. ❑

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