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JEWISH EEWS
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A 2001 winner of American Jewish Press Association
and Society of Professional Journalists awards
www.detroitjewishnews.com
JULY 20, 2001
TAMMUZ 29, 5761
VOL. CXIX, NO. 23
This Week
16 Closer To Moving
Holocaust Center acquires land for
new complex in Farmington Hills.
23 Israel Now
Detroit Federation hosts delegation
on national unity mission.
Opinion
Spirituality
57 Lure Of The East
Two rabbis enhance Judaism
by studying Buddhism.
Arts & Entertainment
67 Swing's The Thing
Asleep at the Wheel's Jewish frontman
keeps a country-music genre alive.
29 The Art Of Accord
Conservative rabbi's involvement
could be opportunity for Vaad.
Living Well
Community
41 Emerging Victorious
85 Easy Going
To Bruce Fleisher, PGA Senior
Tour is all its cracked up to be.
Beating illness, Matt Lash
collects funds for cancer.
COVER STORY Page 33
Happy Birthday Detroit
DEPARTMENTS
11
Alefbet'cha
54
Anniversaries
AppleTree
64
51
Births
49
Calendar
106
Crossword
Cyber Spot
88
Danny Raskin . . . 80
Editor's Notebook . .5
52
Engagements
11
For Openers
Insight
28
Letters
5
91
Marketplace
51
New Arrivals
Obituaries
117
Out & About . .68
Sports
85
Staff Notebook . . 12
Synagogues
59
The Scene
87
Torah Portion
63
Weddings
55
Over 300 years, Jews have made a lasting impact on the history of Detroit.
Candlelighting
Friday, July 20, 8:47 p.m.
w
ith family roots in the city going back to the
turn of the 20th century, I grew up in north-
west Detroit, near Seven Mile and Schaefer. It
wasn't a shtetl in the sense of Hastings Street,
where my father and nine brothers and sisters,
Russian immigrants all, grew up in a devoutly
Orthodox home in the 1910s. But it did feel
Jewish. It pulsated with the sights, sounds and
scents of being a Jew in 1960s Detroit — before
the devastating '67 riots sealed the uprooting of
Detroit Jewry to Oakland County. My neighbors
ranged from observant to secular.
The neighborhood, developed after World War
II, was home to the United Hebrew Schools, the
Labor Zionist Building, Congregation Ahavas
Achim, Borenstein's Book and Music Store, kosher
butchers and a deli. Sunday mornings meant stops
at the New York Bagel Factory and, for lox and
smoked fish, the House of Foods. Congragation
Shomrey Emunah met in the area. James Vernor
School, largely Jewish, was nearby. The Jewish
Community Center was about two miles away.
What I most remember is how proud we all
were to be Jewish. Families flocked here from the
Twelfth Street, Linwood-Dexter and other mid-
town areas as the Jewish community's unyielding
northwesterly march continued.
Shabbat ends
Saturday, July 21, 9:55 p.m.
Cover:
Happy Birthday Detroit
Page design, Debbie Schultz
©COPYRIGHT 2001
DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Invigorated by these special memories, I take
delight in inviting you to commemorate Detroit's
300th birthday this week by recalling with us,
through our cover story, some of the Jews who
were giants in Detroit history. Shabbat shalom!
Robert A. Sklar, editor
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