Spirituality

Change Within
The Framework of Tradition:
An introduction to
Reconstructionist Judaism

Learn about

Reconstructionism,

the fastest-growing Jewish move-

ment, at a special community-

learning Shabbat hosted by

Congregation T'chiyah. Rabbi

Steve Segar, a graduate of the

Reconstructionist Rabbinical

Rabbi Steve Segar

College, will describe the unique

blend of tradition

and innovation that

characterizes

Reconstructionist

Judaism.

Please join members of Congregation
T'chiyah for Shabbat services, kiddish and
a discussion about how Reconstructionism
integrates Jewish tradition and contempo-
rary American life. For more information
contact Congregation T'chiyah President
Sandy Hansell at (248) 559-1818

Saturday, June 9, 2001
10:00 a.m.
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the genocide, her harrowing journey
and ultimate escape to America, where
she died in 1975.
As if Turkey's refusal to acknowledge
the genocide isn't enough of an insult,
Derdarian said, "The United States —
I'm sorry to say — has never pressed
the issue with the Turkish government.
The Turks continue to fabricate stories
about the genocide, but I think they
will admit guilt eventually."
The other members of the local
Armenian community also believe
Turkey is guilty, having committed the
genocide because the Turks feared the
Armenians were getting the economic
edge on them.
"Many nations in the world have
sided with the us, but the United
States won't say anything because it
needs (military) bases in Turkey," said

Souren Keoleian of Farmington Hills.
"We've been trying for years to get

reparations from Turkey, similar to the
way Holocaust survivors obtained
reparations, but it's difficult to prove
you're a relative of a survivor of an
event 85 years ago. The documents
have withered or disappeared."

One Step Ahead

Gleisner, 75, was born in Austria and
later fled with his family to eastern
Poland, then occupied by the Russians
under their pact with Germany. After
Hitler broke the agreement and swept
through Poland to Russia, Gleisner was
trapped in a ghetto between the Soviets
and the Nazis.
"My emaciated father came to me
and told me to get out of here as fast as
I could," he said. "Luckily, I was able
to obtain a lot of false papers stamped
with official-looking marks on them ...
the more stampings there were, the
more official everything looked.
Stamps could get you anywhere."

Gleisner avoided a concentration
camp and survived the war and the
Holocaust by disguising himself as a
Polish worker and blending undetected

into the gentile world.
He traveled from job to job, using
his education and ingenuity to stay one
step ahead of the Nazis. He even spent
a stint in the Italian underground,
returning to Austria after the war to
work with the American military there.
"This story of danger, horror and
adventure is compelling," Rabbi Wine
writes in his preface to Gleisner's book.
'And the refusal of postwar German
bureaucrats to acknowledge that a Jew
could survive the surveillance of the
Nazis is a tribute to a persistent
German arrogance and stupidity." ❑

B'nai Moshe
Elects Officers

At its annual meeting, the member-
ship of Congregation B'nai Moshe
elected Larry Gunsberg as president;
he is the great-
grandson of
Morris (Moshe)
Gunsberg, for
whom the syna-
gogue is named.
Other officers
elected were vice
presidents,
Annette
Kaufman, Bert
Stein and
Larry Gunsberg
Marvin Zucker;
treasurer, Ellen
Kotler; secretaries, Ruth Shayne and
Dennis Deutsch. Immediate past
president is Leonard I. Wanetik.
Elected to the board of directors
were Barrie Chaffkin, Lori Epstein,
Ellyce Field, Joel Grand, Aaron
Martin, Anne Rottman, Alisa
Peskin-Shepherd, Stewart Silverman
and Dan Sperling.
Rabbi Elliot Pachter will install
the newly elected officers and board
of directors on Saturday, June 2,
during Shabbat services.

Temple Beth El
Lauds Students

Members of the 2001 confirmation
class of Temple Beth El were hon-
ored at an erev Shabbat service
Sunday, May 27.
The class included Ashley
Aidenbaum, Casey Anbender,
Jennifer Bass, Tracy Berger, William
Deitch, Hayley Dreyfuss; Devorah
Glanz, Jay Hall, Alexander Halpern,
Aaron Hull, Sarri Keller, Heather
Kerwin, Marissa Lowen, Meara
MacWilliams, Jonathan Miller, Blair
Nosan, Rachel Phillips, Gina
Rozman, Caryn Russman, Jessica
Schwartz, Jennifer Trigger, Justin
Victor and Michael Zeidman.
The Temple Beth El graduation
class of 2001 participated in a
Shabbat graduation service May 25
in the sanctuary. Graduating were
Daniel Canvasser, Alissa Danzig,
Andrea Finkelstein, Sarah Hull,
Melisa. Keller, Richard Kerwin, Alla
Mant, Jane Mirchuk, Charles
Russman, Steven Saraquse, Jacob
Seltzer, Daniela Shani, Kyle Stone,
Merel VanDenBerg and Dustin
Zacks.

