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After a six-month break from the
hubbub of television news, Lila .
Orbach Lazarus, formerly with
WDIV-TV/Channel 4, will return
to the air in Metro Detroit as part
of the Fox 2 news team. In
March, she will begin co-anchor-
ing the "Live at 11 a.m." newscast
with Sherry Margolis and shar-
ing health and lifestyle reporting
with Deena Centofanti.
"I jumped at the opportunity
to hire Lila;' said Jeff Murri,
WJBK-TV/Channel 2 vice presi-
dent and general manager. "She
will be a phenomenal addition to
our team. She's well liked and
very popular in the marketplace.
Viewers love and respect her."
"Live at 11 a.m." began Sept.
12 to give viewers a mid-day
newscast an hour ahead of the

Greening of Israe

West Bloomfield native Amy Fay
Kaplan participated in the first Eco-
Activist Beit Midrash this fall and
continues to study in the women's
program at Yeshivat Simchat
Shlomo in Jerusalem. The environ-
mentalist program is part of the
yeshiva, and Kaplan is helping to
further develop its -scope.
Her experience the past several
years in sustainable agriculture,
urban community gardening and
progressive political and electoral
organizing shaped community-
based action to personal spiritual
discipline and transformation.
Aside from text-based learning,

Shabbat For Shut-ins

Listen-In Fund, and is available
mountains of California and
Temple Beth El in Bloomfield
competition, Murri said. When
•
at no cost.
attended
a
yoga
retreat
in
Costa
-
Township
will
make
Shabbat
reporting, Lazarus will concen-
"We
wired
the
sanctuary
so
Rica.
services
available
on
the
phone
trate on health and lifestyle
that
any
person
who
cannot
The
break
reinvigo-
to
those
members
who
are
affect
the
issues that.
come to the service can just dial
rated her and she's eager unable to attend.
metro community.
to get back to work.
The idea come to Rabbi Daniel in to a phone number and listen
Lazarus left
to the services;' Rabbi Syme said.
She's in the best shape
Syme after the positive response
Channel 4 in
"They can be in a nursing home
ever, she said, following
to last year's Yom Kippur con-
September after 10
or assisted living!'
a regimen of running,
cluding services, when the rabbi
years as a news anchor
The dial-up service is available
weightlifting, yoga and
urged members to share the final
and health reporter.
for Friday evening services, 7:30
now snowboarding.
moments with loved ones by
Prior to that, the
to 9 p.m., and Saturday services,
"I've been focusing on calling them on their cell
former Detroit Jewish
10:30 to noon. Call-(248) 851-
health and fitness to
phones.
News intern spent 10 Lila Lazar US
4967, for information.
practice what I preach:' she said.
The Listen-in To Shabbat pro-
years in broadcasting in Boston,
- Harry Kirsbaum,
-
"I hope it pays off in reporting; I
gram has been donated by the
Baltimore, Flint, Traverse City
staff writer
think it will. I can't wait to
Babs and Herbert Kaufman
and Ann Arbor,.
become part of the Fox 2 team."
During her time off, Lazarus
As for husband Jeff, a financial _
took a motorcycle trip along the
planner, Lazarus said: "He's excit- 'Adopt' A Young Israeli
Mississippi, climbed the Grand
ed for me to go back to work!'
Canyon from rim to rim, went
- Robert A. Sklar,
kayaking in the Everglades,
Some 400 students from the United States, England and Israel are par-
editor
learned to snowboard in the
ticipating in Young Judaea's Year Course in Israel. The program is
made up of three semesters, including community volunteering, Israel
experience and Jerusalem studies.
A few weeks ago, 10 from the group volunteered for three months at
Hadassah Neurim Youth Aliyah Village. The village, north of Netanya
is the new year of the trees, and
two days a
on the cliffs of the Mediterranean Sea, has roughly 500 students ages
many Jews this month make the
week are
14-20. Seventy percent came to Israel alone, leaving families behind in
spent in the connection between Torah values Russia and Ethiopia; others are disadvantaged Israeli youth. At the vil-
and modern environmental chal- lage, these youth are able to continue their studies in a nurturing envi-
field doing
community lenges. The Eco-Activist Beit
ronment that includes counseling, vocational training and other activ-
Midrash strives to make this
service and
ities designed to help them succeed in school and in life.
connection year-round.
taking edu-
The Young Judaean volunteers want to do something special for the
The spring Eco-Activist Beit
cational
Neurim students on Feb. 28 when Israel celebrates Family Day — a
Midrash is open to Jews of all
trips and
time to be together with family and exchange gifts. The holiday start-
Amy Fay Kaplan
backgrounds, and is scheduled to - ed in honor of Henrietta Szold, the founder of both Hadassah and •
hikes.
run May 21-June 22. For more
Cleaning up neighborhoods,
Youth Aliyah, who had no children but regarded all Youth Aliyah chil-
information, check ww-w.shlo 7
reducing household waste and
dren as hers.
moyeshiva.org,/eco, or contact
training youth groups in environ-
The- volunteers are offering the chance for people to "adopt" the
mental programming are part of a Shaul Judelman at
Neurim Village students by funding packages similar to a camp "care
organicjew@yahoo.com .
vision to build a healthier, greener
package complete with goodies, personal hygiene items and a per-
- Keri Guten Cohen,
Jerusalem. •
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sonal letter.
story development editor
Tu b'Shvat, this year on Feb. 13,
Monetary contributions should arrive no later than Feb. 15. Send to
Young Judaea's New York office: Lymore Hauptman, Hadassah Neurim
Family Day Fundraiser, 50 W. 58th St., New York, NY 10019. Checks
Little Girl Lost
should be made out to Young Judaea,with "Neurim Family Day" in the
memo section. Direct questions to Brianna Greenspan at
•After the Holocaust, the girl
A Jewish woman hidden as a
qt9026@aol. com.
spent time at the Jewish
young girl during the
- Keri Guten Cohen,
Orphanage in Krakow.
Holocaust is searching for any
story development editor
Anyone who may recognize the
information that might help
girl, or has any information that
her learn her true identity.
might help her find her identity,
This is known about the
should contact Elsebeth Paikin,
woman:
president of the Jewish Genealog-
• She was born in 1939 to a
cha Don't Know
ical Society of Denmark, at
family with a name that may
Which animals, other than fish, are kosher
www.jewishgen.org/jgs-dennark.
have been Keller, or some ver-
but are considered parve not meat - and no
sion thereof, such as Kneller or Or, if you have information but
shechitah (ritual slaughter) is necessary?
do not use the Internet, contact
Knoller. Her mother's name
- Goldfein
Elizabeth
Applebaum
at
the
was probably Rozia.
(248)
351-5137.
Jewish
News,
• The girl was hidden in
- Elizabeth Applebaum,
Krakow, Poland, during the
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contributing editor
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