Something Extra
Destiny Calls
Very Special Gift
and talk the talk," he said. "I needed
Federal Judge Paul D. Borman was lis-
to demonstrate my support. I wanted
tening to WJR Radio on April 20
to be there badly."
when he heard Jewish Community
The closest mission bus to Ben-
Council of Metropolitan Detroit
Gurion Airport was that of Borman's
Executive Director David Gad-Harf
home congregation, Shaarey
being interviewed on the Paul
Zedek. He took a cab to
W Smith Show about
meet the bus at the ORT
Federation's Michigan Miracle
Hermelin College of
Mission 4. Three days later,
Engineering in Netanya. Its
midway through the mission,
benefactor, the late Bingham
fellow Federal Judge Avern
Farms philanthropist David
Cohn of Detroit called to say
Hermelin, helped Borman
what a great mission it was.
land a judgeship on the fed-
Borman, who held two
eral bench. "All I can say is
Federation Israel advocacy
that it was beshert that the
posts during the 1990s and is
Judge B orman
closest bus was Shaarey
a past president of the Jewish
Zedek's and that the meeting
Community Council, was so
point was Hermelin College," Borman
moved by 568 people from Detroit,
said.
Ann Arbor and Toledo making the
Moments after mission-goers
effort to visit Israel 43 months into
marked Yom HaAtzmaut, Israel
the Palestinian intifada that he decid-
Independence Day, at a festive meal in
ed, "I've got to go to show solidarity."
Tel Aviv on April 27, the last night of
He told his staff to clear his docket
the 10-day mission, Borman said:
at the U.S. District Court in Detroit,
"Here I am, where I belong."
and he arrived in Israel on Sunday,
— Robert A. Sklar, editor
April 25. "You have to walk the walk
Last year, Audrey and Bill Farber of
Franklin quietly gave an Israeli
orphanage $100,000 to help support
the residents once they arrived,
During Federation's Michigan
Miracle Mission 4, on April 26, it
was Bill's turn to be pleasantly sur-
prised.
The Yemin Orde staff
and the children gave the
Farbers its Tikkun Olam
Award "in recognition
and gratitude for your
crucial support to make
our program for orphans
from the former Soviet
Union possible."
"I knew nothing about
the award until they gave
it to me after breakfast in
the lobby of the hotel in
Nazareth Illit," said
Farber, whose wife was in
on the surprise.
The orphanage houses
children until they're
adopted or go into the army. It
teaches marketable trade skills to
older children. It is desperate for
operating money, so Farber will con-
tinue his support. "Otherwise," he
said, "kids could face a life of pover-
ty.
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— Robert A. Sklar, editor
Bill and Audrey Farber
in Bay City concerning hate groups
operating in that area. A crowd of 75
attended the 90-minute forum.
With the encouragement of Gov.
"When any citizen is chosen for per-
Jennifer Granholm, the Michigan
secution,
it is our collective responsi-
Civil Rights Commission took its
bility to rise up and to defend that
meeting out of Lansing and into the
individual or people and to ensure
community by hosting a public forum
that discriminating action or behavior
at the Holocaust Memorial Center in
is
quelled and defeated," said Gary
Farmington Hills on April 26.
Torgow
of Oak Park, commission
After a private tour of the HMC,
chair.
"We,
the Civil Rights
the commission heard public testimo-
Commission,
have to always remem-
ny from Holocaust survivor and hid-
den child Erna Gorman of Bloomfield - ber the tragic lessons of the horrible
and tragic events of the Holocaust in
Hills.
history."
The Commission also heard from
— Harry Kirsbaum, staff writer
Cantor Daniel Gale of Temple Israel
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bread and grains, wine, fruit and vegetables. Yet
there is no specific blessing said before consuming
two major groups of food. Which ones?
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"Welcome to the Hebrew University of Detroit.
That you traveled 6,000 miles doesn't mean very
much. This is your home as much as it is my
home."
May 1994
— Professor Menachem Magidor, president, Hebrew
University, appreciatively addressing 568 participants
of Federation's Michigan Miracle Mission 4 to Israel,
on the Jerusalem campus.
Dr. Jack Kevorkian was outside the Jewish
Community Center in West Bloomfield soliciting
support for his cause.
The doctor's petition was aimed at putting the
issue of physician-assisted suicide on the ballot
during state elections in November. He wants
Michigan voters to be asked to decide for or
against an amendment legalizing medicide.
— Sy Manello, editorial assistant
5/ 7
2004
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