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GEM/DIAMOND SPECIALIST Established 1919 Fit.I F,JE wF' u"t's 642-5575 30400 TELEGRAPH RD., SUITE 134 • BIRMINGHAM Daily 10:00-5:30, Thursday 10:00-7:00, Saturday 10:00-4:00 34 FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1988 Take the other entrance and you come to mikvah, which will be named Mikvah Chaya Mushka, in memory of the late wife of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Schneerson. The impressive structure probably is not the sort of thing Rabbi Weingarten could have envisioned in September 1977 when he, his wife and their one child (they now have seven), came to Grand Rapids. "The idea," the rabbi says of his move from New York to Michigan, "was to bring Yid- dishkeit." They started with a Shab- bat minyan in a rented home. Then Rabbi Weingarten and his wife compiled brochures for the holidays and sent them to Jewish families throughout western Michigan. Next, the rabbi began working with college students and giving lectures at universities in the area. All that has changed. The rented home expanded first to a Chabad House on Michigan Avenue, and is about to do so again in the new facility. The brochures evolved to the Chabad Times, a newspaper published in con- junction with Jewish holidays. Edited by Mrs. Weingarten and Miriam Roet- ter, the Chabad Times is sent to some 2,000 Jewish families in western Michigan. And meetings with area residents have resulted in the establishment of the largest Jewish nursery school in the area, Hebrew classes, services to Jewish veterans, a kosher awareness week and Purim dinners. Five years ago, about 50 people attended the Purim, dinner; last year that figure jumped to 200. In the summer, the Chabad House sponsors Gan-Israel Day Camp, now extant for 10 , years. Participants include children not only of Chabad families, but from Reform and Conservative ones as well. Roetter, who works at the camp, says programs include games, sports, arts and crafts in addition to Jewish fare like lighting Shabbat candles and baking challah. She says the children come away from the sessions "feeling proud and excited about being Jewish." "And parents are happy because children know the Jewish holidays," Mrs. Wein- garten adds. "The children are able to tell their friends, `I'm Jewish and I have Pesach and Chanukah and I know all about them.' " The Chabad House also joined last year with Grand Rapids Temple Emanuel and the Conservative synagogue, Ahavas Israel, in sponsoring a children's concert featuring Moshe Yess. Those expecting Rabbi Weingarten to offer hard words for Jews who do not share his religious perspec- tive will be surprised. He recently gave greetings at the Reform temple and called the Conservative rabbi, Michael Rascoe, "a great asset to the community." For Rabbi Weingarten, af- filiation with a particular movement is unimportant. What does matter, he says, is the very thing that draws peo- ple to the Chabad House — roots. "People are looking for more of what they have," he says. "They are really reaching out for more mean- ing and more Yiddishkeit. And that's what we're there for." His wife concurs, describing a situation with which many doctors' spouses must em- phathize. "People," she says, "call my husband all the time — even late at night. But he never thinks it's a bother." Adat Shalom Elects Its First Woman President Barbara Cook of Farm- ington Hills has been elected president of Adat Shalom Synagogue. She is the first woman to hold that office in the congregation's 45-year history. Cook is an attorney with an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and a JD degree from Wayne State University. She was first elected to the Adat Shalom board of trustees in 1978 and has since served as vice president and first vice president. In addition to her synagogue activities, Cook has been active in the com- munity as an officer in the National Council of Jewish Women and at Hillel Day School. She was Phone-A-Gift chairman for this year's Allied Jewish Campaign. Also elected to Adat Shalom's executive board for 1988-1989 are: First Vice President Harry Maisel; Vice Presidents Sanford Eichenhorn, Leonard Siegal, Betsy Winkelman and Sharon Hart; Recording Secretary Neal Zalenko; and Treasurer Jack Rubin.