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Sojourns in the Shadowlands

Sunday, January 11, 2015 Exhibit Opening Event 7:00 p.m.

Artists'Talk and Presentation Ir Mixed media art by Hans Molzberger and Michael
Roque Collins reminds us of the Holocaust's inhumanity and conveys hope and healing.

ON EXHIBIT JANUARY 11— MAY 3, 2015 MORE INFO holocaustcenter.org

$2.00 JAN.1 -7, 2015 / 10 -16 TEVET 5775

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The Future

Elana Schwartz of Bloomfield and Leslie
Katz of Farmington Hills share a laugh
as the competition heats up.

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Jewish Gay Network
welcomes a new coordinator
and develops new programs.

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Elizabeth Applebaum

Special to the Jewish News

F

aith Robinson has been a teacher, an
exterminator and an electrician. So
she is educated, brave and knowledge-
able — all characteristics she will need in her
new position as head of the Jewish Community
Center of Metropolitan
Detroit's Jewish Gay
Network (JGN).
Now observing its 10-year
anniversary, the JGN offers
social action activities,
movie nights, potlucks,
support groups for friends
and family, and advocacy
Faith
programs. The group also
Robinson
sponsors JCC programming
at the Jewish Book Fair, the
Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival and the
Stephen Gottlieb Festival of the Arts.
In her new role, Robinson, who lives in
Southfield with her partner, Debora Renner, will
be responsible for running the-day-to-day busi-
ness of JGN as well as overseeing and developing
new projects. It is both a good time to head the

Allen Wolf with his
American passport and
new German passport

Local Jews reclaim
German citizenship, mostly
for the benefits.

Barbara Lewis I Contributing Writer

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imon Bernard and Isidor Wolf had never met, but they
had a lot in common. Both came from large families,
married women from Austria, worked as butchers —
and lost their German citizenship as a result of anti-Semitic
Nazi-era laws.
Now their sons, Henri Bernard and Allen Wolf, are among
a handful of Michigan Jews who have reclaimed the German
citizenship that was stolen from them. Both retained their U.S.
citizenship as well.
Why would any Jew want to be a German citizen? Two words:
free tuition.
German citizens can attend universities in Germany — indeed
anywhere in the European Union — and pay little or no tuition.
Children and grandchildren of citizens can claim citizenship, too,
and gain the same benefits.

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