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PJ Library Website Opening
PHOTO EXHIBIT COMING
 

MID MICHIGAN PJ LIBRARY WEBSITE TO OPEN

As part of the roll out of the PJ Library in Mid Michigan a new Mid Michigan PJ Library website is being built and will open in the next week or two.  At the site you will be able to enroll your child, age 6 months to 8 years old in the program to receive a free Jewish book or CD each month and to learn about the PJ activities going on in our community.

 

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SHIRT!

(in honor of Israel's 65th Anniversary)

Walk for Israel Shirt
Just a few still left!This shirt commemorating Israel's 65th anniversary could be yours for the just $5! (cheap!) Available at the Federation office at 619 Wallenberg Street. Call 767-5922 or [email protected] to get yours now.

 

Call 810 767-5922 or

mail your donation to

619 Wallenberg St.,

Flint Michigan, 48502

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PHOTO EXHIBIT

June 10--21

Mott Community College Library

  

Opening Reception Tuesday,

June 11, 5-8 pm

 

 

The Flint Jewish Federation, in partnership with the Mott Community College LIbrary (and with generous funding by the Ravitz Foundation) is delighted to present the photo exhibit: It Takes a Village: From Gondar to Jerusalem.  The exhibit will continue
at the Library from June 10--June 21.  
 
A reception, with refreshments, open to the public, will be held at the Library on Tuesday June 11, from 5 to 8 pm.  Flint Jewish Federation Director Steven Low will speak about the photographs and the resettlment of Ethiopian Jews.     
  
The exhibition recounts the resettlement of Ethiopians from Ethiopia to Jerusalem. The photos are striking and depict the traditional lifestyle that they left behind for life in a modern, high-tech, democratic society in Israel. Most of the Ethiopians emigrated from Ethiopia to Israel during two massive waves of immigration mounted by the Israeli government - "Operation Moses" in 1984 and then again during "Operation Solomon" in 1991. Recently, it has been estimated that Israel is now the home of about 140,000 citizens of Ethiopian descent who mostly reside in the smaller urban areas of central Israel.