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DETROIT
JEWISH NEWS
Contents
A 2002 Michigan Press Association
General Excellence winner
www.detroitjewishnews.com
Friday, Aug. 29, 2003
Elul 1, 5763
Vol. CXXIV, No. 3
THIS WEEK
17 Charting Career Paths
COMMUNITY
ANN ARBOR
33 Happy Campers
Conservative Rabbinical Assembly
to launch survey on women rabbis.
Israeli, U.S. teens learn about
each other at Camp Maas.
64 Russian Snapshots
U-M exhibit depicts vibrant lives
of the Jews of St. Petersburg.
24 Back To School
SPIRITUALITY
FOOD
ICCouncil program provides students
with tools to defend Israel on campus.
49 Like A Beacon
72 Love's Labors
Synagogue moves to former
radio station site in Oak Park.
A few delicious twists
for last holiday of summer.
ARTS 8C LIFE
SPORTS
OPINION
25 Questions For The
Quartet
With Mideast road map nearly dead,
its drafters need to step up.
5 9 Divas Rule!
76 Medal Laden
Jazz fist focuses on females, including
newcomer Ilona Knopfler.
Maccabi athletes return
with medals and memories.
A family
celebrates
Rosh
Hashanah.
APPLETREE
79 Pet-icularly Nice Day
Children at the JCC
get a lesson in pet care.
OBITUARIES
102 Edward Slotkin
Partners For Lift
104 Maurice Lifton
A Warm, Funny Guy
t Jewry is home to at least 18,000 Russian
migrants, according to estimates of the local
rganized Jewish community, but the figure could be
igher since there have been no formal studies.
To help tap into this growing segment of our demo-
graphics, the Jewish News is making a concerted concert
to not only reach local Russian Americans, but also
inform them about opportunities to take part in the
larger Jewish community.
Two stories in today's issue have strong Jewish themes.
A University of Michigan exhibit of Russian snapshots
provides a window into how a Petersburg Jews have
lived over the past 350 years; the story begins on page 64.
The move of an Oak Park synagogue building that h
been a source of spiritual nourishment for Russian
Americans is detailed in a story that begins on page
We welcome your story ideas about Jewish Detroite
with Russian roots especially about successful entre
preneurs, Please contact Story Development Editor Ke i
Guten Cohen or Senior Copy Editor David Sachs.
COVER STORY page 2 8
Debunking
The `Neocon'
Conspiracy
Theory
Who's really steering
U.S. foreign policy?
Cover photo:
Deputy
Secretary of
Defense Paul
Wolfowitz
Shabbat shalom!
DEPARTMENTS
Alefbet'cha
11
Anniversaries . . . 48
B'nai Mitzvah . . 43
Calendar
41
Candlelighting . . .11
Crossword 102
Danny Raskin ... 70
Editor's Notebook .
Engagements .
45
For Openers
. . . 11
Insight
24
Letters
6
Marketplace • • . . 81
New Arrivals
. .43
Obituaries . . . . . 102
Out & About
.. 60
Something Extra . .14
Sports
74
Synagogues
56
The Scene
78
Torah Portion 58
Weddings
47
Cover:
Photography, Akira Ono/AP
Page design, Alex Lumelsky
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