THE DETROI T JEWISH NEWS

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returned to the Detroit
area just before Thanks-
giving, in time to watch
as delicate flakes of crisp
snow covered the bare
branches of the trees with
which I had grown up.
In time to watch the Red
Wings battle team after
team on ice as familiar to
me as the Bruce Springsteen
poster hanging in my childhood
room. In time to learn that Detroit
had become to me, barely an
adult, a city of mystery, intrigue
and soul.
I'm not kidding.
As a child, then teen-ager,
then college student in Michi-
gan, I chanted the all-too-famil-
iar dirge of many native
Detroiters: "There's nothing to
do here." I needed a real city
(read: somewhere, anywhere,
else).
So I left, and spent a year in
New York City, two in Wash-
ington, D.C., learning the inter-

secting avenues and quirky a Jewish community that has
traits of the East Coast.
grown, expanded and stayed
But after perhaps a month tight.
away, I started to miss Michi-
In this tight-knit Jewish com-
gan. Sure, I missed family, but munity, where fix-ups are as
also the familiar street signs and prevalent as coney dogs (kosher
friendly traits endemic to the too!), it is more than time for a
Midwest — that people wave
section that speaks
when you let them into traf-
directly
to, and
fic; that people let you into LYN NE MEREDITH
with, younger read-
COHN
traffic. The grit, history and
ers. I've heard the
soul of our city.
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stats: supposedly,
In short, my motto be-
came an old cliche: you don't
know what you got 'till it's
gone.
Not that I didn't have a
great time! But I came back
because I realized how won-
derful this community can
be.
I came back to be fixed up
on blind dates with friends
of friends of cousins of par-
ents' old neighbors (you
know it's like that). I came
back to really discover Roy-
al Oak. And I came back to

people in their 20s and 30s don't ture stories on the young movers
read newspapers (except for and shakers of the Jewish coni.
maybe USA Today Don't get munity.
me started). The numbers also
In this section, we will discuss
say that young Jews look at how to make it on low starting
their local Jewish newspaper salaries, how to find the right
primarily to glance over the lat- house or apartment, how to
est engagement and wedding meet Mr./Ms. Right. We will look
announcements. Hmph. I refuse at the funniest faux pas of dat•
to accept that.
mg. In short, we'll talk.
But The Jewish News wants
I want to discover what the
to ensure that there are some Jewish community has to offer
things on our pages ex- as much as you do. Whether
pressly of interest to Jews you're new in town, returning to
in their 20s and 30s. This is your roots or merely lookingfor
the section you can now some fresh ideas, this section
turn to for the latest news will have it. Think of it as the
on the places you go, the weekly pulse of local, young
people you know and the Jews.
people you want to meet.
So instead of looking out the
This section will be a window, chin in hand and be-
barometer of what's hap- moaning the lack of ingentuty
pening for those of us in the suburban Detroit, take a look at
twenty- and thirtysome- DJN's "The Scene." If you like
thing categories who want what you see (or not), give me
to know where to go, with a call.
Hey — we're in this togeth-
whom and when. It will list
upcoming events and fea- er. Cl

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