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»Auto Show Tips
Jeffrey Tamaroff talks about changes in cars, customers and the auto
sales business. See page 12.
»Two Paths
Garfinkel twins of West Bloomfield have gone their separate ways in
sports since graduating from high school. See page 21.
»Modern-Day Ambiguities
U-M professor writes novel, partially set in rural Michigan, about a
divided America. See page 27.
"There's a lot to like about 2012 cars,"
says Jeffrey Tamaroff.
metro
>> cover story
Brian Hermelin with
an Ethiopian child.
New Year, New Life
metro
Metro Detroiters help welcome Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
T
Robin Schwartz
I JN Contributing Writer
hey live in a primitive world of open air
markets and mud huts; a place where people
have no electricity or running water, where
they tell time by the rising and setting of the sun.
The last 4,000 Falash Mura — Ethiopians with
Jewish roots whose families lived as Christians for
generations to escape persecution — are slowly
trickling into Israel one group at a time.
A few weeks ago, 26 Metro Detroiters traveled
more than 8,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean to
the Horn of Africa to help 91 Ethiopian Jews com-
plete their journey from the capital city of Addis
Ababa to Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel
Aviv. Many of the participants in the Dec. 2-9 mission
are members of the Sherman Campaign Leadership
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Years
1942 - 2011
Covering and
Connecting
Jewish Detroit
Every Week
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Dan Gilbert's Rock Ventures acquires
three more Downtown buildings.
T
he Detroit 2.0 movement took another step forward
as a group led by Quicken Loans' founder and
chairman Dan Gilbert announced it acquired three
additional properties in Downtown Detroit — the historic
Wright-Kay
brownstone
as well as the
Lane Bryant
and the Arts
League of
Michigan
buildings.
The
Wright-Kay
r A. —
building, 1500
Wright-Kay Building and the Lane Bryant
Woodward at
Building
John R, was
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