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DETROIT
JEWISH NEWS
Contents
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A 2001 Michigan Press Association
Newspaper of the Year
www.detroitjewishnews.com
Friday, Aug. 30, 2002
Elul 22, 5762
Vol. CXXII, No. 3
DEPARTMENTS
This Week
Arts
16 Court Date Awaits
Entertainment
Mohel thanks community for support
in wake of tra zc arrest on way to
circumcision.
AppleTree
106 Saying You're Sorry
Preparing for the High Holidays
with Selichot.
80 Wise Eyes
Physician patient looks at medicine
from both sides of the trenches.
Opinion
37 A Glowing Jewel
JCC's Jimmy Prentis Morris Building
is a pillar of Detroit Jewry.
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Third annual Ducky Derby
races to another photo finish.
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The Scene
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100 Home Or School?
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Spirituality
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59 Dedicated To Teaching
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95 A Zeesen Yar
Recipes with honey are a traditional
way to encourage a sweet new year.
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41 In The Swim
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Food
Jewish students have
decisions — and conflicts
— when it comes to the
High Holidays.
Israelis bring love for learning,
Zionism to Kollel Torah Mi'Tzion
program.
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Brandon Ari Mostyn, 4, ofWi "corn shares a
moment with a ducky at the Hadsssah-sponsored
Ducky Derby on Aug. 25.
Art, Craft or Kitsch?
Cover Story page 18
Tight Times
his week's Arts & Entertainment cover story on page 72 showcases some
—I- 1— of the most bizarre Judaica we've highlighted in our pages — from a "Neil
r 1 Tzedakah Box," featuring the singer's image surrounded by rhinestones, to
a "Passover Purse," made from a box of Manischewitz matzah meal and 20,000
beads.
It's all about having fun being Jewish, notes Jennifer Traig, co-author of
Judaikitsch: Tchotckes, Schmattes and Nosherei, a book that also features a "Mah-
Jongg Menorah" and a recipe for "Vegetable Jew-Shoo ("moo shu meets matzah").
Closer to home, Detroiters are making their own ritual objects — from Barbara
Wallace of Huntington Woods, who painted and fired 14 sets of candlesticks for
her son Adam's bar mitzvah candlelighting, to Gail Rosenbloom Kaplan of West
Bloomfield, who helps her children's Hillel- Day School of Metropolitan Detroit
classes use everyday objects to create a whole line of Judaica they can use for every
holiday.
We hope their inventiveness inspires our readers to undertake their own projects
with family and friends and, in the process, find a new way of connecting with a
sense of joy in Jewish life.
Despite economic woes,
Detroit Jews continue to give.
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Alefbet'cha
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Anniversaries
106
AppleTree
B'nai Mitzvah . . .52
Calendar ..... • .50
Candlelighting . . .11
122
Crossword
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Danny Raskin .
Editor's Notebook . .5
Engagements
55
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For Openers
34
Insight
6
Letters
108
Marketplace
52
New Arrivals
131
Obituaries
Out & About .
103
Sports . .
Staff Notebook . .13
66
Synagogues
102
Teens
100
The Scene
Torah Portion . .68
Weddings
57
Cover:
Photography. Krista Husa
Page design. Alex Lumelsky
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DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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8/30
2002