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1998
24 Detroit Jewish News
DIRECTORY
in our Classified Section
national Jewish newspaper, as saying,
Monica Lewinsky jokes in the BAHM
"We clearly have concerns and dis-
hallway as they waited to do the flag
agreements with BSA about both their
ceremony that ushers in the evening.
treatment of gays and lesbians as well
After the brief ritual using both the
as religious liberties issues, such as
American and Israeli flags, it was on to
requiring their members to profess a
business. Visiting nurse Debra Luria
belief in God."
(Levine's sister) taught first aid skills to
Although she would not comment
the eight boys and three scout leaders
on the homosexu-
assembled.
ality matter,
Among the
Cheryl Reid, the
evening's topics:
chairperson of
rabies, hypother-
Beth Shalom's
mia, puncture
troop and mother
wounds, sprained
of two scouts, likes
ankles and
the religious com-
knocked-out
ponent of scouting.
teeth.
"It teaches the
After 40 min-
kids solid values
utes of sitting in
that get lost in the
their chairs, the
public schools and
scouts started to
that a lot of kids
get a little fidgety,
Above: Aaron Levine,
don't even get at home,
interrupting Luria with
Josh Kimmel and
she said. "The purpose is to Danny Solomon con- tangential anecdotes and
build good citizens as well
sult a map on a five- clamoring to be "victims"
as strengthen religious ties," mile hike at Pinckney on which Luria could
she said.
State Recreation Area. demonstrate rescue tech-
Although a woman,
niques.
Reid has served as a boy
Below: Aaron Levine
Lest anyone wonder
scout leader for years. "The
and Tzvi Feldman
whether the mostly
only time there's an issue is check their Boy Scout yarmulke-wearing scouts
manuals.
on camp-outs," she
were really Jewish,
said. "Female scout
one scout called out,
leaders are required
"But I'm lactose
to have a separate
intolerant!" when
tent or share a tent
Luria instructed the
with only their own
troop to save
children. You can't
knocked-out teeth by
even share a tent
immersing them in
with your husband.
cold milk.
As a new board
Josh Abramson, a
member for the
seventh grader at
National Committee
Hillel, said he liked
on Jewish Scouting, Reid is working
learning "the necessities of life, such as
to increase interest in Jewish scouting.
keeping healthy and being prepared"
Some synagogues fear it will interfere
in the scouts. He noted that he would
with their other youth groups, she
not mind being in a non-Jewish troop
said, when they should be thinking of
but "it's a lot easier to be in a Jewish
scouting as an additional Jewish venue
troop because it's kosher and they fol-
for kids.
low all the rules of boy scouts and
"This is another way to keep them
Judaism."
in the synagogue," she said, noting
Agreeing with him was Nathan
that she schedules all her troop meet-
Stiennon, an eighth grader at
ings and events so as not to conflict
Southfield's Birney Middle School, who
with her synagogue's youth activities.
said, "I like being in a Jewish troop
Like Reid, BAHM's Levine likes
because then I don't have to worry
the moral lessons stressed in scouting.
about whether the food is kosher or the
"People know you're a force for good
camp-outs break Shabbat."
when they see you in uniform," he
Aron Sandler, an eighth grader at
said, noting that he wears a uniform
Norup Middle School in Oak Park,
to all meetings and encourages his
said his favorite part of scouting are
troop to as well.
the camp-ours. His allegiances to the
Uniforms and scouting values aside,
all-Jewish troop were slightly more
the scouts gathered before a recent
tenuous, though. "Maybe if a non-
Wednesday meeting seemed like fairly
Jewish troop were a lot better than
typical middle-school boys, cracking
this one, I'd be in it," he said. II
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