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July 27,

2001
Av 7, 5761

Vol. CXIX, No. 24

This Week

Arts & Entertainment

14 Love Of Learning

63 Lost Worlds, Found Art

Melton Adult Mini School returns
with Jewish study program.

Two New York exhibits evoke
remnants of Jewish lift

Opinion

Living Well

27 Building A Better JCC

81 Saying Goodbye

Jewish Community Center
at critical crossroads.

New prenatal hospice program
serves infants "born dying."

Community

86 Transition Summer

35 Steamy Side Of Detroit

Tamarack bridges the gap
between camper and counselor.

Recounting the pleasures
of an old Jewish hangout.

Spirituality

52 Dancing Room Only

Beth EIS annual senior concert
has them dancing in the aisles.

Detroit 300

R

abbi Judah Levin, who came here 102 years
ago, was one of the great, and most unherald-
ed, leaders in Detroit Jewish history.
Fascinated by his enduring imprint on the city,
I've decided to note some of his contributions as a
way of marking this week's second installment of
personality profiles dedicated to Detroit's 300th
birthday celebration (pages 31-33).
Rabbi Levin, a graduate of the Volozhin yeshiva in
Lithuania, arrived in Detroit in 1899, just as the influx
of Eastern European immigrant Jews was heating up.
A talmudic scholar, communal leader and religious
Zionist, as well as an accomplished inventor, Rabbi
Levin held several Orthodox pulpits in the city over
the next 27 years.
Rabbi Levin founded Yeshiva Beth Yehudah in 1916,
but something he did four years before was equally
notable though lesser known. He joined a march of
Orthodox rabbis rallying for a Jewish hospital. "They
carried placards reading, 'Buy a brick to save the sick,'"

historian Sidney Bolkosky wrote in
Harmony Dissonance: Voices ofJewish
Identity in Detroit, 1914-1967.
The Hebrew Hospital Association
grew out of the march. The goal was
a hospital with a kosher kitchen and
a Jewish ambience. A survey 10 years
later identified a third more compelling Rabbi Levin
need: a hospital for Jewish physicians discriminated
against elsewhere.
Forty-one years after Rabbi Levin marched along
Hastings Street, Sinai Hospital opened on West
Outer Drive. It served Detroit Jewry for 46 years
before that building closed in 1999.
I hope you've enjoyed our look both this week and
last at some of the Jews who stand as pillars in
Detroit history. Shabbat shalom!

e-

Robert A. Sklar, editor

Cover StOry page 59

Tisha b Av

A day of fasting and prayer, the
Ninth of Av commemorates
tragedies throughout Jewish history
and recognizes our strength
as a people to overcome them.

DEPARTMENTS

Alefbet'cha 11
Anniversaries 51
AppleTree
59
Bar Mitzvah
45
Calendar
42
Carla Schwartz
88
Crossword
106
Cyber Spot
89
Danny Raskin . . . . 76
Editor's Notebook . 5
Engagements
45
For Openers
11
Health
83
Insight
25
Letters
5
Marketplace
90
New Arrivals . . . 44
Obituaries
117
Opinion
27
Out & About . . . 64
Sports
84
Staff Notebook . . 12
Synagogues
54
Teens
86
The Scene
83
Torah Portion . . . 58
Weddings
51

Candlelighting
Friday, July 27, 8:40 p.m.

Shabbat ends
Saturday, July 28, 9:47 p.m.

Cover:
Titus destroys the
Temple of Jerusalem
in 70 C.E.
Desiderio Monsu
(1593-1644).
Copyright A_linari/
Art Resource, N.Y.
Museo Nazionale
d Capodimonte,
Naples, Italy.
Page Design, Debbie Schultz

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