Council Assembled

Governor names members of Council on
Genocide and Holocaust Education.

M

ichigan Gov. Rick Snyder
and education director of the Holocaust
announced the initial
Memorial Center.
15 appointments to the
• Edmond Azadian of West
Governor’s Council on Genocide and
Bloomfield, retired from Masco
Holocaust Education, which will work
Corporation in 2012.
to identify strategies for providing and
• B. Scott Durham of East Lansing, a
enhancing genocide education to
Lakeview High School teacher
students and providing resources
named an American Memory
for teachers.
Fellow by the Library of
In June, Snyder signed a
Congress.
law making it mandatory in
• Corey Harbaugh of Gobles,
Michigan schools to add lessons
director of teaching and learning
about genocide to the social
at Fennville Public Schools and
studies curriculum for grades
regional educator/teacher fellow
8-12, particularly teachings about Gov. Rick
of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial
the Holocaust and the Armenian Snyder
Museum, a master teacher of
genocide.
the USC Shoah Foundation and
Many of the council members are well- a participant and satellite leader of the
known in the Metro Detroit Jewish com-
Memorial Library Holocaust Educators
munity.
Network.
Appointees are:
• Nelson Hersh of Orchard Lake,
• Robin Axelrod of Ann Arbor, found- an orthodontist at Hersh Beattie
er and principal of Axelrod Consulting
Orthodontic. He is a member of the

West Bloomfield School Board, sits on
the Holocaust Memorial Center board
of directors and is a member of the
International Alliance to End Genocide.
• Cindy Hughey of East Lansing, exec-
utive director of Hillel the Foundation
for Jewish Student Life at Michigan State
University.
• Corinne Khederian of Bloomfield
Township, assistant to Secretary of
State Ruth Johnson as well as member
of the Armenian Genocide Education
Committee and the Facing History and
Ourselves Committee.
• Lara Nercessian of Royal Oak, assis-
tant prosecuting attorney with the Wayne
County Persecutor’s Office and vice chair
of the Armenian Relief Society, member
of the Michigan Chapter of the Armenian
National Committee and member of the
Armenian Genocide Commemoration
Committee of Greater Detroit.
• Richard Norsigian of Farmington
Hills, adjunct professor at Madonna
University and member of the Armenian
Genocide Education Committee.
• Ara Sanjian of Dearborn, professor
of Armenian and Middle Eastern History
and director of the Armenian Research
Center at the University of Michigan-
Dearborn.

• Lori Talsky of Bloomfield Hills,
recently retired as an attorney after 20
years with the Maddin Hauser law firm.
She founded the Center for International
Human Rights at MSU Law School.
• Michael Walenta of Grand Rapids,
general manager for WGVU Public Media
at Grand Valley State University.
• Kenneth Waltzer of Haslett, previ-
ously served as the executive director of
the Academic Engagement Network and
the director of Jewish Studies at Michigan
State University.
• Yosef Weingarten of Grand Rapids,
a rabbi and director of the Chabad House
of Western Michigan.
• Lori Weisberg of West Bloomfield,
docent at the Holocaust Memorial
Center and a board member of Women’s
Philanthropy for the Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit.
“It is incredibly important that future
generations of students understand the
impact that genocide has had on this
world,” Snyder said. “This council will be
instrumental in assessing and advising
schools on how we can educate Michigan
students on this topic.”
Members of the council will serve two-
year terms expiring Aug. 26, 2018.

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SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE SHABBAT

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Friday Night Lights Service and Dinner - 5:30 p.m.

Rabbi Telushkin will speak after dinner:
The Twenty-First Century: A Moral Vision, One Day at a Time
Activities will be available for children.

WITH SPECIAL GUEST

RABBI
JOSEPH
TELUSHKIN

Rabbi Telushkin is the author of Jewish
Literacy: The Most Imprtant Things to
Know About the Jewish Religion, Its
People and Its History, and A Code of
Jewish Ethics: You Shall Be Holy.

Reservations are required for Dinner by Tuesday, November 1, 2016.
For Dinner information and RSVP, go to www.shaareyzedek.org
or contact Tobye Bello at tbello@shaareyzedek.org or 248.357.5544.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2016

Shacharit Service - 9:00 a.m.

Rabbi Telushkin will speak:
On Being a Good Person in a Complicated World:
Forgiveness, Self-Esteem, and Why it’s So Hard to Make
Changes in Our Personal Lives

Following the Congregational Lunch

Rabbi Telushkin will offer a learning session:
Why the Jews: The Reason for the World’s Greatest Hatred

Rabbi Telushkin’s appearance is
generously sponsored by
The Morris and Beverly Baker Foundation
in Memory of Morris D. Baker

Event Chairs: Karen and Larry Katz & Sally and Richard Krugel
2117950

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