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HOSPICE HEROES
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PROMISE
Sally Krugel remembers well the
words that comforted her brother, Al, at
the end of his life. He could no longer
speak, yet his eyes lit up every time a
rabbi from Jewish Hospice &
Chaplaincy Network sat beside him,
speaking the Yiddish he knew as a child.
'A Model To Emulate'
Esther Allweiss Ingber
Special to the Jewish News
Today Sally, a long-time community
volunteer and retired development
professional, helps organize JHCN's
marketing efforts.
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"I am thankful I can contribute my pro-
fessional skills, but I have come away
with so much more than I give. It has
enriched my own life," Sally said. "Our
community is blessed to have JHCN."
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October 11, 2009
Irving Elson
Joseph Gelbemian
Alexander Glaser
Aaron Pollack
Harry Shulman
Adam Unrot
Myrtle Desow
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Mery Klepfish
Viola Newman Kopp
Elka Rohlik
Gertrude Rosenberg
Rose Ryback
Esther Sternberg
Irene Weiss
David Pitt
Harry Wetstein
Dora Baruch
Minnie Berman
Sandra Maxine Davis
Esther Dickman
Sophie Herschbeng
Mary Rose Jacobs
24 Tisiovi
October 12, 2009
Sidney Baron
Dr. Harold Mark Dana
Burt Duchin
Norman Fax
Philip Horwich
Aaron David Levin
Abraham Levitin
Aaron B. Margolis
Israel Miller
Michael Miller
25 Tishri
October 13, 2009
Sollie Anbnan
Wolfe Willliam Atlas
A Howard Bloch
Dr. Daniel Cdr.:
Louis Dann
Jewele Isenberg
Nathan Sachs
Nathan Samet
Nathan Zack
Ann Abramson
Jeanette Berkowitz
Edith Burk
Rose T Deitch
Bertha Fagenson
Gornbein
Helen a. Klein
Era Lesser
Rose Marks
Bessie Moorman
Yetis Rucker
Sadie Whiteman
26 TIshrei
October 14, 2009
Jacob Cohen
Samuel Cohen
Samuel Louis
Faudrnan
Bernard Greenbaum
Samuel Rosenberg
Isaac Edward
Sperling
Ida Bailey
Freda Fox
Rachel Kratzensin
Dora Levine
Gertrude Lubetsky
Anna Mannan
Minnie Ruzumna
Hilda Shoob
Dina Weinbaum
Aurelia Weisz
Shane Yalowitz
27 Wird
October 14 2009
David Milton Carmel
Oscar Katz
Samuel Mordecai
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Kalman Silber
Leonard Silbert
Simon Yourtg
Clhaya Sarah Dworkin
Zeta C Coulson
Caroline Leiderman
Miriam Russo
Dr. Rose Malach
Sexton
Leah Sherr
Ida Solomon
Molly Wekhgarrien
28 Tishrei
October 1g 2009
Israel Grossman
Chaim Yehuda Aryeh
Leib Lazar
Joseph Wolf Matter
Leib Rohlik
Joseph Silver
Edward Stark
Herman Weberman
Morris Paul
Yampolsky
Clara Sherizen
Eva Rebecca
Waterstone
Elisabeth Weinberger
29 Tisirel
October 17, 2009
Marcus Eller
Menachem Herz
Anna Apple
Louis J Been
Muriel Bennet
Ethel Deutch
Etta Josselson
Vita Levine
Ethel Palman
Eva Rosenberg
Rose Shlosberg
Dorothy Stewart
Dinah Superstine
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Chayah S. Tugman
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Detroit's Westminster-Delmar area.
"My dad basically stayed until the end
of his career',' David said, "except for
ome people choose to sacrifice
two years in the mid-'60s when he was
their principles for economic
assistant to the president of the Jewish
security or just to blend in.
National Fund in New York City."
But Rabbi Milton Arm, longtime rabbi
Rabbi Arm returned as clergy for
of the former Congregation Beth
the now-Conservative Congregation
Achim, would have none of it. When the Beth Achim, the result of a 1968
Conservative movement
merger between
adopted liberal and
Ahavas Achim and
egalitarian practices he
Congregation Beth
disagreed with, Rabbi
Aaron in Detroit. Beth
Arm took "the proper
Achim later relocated
Jewish approach" and
to Southfield, where
stayed with tradition,
the Arms lived. But
even taking a chance
before the move, David
on losing his livelihood,
said his father would
said son David Arm.
often walk seven miles
Known in the com-
to the shul in Detroit
munity as pious,
and sleep over for
charitable and friendly, Rabbi Milt on Arm
Shabbat.
Rabbi Arm, 85, of West
Rabbi Arm retired
Bloomfield, lost his battle with declin- in 1991. In June 1998, Beth Achim
ing health, including years of dialysis,
merged with Adat Shalom Synagogue
on Sept. 29, 2009. His funeral the
in Farmington Hills. The name "Beth
following day filled all 500 seats at
Achim" is now the name of Adat
Hebrew Memorial Chapel in Oak Park. Shalom's religious school.
Another 100 people lined the walls or
After the Arms moved to West
listened in the foyer as David and his
Bloomfield in 2000, Rabbi A.
twin brother, officiating Rabbi Daniel
Irving Schnipper, rabbi emeritus
Arm, and sister Ilana Glickman, eulo-
of Congregation Beth Ahm in West
gized their father.
Bloomfield, would sometimes wor-
Milton Arm was born Jan. 23, 1924,
ship with Rabbi Arm at Shomrey
in Bronx, N.Y., to David and Sadie
Emunah-Ohel Moed synagogue in
Arm. He attended City College of New West Bloomfield.
York but graduated from Columbia
"Even though he had his illnesses,
University, also in New York City.
Rabbi Arm would walk a mile or so to
He and his wife, Claire, married
join the minyan," Rabbi Schnipper said.
in 1949, following his completion
He said he respected Rabbi Arm as
of rabbinical school at the Jewish
"a personable and very learned indi-
Theological Seminary in New York.
vidual who was educated secularly as
They met fortuitously While attend-
well as Judaically."
ing JTS, the future rabbi was asked to
After the funeral, former Beth
speak to a women's group at Temple
Achim congregant Michael Feldman
Emanuel in Paterson, N.J., where
of Farmington Hills said he liked the
Brooklyn-born Claire's father, Martin
adherence to tradition that Rabbi
Adolf, was the cantor. Relates son
Arm stood for. "I always admired him
David: "My mother called my father
because he wasn't wishy-washy," he
to give him directions from New York
said.
City, and the rest is history:'
Feldman also was impressed with
The newlyweds spent their first
the rabbi's uncanny ability to remem-
year in Israel. The rabbi's initial con-
ber people's names. He was surprised
gregation
was in Glen Cove, N.Y. In
to learn from one of the eulogies
0
o
1954, he served as a co-rabbi for four
that Rabbi Arm had pushed for
years at Congregation Shaarey Zedek
strong Jewish day school education
on Chicago Boulevard in Detroit
in Detroit and was a founder in 1958
before moving briefly to Milwaukee.
of Hillel Day School of Metropolitan
Detroit in Farmington Hills.
Ahavas Achim Pulpit
Such modesty was characteristic of
Returning here around 1959, he was
the rabbi, who wasn't one to seek atten-
rabbi at Ahavas Achim on Schaefer
tion or talk about his achievements.
near Seven Mile, then an Orthodox
Adat Shalom Rabbi Herbert Yoskowitz
congregation formerly located in
said Rabbi Arm would introduce him