EWISH SSANCE Front Lines DETROIT DIGEST --1 7.W!!-3!'! siNonline)..17 Advertising Sales Remember The Ulpan? Forty years ago this summer, Metro Detroit teens spent the summer at the first Detroit Summer Youth Ulpan in the Carmel neighborhood of Haifa. They studied Hebrew and learned about Israel. "That very special summer absolutely transformed our lives," recalls Elaine Iden Cheshin, who later made aliyah and raised a family in Israel. "What made it different from every other youth pro- gram of that era was the participation of Israeli buddies — kids our own age from the Haifa area who spent much of those two months with us." Recently, Cheshin decided it was time to celebrate the good times of that long- ago summer as well as its imprint. So she enlisted the help of her sister, Tzviah Idan, also in Israel, and two other Ulpan participants, sisters Karen Stahl-Don and Maureen Stahl (Richardson), who now live in New York. The trio hopes to reconnect with the group and hold a reunion in Israel this summer. They are in the midst of locating Americans and Israelis who participated, including counselors, teachers and support staff. Contact Elaine Cheshin at cheshinea@ gmail.com or Karen Stahl-Don at 1 (718) 601-3012 or ksd18@aol.com . — Robert Sklar, editor Ragtime Gets Local Touch There was a lot of kvelling in the Jewish community's Milgrom family recently when former localite Marcia Milgrom Dodge, now of New York City, received rave reviews for her directing and cho- reographing of a five-week revival of the musical Ragtime at the Eisenhower Theater in the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Attending the opening night per- formance were Milgrom Dodge's parents, Jackie and Myron Milgrom of Southfield, and her sisters, Carol Lasser and Paula Milgrom of West Bloomfield and Marianne Bloomberg of Farmington Hills. The elder Milgroms hosted a family dinner before the show, which runs through May 17. The Washington Post and other D.C. area publications praised Milgrom Dodge's work with the 36-member cast of Ragtime, calling it a "powerful, glori- ous production!' The story covers the travails of three intertwining ethnic families in the mass immigration days of 1906. Milgrom Dodge, a University of Michigan graduate, has directed and choreographed shows around the world. Among celebrities attending the open- ing were Jewish author E.L. Doctorow, who wrote the original Ragtime book; Terrance McNally, who wrote the book for the musical, and others. "It was a great night and we're really proud of Marcia," beamed Myron Milgrom. "Everyone told us she made Ragtime even better and more lively than the original Broadway version." — Bill Carroll, special writer Quotable "Entering the synagogue for the first time, I was struck by the romance of its ruinous state. 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