46 | SEPTEMBER 17 • 2020
A New Year…
A Healthy Year
Lynn Breuer, LMSW
A New Year…a year of peace…a year of health…a
year of hope. We hear these words in prayer during the
holidays. But this year, the holidays will look a little
enough, but not being able to check on one’s elderly
parents is stressful beyond all else.
the isolation due to COVID can contribute to a decline,
as well.
a friend, neighbor, or if need be, a professional to check
in on your parents. When they do, or if you’re trying to
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A fridge full of expired food
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be confused or forgetful
well, but there’s no need to handle it on your own.
us help.
Contact us at
248.592.1944 or resourcecenter@jfsdetroit.org.
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Jews in the D
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t e
jews and racial justice
Applications are now being
accepted for the Bronfman
Fellowship’
s 35th year.
The fellowship selects
26 outstanding North
American teenagers for an
intellectually challenging
year of programming
that begins with a free,
five-week trip to Israel
in the summer between
the Fellows’
junior and
senior years of high school,
followed by monthly virtual
experiences and a winter
and spring seminar in the
U.S.
The program educates
and inspires exceptional
young Jews from diverse
backgrounds to have a
significant impact on
the world as community
builders, deep thinkers,
moral voices and cultural
creators.
Fellows can expect to
meet with religious and
cultural leaders, and
educators and explore a
wide range of Jewish texts
as well as interact with
a group of Israeli peers
who are chosen through a
parallel selection process.
Fellows will have workshops
in poetry, drama, visual
narrative and music taught
by Jewish art leaders. Upon
returning home from the
summer in Israel, Fellows
also explore major themes
in North American Jewish
life.
Applications for the 2021
Fellowship are due Dec.
3, 2020, and are available
online at bronfman.org.
High school students in the
United States and Canada
who self-identify as Jewish
and who will be in the 12th
grade in the fall of 2021
are eligible to apply. The
Fellowship is a pluralistic
program for Jews of all
backgrounds; prior Jewish
education is not required.
Students are chosen on
merit alone.
Teens Can Apply Now for Bronfman Fellowship
crowd to stop that if I saw
it,” she said.
“I would say to my
Orthodox community that
the fight we’
re in is so pure
that I would hope, [regard-
ing] those who are throwing
trash into it and damaging
it, that you don’
t hold the
whole movement guilty of
that.”
The presidents of the
National Urban League and
AJC wrote a joint op-ed
in USA Today on Sept. 9,
asserting that Black and
Jewish leaders are standing
together in the face of big-
otry.
The article acknowledges
how the Jewish community
is currently making a true
effort to engage more in
progressive movements such
as Black Lives Matter, which
they previously avoided
because of disagreements
over Israel.
“For generations, Blacks
and Jews have marched
together to demand equal
justice,” the article states.
“#BlackJewishUnity takes
us another mile on that
long walk. Together we will
continue to press on, using
the tools of our democracy
to make America’
s founding
promise a reality.”
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