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come the successful completion
of the eruv around Huntington
Woods. Your article ("Carry One"
Aug. 22) announcing this mile-
stone was woefully incomplete.
The Huntington Woods Eruv
Committee was founded in July
1989 by Sol Lachman, one of the
two founding members of the
Huntington Woods Minyan. Soon
thereafter, Laura Sandler be-
came president.
The goal of creating an eruv
around Huntington Woods was
extremely controversial at the
time. We met passive and active
resistance and opposition from
both the original adviser of the
Huntington Woods Minyan and
the Oak Park Eruv Project. In
fact, our most difficult opposition
came from the latter group.
The project languished until
the Young Israel of Oak-Woods
Board of Directors became seri-
ously interested in an extension
of the Oak Park eruv around sec-
tions of Oak Park excluded from
the eruv. Upon the urging of
then-president Jules Johenn, I
prepared a presentation in May
1994 on behalf of Young Israel of
Oak-Woods and the Huntington
Woods Minyan to the Oak Park
Eruv Project. While I was given
a polite and attentive audience,
once again the idea of the exten-
sion of the eruv was not on the
agenda of the Oak Park Eruv
Project.
In November 1994, Rabbi
Eliezer Cohen, now of Congrega-
tion Or Chadash, agreed to be the
administrator of a new eruv if the
Oak Park Eruv Project refused
to extend its eruv. I contacted the
Eruv Project and was refused
once again.
In late 1994, we decided to
build our own, limited eruv. I con-
tacted the cities of Huntington
Woods, Detroit and Royal Oak,
seeking permission to use the
fences, utility wires and poles lo-
cated in these communities for
the eruv. Within a very short
time, I received the official reso-
lutions of approval from the city
Detroit City Council and the Roy-
al Oak City Commission. The De-
troit council approved our request
on Feb. 15, 1995, and it was ap-
proved by the mayor on Feb. 27,
1995. The Royal Oak commission
approved our request on Feb. 6,
1995.
These resolutions remain in
the possession of the Oak-Woods
eruv group, but have been made
available, of course, to the Hunt-
ington Woods Minyan.
Around this time, Don Levine,
president of the Huntington
Woods Minyan, and Rabbi Rabin
asked that they be entrusted with
the project and with securing per-
mission from the Huntington
Woods City Commission. The
eruv being proposed by them was
much more extensive than ours
and was totally funded. We
agreed to their proposal.
Frankly, the Huntington
Woods Minyan project lan-
guished and in September 1995
the Oak-Woods group indicated
that it would build the eruv it-
self unless progress was made
by the Minyan. The rest is his-
tory.
While it is too bad that the
eruv was not built earlier when
housing was more available in
the Woods, still the Woods pro-
vides a family oriented, safe,
warm and inviting alternative to
West Bloomfield and Farming-
ton Hills. Rabbi Rabin deserves
the warmest regards and sincere
appreciation of all of us for his
major effort.
It is also important that the
significant contribution of those
that went before be recognized.
Kol Kavod to Rabbi Rabin and
let's hope for a large turnout for
the upcoming kiddush.
Ronald IL Sandler
Huntington Woods
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to feel as if he had given
$100,000."
The future?
"With assimilation and with
the lower Jewish birth rate, and
with a lack of commitment of
young Jews to Israel, JNF as well
as other Zionist organizations will
probably suffer. That's why it's
important, I mean really impor-
tant, that there is a way to edu-
cate young Jews Jewishly. Part
of that education is a love for Is-
rael.
"You watch, if there is no love
of Israel taught, there will be less
and less interest. That would be
a tragedy."
Some of his favorite moments?
The public time when JNF
honored Cardinal Edmund Szo-
ka, who now serves in the Vati-
can.
The private time when he saw
a man, who had not given to
JNF, plant four trees in Israel.
The man was so taken by the
planting that he donated a large
sum. "The physical planting of
the tree sold him on what he had
to do," said Rosenthal.
The great story he'll never tell:
Ed Rosenthal was a minor
league baseball player for the
Philadelphia Phillies organiza-
tion. He slammed a double off a
guy named Mel Stottlemyre in
Yankee Stadium during a New
York-Pennsylvania League
Game. The Phillies offered him
$25,000 to sign a future contract.
Ed's father didn't think a Jewish
boy, not to mention a catcher,
should be playing ball like that.
Don't tell anyone that story.
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