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… with us at University of Michigan Hillel three minutes after I met him five years ago," recalls Michael Brooks, executive director of the Hillel Foundation at U-M. As Rabbi Richard Kirschen readies to…

… leave his position as U-M's associate Hillel director to become executive director of the Brown University-Rhode Island School of Design Hillel Foundation in Providence at the end of this month, he looks…

…. Chosen as last year's Berman Fellow, she worked at U-M Hillel in a one-year fellowship program established by phi- lanthropist Mandell L. Berman of Franklin to help young Jewish leaders prepare for Jewish…

… communal positions. "After graduation, I started working here. I couldn't let it go, mostly because of Rabbi Rich," she says. "Working at Hillel is a pretty special kind of niche within the Jewish world…

… organization that serves any of the 6,000 Jewish U-M stu- dents interested in Hillel programming. Remember When From the pages of the Jewish News for this week 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 1991 The…

… pursuing Jewish commu- nal work in Chicago. Rabbi Potter will become assistant director of U-M Hillel the following year. "Rabbi Kirschen's vision of Jewish possibilities and his indefatigable energy have…

… left an indelible mark on the cul- ture of Jewish life at Michigan and he will be sorely missed," Brooks says. In a farewell e-mail to students, Rabbi Kirschen shared his feelings of sadness at leaving…

… back upon his time at I: M. "It has been a most remarkable five years," he says of the post he took just m3riths following his 1996 ordination from Hebrew Union College-Jerusalem Institute of Religion…

… (HUC-JIR) in New York. "I had a lot of fun here. Both the staff and the students were amazing," says Rabbi Rich, as he is typically called by students. "I always knew I wanted to work in informal…

… touched by Hillel can't always be measured by counting participants attending a lecture or a religious service. "We can have a Torah study for 15 peo- ple or a program with Dennis Ross for 800 or a talk by…

… me to learn more about my Jewish heritage," said Brian Pollack, 24, of Wayne State University in Detroit. With the 33 people from Hillel of Metro Detroit, Eastern Michigan University and Western…

… Michigan University, and a diverse mix of per- sonalities and styles, everyone became fast friends. "I thought that the gift Birthright gave me was one of the greatest things anyone has ever done for me, and…

… student at Wayne State University in Detroit. She took part in Hillel of Metro Detroit's 1O-day Birthright Israel experience for young people ages 18-25. ''.5444141;t:"". Nale 'As hoP: oun tion to the…

… directov; Hiliel ofMetro Detroit 110414 students was that when they turn 18, they go to the army and when we turn 18, we go to college," said Erica Parr, 20, of Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti…

…An Opportunity Michigan college students overwhelmed by Birthright Israel experience. MONICA SKLAR Special to the Jewish News 0 n one of the last nights before the May 2001 Birthright trip to…

… Israel ended for Michigan college students, we sat in the moonlight out- side of the Knesset, the Israeli parlia- ment, and silently analyzed what we had accomplished. Using the art supplies provided, some…

… I will cherish the friends and memories I made on the trip for- ever," said Chad Silver, 25, of Oakland University in Rochester Hills. New Friends A standout component was the inclu- sion of six…

… Israelis as travel compan- ions. They spoke about living on a kib- butz or moshav, shared pictures and stories from the army, taught us about culture from Israeli folk songs to pop music, and, most of all…

…, provided us with the insight that we had more sim- ilarities than differences. "The only difference that we encountered between us and the Israeli Monica. Sklar, 24, of Ferndale is a fashion and English…

… Detroit bus w the participati unded by the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan etipit's Partn steering committee and Gesher Ekesher subcommittee, these six Israe s u dents from Detroies Partnership 2000…

… Southfield. Harry and Sally Nosanchuk are mem- bers of Israel's Bonds Prime Minister's Club and the Detroit Jewish Federation's Quarter Century Club. They are on the board of trustees of the Michigan Opera…

… committees. As a dele- gate to the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, he helped formulate national policy on church-state relations. He is a former representative to the Southeastern Michigan Council of…

… Kowalsky, to provide for the morning minyan at Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit in Farmington Hills. The fund includes the purchase and or repair of materials, programming enhancements and a…

… breakfast marking the yahrtzeit of Edith and Larry Kowalsky, who were killed on an Egypt Air plane crash on October 31, 1999. For information of endowment funds at Hillel, contact Marianne Milgrom Bloomberg…

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… University. She has been a construc- don company executive for 27 years. She is a member of the Lion of Judah, a for- mer treasurer of the Jewish Home for ed Auxiliary-and a volunteer for the Federation…

…Shiva Asar b'Tammuz is Sunday, July 8 On the UM of Tammuz, we remember the attacks on our bilk our land Brandeis Award To Nosanchuks Harry and Sally Nosanchuk, communi- ty leaders and…

… philanthropists, will be recipients of the Justice Louis D. Brandeis Award from the Zionist Organization of America at the Balfour Celebration Concert, Sunday, Oct, 21, at the Millennium Theater Center in…

…. Theatre. Their Family Community Caring Fund sponsors programs on behalf of senior citizens; the fund under- writes the cost of videotaping religious services for distribution to senior facili- ties…

… at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Hillel House. At the University of Michigan, she enrolled in Project STaR, a two-year program for future Jewish communal workers. Zuckerman did internships at…

…Zuckerman Joins Federation Sta fF Ettie Handelman passes the family history book to the younger generation. Representing four generations of the Caplan family, from left: Bertha Feinstein, 90, of…

… Southfield; Mandy Kent, 18, of Farmington Hills; Rainy Legault, 7, of White Lake; Handelman, 80, of Farmington - Hills, and Reka Goldstein, 92, of Southfield. Families Unite! Scores of relatives from across…

…, "with the in of great-great-grand- front photo my parents n front of me, and it got me SHARON LUCKERMAN Staff Writer -ittle did 12-year old Samuel Caplan imagine when he left Odessa, Russia, a century…

… ago to become a cap maker in England, that five generations later nearly 130 offspring from all over the world would gather to celebrate his family legacy. - Four generations of the Caplan family from…

… England, Australia, France and the United States met June 22-24 at the Novi Wyndham Hotel. Caplan's granddaughter, Ettie Handelman of Farmington Hills, is the self-proclaimed "spark that started this…

… cousin looked just like my aunt, or like my mother," she says. 7/6 2001 36 Oldest family member Reka Goldstein, 92, greets one of the youngest, Madison Meeron, 2, o Macomb Township, at the amily reunion…

…. Handelman's recipe for success included three elements: a family newsletter she sent three times this year; a strong matriarchal planning committee composed of Sylvia Elkowitz of West Bloomfield, Elaine…

… Gluckman of Farmington Hills and Sandra Brenner of Southfield; and e- mail. thinking how this reunion would have blown their minds." A more immediate effect is the enthusiasm of the under-40 crowd. "It…

…'s amazing," Handelman says. "Cousins in New York who never met each other are already planning to meet when they return home." At the end of the reunion, rela- tives didn't want to wait another 10, or even…