American Heart Association, 4 Fighting Heart Disease and Stroke YOU BEING STALKED BY ARE WOMEN' S No. 1 KILLER? Time For membrance Ceremonies at the ICC and Shaarey Zedek recall Israel's slain soldiers. .4.411.• by Akiva Hebrew Day School students and heard two personal accounts. Staff Writer Rabbi Avraham Cohen of Yeshiva artiness enveloped the main Beth Yehuda remembered his brother sanctuary Tuesday evening as Ezra. "My brother was killed in the line about 300 participants made of duty when he was 19 years old, study- their way to their seats. The ing in yeshiva in Eretz Yisrael," he said. last light of day shone through stained While on a holiday break, his brother ©1997, American Heart Association glass. A small spotlight and the dim tripped up a tank mine in northern glow from slides of fallen Israeli soldiers Galilee while crossing an unmarked field. lit the way for a Boy Scout troop to Quoting from a passage in the •° ( ■ , e■ march down the center aisle, bearing Midrash, Cohen said, "For every man Exquisite Presentations Israeli troop flags. fighting in the front, there was a part- Baby Bedding Shaarey Zedek had become Israel in ner learning Torah and saying prayers mourning. that lie should win the war. Bridal Registry The mourning actually started earlier "When I was in Israel during the for the Bed, Bath & Table P . in the day. Yom HaZikaron, Israel's Yom Kippur War, I learned extra for the Memorial Day, began with a two-minute soldiers," he said; "because we knew 074 siren and flag-lowering ceremony outside very clearly that our Torah and our the Jewish Community Center of learning and our prayers were going to Metropolitan Detroit's help the soldiers, and Kahn Building in Daniel Gonik, 14, from Akiva lays they did." West Bloomfield. Yael Waxman, carnations at the memorial statue About 50 people lis- outside the Jewish Community Detroit's Israeli shlicha Center in West Bloomfield tened to poetry read (emissary), told of the HARRY KI RS BA M Reduc ing you r risk factors for heart disease and stroke is good self defense D VD (5 ri nancys linens tit 2545 Orchard Lake Road Sylvan Lake, /111 48320 248-683-0450 258- 683-0498 fax , 6 A A Tribute To Heroes 4 :0 c ___,••••1 1,, 4,10 Miracle Mission tourists are moved by Israel's Memorial Day. ROBERT A. SKLAR Editor UNDER ONE ROOF -- - ------------ ACCENTS _ IN NEEDLEPOINT Contemporary Designs 626-3042 4/23 IN THE ORCHARD MALL WEST BLOOMFIELD 1999 16 loss of her only brother, Etan, soon after the birth of one of her two daughters during the Lebanese conflict in 1982. "I had just returned from the hospital with my baby when we got a telephone call from the army that he was wounded," she said. Knowing that the army would never disclose a soldier's condition, "I knew he was dead when they called." After a wreath-laying ceremony and the lighting of Yahrzeit candles, stu- dents from Jewish day schools, high schools and youth movements read a list of names of fallen Israeli soldiers. The day-long ceremony, sponsored by the Michigan-Israel Connection, continued at Shaarey Zedek with Hebrew songs, poetry and a speech by Colonel KobiMarom, a former com- mander of the Hermon Brigade. "For me as a soldier, this is a unique event because for the past 20 years, I have spent many Memorial Days visiting the graves of my friends in Israel who paid the ultimate sacri- fice," said Marom, an International fellow at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. The families of the fallen live with their loss every day, he said. Detroit Jewish News Latrun, Israel oth Steve Rossmoore and Stephanie Dorfman said they were deeply touched by the Yom HaZikaron commemoration on behalf of Israel's fallen soldiers. The event was at the Armored Corps Museum near Tel Aviv night. on "The younger generation only understands war through Saving Private Ryan," said Temple Israel's Rossmoore, accompanied on Michigan Miracle Mission III by his father Harold, a World War II veteran. "But to see the faces of young men who at any moment could go to war is to see something very real. For myself, I saw the faces of my own children as if they had been living here." Dorfman, a fellow congregant and a West Bloomfield High School teacher, said seeing Israeli soldiers, many still teenagers, "with tears in their eyes as they stood at attention, transcended our being tourists. When you looked into their beautiful faces, you couldn't help but wonder if they would be alive next year." Hundreds of mission goers and Israelis attended the solemn commem- oration at the Israeli war memorial. The site was anybody's to claim between 1948 and 1967; the rusted remains of Jewish convoys trying to bring supplies to Jerusalem during the War for Independence still line the roadway as a memorial. The service, hosted by the Israel Defense Forces Armored Division, included a tribute to Col. Mickey Markus of New York City. He helped Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion train Israeli troops for the War for Independence before friendly fire acci- dentally took his life in 1948. On the way to Latrun, Miracle Mission buses hadn't reached the museum grounds by the 8 p.m. siren marking the start of Yom HaZikaron. So they stopped where they were along the road with other Israeli dri- vers in deference to the war dead. Said Temple Israel Rabbi Harold Loss, "That single act, seeing Israelis standing in silence beside their cars in the middle of the highway, was more powerful than anything we might have missed at Latrun." Tuesday morning, a two-minute siren sounded at 11 a.m., bringing the commerce of the day to a stand- still. Memorial services followed at the Western Wall, in schools, on military bases and at monuments across Israel.