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FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1992

PARKING AND ENTRANCE IN REAR

artin Luther King
would have been
proud:
The Lubavitch Foundation
of Michigan and the West
Bloomfield Township Plann-
ing Commission finally got
to the mountaintop.
After- three years of
meetings, negotiations and
modifications, the Lubavit-
ch's Synagogue Campus of
Living Judaism, proposed
for a 40-acre site west of the
Jewish Community Center
on Maple Road, was passed
by the planning commission.
But Lubavitch must now
win similar approval from
the tewnship board.
. Despite a unanimous vote
of the commission Tuesday
evening, Lubavitch did not
win everything they wanted.
The commission agreed to
set a precedent by forwar-
ding the project's conceptual
site plan to the township
board, instead of a detailed
site plan. But they condi-
tioned approval on receiving
and accepting a detailed site
plan if the board approves
the concept.
The Lubavitch plan calls
for constructing a syn-
agogue, ritualarium
(mikvah), rabbinical semi-
nary and detached student
housing units on the south
17 acres of the site. The nor-
th half of the parcel is
undesignated.
Commissioners and
Lubavitch representatives
wrangled over the unplann-
ed north parcel. Lubavitch
expects to take as much as

10 years to develop the south
complex and has no plans at
this time for the north. But
township trustee Ray
Holland, one of the few peo-
ple in the audience Tuesday,
gently warned that he would
vote against the Lubavitch
plan when it comes before
the board if plans for the
north parcel are not disclos-
ed.
The commission attached
some use intensity restric-
tions to the plan, covering
maximums for sewer units,

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Lubavitch must
now win similar
approval from the
township board.

building heights, traffic and
impervious surfaces as a
percentage of the total site.
But Barry Stulberg, repre-
senting Lubavitch on the
project, expressed satisfac-
tion "that we made progress.
I have some philosophical
differences over limiting to-
day what we might do 10
years from now." He said he
would discuss the limita-
tions with the project archi-
tect.
Planning Commission
Chairman Peter Pekkala
said, "Some people sug-
gested we tried to slow down
this project. But we moved
as expeditiously as we
could." West Bloomfield
planner Tom Bird believes
the proposal will be placed
before the township board
within a month.
It could be just one more
mountain to climb.

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9fentl With A Fiddle'
Shown In Ann Arbor

NOAM M.M. NEUSNER

Staff Writer

entl, Barbara
Streisand's modern
look at Old World
cross-dressing, was predated
by 50 years.
Yidl Mitn Fidl is also a
film about an uppity female
talent who dresses like a
man to make it, but finds
herself in love with one of
her colleagues. Substitute a
violin for the Talmud, and
klezmorim (musicians) for
rabbis and you get the idea.
The 1936 film, which stars
then-Yiddish superstar Mol-
ly Picon, is playing this Sat-

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urday night in Ann Arbor at
the Michigan Theater. The
movie will begin at 7:30 with
introductory remarks by
Professor Michael Steinlauf
of Gratz College in
Philadelphia.
The unique setting of the
film — pre-World War II
Poland — takes the viewer
into a world which no longer
exists: the shtetl.
Director Joseph Green
shot the movie in the
medieval city of Kazimierz
nad Wisla, which once serv-
ed as the home to King
Casimir and his Jewish
bride. To recruit extras, Mr.
Green advertised that any-

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