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Business or brokered accounts not eligible. Before hultofilo Fro After Check out the TA1l AND WW DIAICTOCI in our Classified Section Les Gorback and David Bierkamp GoRbAck p 1- 1 0 1 0 Ci RA p hy 32731 Franklin Rd. • Franklin, III • 48025 (248) 626-3666 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 ROOTS page 3 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. ❑