This
That

Torah lite; the hidden
bakery; where the
smoke was.

What do you serve at a Weight
Watchers bat mitzvah luncheon?
When you're Florine Mark Ross,
the president and CEO, there's really
no choice.
Iii one month, Ross will share the
bima with four other adult women as
part of her life-long dream.
With no bat mitzvahs allowed in
the Conservative Movement when she
was 13, Ross found herself learning
the Torah in Hebrew school as the
only woman in class.
"It's something I'd long had a
spiritual desire to do," she said,
but didn't think about it lately
until her sister passed away
two years ago.
"I was looking for some
answers, and I couldn't
find them," she said. "I
had a need to do some-
thing spiritually for
myself, to be someplace
for four or five hours a

week where it would take
my mind off of things
and maybe give me some
answers. "
Ross studied once a
week with the other
women, and made time
for individual study.
The b'not mitzvah cer-
emony is scheduled for
May 21 at Adat Shalom
Synagogue in
Farmington Hills, with a
Anna Mickel of West Bloomfield carries her "before photo"
luncheon to follow.
while sporting her new look. The Mother's Day Fashion
"There's going to be
Show and Make-over was held May 5 at the Jimmy
enough Weight Watchers
Prentis Morris Building of the Jewish Community Center
food that people like me
of Metropolitan Detroit. Nine senior adults modeled
can eat," she said, and a
clothing from Liz Claiborne and had make-overs by
Shabbat dinner at my
stylists
from Nino Salon, both in Ti-oy's Somerset Collection.
house on Friday night
More
than
100 attended the event in Oak Park.
will absolutely be a
Weight Watchers meal,
Franklin Racquet Club is slated to be
including the chocolate chip cookies."
back in full working order in June
after a Jan. 22 fire.
A long-awaited kosher bakery has
Rick Brode, the Southfield club's
opened in Southfield. The Bake
president
said that the renovations are
Station opened late lase month on the
being completed on schedule. "The
southeast corner of Southfield Road
whole Franklin Road facade will be
and 13 Mile. It's in a renovated store-
redone," he said. "We're coming back
front of the Country Corners shop-
newer and better.
ping center, where Zeman's Bakery
The facility's beauty shop and
had been before it closed in
Kidsports
Fun & Fitness Club
August 1997.
entrances,
as well as the Franklin
According to Rabbi Joseph
Road
lobby,
are being redone.
is
Vaad
Harabonim
Krupnik, the
Already renovated are the tennis
supervising the kashrut of the facility.
courts and ceiling in the back, which
Store owner Steve Katz said he was
contributed to the project's nearly
still awaiting city approval, maybe by
$1.5 million tab.
the end of the month, to hang
The fire started in a machine in the
a sign on the facade to
nail
salon. Brode said it caused some
advertise the bakery's
smoke damage inside but little else.
existence.

Marking 100 Years
Of Detroit Jewry

Remember
When • •

From the pages of The Jewish News
for this week 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50
years ago.

1989

Irving Laker was elected president of
Congregation Shaarey Zedek during
the synagogue's annual meeting.
Jewish groups nationwide
appeared split over whether to favor
a relaxation of U.S. trade sanctions
against the Soviet Union contained
in the Jackson-Vanik Amendment.

1979

The handwritten speech that Israeli
Premier Menachem Begin delivered
at the treaty-signing ceremonies in
Washington has been auctioned in
Jerusalem to an American for $56,000.
Sam and Ruth Rich have under-
written the construction of a new
day camp facility being built on the
grounds of the Jewish Community
Center in West Bloomfield.

1969

Norman Drachler, superintendent of
the Detroit Public School system, is
one of seven alumni of Wayne State
University to receive alumni award
citations; he was recognized for his
contributions in the field of education.
Marjorie Goldman, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Goldman and a
senior at Cass Technical High School,
is slated to play Anna in the upcom-
ing production of The King and I.

1959

Charles A. Madison, a former
Detroiter, marked the completion of
35 years of service as editor of the col-
lege division of Henry Holt & Co., a
New York publishing company.
A fully equipped weight-lifting
room opened at the Jewish
Community Center on Meyers; non-
experienced people can use the room
only with an instructor present.

1949

This Depression-era photograph is of a chil-
dren's services rogram at Detroit's North
End Clinic, forerunner to Sinai Hospital.

Photo courtesy of the Leonard N. Simons Jewish Community
Archives/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit. If you have
information about this photograph, please call Heidi Christein,
Jewish community archivist: (248) 642-4260.

5/14
1999

28 Detroit Jewish News

Representatives from 26 Reform
Jewish congregations in the Midwest
met in Milwaukee to organize the
Great Lakes Council of the Union
of American Hebrew Congregations.
Detroit violinist Jerome Stasson
has been appointed concertmaster
of the Wayne University Symphony
Orchestra.