Nothing less than THE BEST The Jewish Community Center offers over 500 classes, all taught by highly-qualified instructors. We invite you to meet some of them: Mark Disento, Program Coordinator, - JPM Building: Mark received his bachelor's degree in Parks and Recreation Administration from Wayne State University and has worked in the recreation field since 1992. He has also coordinated programs for people with special needs, older adults and children. Sandie Landau, instructor of various children's classes: Sandie has taught at both the Oak Park and West Bloomfield location for over 25 years. 5he received her degree in Early Childhood Education from Ryerson University in Toronto and is currently teaching enrichment classes in cooking, woodworking, science, parent/toddler and playgroup for children 17 months to 8 years old. EDITOR'S WATCH TRAVELERS from page 31 Holiday services each fall. This sum- mer, Student Rabbi Holly Cohen is serving full time, so Shabbat services are held weekly. For a schedule of services and programs at Congrega- tion Beth El, please call (616) 946- 1913. Fivenson, retired from the restau- rant equipment business, is sure Jew- ish travelers would enjoy Shabbat at Congregation Beth El — if they knew it existed. "We've had difficulty making connections with Detroiters when they travel up north, and they have had difficulty finding us," he said. For him, the synagogue has been a spiritual godsend. "A small group tends to draw you closer to your spirituality and to force you to become more involved Jewishly," he said. He and his wife, Sally, keep kosher. "And that's very hard in Tra- verse City," Fivenson said, "because there's no kosher meat source." Over the years, they and their four children have improvised. "We tend to be vegetarian," Fivenson said. "But it has the same effect — of reinforcing our Jewish identity." As part of its outreach, the con- gregation hosts Lubavitchers from Grand Rapids, 150 miles away, at a monthly Torah study. Congregation President Terry Tarnow said the Shabbat services, typically informal, appeal to vaca- tioners, especially those with kids. "People like the warmth and friend- ,—/ ship we offer, and we always extend an invitation for them to come back," said Tarnow, who grew up at Temple Beth El in Detroit before getting married and moving with her husband, Michael, to Traverse City in 1971. They now have two sons. An Oneg follows Friday-night ser- vices at Congregation Beth El. Con- gregants take turns hosting them. "It's not like we can go to a Jewish bakery and just pick up something — they don't exist up here," Tarnow said. "Because we're small," she added, every person counts in keeping us going. It's very easy to get involved and be involved. We know everyone else and are like an extended family." _/ Continuity in rabbinic leadership L \ would be nice, but each of the stu- dent rabbis has brought a fresh per- spective, Tarnow said. One student rabbi introduced the idea of "challah electricity." Tarnow explained it this way: "The rabbi puts his or her hands on the challah, and so do a couple of the kids. Some of the congregants touch the shoul- ders of the rabbi and the kids. Oth- ers join in by touching shoulders or holding hands until everyone is con- nected to, and feels the Jewish elec- tricity radiating from, the challah. "It's truly something to see." ❑ " T o leave a voice mail message for Robert Sklar, please call (248) 354- 6060, ext. 25$ u LITTERS Craig Daniels, Physical Education Instructor, Kahn Building: Craig received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Recreation Leadership and Management and his secondary education from Ferris State University in May 1997. Craig's previous work experience includes assistant intramural director and assistant program director. To receive your copy of the JCC Fall Class Catalogue listing all programs, please call (248) 661-7600 in West Bloomfield or (248) 967-4030 in Oak Park. 8/7 1998 JC C 32 Detroit Jewish News Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit D. Dan 8 Betty Kahn Building 6600 West Maple Road • West Bloomfield, Mr. t483.22 Jimmy Prentis Morris Building 15110 West ten Mile Road, Oak Park, MI. L48237 ing Fire: Encounters with Elie Wiesel and Approaches to Auschwitz). He co-edited four collections of other people's articles about the Holocaust. He has written 20 other books on subjects related to phi- losophy and philosophers. 5. Bolkosky wrote that aside from Roth's Los Angeles Times article, "The ZOA had staff members scour Roth's work and they found several brief reviews by him in Continuum but did not refer to any of his substantive books or articles." The ZOA read Roth's books con- cerning the Holocaust, as well as hun- dreds of Roth's articles and book reviews. In its public statements, the ZOA cited many of Roth's "substantive works": • The Continuum articles by Roth, which were not "brief reviews," but rather "review essays." • Current, fall 1980 (in which Roth compared the rise of Ronald Reagan to the rise of Hitler). • USA Today, Oct. 11, 1988 (in which Roth compared attitudes toward poor Americans to attitudes toward the CJ Jews in Nazi Germany). • Current, winter 1983 (in which Roth compared PLO terrorism to Israeli self-defense, saying that both were "evil for the sake of good"). • Roth's book Approaches to Auschwitz, in which Roth compared the Holocaust victims to the Viet- namese boat people (pp. 121-122, 193) and the refugees from the –N Caribbean nations (pp.121-122) and used the Nazi term lebensraum to characterize America's westward expansion (p. 17). Morton Klein . National president Zionist Organization of America