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Pantry Purim Appeal
As the holiday of Purim approaches, both Yad Ezra and Israel's Table To Table
offer opportunities to help feed the hungry. "Purim, like the holiday of Passover,
is a time when we are instructed to provide for those in needy said Lea Luger,
development director at Yad Ezra, Michigan's only
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a special holiday distribution of hamantashen
and other Purim treats. These packages, as well
as food and health care packages distributed to
1,100 area Jewish families each month, are pro-
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vided in part by the sale of Purim tribute cards.
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Proceeds from the purchase of Purim greeting
cards through Table To Table provide funds for
food rescue programs in Israel. The agency, in
Raanana, Israel, collects excess, unsold food from
catered events, corporate cafeterias, army bases,
food manufacturers, grocers, farms and packing
houses and delivers it to non-profit agencies that
serve those in need throughout Israel.
To make a donation to Yad Ezra or to purchase Purim tribute cards ($18 per
package of four), call Yad Ezra, (248) 548-3663, or make an online donation at
yadezra. org.
To make a donation to Table To Table or to purchase Purim greeting cards in
packages of five for $18, send an e-mail to info@tabletotable.org/il or access the
Web site at tabletotable.org.il/purim . Cards will be e-mailed to the purchaser.
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- Shelf Liebman Dorfman, senior writer
The Lakewood Legacy
More than 100 members of Detroit's Orthodox community packed the Oak Park
home of Rabbi and Mrs. Yosef Nusbaum for a Feb. 7 parlor meeting to hear
Rabbi Yerucham Olshin, dean of Beth Medresh Govoha (BMG), the world's larg-
est yeshivah for advanced talmudic learning.
Also known as "Lakewood" because of its location in Lakewood, N.J., BMG has
nearly 5,000 young male students studying Torah.
Rabbi Olshin spoke of the necessity of intensive Torah learning for the con-
tinuity of the Jewish people. He said that only through the visionary work of
the late Rabbi Aharon Kotler who, in 1943, established the now-flourishing
Lakewood yeshivah, was the survival and growth of Torah Judaism in America
ensured.
Detroit Jewry has a strong connection with the Beth Medresh Govoha because
the Kollel Institute of Greater Detroit in Oak Park is a branch of the Lakewood
yeshivah. Men from more than 100 Detroit families either learned at BMG or
have sons or sons-in-law who learned or are learning there.
The parlor meeting coincided with the fifth ya•tzheit (death anniver-
sary) of Rabbi Avrohom Abba Freedman, beloved founder and teacher of the
Southfield-based Yeshiva Beth Yehudah, and was dedicated to his memory. Rabbi
Freedman's son, Rabbi E.B."Bunny" Freedman of Oak Park, spoke about his
father's untiring involvement with Detroit's Jewish community, in particular,
his commitment to Yeshiva Beth Yehudah and his work with new Soviet Jewish
immigrants.
"He had no concept of zich (self),"Rabbi Bunny Freedman said.
Like Rabbi Kotler, Rabbi A.A. Freedman also understood the primacy of Torah
education, the cause to which he devoted his life.
-Susan Tawil, special writer