DETROIT
JEWISH NEWS

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Vol. CXVIII, No. 4

This Week

14 The Trip Of A Lifetime

Staten Island turns up gold for
Maccabi in-line hockey teams.

Editorials
35 Nourishing Our Souls

Newest arrivals reinforce quality
of our spiritual leadership.

Community
41 In Song And Stone

The Rosenbaum Education Wing
at Temple Emanu-El is dedicated.

Spirituality

65 'Breath Of Fresh Air'

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Primed For A Rebound

year ago this
The
week, I marched
Way...
We
proudly in
Yeshivat Akiva's Torah
parade on a very hot, but
very upbeat day.
It was a day to kvell (smile). The festive
event marked the modern Orthodox day
school's long-awaited move to a renovated
former synagogue in Southfield from a
ROBERT A.
SKLAR
rundown former public school in Lathrup
Village.
Editor
The brief march was along 12 Mile
Road. Students, parents, staff and supporters all took part,
hopeful for a better tomorrow for the 36-year-old school,
which over the years has faced enrollment, financial and opera-
tional concerns.
On page 6, Staff Writer Diana Lieberman, under Story
Development Editor Keri Guten Cohen's direction, explores
some of the challenges facing Akiva. A related editorial is on
page 35.
Things haven't gone as well as Akiva leaders had hoped,
what with no 10th grade this school year because there weren't
enough students.
But I see in Akiva's professional and lay leadership a
strength of purpose that should command the attention and
support of the entire Detroit Jewish community.

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ante, like language, is found in all
human societies. Encoded in the
form, technique and structure of
every dance are the meanings and values
that its practitioners hope to impart to
their audiences.
New Jersey-based choreographer
Carolyn Dorfman, who grew up in
Southfield as the child of Holocaust sur-
vivors
Henry and Mala Dorfman, never
GAIL
lost
touch
with the Jewish values she
ZIMMERMAN
learned from her parents. She has made
Arts e^'
Entertainment
them the main subjects of her latest work,
Editor
The Klezmer Sketch. But rather than focus
only on pain, she incorporates the expres-
sions of Jewish joy and intergenerational
connection, which also are part of her family's legacy.
Dorfman brings her troupe to metro Detroit to perform
The Klezmer Sketch and other works. Several educational initia-
tives also are planned.
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" wrote poet
W. B. Yeats. In profiling Carolyn Dorfman beginning on page
76, freelance writer Suzanne Chessler provides an engaging
portrait of a woman of "amazing grace."

Shabbat Shalom!

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A giving couple earns Torah Center's
Crown of Good Name Award.

AppleTree

68 Living La Vida Jewish

The Seymours keep themselves
caught up in Judaism.

Arts
ntertainment

74 Women Of The Book

Artist Kirsten Coco finds biblical
matriarchs worthy of emulation.

DEPARTMENTS

Aletbet'cha
5
Anniversaries .... 64
AppleTree
68
B'nai Mitzvah
56
Births
54
Calendar
48
Community
41
Crossword
81
... Answer
112
Danny Raskin
88
Editorials
35
Engagements
59
For Openers
5
Food
95
Health
100
Insight
33
Marketplace
108
Obituaries
134
Out & About
72
Spirituality
65
Sports
101
Staff Notebook .... 10
The Scene 104
Torah Portion .... 53
Weddings 64

Candlelighting
Friday, Sept. 8, 7:38 p.m.

Shabbat ends
Saturday, Sept. 9, 8:37 p.m.

Cover:
Photography, Lois Greenfield
Page design, Debbie Schultz

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DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Living Well

95 Holiday Must Haves

High Holiday favorites
from good cooks around town.

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