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Eighth Annual Dr. Alfred and Mrs. Sandra Sherman Lecture on

Ethical. Issues in Women's Health Care

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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sinai-Grace Hospital
The Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit

Sunday, October 10, 2004, 11 a.m. *Refreshments at 10:30 a.m.

The Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit
D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building
Eugene and Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus
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West Bloomfield, Michigan 48322

Zohar Raviv
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University of Michigan

"The Practice of Medicine as Tikun Olam (Mending the World) -
in the Ethical. Footsteps of Maimonides"

Moses Maimonides (1135-1204), the greatest Jewish philosopher of
all times and a luminary rabbinic authority, was also a highly acclaimed
physician in the Egyptian royal court - a man who has carved out some
of the ethical foundations of medical practice as we know it today. The
lecture will follow Maimonides' trail and ascendance to such prominence
while focusing on some of his major precepts as a physician who works
from deep within the Jewish faith.

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To celebrate the Shermans' 60 years in healthcare, Dr. Sherman will
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Radio station explains why it chose Rosh Hashanah
to highlight Jewish rock artists.

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he intent was not to disrespect
the High Holidays. The gentile
program director of 106.7-The
Drive said he purposely shared some of
the production pieces with Jewish col-
leagues before electing to mark Rosh
Hashanah with Rock Hashanah.
The executive director of the Anti-
Defamation League
Michigan Region saw
it differently. "It was
in poor taste and
insensitive to the
Jewish community,"
said Betsy Kellman.
"If this wasn't so
solemn a holiday, I
would say okay, it's a
Kellman
cute idea. Do it
around Purim, not
around a holiday when you should be
praying for repentance."
Each hour of the 24-hour promotion,
which began at sundown Sept. 15, the
station highlighted the heritage and
songs of two or three Jewish rock artists.
"It was meant to be fun, but very
respectful," said John Trapane, The
Drive crew chief.
Trapane came to the Farmington
Hills-based Clear Channel
Communications station 14 months ago
from Houston. He said the idea was not
‘`a great epiphany" but a "play on words"
to honor all Jewish rock stars.
"Vs a new year,' I thought," he said.
"So let's celebrate."
For example, Trapane said, listeners
learned that while Billy Joel can't settle
on his Jewishness, both his parents were
Jewish and his father, a German Jew,
escaped the Holocaust.
Trapane said he explained the spirit of
the promotion to the two listeners who
complained.
Rock Hashanah spotlighted 13 Jewish
artists, including Adam Gaynor, Lenny
Kravitz, David Lee Roth, Gene
Simmons, Paul Stanley of KISS, Slash of
Guns N' Roses and Max Weinberg.
The Web site jewhoo.com provided
biographies of each.
"I Googled 'Jewish rock stars' and
there it was," Trapane said. "We promot-
ed the Web site, too, for those who
wanted to know more."

"Listeners called in to say we forgot
this person or that, like Bob Dylan,"
Trapane said. "But we focus on artists
from the 1980s and 1990s."
There's precedent for religious and
ethnic holidays themes at 106.7.
During its Crazy Christmas promo-
tion last year, the station played obscure
Christmas songs as well as traditional
favorites. "We talked about why
Christmas seems to start right after
Halloween," Trapone said. 'Again, we
were respectful."
"The Jewish community is large and
important part of Detroit, and we try to
celebrate everything Detroit," he said.
"We try to be inclusive and have fun
with everybody — whether it's the Irish
on St. Patrick's Day or the Poles on
Paczki Day."
Allan Gale, assistant director of the
Jewish Community Council of
Metropolitan Detroit, didn't object to a
secular radio station featuring a Rosh
Hashanah theme with the likelihood of
some Jews tuning in.
"You put a smile on my family's face
on the way home from temple," a
Southfield listener who only signed her
first name wrote in an e-mail letter to
the station. We kept saying, 'They're
Jewish?'"
Gale felt that Rock Hashanah also
helped educate "the non-Jewish public
on Jewish contribu-
tions to rock music."
Rabbi Joey Krakoff
of Congregation
Shaarey Zedek, a
Conservative syna-
gogue in Oakland
County, said he
would have preferred
to see Rock
Krakoff
Hashanah take place
leading up to Rosh
Hashanah, not on one of the holiest hol-
idays of the Jewish year.
He acknowledged that some Jews lis-
ten to the radio on Rosh Hashanah and,
for them, the promotion was "a way to
touch many different levels of obser-
vance and remind people of the contri-
butions that Jews have made to the
music world."
"I didn't jump blindly into this,"
Trapane said. "I did bounce the concept
off others, including Jews. I didn't want
to do anything distasteful." ❑

