CLOCKWISE,
FROM LEFT:

Donny Osmond
(left) brings
"Joseph" to the
Masonic; Yad Ezra
volunteers get
instructions from
director Ellen
Goldman (right);
Mayor Dennis
Archer explains
why he marched
on Washington.

T HE DE TRO IT JE WIS H NEWS

SEPTEMBER

52

The Jewish News unveils its glossy covers
and a hot new section, Jewish News Entertain-
ment.
Yad Ezra, the kosher food pantry, announces
that it has helped several strik-
ing Free Press and News work-
ers with emergency food.
A groundbreaking ceremony
is held as construction of a
70,000-square-foot Jewish nurs-
ing home begins on the Maple-
Drake Jewish Community
Campus. The home is scheduled
for completion in 18 months. It
will have 165 beds.
Federation president David
Page passes his leadership gav-
el to Robert Naftaly.
The Million Man March be-
comes a dilemma for the Jewish
community nationally.
Congregation Beth Shalom
announces $2.5-million renova-
tion and construction plans.
West Bloomfield planners nix
OCTOBER
Shaarey Zedek's expansion on
In response to the acceler-
Walnut Lake Road. The con-
Rabbi Daniel B. Syme becomes the
ated peace process, some area
gregation is seeking to add 21
spiritual leader of Temple Beth El.
synagogues withhold an Israel
classrooms to its Applebaum
Bond appeal in protest. Oth-
Parenting Center.
ers have a bond appeal side-by-side with the
The JCC board votes unanimously to open
Yesha Heartland Campaign during Yom Kippur membership. Now anyone, Jew or gentile, can
services.
join. JCC officials say their decision is not based

A rabbi named Daniel Syme, the senior vice
president of the Union of American Hebrew Con-
gregations, visits Detroit's Tem-
ple Beth El as a scholar in
residence. His status as a vis-
itor would no longer be tempo-
rary as the year went on.
B'nai David moves into a
new home, the former Temple
Shir Shalom near Maple and
Orchard Lake.
Joel Tauber heads the Com-
mittee to Study the National
Structure, which proposes com-
bining three prominent Jewish
agencies into one umbrella
group and imposes a ceiling on
the amount of charitable dol-
lars sent to Israel each year.
P'tach, the organization
which works with the Jewish
learning disabled, discloses that
it is in debt up to $150,000.

on financial need, although earlier the JCC pro-
jected a deficit of $450,000.

NOVEMBER

Benjamin Netanyahu visits Detroit and the
home of Janet and Arnold Aronoff on behalf of the
One Israel Fund. He warns the small group of
people that Mr. Rabin is hurting Israel. Who knew
that a week later the entire face of Israel would
change with the assassination of its leader?
Michigan's Spencer Abraham is one of five U.S.
senators to vote against moving the American em-
bassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
The Detroit Jewish community reacts sadly to
the Rabin assassination as thousands bid farewell
at an Adat Shalom gathering.
Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer meets with Jew-
ish News staffers to discuss why he marched in
the Million Man March in Washington, D.C. The
mayor says he met with the march's organizer,
the Rev. Louis Farrakhan, prior to the event. Mr.
Archer says he wanted to make sure there would
be no anti-Semitism or racism coming from the
podium.
West Bloomfield reverses itself and votes to ap-
prove Shaarey Zedek's construction proposal.
The 30-year anniversary of Shaarey Zedek Rab-
bi Morris Adler's assassination is remembered.
Detroit mourns the loss of Leonard Simons, 91,
a giant in philanthropy and community organi-
zation.
Donny Osmond brings Joseph to the Mason-
ic.

