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A local rabbi will be honored Tuesday for his promotion of Torah study.
social contract is unraveling in
Israel," he says. "I believe I'll discuss
what we can do to prevent the col-
lapse of the social contract in Israel."
Tolwin, the educational director of
Aish HaTorah in Detroit, will receive
the first "Pillar of Torah" award from
the 11-year-old Orthodox day school
Darchei Torah. A reception, with
dessert, begins at 7:30 p.m. at the
school, which is located in the
Agency for Jewish Education building
on 12 Mile Road, east of Lahser.
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r. David Luchins is all over
the board politically and
theologically, and that's
among his reasons for
coming to town Tuesday to help
honor Rabbi Alon Tolwin of Aish
HaTorah.
The international outreach and
educational organization, Luchins
notes, "transcends
titles." Aside from
serving as senior
adviser to U.S. Sen.
Daniel Patrick
Moynihan, Luchins
teaches political sci-
ence at Touro Col-
lege in New York and
has lectured at Aish
HaTorah in
Jerusalem for 14
years.
Luchins, 51, was
reared in an Ortho-
dox home and was
active in National
Conference of Syna-
gogue Youth, for
which he visited the
White House. In
1972, he worked on
Hubert Humphrey's
presidential campaign Dr. David Luchins will speak on Jewish uni ty .
and four years later,
helped out on Moyni- Rabbi Alon Tolwin will receive Darchei Torah award.
han's senatorial bid.
"[Rabbi Tolwin] helps a
Today, Luchins, who describes
tremendous amount of people
himself as a "certified lefty," serves as
continue their Jewish education.
chairman of the Jewish Council on
He's been in Detroit now for 16
Public Affairs, board member of the
years doing incredible work," said
Orthodox Union and advisory board
Jeff
Maza, director of development
member of the Jewish Fund for Jus-
at
Darchei
Torah.
tice. His field of specialization as a
Tolwin, likewise, appreciates
teacher and aide to Moynihan is
the work Darchei Torah is doing.
international and national relations,
"Before they came along, cur-
with an emphasis on the Middle
riculum in the schools tended to
East. He has worked with Moynihan
be curriculum-centered, and
since 1981.
they've broken that mold. There's
"I get to teach politics and play
always been an emphasis on the
it," Luchins noted.
kid bending to the material and
On Tuesday, he'll speak on the
the thing that mattered most was
subject, "Are We Still One? Jewish
the grade, and attitude suffered.
Unity in a Post-Pluralistic World."
Darchei Torah came along and
Luchins has been asked to talk
made it child-centered," he says.
about issues dividing the Jewish com-
Aish HaTorah, he explained,
munity in America, "because the
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employs a similar philosophy. Rather
than imposing a dogma on students,
it allows students to grow Jewishly at
their own pace.
"The mandate is to connect adult
Jews to the beauty of Jewish living,"
Tolwin says. "We have a plan which
can show a person how to go from A
to wherever he or she wants to go."
Being honored feels good, the rabb
continued, but, "In all honesty, I don
dwell on being honored because
there's so much to do. I try to margin
alize it. My biggest
fear is. that nobody
shows up and it's a
dash of my ego:'-'
There is no charge
for Tuesday's event,
but donors to
Darchei Torah in
Rabbi Tolwin's
honor will appear
on a "Pillar of
Torah" scroll that
will be displayed at
the reception. For
information, con-
tact Jeff Maza at
(248) 357-5893.