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Cyber Shmooze

A Southfield couple creates a homey Web site
for neighborhood news.

SUSAN TAWIL

Special to The Jewish News

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T

he butcher is running a spe-
cial on chicken, there's a
house up for sale three
blocks away, and mazel tov!
— the Goldman's son's bar mitzvah is
next Shabbos!
Sound like the latest from your
shmoozy neighbor? Actually, it's
another exit off the information super-
highway, at www@michiganet.com .
This home-grown site, the creation

glance through the Jerusalem Post, lis
ten to 24-hour live news from Israel –\
on Arutz Sheva, read up on Bretzlov
Chassidus, hear a song from the latest
Uncle Moishy tape, laugh at a Jewish
joke, even peruse "Der Yapanisher
Yid," a Japanese Yiddish newsletter —
all at the same "bookmark."
The Nadels created the Web site
just a few months ago, mostly as a ser-
vice to Detroit's Jewish community.
They put in about five hours a week
for nearly six months to get the site up
and running. Although Idit had no

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of Bernard and Idit Nadel of
Southfield, is local, with a global fla-
vor. You can listen to Jewish history
lectures by the Kollel Institute's Rabbi
Shmuel Irons, try a new kugel recipe,
download a list of kosher restaurants
for your next vacation destination,

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previous computer training, her hus---
band, whose business is artificial intel-
ligence, taught her the ropes. Bernard
does most of the technical work of set-
ting up and running the Web site,
while Idit composes text and handles
marketing.

