June
Hillel students join African American pen pals at the
Detroit Historical Museum. Howard Wallach is named
e new Jewish Council president as Allen Zemmol steps
down.
Fresh Air Society, one of the strings that keeps
Michigan's Jewish community so close, gets ready for its
95th anniversary. The 30th anniversary of the Six Day
, War is remembered. Father William Cunningham, a
great friend of the Jewish community, dies.
July
Rabbi Simon Feld is hired by Federation to provide corn-
ort to the 650 Jewish residents scattered among 145 -
non-Jewish nursing homes.
Lubavitch announces it has purchased the Lutheran
Church on Coolidge to be turned into a girls school.
Cantor David Katz is welcomed to Temple Israel.
David Campbell, the head honcho of DMC, visits
Israel's Central Galilee region as part of Partnership
2000. Jewish and black relations are seen as better in the
30 years since the Detroit riots. Doug Ross campaigns
and for governor.
Detroit's Jewish community loses three of its hardest
workers, David S. Mondry, Lillian Maltzer and Max
Nosanchuk.
August
Grace Hospital will merge into Sinai. Temple Kol Ami
pilots an alternative school for students and parents.
Families with relatives buried at B'nai Israel say that the
Novi cemetery is indifferent to complaints about care
—and maintenance.
Temple Emanu-el on the brink of expanding.
Detroit's Maccabi team competes successfully in
Milwaukee,
Seattle and Pittsburgh. The community loses
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a kosher bakery, Zeman's on Southfield Road.
After 23 years as Michigan's ACLU director, Howard
Simons transfers to Florida. Matt Prentice and Paul
Kohn promise upscale kosher dairy restaurants for the
future.
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September
In a landmark announcement, Johns Hopkins Colorectal
Cancer Study finds a tie to Ashkenazi Jews, and the
University of Michigan may follow up. Volunteers are
sought for testing.
Ed Rosenthal, the longtime Jewish National Fund
director, leaves for another position. Shaarey Zedek's
Irving and Beverly Laker Education and Youth Complex
opens in West Bloomfield at the former Walnut Lake
Elementary school. Rabbi Joseph Klein is the new
\ –Temple Emanu-El rabbi.
Humanistic Jews talk about their future after Rabbi
Sherwin Wein retires.
The Jewish News unveils its new, easier-to-read design.
Top:
Classic Coney Island, another attempt
at a sit-down kosher restaurant, goes
out of business.
Middle:
Waterspout Communications, Inc. pres-
ident Charles Alter Buerger (seated)
dies at age 58. (Standing) Jewish News
publisher and corporate vice president
Arthur Horwitz, and corporate vice
president Sylvia Boyko Stafford.
Bottom:
Prentis Manor closes its doors in
Southfield.
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