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Woman, 90, Makes Aliyah;
Says She's 'Going Home'
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Susan Friedman at Kennedy Airport in
New York, on her way to Israel.
B'nai Moshe School
Has Open Enrollment
Congregation B'nai Moshe announces that
enrollment for its award-winning LIFE
(Learning Is a Family Experience) religious
school for the 2015-2016 school year is now
open.
New this year is a joint operating agree-
ment with Congregation Beth Ahm, where
the two West Bloomfield schools will be
combining their Tuesday afternoon classes.
Both congregations see this as a wonderful
opportunity to offer their students a more
dynamic learning environment.
Each synagogue's Shabbat morning com-
ponent of their schools will remain autono-
mous.
B'nai Moshe continues to offer free kin-
dergarten in the LIFE program. For informa-
tion, contact B'nai Moshe Education Director
Gail Gales at (248) 788-3600. Registration
forms can be found on www.bnaimoshe.org .
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Digital Archive Of Jewish Detroit History
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FULFILLMENT
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Despite its ability to attract
community is
both international and local
intimately famil-
acts, as well as its stunning
iar with theaters, today and
interior, the theater had a rocky
go of it. During its lifetime,
in the past. One historic
theater was the Littman's
the theater changed its name
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People's Theatre. Located at
three times. First, its name
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8210 12th St. in Detroit, the
was shortened to Littman's
Theatre in 1938. Then, after
Littman's People's Theatre
opened in September 1927
being closed four years, it was
renamed the Abington in 1945
and hosted Yiddish stars
such as Paul Muni and
and finally, the Gold Coast,
Molly Picon.
when it reopened in 1956 after tem-
Maurice H. Finkel, the same architect porarily closing in 1953. Despite these
responsible for the notable Michigan
attempts to remain in business, the
Theater in Ann Arbor, designed
theatre ultimately closed its doors in
Littman's. The building itself, described
1958.
as "comfortable and luxurious," seated
approximately 1,100 audience members Want to learn more? Go to the DIN
and was truly lovely. As noted by the
Foundation archives, available for free at
Museum of Family History, however,
www.djnfoundation.org.
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Susan Friedman proves that ifs never too
late to be a pioneer. At the ripe age of 90,
she made aliyah Monday on a charter flight
through the Nefesh B'Nefesh (NBN) agency
"I am going home she told JNS. org.
Friedman said she wanted to move to
Israel from the time she was 13, when her
parents left Germany for a better and safer
life in the United States. Her father told her
to start in America, and eventually she could
move to the Jewish homeland. In 1938, the
State of Israel had not yet been established,
and her father was worried she would
struggle.
Five children, 18 grandchildren and 37
great-grandchildren later, she is moving to
Ra'anana, where she will live in an indepen-
dent living facility
She has traveled to Israel at least once
annually over the last 50 years, including
spending time there with her late husband,
Prof. Gerald M. Friedman. Today, she has
two daughters and their families living in
Israel, including her granddaughter Member
of Knesset Rachel Azaria (Kulanu).
Friedman said she knows "some Hebrew,"
having studied Hebrew grammar in
Germany. Her daughter, Judith Friedman
Rosen, who was in tears of emotion watch-
ing her mother prepare to board the plane,
will be in Israel around Passover time for a
bar mitzvah and to visit her mother.
"I am ready to go," Friedman said at New
York City's John F. Kennedy International
Airport before departing on NBN's 53rd
charter flight.
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