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…, Hillel Day School, Frankel Jewish Academy and University of Michigan Hillel. They'll be here through the end of the school year and then will work at one of the Ramah camps. CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 - 1…

… MEDIA PUBLICATION theJEWISHNEWS.com » Posthumous Honor Michigan Civil Rights Commission memorializes its slain director Burton Gordin. See page 14. » Love Is In The Air Take your Valentine to one of…

… helps Israel assemble an Olympic curling team. —1 Harry Kirsbaum I Contributing Writer 11 hey don't consider themselves enough to compete in the 2018 Winter Jeff Lutz a 21st-century version of the…

… Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea. is ready to Jamaican bobsledding team, nor The odds are long. They need to find release a does Jeff Lutz, 29, of Bloomfield Hills and people who are willing to become…

… would play them in the movie version, possess the mad skills to win a qualify- or what that movie would even be called — Cool ing championship to become one of only 10 teams Brooms, perhaps? allowed to…

… America. With a mid-May 2014 deadline, the goal is to "We're starting from scratch:' said Lutz, who has find a team of curlers — four men and four women, CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 either Israeli or with dual…

…-citizenship — good wo innovative internship programs, the Ramah Fellowship and the Steinsaltz Ambassadors, are enriching Detroit's Jewish educational institutions with young adults intent on sharing their love of…

… arm of Conservative Judaism, oper- ates eight overnight camps, three day camps and several Israel programs. The fellowship grew out of the Ramah Service Corps, which started three years ago and employs…

… Association, under the auspices of Hillel of Metro Detroit, sought to create an Executive Roundtable Series that featured prominent legal profession- als in a more intimate setting. We limited attendance to 20…

… people, and the only rule was that no question was off lim- its. Our first guest was David Foltyn, chairman and CEO of Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP, the largest law firm in Southeast Michigan…

… generations past — an intimate face-to-face conversation. @ Adam Kessler of Birmingham is president of the Jewdiciary, WSU's Jewish Law Student Association, which is under the auspices of Hillel of Metro…

… "dating" for the first time since my senior year at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business in 2007. Having been off the market for six years, I was a bit nervous — hours were lost rehearsing my one…

…-liners and selecting the perfect outfit. My experience on the market started in August when I attended the first of many networking events hosted by Wayne State University's law school. Some students go…

… Detroit. He is a J.D. candidate, Wayne State University Law School, Class of 2015. In April, the Jewdiciary will host Ira Jaffe of Jaffe Raitt Heuer and Weiss. If you have any questions or would like to…

… straight for the bar — they need to grab a beverage, not to drink, but to hold in their effort to mask the nervousness of their sweaty hands. Others will be found scouring the chests of the prospective…

… suitors — only with this type of dating, that is appropriate: They are searching name tags for the firms they long to date the following summer. Finding a job in the legal profession is challenging these…

… days. In 2013, data released by the American Bar Association showed that just 56.2 percent of law school graduates in 2012 had secured stable jobs in the legal profession. Former students will stress the…

… key to securing a full-time job is snag- ging a summer associate position at firms following your sec- ond year. But at Wayne State's law school, as few as 10 per- cent of students receive summer…

… of Michigan's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital. Now a healthy teenage athlete who spends his summers at Camp George in Canada, Katzen dedi- cated his bar mitzvah project to collecting sports equipment and…

…, Director of the Early Childhood Center, at 248-539-1489 or rpappas@hillelday.org. *1 I HILLEL DAY SCHOOL EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER Three Rivers, MI www.camptavor.org 224-619-5969 registrar@camptavor.org I…

… Gittleman Special to the Jewish News I n 2015, 1,500 children with seri- ous life-threatening and chronic illnesses throughout the Great Lakes region will hear words of normalcy they have only dreamed…

…: "You're going to sleep- away camp!" Their parents will also hear these unexpected words: "This sleep-away camp is free' Slated to open in the summer of 2015, Camp North Star Reach, a 501(c) 3 non- profit…

… organization, will offer the rare opportunity of providing a free overnight camp experience in Pinckney, Mich., for hundreds of sick children at a place designed especially for their needs. "While the kids are…

… having fun, the medical professionals at the camp see the summer vacation as an extension of their hospital and post-hospital care and healing," said Marketing Specialist Marji Wisniewski. "Kids build…

… camaraderie around a shared illness. They are learning how to care for themselves and manage their illness with the support of staff and other campers who are going through similar experiences7 The 105-acre…

… camp under construc- tion is a provisional member of the SeriousFun Children's Network According to Wisniewski, the camp offers all the sporting, waterfront and arts and crafts of a rustic summer camp…

… with no obvious point of entry where other camping programs are held can make a kid in a wheelchair feel pretty alienated:' Wisniewski said. "Camp North Star Reach is an extension of their care and will…

… play a big role in their healing:' To create an environment of inclusive- ness, all structures — including the cab- ins, dining hall and bonfire — are built at ground level, thus eliminating the need for…

…-like talks by Rabbi Michael Moskowitz of Temple Shir Shalom, Miryam Rosenzweig of the Jewish Federation's NextGen Detroit Department and Tilly Shames of University of Michigan Hillel, about 100 professional…

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… the needs of young Jews:' she said, pointing to the rebirth of the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue and the new Chabad in the D, the Lubavitch outreach center in the city. Shames of U-M Hillel said she…

… Detroit is enjoying a revival, thanks to younger Jews who are committed to reinvigorating the city. Still, affiliation rates remain low, along with financial support of Jewish institu- tions. There is much…

… work to be done. While the Pew Research Center's "A Portrait of Jewish Americans:' released in I - WRCJ 90.9 FM PRgENTS • JO DETROIT niMPHONY SIR A eig or too 44( • 10 n_re6etve_.5 BY144…

… finding of the demographic study: Even if they aren't religious, don't belong to a syn- agogue or other Jewish institution, don't donate to Jewish causes or are married to a non-Jew, 83 percent agreed they…

… are proud to be Jewish. That has prompted a new round of soul- searching among Jewish professional and lay leaders who are trying to figure out how to capitalize on that positivity. How do they make a…

… compelling case for being part of the community, for raising children Jewishly, for supporting Jewish causes? Generating Local Ideas After a lively presentation of the Pew Center's findings last week and TED…

… and lay leaders of the area's synagogues, temples, social service agen- cies and the Jewish Federation discussed, in small groups, strategies for bolstering their communities. Some of the ideas floated…

… include becoming more inclusive and collabora- tive, tailoring programs to specific interests and changing the way institutions market themselves. "One thing that struck me was the chal- lenge of marketing…

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… present "The Rabbinic Story through Modern Eyes" This scholar-in-resi- dence event will feature the teaching of Jeffrey Rubenstein, professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at New York University. The community is…

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…metro The Rabbinic Story Through Modern Eyes Stories about rabbinic sages like Hillel, Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai are among the most well known in the Talmud. They are used by scholars…

… to con- struct the history of the Talmudic age. However, current research is develop- ing new methods to interpret these 111 stories. Congregation Jeffrey Beth Ahm and Adat Rubenstein Shalom Synagogue…

… veterans. Everyone who attends will receive a booklet with the names and service of all veterans who call and provide the infor- mation by 10 a.m. Monday, Nov. 10. There will be a formal veterans' proces…

…-in-residence activities con- tinue on Saturday, Nov. 22, at Beth Ahm. Professor Rubenstein will present "Aggadah 101: How to Read Rabbinic Stories" at 8:45 a.m. He will explore the literary features of stories while learn…

…- ing how to interpret stories as a source of Jewish values, ethics and culture. At 1 p.m„ he will present "Between Israel and Babylon: Stories as Carriers of Cultural Values," focusing on the…

… similarities and differences of the same story in the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds. Professor Rubenstein was born in South Africa and grew up in Chicago. He has received degrees from Oberlin College, the…

… program in the small chapel immediately fol- lowing lunch. Tamar Freeman, who is a member of the Canadian Armed Forces and who fought in Afghanistan, will speak about her experience as a Jewish woman…

… more ques- tions. Katie Wallace of Royal Oak attend- ed Hillel Day School and was a Judaic studies minor at the University of Michigan. She plans to attend the evening's event. She said she grew up…

… Studies The Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan is offering opportunities for in-depth study in Jewish history and culture, Jewish civilization and thought…

…metro Rib g eode Pia ers we put the ommunity in comrriCinity theater Presents The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 A zany murder mystery by John Bishop Nov 7-23, 2014 Taboo Torah Topics…

… Everything young adults always wanted to ask about Judaism. Stacy Gittleman I Contributing Writer W • 1 / 4 Out of Order A hysterical romp by Ray Cooney Feb 20 - Mar 8, 2015 Bus Stop A classic romance…

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…-generation survivors are doing nearly the unthinkable of tattooing their own bodies with the numbers their elders received in the concentra- tion camps. Is this an acceptable way to remember the Holocaust? Is it OK for…

… Jews to tattoo themselves at all? The questions of young adults that may have not been addressed in their formative years of Jewish education will all be on the table as the Motor City Moishe House teams…

….com/NextGenD. Dan Horwitz, associate rabbi of Congregation Shir Tikvah in Troy, will be leading the discussion, and he welcomes all to bring their questions. A Jewish Renewal rabbi, Horwitz has studied across all of…

… Judaism's major branches and, therefore, can answer the same question from a number of Jewish perspectives. In past discussions such as this, participants have asked Horwitz questions about circumci- sion…

… and whether or not it is a mitzvah to get drunk on Purim. There is never a lack of questions. Horwitz said that Millennials still want to explore Judaism's teachings but perhaps became jaded by Hebrew…

…RAN[3. Summer Day Camps 2014 Early Enrollment SCHOOLS Camp Guide from page 35 Brookside Tots Day Camp for Boys & Girls ages 3 — 4 HILLEL DAY SCHOOL EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER CAMP FUNTABULOUS 32200…

… ages 2-5 will play and explore in our safe and secure facility, playgrounds and outdoor nature area. For more informa- tion, contact Robin Pappas, direc- tor of the ECC, at (248) 539-1489 or rpappas…

…@hillelday.org . Summer Theatre School for Boys & Girls grades 2 — age 19 Summer Art Studio for Boys & Girls ages 7 14 Jazz Ensemble for Boys & Girls grades 6 10 JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT TECHNO…

… CAMP DISCOVERY 15110 W.10 Mile Road Oak Park 48237 (248) 967-4030 Judy Front, director jfront@jccdet.org www.jccdet.org Camp Discovery has programs for ages 2-16. With dozens of camps including sports…

… in modern labs and studios on LTU's 102-acre Southfield cam- pus, June 23-27, July 7-11,14-18 and 21-25. MICHIGAN SCIENCE CENTER SUMMER CAMP 5020 John R St. Detroit, MI 48202 (313) 577-8400 info…

…®mi-sci.org www.mi-sci.org The Michigan Science Center summer camp features five theaters, 250+ hands-on exhibits, outdoor activities and visits to other nearby cultural institutions. Campers in preschool through…

…, performance arts, visual arts, specialty, teen and tween. New this year: Robot- ics and Minecraft, and Teen Kind- ness Mission. LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY SUMMER CAMPS 21000 W.10 Mile Road Southfield…