Spirituality
ON THIS DAY
we remember those who have fallen so that we may stand.
ON THIS DAY
we honor the sons and daughters of Israel, heroes who have given their lives,
as well as those who live on, with courage and hope in these dark times.
ON THIS DAY
we gather in prayer for peace.
OF REMEMBRANCE
TY WITH ISRAEL
Please join us for a
Memorial Ceremony
unday, April 25, 2004
Eve of 5th Iyar 5764
6:30 p.m.
ewish Community Center
and Betty Kahn Building
e and Marcia Applebaum
ish Community Campus
6600 W Maple Road
W Bloomfield MI
We kindly ask that you be seated by 6:15 p.m. in order to start promptly.
An officer from the Israel Defense Forces will represent the military
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Shaarey Zedek's New Rabbi
In a letter to mem-
bers of
Congregation
Shaarey Zedek, the
synagogue's newly
hired, soon-to-be
ordained rabbi,
Eric Yanoff, shares
some of his back-
ground and why he
chose to take the
Eric Yanoff
position, which
begins June 15.
The letter — to be published in the
synagogue's newsletter — includes
Yanoff's background leading up to his
ordination from the Rabbinical School
of the Jewish Theological Seminary in
New York next month.
Born into a large Conservative fami-
ly, he was raised in Philadelphia. "I went
to Princeton University, convinced that
I'd become a doctor," he wrote. "But -
instead of laboratory work, I chose an
opportunity to jumpstart a junior con-
gregation. Instead of shadowing physi-
cians, I spent. summers on staff at Camp
Ramah in the Poconos. And instead of a
major in molecular biology I focused on
comparative literature and Jewish stud-
ies."
In college he wrote that he also
developed his non-Judaic loves of musi-
cal theater and comedy — as a compos-
er, producer, and performer — and
piano. In fact, a national tour of one
show once brought him to Detroit.
As a rabbinical and education stu-
dent at JTS, he taught drama, Bible,
Talmud, philosophy and t011ah (prayer)
at the Solomon Schechter High School
of New York. "I have grown through
professional opportunities as an intern
at Temple Israel Center in White Plains,
as a hospital chaplain at Westchester
Medical Center and as a rabbi for the
"One More Minyan" at Park Avenue
Synagogue in Manhattan," he said.
Last September, he married Dava, a
family life programmer at the Jewish
Community Center in Manhattan and
children's dance teacher whom he met
while working at Camp Ramah.
"Once I realized the steps that I had
already taken, the path ahead of me
became very clear," he wrote. "It is with
great joy and excitement that Dava and
I look forward to our path bringing us
to the warm, enthusiastic Shaarey
Zedek community."
Richard Rosenberg, Shaarey Zedek
executive director described Yanoff as "a
very spirited, musically-inclined person
who loves congregational life."