For Openers Success Tastes So Sweet 1 :111 osh Lipshaw wasn't looking for fame. He just wanted ice cream trucks to come to his West Bloomfield neighborhood. Now he's accomplished both. Josh noticed something amiss last summer. His broth- er Jeremy's T-ball- team patronized an awaiting ice cream truck after each game in every community they played but West Bloomfield. Josh, now 10, had his mom, Suzanne Lipshaw, find out why — and she learned that a 1954 peddlers and solicitors ordinance prohibited ice cream sales within the township. Not fair! The chiming, musical ice ESTHER cream truck — a cherished part of sum- ALLWEISS mer for most Americans --- could not TSCHIRHART sell its frozen confections in Josh's home- Special Writer town. The news- media lapped it up when the boy succeeded in getting the ordinance changed. Josh's grassroots campaign included letters, a petition drive and the heartfelt talk he gave promoting the trucks — bells and all — at a Nov. 5, 2001, town- ship board meeting. His latest accomplishment this summer is that the board agreed to let the vendors con- tinue working an hour later, until 8 p.m. "It was a great learning experierice for him on how government works," said Josh's dad, Mark Lipshaw, whose family belongs to Temple Israel. Josh now says he plans to run for student council at his school, Pleasant Lake Elementary. The incoming fifth-grader's career goal, however, is computer program- ming, not politics. Josh has received formal recognition for his efforts, with certificates from state legislators and congressional members, Oakland County commissioners and the gov- ernor's office. The Greater West Bloomfield Michigan Week Committee gave Josh a Youth Volunteer Leadership Award. There's also been lots of media attention. Josh's story has been told in newspapers and on radio and television stations throughout the world, said Mark Lipshaw. The producers of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Good Morning America called, and though scheduling didn't work out for Josh to appear, Leno sent over a T-shirt. Finally, and perhaps best of all, is the free ice cream. When ice cream truck driv- ers find out Josh is the boy who. got the West Bloomfield ordinance changed, he and his brother, Jeremy, 7, get their goodies on the house. Josh says he is sharing his certificates for a free year's supply of Edy's Ice Cream with friends who helped him with the petition drive. Some of them are in his Cub Scout Josh Lipshaw Pack 107. Josh's other interests include taking tae kwon do at the Sports Club of West Bloomfield. (he's a first-degree black belt) and participat- ing in Tamarack Camps and Cranbrook Science Camp. His favorite school subjects are science and reading. And when it comes to ice cream? "Chocolate and chocolate-chip cookie dough," said Josh. ❑ Chaya Masha Stock and daughter Itta Henya Stock, 6, of Oak Park. Shabbat Candid "Shabbat candles brighten up the earth." Megan Rothenberg, age 8, of Walled Lake © 2002 IV bile not exactly the 10 lost tribes, some Jews did not make the transi- tion to rabbinic Judaism once the Holy Temple was destroyed. What happened to them? — by Goldfein •SOI3DOSV JO slopaz csasItiapH ‘suE9spio aumpaq Aatu, LIOAISLIV Quotables "You can get your Jewish fix outside of Jewish institutions today. But the syna- gogue is such a basic infrastructure to the community, why not use it more to help people build their Jewish lives?" — Rabbi Hayim Herring, the new execu- tive director of Minneapolis-based STAR (Synagogues: Transformation And Renewal), designed to inspire systematic upgrades in American synagogue life, as- quoted by JTA. "To evoke the presence of anti-Semitism in our society, or in some political forces, or in the Catholic Church demonstrates a mistaken image of our country" — Pielfernando Casini, the speaker of Italy's Chamber of Deputies, in an address to the congress of the Union of talian Jewish Communities, as quoted by ILA. "I consider the people of Israel my fami- ly. And for the pain that they suffer, I feel, too.". — Shani Lerner, a past president of the , Baltimore chapter of Hadassah: The Women's Zionist Organization of America, at a Tisha b'Av vigil in Baltimore for victims of the current Palestinian intifada (uprising), as quoted by JTA. Yiddish Limericks Staff photo by Krisra Husa Sponsored by Lubavitch Women's Organization.To submit a candlelighting message or to receive complimentary can- dlesticks and information on Shabbat candlelighting, call Miriam Amzalak of Oak Park at (248) 967-5056 or e- mail: amzalak@juno.com 'cha n't Know Candlelighting Candlelighting Friday, Aug. 2: 8:33 p.m. Friday, Aug. 9: 8:25 p.m. Shabbat Ends Shabbat Ends Saturday, Aug. 3: 9:39 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 10: 9:29 p.m. The world tells the Jews, "Easy does it. Appeasement's the answer because it achieves what you seek. You'll see; turn your cheek." "Meh ken leben,"I say, "nor men lost — Martha Jo Fleischmann * You could live, but they don't let you. 8/ 2 2002 11