Ah, Nature!
botanist strive to make some genetic
h, Little
Hannah,
bright as a
banana, how does
your garden grow?
So what's wrong
with giving a bit of a
Jewish spin on an old
nursery rhyme? And
SY
MANELLO with that in mind,
consider the spin I've
Editorial
aiven to the kinds of
Assistant
flowers you can grow
in your garden to give
it a bit more of a Jewish tam (flavor).
For some I am suggesting only a
name change, but it would not be
unthinkable to have some creative
changes to the blossoms to be more
"ethnic."
First, try planting some Purple
Cohen Flowers; the spelling alone will
do here.
Do you wish to add height to the
display? Instead of Hollihocks, try
some Challahhocks.
A few biblical references are always
good to perk up the garden patch.
With that in mind, try the Brown-
Eyed Sarahs; the center is already that
color, not black, and the reference to
the famous mother can't hurt. In the
same vein, instead of Goldenrod, try
raising some Mosesrod. The Jack in
the Pulpit could easily be replaced by
the Yaacov on the Bimah.
JAMD Rejects Tyndale Purchase
The Jewish Academy of Metropolitan
Detroit will be staying put, at least for
the time being.
On March 22, the school's board of
directors abandoned plans to purchase
the former William Tyndale College
campus in Farmington Hills.
JAMD, Michigan's only multi-
stream Jewish day high school, has
been housed on the Eugene and
Marcia Applebaum Jewish
Community Campus in West
Bloomfield since it opened in August
2000. Accredited by the Independent
Schools Association of the Central
States (ISACS), the school has grown
from its opening enrollment of 53
freshmen and sophomores to this
year's high of 163 students in grades
9-12.
Tyndale College closed its doors
Dec. 31, 2004. The vacant campus is
at 35700 West 12 Mile Road at Drake
C' cha
Dont Know©
Road in Farmington Hills.
Larry Garon, JAMD board presi-
dent, said that "as the due diligence
period on the Tyndale property comes
to an end, the board has determined
that at this time, the William Tyndale
property is not feasible.
"We are moving forward into a
position of resolution of our facility's
needs," Garon said. "We want to do
what is in the best interests of the
school and, as a constituent agency of
the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit, in the best interest of the
community."
The school's board is seriously con-
sidering other options, Garon said,
including improved facilities on the
Applebaum campus.
— Diana Lieberman,
special to the Jewish News
The Shabbat Lily could replace the
Day Lily and an added feature would
be that it would close late on Friday
afternoon and not reopen its blooms
until Sunday morning.
Though Marigolds ("merrygolds")
are pretty, think how special
Kvellinggolds would be. (Just being
happy is replaced with the idea of
overflowing joy.)
If we just shorten Phlox to Lox, that
should do it. We could easily make
Hydrangea into the Oydrangea with
little difficulty.
With all the stress on the idea of
guilt and Jewish lives, we could easily
rename the Bleeding Heart the Guilt
Flower.
It might be nice to call the Four
JCCouncil
Earns Award
The national Jewish Council for Public
Affairs has given its first award for pro-
gram excellence to the Jewish
Community Council of Metropolitan
Detroit for the Religious Diversity
Initiative, a series of workshops for sev-
enth-grade students in Oakland County
public schools. The program was
designed to provide a deeper apprecia-
tion of religious diversity through educa-
tion and outreach.
Co-sponsored by the Oakland
County Superintendents Association
and the National Council for
Community and Justice, the Religious
Diversity Initiative is funded by a sec-
ond-year grant from the Community
Foundation for Southeastern Michigan.
Seventh-grade students from five
Oakland school districts participate in a
series of workshops on religions that are
prevalent in the county. The workshops
are hosted by various religious institu-
Yiddish Limericks
2005
Which major Canadian city recently elected its
first Jewish mayor, a man who is a native of
Detroit's neighbor across the river, Windsor?
We in-laws have meddled too long.
Our kochleffet ways are just wrong.
I told my mechuten,**
"We've got to stop puttin'
Our noses where they don't belong!"
— Goldfein
— Martha Jo Fleischmann
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ctioluouipa aurupaq Taptrew uatidais:nAksuy
O'Clock the Five O'Clock as a tribute
to "Jewish time."
To replace the Crocus as a harbinger
of spring, we might rename the
Lamb's Ears as Lamb Shank and have
it bloom for Passover.
There are some we can leave alone,
since they already have the proper
"ethnic" association. Consider: Rose of
Sharon, Jacob's Ladder and Solomon's
Seal.
For those of you who are asking
what a blooming idiot like me
knows about gardening, may I
remind you that many fertile minds
work in the news business, digging
up the dirt and planting seeds for
thought. So there. 1 I
* busy-body
** relationship of fathers of bride and groom
Andrea Weinstein of the Jewish Council
for Public Affairs presents the first
Excellence in Programming Awards to
Detroit JCCouncil President Steve
Silverman, left, and Chuck Tauman,
chair of the Community Relations
Council in Portland, Oregon.
tions in Oakland County and include
panels comprised of clergy discussing
how different religious sects affect stu-
dents and public schools.
The award was presented at the JCPA
national conference in Washington,
D.C., in late February.
Do You Remember?
April 1995
Steve Bocknek, president of Sparti-Pac at
Michigan State University, a pro-Israel organiza-
tion, has been appointed to serve on the national
executive committee of the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee. He will occupy one of
the two student positions.
He had been editor of the MSU Jewish Student
Review and was recently named a student defend-
er in the university judicial process.
— Sy Manello, editorial assistant
3/31
2005