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… other Hillels, Hillel Is More Than A Place To Pray "At most Hillels, the lounge is the first place you see," says Michael Brooks, executive di- rector of the University of Michigan's Hillel Foundation…

… University of Michigan's 16,300 undergraduates are Jewish, and they tend to band together. worlds, we often don't realize how we treat others." Jewish students are sur- prised at what blacks consider racism…

…'s Trillions." Dynamic Hillel The most visible part of Jewish life is Hillel. "Students choose this campus because of this Hillel," says Mr. Bern- stein, even if many never walk through its doors. But unlike…

…. Instead, the front door of Ann Arbor's. three-year-old Hillel building opens onto two-story hallways. Doors lead to an auditorium and the lounge. Down the hallway is a workroom for student pub- lications…

…. At the back of the building are offices for staff. The second floor has class- rooms. "At this Hillel, it is perfect- ly possible for two active Jew- ish students not to meet each other until they…

… graduate," says Rabbi Brooks. Diversity is more than an architectural goal here. The Michigan Hillel pub- lishes a general opinion mag- azine, runs a film series, helps reward the best professor on campus…

…'s giving to UJA or going to a soup kitchen to help." He points to past students who, because of a particular program, got active in Hillel. One who wrote for the opin- ion magazine, he says, is now assistant…

…the ad would never have run if it had, say, denied the his- tory of slavery. "This is the same school that gives tests on Yom Kip- pur," says Mark Bernstein. "I think the next generation of Jewish…

… student leaders need to understand that their cam- puses are going to be increas- ingly anti-Semitic." Separate Circles Some of the ill feeling has spilled into social relations be- - tween Jews and other…

… made to improve communications across the divide of mutual suspicion. Blacks and Jews on campus hold regular dia- logues, led by a trained facil- itator, to discuss race, religion and what it means to be…

… p.m. April 14 at Hillel. A Group of Extraordinary Jewish Women Journey to Spirituality Through Com- munity and Ceremony will take place 7:30 p.m. April 15 at Hillel. The Jean and Sam- uel Frankel…

…:15-7:30 p.m. If in- terested, call Rob Finkelman, 998-0482. The Grads and Young Professionals End of the Year Veggie Shabbat Potluck will be 7:30 p.m. April 16 at East Quad. For reservations, call Hillel, 769…

… Writer's Corner. Professor Norma Goldman, of Wayne State University, : facilitates the group which meets on the third Friday of each month 10 a.m. at JPM. Broadway show tunes and Yiddish melodies are part…

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… training at the Seminary's West Coast cam- pus, University of Judaism, this fall. ROB NOSANCHUK, son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael and Laurie Nosanchuk of West The Adult Services Depart- ment of the Jewish Com…

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… the following events. Shulchan Ivrit will take place noon April 13 in the Michigan Union. Marjorie Cohen, a partner at Mogill, Posner and Cohen, will speak on legal issues con- cerning sexual assault 7…

… Center for Judaic Studies Colloquium will be 4 p.m. in the Frieze Building. Elliot Ginsburg will speak on "Bringing the Holy into the Profane: The Motif of the Everpresent Sabbath in the Jewish Mystical…

… number of w 48 Unlike other Hillels, which function as stripped-down synagogues, Ann Arbor's largely a social and political center. Jewish students at Michigan and elsewhere across the country say they…

… Of more than 16,300 un- dergraduates at the Univer- sity of Michigan, almost 3,000, or about 18 percent, are Jew- ish. They are active not only in the Hillel Foundation – which has the second…

…se Campus Climate At the University of Michigan, and other colleges, multiculturalism is a challenge to Jewish identity. NOAM NEUSNER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS n Arbor, Mich., is a picture…

…-postcard college town. Its main street sells T-shirts, books, records and fancy coffee. Some of its biggest homes are fraternity houses. On the University of Michigan campus, bulletin boards are layered with an…

…- fending." Multiculturalism has a di- visive effect on a campus, says Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, director of the Hillel Founda- tion at the University of Cal- ifornia at Los Angeles. "For the first time…

… are commit- ted to a Jewish life. But the traditional barometers ofJew- ish campus life — Are Shab- bat services well attended? Is there a strong Hillel? Is Israel supported in academic fo- rums? — no…

… longer measure the depth of Jewish identity among college students. "Jews on this campus feel their Jewish identity not as a responsibility, but as an ac- tivity," says Mark Bernstein, a Michigan senior…

…-largest extracurricular-activity pro- gram on campus, after the university's own social center – but all over campus. They help program campus events. They help lead student gov- ernment. (Once, a liberal bloc of the…

…- nouncements of speakers, events and rallies. A vivid eth- nic stew bubbles on leafy cam- pus walks and city streets. What sin-prises Jewish stu- dents about it all is that long after many of them left their…

… formal Jewish education, the assertively multicultural cam- pus is asking them important questions about their identi- tY. This is happening at a time when many of them had felt little concern about their…

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…. It sponsors film and speaker series, and it hosts seven Israel-related organi- zations. A Hillel-sponsored magazine, "Consider," offers a weekly sampling of opinion among students on issues from the…

… Joel, executive director of B'nai B'rith's National Hillel Foundation. This is the challenge, says Mr. Schoem: Jews on campus need to feel good about being Jewish. Even if that means tipping back a few…

… what are they talking about?" Perhaps the problem does not lie with the university af- ter all. Many of the Jewish college students interviewed for this story acknowledge a dissatis- faction with their…

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… drinking age to foot- ball's instant-replay rule. Hillel's programming occa- sionally borders on the auda- cious, as when it helped sponsor filmmaker Spike Lee's campus visit last April. Executive director…

… asked me was, 'Is Kurt Von- negut Jewish?' " (He isn't.) In a class on Jewish identi- ty, Mr. Schoem asked stu- dents to draw a "map" of the Jewish community on cam- pus, radiating from a focal point of…

… their choice. Some put Hillel in the cen- ter. But most put Good Time Charley's there. It's a bar. "That's where all the Jewish kids go on Friday night," Mr. Schoem says. "You could say that these kids…

… are not doing anything Jewish there. But there is Jewish contact." Did the survey show that campus Jewish life in Ann Ar- bor was healthiest in a bar? "I think you have a lot of people in college who…

… are po- litically or socially Jewish, and the religion takes a back seat," says Matt Wexley, a recent Michigan graduate. "Just the fact that they're Jewish is enough." But is it? The good news, some say…

….S.A., Jewish Vocational Service, Harry and Sally Nosanchuk, B'nai B'rith Michigan Regional Council, Batya Chapter AMIT Women, Beth Abraham Hillel Moses Men's Club, American Friends of Hebrew University, Jewish…

… Family Service, Resettlement Service, United Jewish Appeal Young Leadership Cabinet, World Zionist Organization, Brandeis Tikvah B'nai B'rith Women, National Council of Jewish Women, B'nai B'rith Hillel…

… Honoring Israel's fallen soldiers Maple/Drake ICC Sponsors: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, Israel Desk, Jewish Community Center, Jewish Community Council, Jewish Educators Council, Detroit…

… Zionist Federation, The Jewish News, Jewish Experiences For Families, Sisterhood of Adat Shalom Synagogue, Congregation Shir Tikvah, Labor Zionist Institute, Labor Zionist Alliance, Habonim/Dror, Na'Amat U…

… Foundations of Metropolitan Detroit, Northwest Child Rescue Women, Zionist Organization of America-Metro Detroit District, Sisterhood of Shaarey Zedek-B'nai Israel Center, Congregation Beth Shalom You. your…

… family and friends are invited to take part in these enciting events: To volunteer or register for the Walk For Israel or for information. call Andrea Polk at the Jewish I'ederation of Metropolitan…

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… Plymouth • 669-2010 • JOSEPH TARICA, execu- tive director of Congregation Beth Abraham Hillel Moses, was elected treasurer of the North American Association of Synagogue Executives. He also was appointed…

…- monial Attorneys. BEVERLY KOZIN, a West Bloomfield High School teacher, was awarded the Michigan Reading Associa- tion Secondary Reading Teacher Award for 1993. DR. BRUCE I. KAC- ZANDER of West…

….:•::•:•:•:•:•:•:•:•::;:' ANITA NEIMAN GOLD, formerly of West Bloomfield, was given Wayne State University's Distinguished Alumni Award. Mrs. Gold, a former art teacher with the Detroit Public Schools, is an interior design…

… consultant in Boca Raton, Fla. "‘1527'""24".MIP PAUL M. ZLOTOFF, a long- \Th time Friend of Bar-Ilan University, has been elected president of the university's Detroit Friends. Mr. Zlotoff was Bar…

…JESSICA FROSCH of Bing- ham Farms was chosen Detroit Institute of Arts Founders _ Society April Volunteer of the Month. ........ • . • . •• . • . ' ....... • • • '''.****e…

…-Ilan Detroit Friends' first education chairman, is vice president of its Interna- tional Board of Overseers and a member of its global board of trustees. RON LUX, son of Sally and Nate Lux of Southfield, was…

… presented the Scott Newman Award for writing the "Mur- phy Brown" episode titled "On the Rocks." The award was originated as a drug abuse prevention program and dedicated to the son of Paul Newman who died as…

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… chairper- son of the association's profes- ) sional growth committee. HARVEY I. HAUER, of the Birmingham law firm of We- ingarden & Hauer, P.C., was selected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Matri…

… Bloomfield was a member of the faculty at a recent Super Seminar '93, sponsored by the Cali- fornia College of Podiatric Medicine. He is to speak on "Podiatric Application of Con- tinuous Passive Motion" at…