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Spirituality
From Ship To Shut
Jewish naval officer will speak on active-duty
experiences during Operation Enduring Freedom.
SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN
StaffWriter
Shipboard Mail
After his discovery, Solomon set in
motion a plan that included members of
group of e-mail pals are going his synagogue.
to meet finally after a unique
"Jerry Solomon called the synagogue
six-month, cross-ocean rela-
and said he wanted to get involved with
tionship.
moral support of the Jewish personnel
When U.S. Navy Lt. John Oliveira
on the ship, sending AT&T phone
speaks about his naval experiences, his
cards to them," said Karen Katz,
audience will include Congregation
Shaarey Zedek's Sisterhood president.
Shaarey Zedek Sisterhood members who
"So the Sisterhood decided to adopt
corresponded with him and his Jewish
the Jewish service personnel aboard the
shipmates.
ship during its tour," she said. The
Lt. Oliveira, pub-
group sent "care packages" on
lic affairs officer of
Chanukah and later on Passover, each
the Theodore
time including messages of support.
Roosevelt Battle
The Sisterhood project grew when
Group aboard the
Katz posted the information on the
USS Theodore
Web site of the National Women's
Roosevelt, will
League for Conservative Judaism, the
speak 7:30-p.m.
umbrella organization for Conservative
Wednesday, May
Sisterhoods. She got responses from
29, at Shaarey
women across the county
Zedek B'nai Israel.
Lt. John Oliveira
"From that effort, a wife of one of
"I'll talk about our
the servicemen wrote me to say she'd
naval operations in
heard about what we were doing from
Operation Enduring Freedom over in
someone on the Net and was very grate-
the North Arabian Sea during our six-
ful," Katz said.
and-a-half months in Afghanistan," says
Deciding what to send was easy for
Lt. Oliveira. "There was a tremendous
the women. "We sent them the same
amount of work set forth by-our crew,
thing we send our college kids — and
whose average age is about 20-years-
added some homemade mandel bread
old." He will share photos and stories of
baked in our Sisterhood kitchen," Katz
the crew he says "have a great dedication
said. "But Oliveira finally confessed it
to continue to do a professional job in
arrived as mandel crumbs.
the nation's interest."
"In light of the dangerous mission
The program is co-sponsored by
the USS Roosevelt was carrying out
Shaarey Zedek and Keter Torah
with the bombing sorties into
Synagogue.
Afghanistan, we felt our care packages
Jerry Solomon of West Bloomfield
and messages of support were the least
"introduced" the Sisterhood women to
we could do for the fellow Jews on
the lieutenant. After Solomon met Lt.
board," Katz said.
Oliveira on a visit to the carrier last year,
"Jews are responsible, one for the
the two stayed in touch.
other," she said, "no matter where we
"One night around Chanukah time,
are. And this was our way of letting
I was writing an e-mail to him — in the
them know we prayed for their safety
Indian Ocean — and my wife said to
and thanked them for fighting
0 0 for our
ask if there were any Jewish people on
freedom." 0
the ship," Solomon said.
He learned that the 5,500-member
crew included eight Jews, and, surpris-
There is no charge to attend the
ingly, one of them was Lt. Oliveira.
event with Lt. John Oliveira 7:30
"I spent two days on the ship with
p.m. May 29, at Congregation
him and didn't realize he was Jewish,"
Shaarey Zedek B'nai Israel, but
Solomon said. The lieutenant is an
reservations are required. For infor-
American-born Jew of Sephardic descent
mation, call (248) 357-5544.
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who conducts services on the ship.
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