Something Extra

Both Sides Pro-Israel

Alyn Honors Tappers

About 400 attended a friendly debate on National Committee, shared the stage
politics and Israel during the ann e al
with Republican pollster Frank Luntz, a
Americ:an Israel Public Affairs annual
frequent guest on news talk shows and
Michigan event- at Knollwood Country
president of Luntz Research
Club in West Bloomfield on June 24.
Companies, during a one-hour off-the-
Marc-Weinbaum, incoming chair of
record debate.
the Michigan AIPAC
Staff photo by Har ry Kirsbaum
After, some thought it sur-
Council, spoke of close ties
prising at how close the two
between Israel and the U.S.
sides were on Israel. "They
"What kind of country
seem to be more in . agree-
can stand alone against over-
ment on the issue of Israel,"
whelming odds? And what
said Michele Saulson of
kind of country can prevail
Franklin. 'And that we
so long as whatever it lacks
shouldn't make an argument
in, popularity is more than
where there isn't one was an
made up for in morality and
important statement.''
justice?" he said.
Michal Marmelstein, 22, of
"Fortunately, just like Great
Weinbaum addresses Omer, near Beersheva, agreed.
Britain in the 1940s, Israel
Its very nice to see that we
the crowd
does not stand entirely
have the support and we're a
alone. It stands with the
non-issue in the campaign,"
greatest friend of freedom and democra-
said Marmelstein, an Israel culture spe-
cy the world has ever known. It stands
cialist at the Jewish Community Center
with us, the United States."
in West Bloomfield.
Ann Lewis, national chair of the
— Harry Kirsbaum, staff writer
Women's Vote Center of the Democratic

Detroit Book. Debuts

How did Randall Fogelman combine
his love of Detroit history with a way of
making money for the nonprofit New
Center Council he's serves as marketing
director?
He wrote Images of America: Detroit's
New Center, a photo history book of the
area that captures its diversity and spirit.
The book is $20 and available at local
bookstores.
Fogelman, who grew up in West
Bloomfield and has lived in Detroit for
the past 11 years, also is director of
Comerica Tastefest 2004, which runs
through Monday in the New Center
area. He learned about Detroit as a
child when his father would drive him
around the city. "I really loved the histo-

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ry here and that's why I became a city
planner," Fogelman says.
The New Center Council is the unof-
ficial caretaker of the neighborhood —
from mowing the lawn, to putting up
holiday lighting, removing graffiti and
running a summer youth program for
the local children.
"I sought to capture the past, present
and future of the New Center in this
book — from 1917, when Detroit City
Hospital first broke ground [later Henry
Foid Hospital] to some of the current
and future projects our council is active-
ly participating in," he said.
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For book information, call Fogelman:
(313) 872 0188.
— Sharon Zuckerman, staff writer

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crustaceans are not kosher. Yet there are a small
number of kosher insects. Can you name them?

— Goldfein

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Steven Tapper became connected to
Israel in 1973 when he visited the Jewish
state to learn about his heritage and
immerse himself in its culture. He has
been involved in the Jewish community
ever since.
Whether hearing about the achieve-
ments of Israeli universities or scientists,
or whether engaged in discussion or a
cause with fellow Zionists, Tapper beams
with pride over what the 56-year-old
state has accomplished.
Citing the Jewish ideal of pikuach
nefesh, of saving a life, Tapper is happy to
be connected to Alyn Hospital, a
Jerusalem hospital tailored to children
from infant to young adult with acute
cases of physical, developmental and
behavioral needs.
• He and his older brother, Howard,
were honored June 14 at, the Detroit
Friends of Alyn Hospital's 14th annual
benefit. The West Bloomfield jewelers
are active supporters of an array of
Jewish causes like Alyn.
"It happens that Steven and I are for-
tunate," said Howard. "We've been very

"Yes, economically, to spend so much on one child
or to spend so much on a senior adult, may not
make financial sense, but it makes Jewish sense. We
do so on the young because they are our future. We
do so on the older population because they are our
link to our past. ... The present belongs equally to all
of us. That is a message that our JCC conveys every
day as it serves young and old alike."

— Rabbi Lee Buckman, head of school, Jewish
Academy of Metropolitan Detroit, at the Jewish
Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit's annual
meeting on June 16

blessed. We've had a wonderful business,
a family business, for 27 years, and we've
been able to give back to the communi-
ty. Children have been especially impor-
tant to us. That's why Alyn is so impor-
tant."
Each of the Tapper children spoke
about the Tapper family commitment to
making a difference. Steve's son Moshe
called his dad and uncle exemplary guid-
ing lights.
You have taken the time to bend
down and show us the beauty in the
most delicate flower and, yet, you stretch
your hands all the way to Jerusalem,
spreading your dedication across oceans
in a truly global effort to make the world
a better place," Moshe said.
He added, "By your actions, you have
shown us that Israel is critically impor-
tant to the survival of the. Jewish people.
As you have emphasized often, such an
important piece of our liveliness lies
thousands of miles away, but is always
within us as one of the most integral
pieces of our souls."
— Robert A. Sklar, editor

Do You Remember

July 1994

The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism has
a new member: Congregation Casa de la
Comunidad Hebrea de Cuba (Patronto) in Havana.
The 100-member congregation, founded in 1953,
is the first Cuban congregation to affiliate with the
USCJ. A rabbi from Guadalajara, Mexico, who has
been coming every few months to perform cere-
monies, has trained laypeople to teach Hebrew and
lead daily services.

— Sy. Manello, editorial assistant

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