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Changing Lives
Forever

Aish HaTorah strives to answer the question
Why be Jewish?

SHELLI DORFMAN
Editorial Assistant

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becomes more relevant to their lives and
their families, with an ultimate goal of
their taking responsibility for bringing it
to other Jewish people.
Ron Lowy, who has been attending
Aish HaTorah classes almost weekly
since they began in the Detroit-area 10
years ago, said, "In Hebrew class as a
‹
kid, we learned the facts." He
now finds he is able to be a part
of asking questions and finding
their answers.

hy would people looking
to increase the level of
Judaism in their lives pull
into a Southfield car deal-
ership? Because it's Wednesday. If it was
Tuesday, they would
need to go to a
Farmington Hills law
office and on Thursday
to a Southfield mort-
gage company.
With a goal of mak-
ing Jewish learning eas-
ily accessible, Aish
HaTorah of Metro
Detroit offers classes,
seminars and discus-
sion groups through-
Rabbi Tzvi Hochstadt
out the metro area.
teaches an Aish
The 25-year-old
HaTorah
class.
organization
b
came to
Tanya Alkhazov and Arthur
Detroit with
Aish HaTbrah's summer
Gluzman listen attentively as
Rabbi Alon
seminal; "Love and
Rabbi Hochstadt teaches "The
Tolwin 10
Marriage: Ancient wisdom
Way of God" class.
years ago. It's
to navigate life's rosiest
now based in
and thorniest issues," takes
In June, Hochstadt and
Birmingham.
place 7:30 p.m. Tuesda
Tolwin went about a role rever-
With no
Aug. 3, at the offices o
sal. Hochstadt, who has been
entry level too
Weight Watchers Inc. in
with the Detroit branch since
low or too
Fermin on Hills. The
February 1998, became the edu-
high, Aish
cost is 8; $5 if prepaid.
cation director and Tolwin the
HaTorah aims
new executive director. With a
to increase
television and film background,
Jewish understanding for anyone who
Hochstadt says he can identify and work
wants it, as long as they identify with
with the logistics, crew, staff and main
being Jewish and realize that no ques-
played of the program. As an educa-
tions are unanswerable.
tional leader, he said, "I was an adult
Zach Cane, a student at Michigan
when I first learned Talmud. I know
State University, recently attended a ses-
how it is to teach adults."
sion for the first time, looking to find a
With a premise that "food is to the
better understanding of Judaism.
body as wisdom is to the soul,"
Staying after class, he was able to pose
Hochstadt said Tolwin introduced the
questions to Aish HaTorah Rabbi Tzvi
Aish
HaTorah Detroit Lunch-and-Learn
Hochstadt that he said he'd never had
series. The programs have grown to
the opportunity to ask a rabbi before.
include five Lunch-and-Learns and two
Rather than having participants
classes Wednesday night in the
remain at what he calls "bar mitzvah
Birmingham center, monthly Lunch-
Judaism," or an education that has
and-Learns and monthly seminars, inde-
stopped, Hochstadt hopes to move his
pendent learning, personal development
students to levels where Judaism
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