DETROIT
JEWISH NEWS

Contents

A 2001 Michigan Press Association

Newspaper of the Year

www.cletroitjewishnews.com

Friday, Sept. 6, 2002
Elul 29, 5762
Vol. CXXII, No. 4

This Week

Spirituality

Teens

18 Model Of A Mentsh

106 New Beginnings

172 Skin Or Modesty?

Robert Naftaly is a natural
pick for Butzel Award.

The new Shul opens for
Rosh Hashanah services.

Revealing clothing has teens
and their parents talking.

20 Dealing With Disaster

Arts

Bringing comfort Sept. 11
alters three local lives.

42 Year In Review

For U.S. Jews, terrorism
at home and in Israel.

Opinion

51 A Challenging Year

From Mideast to New York,
home and JIV, we move forward.

Community
75 Smooth Sailing

Jewish yacht club marks
its 50th anniversary.

Obituaries

Entertainment

203 Anna Spitz,
Jacqueline Klein

125 The Bimah
And Beyond

Book shines light on
diversity in the rabbinate.

Rabbi Schneor
Greenberg demonstrates
a homemade shofar.
See page 109.

Food

155 Breaking The Fast

After a day of atonement,
light foods are a treat.

AppleTree

163 In The Beginning ...

What was it like when
the world was created?

Time To Reflect

D

Cover Story page 14

L'shanah Tovah!

It's a new year, and Ira Boykansky
will usher it in with a new Torah.

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etroit Jewry has much to be proud of this Rosh .
Hashanah.
Though 11th in population nationwide, the Detroit
Jewish community serves as a model for fund-raising, program-
ming and services. From attacking hunger, to providing senior
services to standing with Israel, we've come together repeatedly
to support needs and causes in which we believe.
Jewish communities from around the country look to us for
counsel on creating learning opportunities at all age levels. And
our deep historical roots as a community going back more
than 150 years help give us a rich sense of local heritage and
identity.
We're not without significant concerns.
And a key one is the state of Federation's 2003 Annual
Campaign, given the economic downturn, increased local
needs and stronger resolve to support Israel, our beloved home-
land, in the wake of the 23-month-old Palestinian uprising.
We've got the will, the know-how and, perhaps most impor-
tantly, the desire to work together, thOugh. So I'm hope-filled.
May 5763 be a good and sweet year.
Eshanah tovah tikateivu v'techataymu. May you and yours be
inscribed and sealed in the Book of Life this Rosh Hashanah.
And Shabbat shalom!

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Robert A. Sklar, editor

DEPARTMENTS
Alefbet'cha
. .11
Anniversaries .
.101
nai Mitzvah
.93
Business
.71
Calendar . . . .. . .86
Candlelighting .
.11
Carla Schwartz . .68
Crossword ...
. 198
Cyber Spot 170
Danny Raskin . . 146
Editor's Notebook . .5
Engagements 94
For Openers . . 11
Health
90
Here's. To
91
Insight . . .
40
Letters
6
Marketplace
177
92
New Arrivals
202
Obituaries
Special Birthdays 103
68
Spotlight
Sports
61
.12
Staff Notebook
114
Synagogues
Torah Portion .
116
Weddings
98

Cover:
Photography, Krista ,Husa
Page &sign, Alex Lumelskv

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