This
That

Letter perfect, virtually;
classrooms for Yeshiva
Beth Yehudah; water
for Israel.

Technology met religion in Brooklyn
last week, as Joey Stulberg, a quadri-
plegic with severe cerebral palsy, cele-
brated his bar mitzvah with the help
of a computer on May 15.
Joey, who can't speak, and can bare-
ly move, used a computer developed
by a Michigan State University profes-
sor to recite the Torah portions.
After nine months of using a stick
at the end of his cap to type out the
Torah portion into a computer pro-
gram, Joey e-mailed the files, written
in Hebrew, to Professor John
Eulenberg, director of the MSU
Artificial Language Laboratory, who
converted the file into audio signals.
Eulenberg went to Brooklyn to put
the files into a portable computer.
On Saturday, 156 congregants of
Kane Street Synagogue listened as Joey
tapped the screen of his computer, to
begin the chanting of his Haftorah.

Detroit's- largest Jewish day
school expects to have a
new building ready by
September.
Due to overcrowding in
both its boys' and girls'
schools, Yeshiva Beth
Yehudah is constructing a
10-classroom facility for its
kindergarten and nursery
school programs, which are
co-educational and current-
Yeshiva Beth. Yehudah Rabbi Eli Mayerfild at the
ly located in both existing
construction site, artist's rendering in hand.
buildings. -
The new building, adja-
similar work. Last week, the fund's
special emissary Yigal Lotan visited the
cent to the boys' school on Lincoln
Jewish News.
Road in Southfield, will cost $1.4 mil-
lion and accommodate 250 children,
The country will use 15 billion gal-
100 more than are currently enrolled in
lons of water more this year than it
will get from rainfall and other renew-
nursery programs. According to Yeshiva
Executive Director Rabbi Eli Mayerfeld,
al sources, he said; within 10 years, it
will be 125 billion gallons annually.
the school is considering adding new
early childhood services, such as day
The only answer, said the former
Israel Defense-Forces colonel, is build-
care and a latchkey program.
ing desalination plants that are bigger
and more efficient than the one at
State Rep. Marc Shulman of West
Eilat at the tip of the Negev, the only
Bloomfield will open his first district
such plant Israel now operates.
office at 7125 Orchard Lake Rd.,
Suite 112.
JNF now raises about $12 million
annually in the U.S.; to get a start on
"My job is
i to not only represent
the water plants, it wants to raise $50
area residents, but to provide them
million. Water resources are a relative-
with the best access to their state gov-
ly new area for JNF, the American
ernment," said Shulman, elected last
arm of Keren Kayemeth Leisrael, the
November. "This office is going to
98-year-old land development and
make government more accessible and
natural resource management agency
user-friendly to the people it serves."
best known for planting trees.
But Lotan said the need was vital,
Facing the worst drought in 60 years,
noting that the immigration of a mil-
Israel is asking the Jewish National
lion Russian Jews in the last decade
Fund for help with funding for new
has sharply increased water needs.
reservoirs, research on desalination and

Marking
100 Tears
Of Detroit Jewry

This picture of the first oficeys of the
Jewish Community Council, taken Sept.
29, 1937 at the Jewish Community
Center, is one of the historical photos
and artifacts included in the JCCs
60th anniversary exhibit at the Detroit
Historical Museum. It shows Simon
Shetun president; Joseph Ehrlich,
treasurer; Julian Krolik, Joseph Burnstein
and James Ellmann, vice presidents.

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.

Remember
When • • •

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

1989

The Greek Supreme Court ruled
that alleged Palestinian terrorist
Mohammad Rashid should be
extradited to the United States to
stand trial in the fatal bombing of a
Pan American Airways jet in 1982.
Talk show host Oprah Winfrey
made a public apology for a recent
show featuring a Mentally ill Jewish
guest who claimed that Jews prac-
tice ritual infanticide.

1979

Maxwell Shaye, a prominent local
artist, presented four of his paint-
ings to the two chaverim homes
operated by the Association for
Jewish Retarded.
Rabbi Abraham Weinberg of
Oak Park was named new camp
site director for Camp Gan Israel in
Kalkaska. Mich.

1969
Fifteen Jewish bakeries, on strike for
a week, were expected to reopen fol-
lowing negotiations on a new con-
tract with the bakers' union. The
sudden strike virtually paralyzed the
Sunday morning brunch clientele.
In a move toward integration of
east Jerusalem economically and
legally with the rest of Israel, the
justice ministry empowered other
ministers to register Arab business-
men-and professionals without
requiring them to apply for licenses.

1959

The Distinguished Service Award
of Wayne State University was pre-
sented to Nathaniel H. Goldstick,
corporation counsel for the city of
Detroit.
The Rabbinical Assembly of
America reported that there is a
shortage of Conservative rabbis in
the United States and Canada.

1949

Israel became the 59th nation to be
admitted to the United Nations.
Samuel Lieberman was elected
temporary president of the newly
organized Gold Star Fathers of
Jewish War Veterans of Michigan.

5/21
1999

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