28 | NOVEMBER 28 • 2019

Jews in the D

Join the Cohn-Haddow
Center for a special lecture
with local attorney and Wayne
State University Law School
alumnus Jonathan Schwartz
entitled, “The Israeli Judicial
System.”
In his lecture, Schwartz
will give an introduction
tothe Israeli court system, its
use of historic Jewish law in
modern Israeli court cases
(Mishpat Ivri) and compare
and contrast both the Israeli
and U.S. judiciaries.
Schwartz is a partner and

member of Jaffe Raitt Heuer
& Weiss’
s Litigation Practice
group where he specializes in
representing entrepreneurs,
businesses, municipalities and
charitable organizations.
The event will take place
on Tuesday, Dec. 3, at 1
p.m. in room 3339 Faculty/
Administration Building, 656
W. Kirby on Wayne State’
s
campus. The event is free and
open to the public, but an
RSVP is required to andrea.
ritter@wayne.edu.

Israeli Judicial System Lecture Dec. 3

It’
s time again for the JN’
s
annual Chanukah Art Contest,
sponsored by Hillel Day School
of Metropolitan Detroit. Kids up
to age 12 are invited to submit
their handmade art (8½ x 11
vertical format) for the chance
to have their artwork featured
on the cover of the Dec. 19 issue
of the Jewish News.
Artwork should be bold and
bright (no pencils, light blue
crayons or glitter, please! and
no computer-generated art-
work). Prizes will be awarded
in three age categories: up to
age 6, ages 7-9 and ages 10-12.
The grand prize winner will
receive $100, and first, second
and third-place finishers will

receive $18 each. Winners from
each category in online voting
(Dec. 16-20 at thejewishnews.
com) will also receive $18. All
of the artwork will be on display
at Bais Chabad’
s Chanukah
Wonderland from Dec. 22-24.
A fully completed entry form
as well as a color photo of the
artist should be taped to the
back of the original artwork and
sent to the Jewish News, 29200
Northwestern Highway, Suite
110, Southfield, MI 48034 by
Dec. 10. Entries can also be col-
or-scanned and sent via email to
jheadapohl@renmedia.us. Find
the form on page 11 and online
at thejewishnews.com.

Calling All Student Artists for Chanukah Art Contest!

Learn About Jews of Arab Lands

JLearn, the Adult Jewish
Learning Department of the
JCC, is offering a new class with
Professor Howard Lupovitch of
the Cohn-Haddow Center for
Judaic Studies at Wayne State.
The course, “The Forgotten Jews
Of Arab Lands,
” will be held
from 7-8:30 p.m. at The Max M.
Fisher Federation Building on
Tuesdays, Jan. 14, 21 and 28.
The story of the Jews in Arab
lands still forms a major gap in
most of the world’
s knowledge
of the history of the Middle East.
The Jewish presence in what are
now Arab lands extends back
to Biblical times. In many Arab

states, Jewish communities that
thrived for more than a millen-
nium have all but disappeared.
As late as 1945, there were
approximately 866,000 Jews liv-
ing in communities throughout
the Arab world. Today, there are
fewer than 7,000. Learn about
the history and culture of this
important segment of world
Jewry.
Tuition is $55. Call
(248)
205-2557 or visit JLearn.online
to register. It is co-sponsored
by Cohn-Haddow Center for
Judaic Studies and JCC’
s SAJE
(Seminars for Adult Jewish
Enrichment).

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