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A 2001 Michigan Press Association
Newspaper of the Year
www. detroitjewishnews.com
FRIDAY, MAY 10, 2002
WAR 28, 5762
VOL OM, NO. 13
Yesterday,
Once More
DEPARTMENTS
0
Salman Sesi of Bloomfield
Hills and David Gad-Harfi
executive director of the Jewish
Community Council of
Metropolitan Detroit and the
JACOB dinner.
This Week
18 JACOB's Parents
Jewish and Chaldean
adults affirm bonds begun
by their children.
Opinion
29 Community
Excellence
Our future appears
before our eyes.
Spirituality
45 Taking It To
The People
Chabad Jewish Center opens
for Commerce and Walled Lake.
n the third Michigan Miracle
Mission to Israel in 1999, I
learned that the brave pioneers
who chanced it in Rishon
le-Zion perfected the mining of
groundwater in the 1880s, helping clear
the way for other Jewish settlements in
water-starved Palestine.
Now a suburb of Tel Aviv, Rishon
le-Zion (which in Hebrew means First
to Zion) became yet another Israeli
community victimized by a Palestinian
suicide bomber after a few weeks of relative
calm in the wake of Israel's massive
anti-terror sweep in the West Bank.
The pool hall blast in a working-class
neighborhood killed at least 15 people and
left more than 60 injured.
Coming as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon was meeting with President George
W Bush at the White House, it darkened
the prospect of a genuine peace in the
embattled Mideast. Our report on the
bombing and its aftermath begins on page
22.
Please keep Israel in your prayers.
Shabbat shalom!
Robert A. Sklar, editor
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Shabbat ends
Saturday, May 11, 9:31 p.m.
59 Honey And Milk
Shavuot: The sweet day when God
gave Torah to the Jews.
Cover:
Page design, Alex Lumelsky
Arts &
Entertainment
96 Coming Home
Comics second chance
happens at Second City.
Community
Business
33 Hearts Of Gold
122 Silver Success
United Way honors
Micki Grossman and Wendy
Evans.
The Tappers brothers'
business dream has been
shared with Detroit Jewry.
Alefbet'cha
11
B'nai Mitzvah . . 40
Calendar
118
Carla Schwartz . . 120
Crossword
141
Danny Raskin . . 108
Editor's Notebook .5
Engagements
43
For Openers
11
Insight
28
Letters
6
Marketplace
125
New Arrivals . . . 40
Obituaries
150
Out & About . 92
Sports
124
Staff Notebook . .12
Synagogues
56
Teens
116
The Scene
116
Torah Portion . . .58
Weddings
44
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DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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Academic Achievers
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