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Bringing Together Family, Faith & Community
The Jewish Histori-
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COMMUNITY CORNER cal Society of Michi-
Jewish Historical
Society of Michigan
Annual Lunch
Honors Judith
Levin Cantor, Sun,
June 14, 1998
gan honors Judith
Levin Cantor at its
Annual Lunch, Sun,
June 14, 1998 at
11:00 a.m. at Adat
Shalom Synagogue.
Carl Levin is the
speaker. His subject
is: Retrospective:
Two decades on the
Hill. Tickets are $22
per person and
everyone is
welcome.
Lubavitch Leader
Dies In Accident
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(248) 646-2092
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The Family of the Late
ROBERT JACKSON
Announces the unveiling of a monument in his memory 11:00 a.m.
Sunday, June 14, at Hebrew Memorial Park. Rabbi Nelson will officiate.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend.
The Family of the Late
MAX SIMON
Announces the unveiling of a monument in his memory 12:00 noon
Sunday, June 14, at Machpelah Cemetery. Rabbi Yoskowitz will officiate.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend.
Special people touch our lives in everything they do,
and leave us changed long after they have gone.
The gifts they gave us can become a part of.who we are —
A legacy of beauty that will always live on.
The Blackman Family Announces the unveilings of our loved ones.
Sunday, June 14, 1998
ETHEL BLACKMAN
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1998
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STUART ZUCKERMAN, 59, of
Novi, died May 24.
He is survived by his wife, Cheryl
Zuckerman; son, Brandon Zuckerman
of Novi; daughter, Jaimee Zuckerman
of Novi; brother and sister-in-law,
Steven and Beverly Zuckermsan of
West Bloomfield; sister and brother-
in-law, Doree and Kenneth Soble of
Orchard Lake. Private family services
were held.
Contributions may be made to a
charity of one's choice. Arrangements
by Dorfman Funeral Direction.
KAREN BLACKMAN
Hebrew Memorial Park
Nusach Hari Cemetery
11:00 a.m.
10:00 a.m.
Relatives and friends are welcome to attend
irt
abbi Aryeh Leib Kaplan,
founder of a thriving
Lubavitch Chasidic corn-
munity in the northern
Israeli city of Safad,where he also had
once served as vice mayor, died in a
car accident May 12 while traveling in
the former Soviet Union. He was 50.
Rabbi Kaplan, who was called Leibel,
was the older brother of Rabbi
Shmuel Kaplan, the Maryland region-
al director of the Lubavitch move-
ment.
"He was brilliant and respected by
all of the rabbis in Israel," Rabbi
Shmuel Kaplan said in a telephone
interview from Safad. "He was excep-
tionally well organized, a man of
action. And his kindness was unlimit-
ed. Everyone who comes during shiva
has the same story, 'He helped me, he
helped me.' There never was a time he
didn't help."
The late Rabbi Kaplan was travel-
ing to Minsk to dedicate a new
Lubavitch school and mikvah, or ritu-
al bath, that he helped to establish.
Outside Minsk in Belarus, his limou-
sine was struck by an oncoming truck
that swerved in its path, said his
brother. Rabbi Kaplan and the limou-
sine driver died instantly. A Lubav-
. itcher student from England, one of
_two students accompanying Rabbi
Kaplan, was in serious condition at a
hospital in Smolensk.
Rona Hirsch is a writer for the Balti-
more Jewish Times.
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Rabbi Kaplan's body was flown
May 13 to Israel, where it was met by
about 1,500 people at Ben-Gurion
Airport. The funeral was held that day,
in Safad.
The second of four children born
to Rabbi Moshe and Sonia Kaplan,
Rabbi Kaplan was born in Paris and
grew up in the Crown Heights section
of Brooklyn, N.Y. About 25 years ago,
the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Men-
achem Mendel Schneerson, sent Rabbi
Kaplan to the centuries-old city of
Safad to establish a Lubavitch comma
nity. "The city was atrophying. The '
mayor of [Safad] came to the Lubav-
itcher Rebbe and asked him to help
rebuild the city," said Rabbi Shmuel
Kaplan, a Greenspring resident.
Within the next five years, the first
I
building in a new residential section
was completed. Safad now boasts a
number of Lubavitch educational
institutions with a total enrollment or"
more than 1,500 students including a
boys elementary and high school; a
girls elementary and high school; a
women's seminary; Yeshivas Men-
achem, a post-graduate institute of
rabbinical studies; and Collel Tzemach
Tzedek, a yeshiva program for married
students. Rabbi Kaplan served as dean
of Yeshivas Menachem and Collel
until his death.
Rabbi Kaplan is also survived by his
wife, Sora, their nine children, ages 4
to 24, and two grandchildren; his par-
ents, Rabbi Moshe and Sonia Kaplan
of Har Nof, Jerusalem; a brother,
Rabbi Nochem Kaplan of Brooklyn,
N.Y.; and a sister, Cherry Ulman of
Jerusalem. O