•
DETROIT
JEWISH NEWS
Contents
A 2002 Michigan Press Association
General Excellence winner
www.detroitjewts
. hnews.com
Friday, April 11, 2003
Nisan 9, 5763
Vol. OOCIII, No. 9
This Week
Opinion
18 Looking Forward
33 Lesson Of Passover
Seeds of Peace's Aaron Miller
believes relationships matter.
Like the Israelite slaves,
Iraqis must yearn for freedom.
• ••••41
24 Anti-Israel Move
0, •%4 ,2, 410110•••
Communi
Arts &
Entertainment
89 Cinematic Stew
a •
a
•
•
•
•
•
Wayne State student group
proposes divestment resolution.
• 39 Holiday Lessons
24 Outreach Continues
• Moies Chetim joins Yad Ezra
• • in distributing Passover parcels.
Detroiter in Berlin keeps
teaching Judaism after attack.
•
Global Jewish-themed films
provide flavolfid Detioit festival.
Food
114 Pesach Beginnings
•
Breakfast on Passover
can be feast for ex-slaves.
V
Ann Arbor
59 Deeper Learning
Leadership program students
thirst for Jewish knowledge.
Left: Volunteer Gil Moskovitz
of Beverly Hills at Yad Ezra.
How To Reach Us
The Jewish News is in the former FTD World
Headquarters, 29200 Northwestern Highway
at Franklin Road, Suite 110, Southfield
48034. Main phone is (248) 354-6060. Fax
numbers are Editorial, (248) 304-8885;
Display Advertising, (248) 304-0032;
Classified Advertising, (248) 304-0049. Office
hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays.
Passover Prelude
achel Rosenthal, a 2001 Univesity of Michigan graduate in
religious studies, will return home to Franklin in late spring
after 10 months in Project Otzma, a work/service/learning
program.
"It is going to be a hard adjustment back to American ways
when I have become so used to Israel," the daughter
of Marta and Ben Rosenthal told me Monday.
"I hope that leaving will only be temporary."
Rosenthal's embrace of the Jewish state despite the
Palestinian terror contrasts with the propaganda that
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad recently told to a
Lebanon newspaper: "It should be known that Israel is
based on treachery. This is a point to be considered thor-
Rachel
oughly. We are dealing with treachery and threats, which
Rosenthal
accompanied the establishment of the state of Israel."
As we gather to welcome the Festival of Passover at
sundown Wednesday April 16, let us be invigorated about the
future of of our ancestral homeland by the Zionist spirit of dias-
pora young people like Rachel Rosenthal.
Chag kasher v'sameach and Shabbat shalom!
Robert A. Sklar, editor
Cover Story
page 70
DEPARTMENTS
Alefbet'cha
11
Anniversaries .. . 56
AppleTree
70
B'nai Mitzvah 49
Calendar
46
Candlelighting . . .11
Carla Schwartz . . 118
Crossword
134
CyberSpot
87
Danny Raskin
108
Editor's Notebook
5
Engagements . . . . 53
For Openers 11
Insight
31
Letters
6
Marketplace • • . . 119
New Arrivals • • . . 49
Obituaries
143
Out & About . . 91
Sports
87
Staff Notebook
16
Synagogues
66
Teens
85
The Scene
85
Torah Portion . . 69
Weddings
55
Passover 5763
Cover:
Cherishing Our Freedom
Photography, Krista Husa
Page design, Alex Lumelsky
©COPYRIGHT 2003
DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Betty Hoffman
at the seder
table with
her daughter's
family:
HowarcI
Max, Nancy
and Adena
Collens of
Huntington
Woods.
The Detroit Jewish News
(USPS 275-520) is published
every Friday with additional
supplements in January, March,
May, August, September,
November and December at
29200 Northwestern Highway,
#110, Southfield, Michigan.
Periodical Postage Paid at
Southfield, Michigan and
additional mailing offices.
Postmaster: send changes to:
Detroit Jewish News,
29200 Northwestern Highway,
#110, Southfield, MI 48034.
4/11
2003