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A Safer Shabbat Crossing
fter a meeting with designers from London,
England, the Holocaust Memorial Center's board
approved the interior design plans for the new
museum scheduled for a spring groundbreaking.
Rabbi Charles Rosenzveig, HMC executive director
and founder, said he and the board were enthused by the
plans, designed by Houghton Kneale Design Limited.
"We have a considerable collection [of artifacts] in stor-
age,"
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this [collection] for years, and we will add to it."
The design calls for the tour to start in a circular orienta-
tion room that will show the history of the Jewish people as
a timeline from 2000 B.C.E. to the present.
This will lead into exhibits that cover Jewish heritage and
culture through history, including World War II, the
Holocaust and post-World War II. The two-hour tour also
will stop at the International Institute of the Righteous, an
he busy intersection of 10 Mile and Greenfield
will be safer for observant Jews to cross on
Shabbat, thanks to a joint effort by local officials.
Before, you had to be push a button to activate the
pedestrian light, which would violate the halachic prohi-
bition against doing work on Shabbat. Now, an auto-
mated pedestrian timer will operate during Shabbat,
from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday.
"Working together, we can accomplish little things
that make a big difference in lives of the people who live
in this area," said State Rep. Gilda
Jacobs, D-Huntington Woods,
Democratic floor leader and Temple
Beth El member, in a statement released
Tuesday.
On Dec. 10, Southfield Councilman
Jonathan Brateman had asked Jacobs to
make a special request of
the Oakland County Road
Commission to change the Gilda
pedestrian-activated light
Jacobs
to an automated timer.
The county agreed to do
just that, effective Dec. 14.
At the Chanukat Habayit
dedication Dec. 8 at Young
Israel of Oak Park, on 10
Mile east of Greenfield,
Brateman said he was
approached by many peo-
ple who live in Southfield,
Jonathan
but who walk to shul in
Brateman
Oak Park and Royal Oak
Township on Shabbat.
"They wondered if, in my capacity as a
Southfield councilman, I could effect
change due to the traffic hazard," he said.
"The Shomer Shabbat pedestrians are tech-
nologically passive — that is, they cannot
push the button on Shabbat to assist them
in crossing the street to go to shul."
On Shabbat, Brateman walks to Young
Israel of Southfield on Lahser. "I am glad
I was able to help families walk to shul in
safety," he said. "I appreciate everything
Gilda Jacobs did to make this possible."
Rabbi Reuven Spotter of Young Israel Qf
Oak Park had high praise for the quick
action by Brateman and Jacobs to get it done:
"This new light makes the lives of observant Jews —
be they senior citizens, teenagers, or mothers with baby
carriages — both easier and safer. Thanks to Rep. Jacobs
and Councilman Brateman, our members from
Southfield can enjoy greater peace of mind crossing such
a major intersection on their way to shul on Shabbos."
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exhibit remembering those who saved Jewish lives during
the Holocaust and saved lives throughout history. The tour
ends at the Memorial Flame.
The HMC, located on the Eugene and Marcia
Applebaum Jewish Community Campus in West
Bloomfield, has already raised $3.5 million, most of it in
non-solicited pledges, of the $15 million needed, he said.
Groundbreaking is planned for the spring, and con-
struction is expected to take between 12 and 14 months.
The 8.5-acre parcel is in a commercial section of
Orchard Lake Road just north of 12 Mile Road in
Farmington Hills, where the former AMC Old Orchard
Theatres now stands.
The 400-seat main theater will be remodeled and used
as a multi-purpose hall, and the rest of the building will
be razed, he said.
— Harry Kirsbaum
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—Robert A. Sklar
Correction
In a "Teddy Bear Bar Mitzvah"
(Community, Dec. 14, page 46),
the girl in the photograph should
have been identified as Devra
Ruda of Farmington Hills.