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Hospital 171
of Orlando

and

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Bet Din

Present

Educational Community Forum

DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES:
EATING DISORDERS/CO-DEPENDENCY

Speaker: Judy Dodson, RN, CEAP, C.A.P.
Glenbeigh Hospital of Orlando

Place:

Jewish Community Center
6600 W. Maple
West Bloomfield, Michigan

Date
& Time:

Wednesday, March 4, 1992
7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Fee:

No charge

Please R.S.V.P. attendance (313) 855-3919

FREE ASSESSMENTS — ADOLESCENTS/ADULTS
EATING DISORDERS
CO-DEPENDENCY
CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY

Thursday, March 5 and Friday, March 6, 1992, 9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. by appointment. To schedule an
assessment please call (313) 855-3919. A team of highly trained professionals will be available to conduct
these assessments.

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Location:

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5839 W. Maple, Suite 112
West Bloomfield, MI 48322

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gated judicial powers to ap-
pointed chiefs of thousands,
hundreds and tens. Later
authorities obligated the
founding of courts in every
community.
In towns with less than
120 inhabitants, there was a
court of three judges — three
being the minimum number
— so where opinions divided,
a majority could rule. These
courts exercised jurisdiction
in civil matters, generally
imposing fines. They ruled
on divorce, conversion of
non-Jews, the absolution of
vows and for the circumven-
tion of the law annulling
debts in the Sabbatical year.
After the destruction of the
Temple, Johanan ben
Zakkai established his bet
din in Yavneh as the
cultural and political center
of the Jews. Toward the end
of the third century, the bet
din gradually lost its impor-
tance due to the rise of Jew-
ish scholarship in Babylonia

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and due to the increased op-
pression of Palestinian
Jewry under the Romans
The bet din regained some
of its early judicial luster dur-
ing the Middle Ages and in
Spain, where it achieved its
fullest growth and widest
powers. In Russia, the bet
din was especially powerful
until the latter part of the
19th century.
To this day, wherever the
bet din has survived, it en-
joys the same prerogatives of
a court of arbitration whose
decisions are generally
upheld by the law of the
country.
"Civil courts rarely
interfere as long as the par-
ties involved agree to sign a
document affirming their
willingness to abide by the
decision of the bet din," said
Rabbi Sperka. "The bet din
plays a vital role in our
community, and in terms of
Orthodoxy, it's an integral
part of our system." ❑

T

wo of Michigan's three
Jewish state senators
would be placed in the
same district under a
redistricting plan.: drawn up
by a state Supreme Court-
appointed panel.
The plan puts Sen. Jack
Faxon, D-Farmington Hills,
and Sen. David Honigman,
R-West Bloomfield, in one
district. State Sen. Lana
Pollack, D-Ann Arbor, would
be unaffected.
Neither Sen. Faxon nor
Sen. Honigman seems too
concerned about the plan.
Both say they are holding off
until the state Supreme
Court makes a final deci-
sion.
Redistricting hearings
before the High Court are
scheduled to begin March 4.
Mr. Faxon, who has served
in the legislature for 28
years, says he doesn't need
to make any decision until
his term expires in 1994.
And if he has to move, he
will move. The way the
district would be drawn
would put him in a Repub-
lican area.
He has moved four times
during his political lifetime,
and he says, one more time
is no big deal.
"I don't intend to run
against Mr. Honigman," Mr.
Faxon says. "I've done it
before. I'm not sunk into the
ground yet. Besides, Dave is

looking at other options
himself."
Mr. Honigman's inten-
tions are not mysterious. He
has repeatedly stated his in-
tentions to run for U.S. Con-
gress. Now, Mr. Honigman
says, he will wait until the
federal court draws congres-
sional districts to see where
he would run for higher of-
fice.
"Everybody is in disarray
right now," Mr. Honigman
says. "Nobody really knows
what it will be. Districts can
be drawn a million different
ways."
So far, state Reps. Maxine
Berman and David Gubow
appear safe in their respec-
tive districts under the panel
proposal. Under both Repub-
lican and Democratic pro-
posals, Rep. Gubow's district
would have disappeared.
Still in question is the
district of U.S. Rep. Sander
Levin, D-Southfield. Be-
cause of declining popula-
tion, Michigan will lose two
of its 18 congressional
districts.
This could place Mr. Levin
in a contest with his friend
and Democratic colleague
Dennis Hertel of Detroit.
Each plan proposed by the
Democrats and Republicans
places these two legislators
in the same district.
A three-judge panel is ex-
pected to draw the new con-
gressional boundaries in
March. Until then, everyone
is bracing for the political
drama. ❑

