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November 11 & 12, 2000
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Kinder-STOMP for the tricycle set!
Metro Theatre Company brings
imagination alive with this delightful
theatre piece for the senses.
A Brownie, Cub Scout Salute Day.
November lb & 19, 2000
Otherwise Known As
Sheila the Great
David Schechter honors
his grandfather, kosher
butcher Hy Schechter, in
a television documentary.
Judy Blume's irrepressible Sheila, will
have you giggling and smiling as she
comes of age in this musical
adaptation of the popular book.
A Girl Scout Salute Day.
LINDA BACHRACK
Special to the Jewish News
III is name was Hy.
Hy Schechter.
Silent Hy, everyone
called him. Though he was
a man of few words, his life made an
incredible impact.
Hy Schechter, father of four boys
and a longtime Detroit kosher butch- _
er, is immortalized in a television doc-
umentary produced by his grandson
David Schechter, 29, a TV news
reporter from Minneapolis.
The half-hour documentary, titled A
Good Name, was a three-year labor of
love for David, a West Bloomfield High
School and University of Michigan
graduate. It airs 6 p.m. Sunday, NOV.
12, on WTVS-Channel 56.
The story begins in Russia, in the
shtetl of David Horodok, where Hy
was born in 1904 in a mud-floor
shack. His four sons, Neal, Ronnie,
Robert and Howard, relate their dad's
immigrant experience through a series
of casual conversations caught on film.
It seems Hy's father was a butcher,
also, but he became paralyzed from
sleeping on the ground, so Hy had to
leave school at age 8 to help support
the family. When a soldier ordered him
to butcher a horse, Hy refused. There
was an altercation, the soldier was
pushed to the ground and was acciden-
tally killed. Hy was sent to prison but
managed to escape through the back
door. At 19, he traveled through Cuba
to Canada and landed in Detroit,
where his two sisters and brothers had
previously settled. The brothers opened
Schechter Brothers kosher meats.
As his sons tell it, Hy soon fell in love
with a Southern girl, Lilian Lightman,
Linda Bachrack is assistant editor of
Style magazine.
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sons to be butchers.
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