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» Digitizing History Aaron Lansky of the National Yiddish
Book Center to speak at JN Foundation event. See page 16.

» Food Trucks Local businessman tries to rally food trucks
around New Center/Fisher area. Red Thread, page 40.

DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

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0 Art Is His Passion Engineer Henry "Hank" Fleischer, 89,
took up paper sculpting later in life. See page 65.

Hank Fleischer with some of his work

>> cover star

Temple leases space
to a church in need.
Bill Carroll I Contributing Writer

ike Moses and the Jewish people
wandering through the desert,
Pastor Bruce Burwell and his flock
at the Light of the World Christian Center
had been leading a nomadic existence for
almost 10 years, wandering from building
to building to use space for Sunday worship.
Then Burwell, 58, of Southfield, who
founded the church in 2002, walked into
Reform Temple Shir Shalom in West
Bloomfield a year ago, and, as he describes
it, "The Spirit of God came down on me
and told me this was the place to stay; it
was divine intervention':
He recalls, "Shir Shalom saved us. The
church where we had been renting space
was being sold, and we literally had no
place to go that week. We started conduct-
ing services in Shir Shalom's beautiful main
sanctuary'

Answering
The Alarm

Farmington Hills lawyer helps save

Detroit Firefighters' arson unit.

Harry Kirsbaum I Contributing Writer

ronically, i it was a slow burn that caused attorney Stuart Sklar and his law
firm to almost single-handedly rebuild the Detroit Fire Department's Fire
Investigation Unit.
Sklar, of Farmington Hill-based Fabian Sklar & King, which specializes in fire
injury, explosion and property damage claims, was attending an International
Association of Arson Investigators seminar at Oakland Community College in
April, and came across seven members of the Detroit Fire Department who were
attending at their own expense, including Lt. James Hill-Harris.
"Before we went to the event, we were told in our office to expect some bad
treatment — that the speakers love to use the 'Detroit guys' as the butt of every
Stuart Sklar
joke," Lt. Hill-Harris said. "The speaker immediately began making derogatory
jokes about Detroit fire investigators — like, 'Everyone else is going to do it this way ... unless you're
fi,,m Detroit then you don't do it at all: to the laughter of everyone in the class," he said.

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