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Year In Review
Jewish day schools extremely hard.
Yeshiva Beth Yehudah went through at
least three board restructurings, teacher
layoffs and modifications on scholarships
to insure its survival. Rabbi Bunny
Freedman, the Yeshiva's executive di-
, rector, resigned to pursue other inter-
ests. Hillel Day School, showing the
- area's largest enrollment increase, raised
its tuition payments and then ran into
a teachers' strike.
- The events involving after-school,
Sunday school and day school education
brought to the forefront questions about
the Federation's 60-40 allocation process,
where 60 percent of its Campaign funds
go to Israel, the remaining monies stay-
ing in the Detroit community.
People all over the community were
hurting financially like never before.
Jewish Family Service reported an in-
crease in requests for services to middle
class families, people who had not been
at risk before.
Yad Ezra, the area's kosher food
I pantry, moved from a 700-square-foot
facility in Southfield to a 4,200-square-
foot facility off 11 Mile in Oak Park. It
Rabbi Leizer Levin's death was felt
across the community.
had to — the organization had listed its
1,000th monthly client in under three
years.
It was also announced that some
4,500 Detroit Jews were living at or be-
low the poverty level this year, mean-
ing a family of four had an annual
income of less than $14,000.
Borman Hall named Arnold Budin its
new executive director. The Home for
Aged, which had come under fiscal fire
in recent years, was hit hard by a state
report citing major problems
in resident care.
Sinai Hospital laid off 200
employees, hired Phillip
Schaengold as its new head,
dropped its talk of merger
with the Detroit Medical
Center, and started showing
an increase in census as well
as profits.
This was a year when
Mary Fisher, daughter of
Detroit philanthropist Max
Fisher, announced she was
HIV-positive. She would lat-
er address the Republican
Convention in Houston
about AIDS.
This was also a year of
many pleasant as well as
many sad milestones. For
The Jewish News, March 27
marked 50 years of service.
The newspaper published a
special commemorative edi-
tion for its readers. It also is
Max Fisher addresses an audience that came to join him in the
commemoration of the new Federation building.
co-sponsoring with the Fed-
eration and other organiza-
tions the April, 1993 Mira-
cle Mission, an event that
will send well over 1,100 De-
troiters to Israel on El Al
planes taking off from De-
troit Metro Airport.
When the idea was con-
ceived, it was thought that
one plane and perhaps 200
people would go. The re-
sponse, though, has been
overwhelming.
The Jewish News also pre-
sented a change for its read-
ers when it published its first
redesigned issue on June 12.
It was a year when the
Shrine of the Little Flower,
the base for Father Cough-
Phillip Schaengold was named Sinai Hospital's new chief.
lin's worldwide attacks on
Jews during the 1930s and
This was a year of milestones and
1940s, was the site of an evening dis-
memories.
Rabbi Leizer Levin, 96, the
cussion on Christian-Jewish coopera-
Orthodox
community's
most eminent
tion. Jews and Arabs publicly moved
leader,
died
of
kidney
failure
on Jan. 19.
together to denounce the violence in
The
community
also
lost
G-oldie
Adler,
Bosnia. A Jewish Community Council
83,
the
wife
of
the
late
Rabbi
Morris
annual meeting brought blacks and
Jews together to discuss the racial un- Adler, and Cantor Hyman Adler of B'nai
David among others.
rest in Los Angeles.
Happier milestones included: the
naming of Leslie Bash as JPM director;
A year of milestones and
Congregation B'nai David celebrated its
memories.
100th anniversary; Bar-Ilan Universi-
ty
its 40th anniversary; the opening and
Mark and Risa Finn became the
dedication
of I-696 deck parks; Harvey
Neighborhood Project's 500th family.
Finkelberg
was named executive direc-
The Jimmy Prentis Morris Jewish Com-
tor
of
the
Fresh
Air Society and Tama-
munity Center received funding for ex-
rack
Camps;
Rabbi
Elliott Pachter
tensive renovations. Temple Israel in
named
to
the
pulpit
of
B'nai
Moshe; Rab-
West Bloomfield became a homeless
bi
Amy
Bigman
named
an
assistant
rab-
shelter for one week in the summer.
bi
at
Temple
Emanu-El;
Miriam
Shaarey Zedek opened its Parenting
Center in West Bloomfield, and the Starkman named to direct Hillel at
Lubavitch, after long and tedious dis- Wayne State, replacing the resigning
cussions with West Bloomfield, was giv- Eli Finkelman; Beth Robinson leaves
en apprOval to build a new campus on Beth Achim as executive director to take
a similar post at Temple Emanu-El;
Maple Road.
Arthur
Avnon replaces Dr. Yitzhak Ben-
Redistricting moved Rep. Sandy Levin
Gad
as
Israel's Midwest Counsel Gen-
into less familiar territory, and while
eral;
West
Bloomfield High School
two Jewish GOP candidates, Alice
principal
Gary
Faber named by the state
Gilbert and state Sen. David Honigman,
as
Principal
of
the Year; Beth Shalom's
bickered about one another publicly, a
Rabbi
David
Nelson
is honored for his
third candidate, Joe Knollenberg,
❑
20th
year
of
service.
slipped by to win the party's 11th Con-
gressional District nomination.