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JEWISH NEWS
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April 27, 2001
Iyar 4, 5761
Vol. CXIX, No. 11
This Week
Spirituality
14 A Day To Remember
58 By Women, For Women
Holocaust Memorial Center
commemorates Yom HaShoah.
Opinion
Beth Shalom seder brings women
together through music, verse.
Arts & Entertainment
28 The Issue Is Us
68 Write For The Home Team
A new set of rules and
Middle East reality.
Jewish screenwriter captures Maris,
Mantle friendship rivalry on HBO.
Community
Living Well
31 Believers In Education
Todd Sachse, Jonathan Brateman
top Yeshivat Akiva's honorees.
89 Safety First
Expo offers health, safety
tips for parents and kids.
94 Wake-Up Call
AppleTree
Ovarian cancer brings a doctor
face to face with her mortality.
47 Son-Day
The ancient ceremony
of Pidyon Haben.
Cover Stor
Pag e 74
Spiritual Messenger
Rebecca Perelman communicates with "the other side."
DEPARTMENTS
Alefbet'cha
7
Ask Wendy
113
B'nai Mitzvah . . . 50
Calendar
45
Carla Schwartz
95
Crossword
109
Cyber Spot
116
Danny Raskin . . . 84
Editor's Notebook .. 5
Engagements
54
For Openers
7
Health
94
Insight
25
Letters
5
Marketplace
96
Mazel Toy!
50
New Arrivals . . 50
Obituaries
122
Out & About . . 66
Sports
90
Staff Notebook . . 11
Synagogues
61
The Scene
92
Torah Portion . . . 64
Weddings
56
Candlelighting
Friday, April 27, 8:10 p.m.
Shabbat ends
Saturday, April 28, 9:16
p.m.
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n this week's cover package, you'll meet a young Jewish
medium, new to the Detroit area, and hear from some
of the people for whom she has done readings.
We then take a look at rabbinic viewpoints on the sur-
vival of the soul and what Jewish law has to say about using
a medium to contact our deceased loved ones.
We also talk with other local Jewish psychics, and pro-
vide a glimpse of two Jewish researchers who are studying
mediums in an attempt to prove the survival of conscious-
ness after death.
Whether you're a believer or a skeptic, we think you'll
find this series of related stories an interesting read. We'd
love to hear what you think, either through a letter to the
editor or our Web site, www.detroitjewishnews.com .
As Rabbi Ben Kamin writes in his 1999 book The Path
of the Soul, "There may very well be more to our existence
than we actually apprehend; the Talmud states: 'This world
is only the vestibule to the next.'"
—Gail Zimmerman, Arts
6- Entertainment Editor
Cover:
Rebecca Perelman —
Photography, Krista Husa
Page design, Debbie Schultz
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