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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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.

jfsdetroit.org

Jews in the D
Je s
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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