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Sisters Are Stage Stars
Lindsay Cohen and Stefanie Cohen.
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wo sisters, two school with local theater companies.
A member of the Chamber
plays, two major roles.
That's a dam good batting Singers at Western, Lindsay sang
with the group at Carnegie Hall
average for one family.
Lindsay Cohen, 17, a senior at in New York City last year. Lind-
Walled Lake Western High say also is active in forensics,
School, and Stefanie Cohen, 13, youth leadership programs and
an eighth-grader at Walled Lake the National Honor Society at
Middle School, are the siblings in school.
Stefanie will play Courtney in
the spotlight.
Guys & Dolls is being pre- The Castaways on Jan. 17 at the
sented Nov. 17-19 at Western, middle school. A perfect 4.0
and Lindsay is playing Sarah grade-point student, Stefanie
Brown. Lindsay also had lead plays clarinet in the school band,
roles in Pippin and South Pacif- is in the school choir and takes
ic at school and she's performed jazz-dance lessons.
Special Honors For Synagogues
T
hree Reform congregations
have become the first in the
country to receive official
certification for reaching out to
congregants with special needs
"in accordance with the spirit of
the Americans With Disabilities
Act."
The synagogues were certified
by the Union of American He-
brew Congregations (UAHC) un-
der a year-old credentialing
process called Liheyot: Access to
Judaism. Liheyot means "be-
coming" in Hebrew.
Bucks County Jewish Con-
gregation Shir Ami in Newtown,
Pa., Temple B'rith Kodesh in
Rochester, N.Y., and Temple Is-
rael in Gary, Ind., received the
certification from UAHC, Reform
Judaism's national organization.
Jew Helps
Rule Peru
or the first time in its his-
tory,
predominantly
Catholic Peru has a Jew-
ish prime minister.
He's Efrain Goldenberg-
Schreiber, a 65-year-old former
business executive who is on the
board of the Lima Jewish Com-
munity Association. He is the
son of Russian-Jewish immi-
grants who came to Peru im-
poverished.
Mr. Goldenberg-Schreiber is
married to the former Irene Pm-
vatiner, anoth-
er child of
Russian-Jewish
immigrants.
The two only
children have
five offspring of
their own, four daughters and
a son.
At a recent gathering of the
American Section of the World
Jewish Congress in New York,
Mr. Goldenberg-Schreiber said
Peruvian President Alberto Fu-
jimori broke a longstanding tra-
dition in the country earlier this
year when the new Cabinet was
sworn in.
Normally, new Cabinet mem-
bers kneel before the president
and a crucifix. Because Mr.
Goldenberg-Scirreiber would not
kneel before the cross, President
Fujimori had it removed, then
had it replaced for the other new
Cabinet members.
Sisterhood Movement Is 150 Years Old
n 1844, a group of women wor-
shippers at Reform congrega-
tion Shearith Israel in
Charleston, S.C., met to form a
"Society for the Instruction of
Jewish Doctrine."
The creation of that society
marked the birth of the sister-
hood movement, which is cele-
brating its 150th birthday this
year.
Today, more than 600 Reform
temples in the United States and
Canada have sisterhoods, with
memberships totaling 100,000.
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Is the notion of sisterhood be-
coming an anachronism today be-
cause women are too busy with
home, family and jobs?
Ellen Rosenberg, co-author of
a book titled Four Centuries of
Jewish Women's Spirituality, be-
lieves sisterhoods are more cru-
cial today than in the past.
"Our world has become so com-
plex and impersonal. Sisterhood
satisfies the need for a vibrant,
necessary, rewarding and stim-
ulating experience," Ms. Rosen-
berg said.
Nina Is fo r /A/ Um'
ilda Borenstein of Oak will receive a Jewish News T-
Park turned in the first shirt and the winner will earn
entry in the "Name the a swim kit from the JCC.
Friday, Dec. 2 is the contest
Swim Team" contest sponsored
by The Jewish News and the deadline. Entries should be sent
Jewish Community Center in to Steve Stein at The Jewish
News, 27676 Franklin, South-
West Bloomfield.
The contest is being held to field, MI 48034 and include
pick a name for the new swim- the entrant's address and phone
ming team for youths ages 6-18 number. Mr. Stein and JCC staff
at the JCC. The first 50 entrants members will judge the entries.
Trip To Israel Helps Build Bond
it to Israel will have an impact in
merican Jews who make Israel."
In his conclusion, however, Dr. the absence ofJewish education
even a single trip to Is-
rael exhibit a greater Mittelberg warned not to place or a Jewish home," he said.
sense ofJewish identification, af- too much emphasis on what a "Rather, the visit builds on these
filiation and continuity than trip to Israel can do for an Amer- dimensions, adding something
unique."
those who have never traveled ican Jew.
"None of this means that a vis-
there.
That's the major finding of
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a report just released by the
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Dr. David Mittelberg of Haifa
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University utilized data RED SEA
gleaned from the Council of
Jewish Federation's 1990 Na-
tional Jewish Population Sur-
vey.
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telberg explored was outmar-
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riage. He found that ALAH ELDINsT,
"respondents who had visited
Israel outmarried at a much
lower rate (15 percent) than
those who had never visited
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bracket, "62 percent of those PROPHETS 44:
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who had never been to Israel
were outmarried, as opposed
to 19 percent who had been to Street signs in Jerusalem.
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