DETROIT
,JEWILSE NEWS

Contents

A 2002 Michigan Press Association

General Excellence winner

www.detroitjewishnews.com

This Week

Unplanted
perrennials

16 Fighting Back

were
left all
summer by
the .13'nai
David
Cemetery's
Holocaust
memorial.

Supporters of Israelprotest
divestment conference at U-M*

20 Grave Oversiollt

Family questions upkeep at
ffnai David Cemetery.

Opinion

39 Shedding Divestment

U-M students lead us
in defense of Israel.

Community

45 Focused On 40

Children, seniors, mass transit
among 40th House district issues.

Spirituality

71 Carnegie Hall Or Bust

Teen klezmer band invited
to perform in New York City.

Arts & Entertainment

86 Degas Dances

Desert Bloom

W

hile Israel is experi-
encing some of her
darkest moments, it'
seems fitting to highlight some
shining advancements in the
Jewish state. Many of them are
happening on Israeli college
campuses, including those
with strong ties to Detroit,
such as Bar-Ilan University
near Tel Aviv and Technion-
Israel Institute of Technology
Sharon Luckerman
in Haifa.
But there's a growing revolu-
tion going on in the Negev
desert, home_to Ben-Gurion University in Beersheva.
There, visionary President Avishay Braverman is
renewing David Ben-Gurion's dream to make the
desert bloom — only Braverman is relying on educa-
tion, technology and chutzpah.
Last February, Staff Writer Sharon Luckerman had
the chance to meet Braverman in Detroit. That
meeting led to this profile of one of Israel's new
visionaries.

Eshalom,

Keri Guten Cohen, story development editor

French Impressionism exhibit
is a coup for the DIA.

Food

101 Comfy Conclusions

Chocolate, sweet and so good —
do not skip dessert.

Friday, Oct. 11, 2002
Cheshvan 5, 5763
Vol. CXXII, No. 9

DEPARTMENTS
Alefbet'cha
11
Anniversaries
67
AppleTree
107
B'nai Mitzvah .
.63
Business
111
Calendar
58
Candlelighting . . .11
Crossword
136
Danny Raskin . . .96
Editor's Notebook . .5
Engagements
66
For Openers
11
Here's To
55
Insight
38
Letters
6
Marketplace
117
Mazel Tov!
61
New Arrivals
62
Obituaries
141
Out & About . . .80
Staff Notebook • .14
Synagogues
76
The Scene
104
Torah Portion
.78
Weddings
67

Cover:
Photography, Debbie Hill
Page design, Alex Lumelsky

Obituaries

141 Ezekiel Leikin

Zeke, the Zionist

How To Reach Us:

142 Audrey Kron

Compassionate Fighter

Cover Story

page 24

Vision For Israel

Through education,
technology and heart,
Ben-Gurion University
President Avishay
Braverman renews
the dream of making
the desert bloom.

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