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Clockwise, from top left:
The Walk for Israel
wound up with the
Jewish Federation's 100th
birthday at the JCC in
Oak Park.

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refugees ftom Kosovo,
final- d succor here. From
left, Leutrine, 8; her
mother, Xhevahire;
Leuart, 11; Valdrin, 5,
and father Avdullah.

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osses in its operations chat
forced cuts in services such as the
infant-toddler program at the jimmy
Prentis Morris Building in Oak Park.
The Federation celebrated its 100th
birthday V.rith a gab party for thou-
sands that coincided with the annual
Walk for Israel. But, on a sadder note,
officials acquiesced quietly in the shut-
down of the 46-year-old Sinai
Hospital, -which was merged with
nearby Grace Hospital by the Detroit
Medical Center.
The community sent teens on a
mission to Poland and Israel and
adults on a mission to Israel, played
host to refugees from the war in
Kosovo, worried about a swastika-like
symbol at a school entryway and wel-
comed a new kosher restaurant.
Meanwhile, from Rosh HaShana
and Yom Kippur, through Sukkot and
Chanuka, through Passover and Tisha
b'Av and finally back to the High
Holidays again, the Jewish calendar
offers continuing opportunities for
reflection and celebration.
At other times, special ceremonies
— completing a new Torah scroll, for
example, or breaking ground for a new
building as the Sephardic community
did — signify different mileposts on
the religious or secular calendar. TI

Rabbi Eric Ray writes the
rst line of a new Torah
for Temp e Beth El.

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Morris Flat carries a
Torah that he donated to
its new home at Young
Israel of Oak Park.

Dr. Marcus Sugarman
was there when Sinai
Hospital opened in 1953
— and there when it
closed last summer.

In observance of
Memorial Day, Michigan
Junior Vice Commander
Sandy Pliskow salutes
fallen Jewish war veterans
at Hebrew Memorial
Park in Clinton
Township.

On the eve of Chanuka,
Jessica Levine, 4, of
Southfield, peered
through the beveled glass
window to see the candles
that lit the inside of
Temple Beth El.

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