DETROIT
JEWISH NEWS
Contents
This Week
A 2002 Michigan Press Association
General Excellence winner
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Spirituality
Food
16 Advocacy On Campus
52 Personal Pledge
85 Simply Elegant
U-M divestment conference sparks
varied activism on state colleges.
Bar mitzvah Harold Folkoff
is motivated and motivating.
Holiday entertaining is
about polish, not fuss.
Opinion
31 Value Of Learning
• Compromise is sought for
Southfield Beth Hayeled.
Arts &
Entertainment
68 The Dreaming
What your nighttime
thoughts are telling you.
AppleTree
89 The Rabbi Says ...
Have your own rabbi doll
and help Israel, too.
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Obituaries
Community
116 Morton Wolin
`You Knew He Cared'
35 Them's The Brakes
116 Idit Weiner
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Israel challenges local riders
on ALYN hospital charity ride.
Mother And Angel'
117 Debbie Perlman
Songs To God
Shine The Light
s we raise our hands in prayer
tobless the lights this last night
of Chanukah 5763, may we
savor our good fortune as American
Jews and reaffirm our responsibility to
support Israel, the Jewish homeland.
Support is doubly critical.during this
time of great peril in the Mideast. To
take for granted Israel's role in our lives,
or its borders in the Arab-dominated
Middle East, would be a shande.
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ALYN charity bike riders in Israel hold a prayer service. Story: page 35
m ir lifirrinwilii hew.
Shabbat shalom and Chanukah
sameiach!
page 58
How To Reach Us:
Mr. President
MR. PRESIDENT
Friday, Dec. 6, 2002
Tevet 1, 5763
Vol. C.XXII, No. 17
DEPARTMENTS
Alefbet'cha
11
AppleTree
89
B'nai Mitzvah . . . 44
Business
62
Calendar
42
Candlelighting . . . 11
Crossword
108
Danny Raskin . . .80
Editor's Notebook . .5
Engagements
48
For Openers
11
_Insight ..... . . . 27
Letters
6
Marketplace
94
New Arrivals
44
Obituaries
116
Out & About .
.64
Spirituality
52
Sports
62
Staff Notebook . . 14
Synagogues -
55
The Scene
62
Torah Portion . . . 57
Weddings
49
Cover:
Photo, Tufts University
Page design, Alex Lumelsky
4/4e- 446,
Robert A. Sklar
Editor
Cover Story
Former Detroit Lawrence
Bacow brings Yiddishkeit to
Tufts University.
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