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… University. Project STaR (Service, Training and Research in Jewish Communal Development) was started at the University of Michigan's social work school with a $150,000 Max M. Fisher Foundation grant. Jewish…

… stance against the band. But the 20-year-old drummer, a member of a Jewish fraternity and the campus Hillel, says he also has been the target of an anti-Semitic letter which came after his charges were…

… one of the largest Jewish com- munal service programs offered in the country. Its enrollment trails only programs offered through Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles, Brandeis University and Yeshiva…

…A fresh look at some recent stories in the headlines. Another A Sour Note For Bandsman RUTH LITTMANN STAFF WRITER Michigan State Uni- versity marching band member who has filed suit against the…

… school for gross negligence and civil rights abuses says he is nervous about returning to the band in the fall. Jeff Greenfield, a mem- ber of Congregation Shaarey Zedek, filed a law- suit this spring with…

… Ingham County Circuit Court alleging that during the past year and a half he UHS M Drivers Gear Up To Negotiate RUTH LITTMANN STAFF WRITER embers of Teamsters Local 247 hope soon to begin contract…

… negotiations with the UHS Transportation Services. Dave Schuler, vice pres- ident of Local 247, said he and a committee of UHS transportation workers are completing proposals for a contract they will present to…

… Matthew Kamins, director of trans- portation services. The proposals call for changes in wages, working condi- Kadima J Hires New Executive KIMBERLY LIFTON STAFF WRITER anette Shallal has been named…

… was clinical supervisor responsible for financial assistance programs for STaR I Increases Enrollment ) LESLEY PEARL STAFF WRITER n its fourth year of exis- tence, Project STaR has grown to become…

… Federation of Metropolitan Detroit has aiaed with other fund- has endured "hazing" — name-calling and physical harassment — from fellow band members and instruc- tors. He has received mail commending his…

… names, and jettisoning my last name alto- Mark Finkelstein is director of Michigan State University Hillel. gether? Mark Stephen. No, that wouldn't work either. I think there was an actor of the same…

…Community Views Comment Imagesof Modern Jews OnTelevision A Finkelstein, Probably ALINA SIVORINOVSKY SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS L ately, it seems that the mother of every fiction- al female on…

…. Perhaps because of the re- sulting Jewish male shortage, television's only Jewish women, "Homefront" 's Gina, "Cheers" ' Lilith, and "Bever- ly Hills 90210" 's Andrea, are exclusively dating and mar- rying…

… gentiles. Quite a departure from 1972 and before, when protests from both sides re- garding the Jewish/Catholic pairing of David and Mered- ith Baxter Birney in "Bridget Loves Bernie" caused CBS to . pull it…

… off the air after barely a season. Neal Gabler, author of An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, quotes one Jewish movie stu- dio executive of the 1930s. He explains the reason there…

… were so few Jews on the screen was because "Jews are for killing, not for making movies about." Of course, now Jewish characters involved in inter- ethnic pairings are the norm, particularly in cases of…

…- jority of these Jewish leading men, in both sitcoms and dra- mas, are the same person. All are either resident New Yorkers, as in "Seinfeld," "Mad About You," "Love And War" and "Flying Blind," or…

…-athletic, and well, let's be honest, have a ten- dency to whine. Why? MARK FINKELSTEIN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS Why should an ethnic group that makes up only one percent of the U.S. population be so…

…. According to Mr. Gabler, "(They) effaced their Judaism as a means of being accepted. and Robert Lichter and Stan- ley Rothman of Smith College revealed that 59 percent of Hollywood's decision makers had been…

…-producer and star of "Mad About You," Paul Reis- er has described the show about a neurotic, whiny, Jew- ish New Yorker and his WASP wife as "based on my life." According to Pulitzer Prize winning Jewish…