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Feb. 18-24, 2016 | 9-15 Adar I 5776 | Vol. CXLIX, No. 3
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SHABBAT LIGHTS
Shabbat: Friday, Feb. 19, 5:51 p.m.
Shabbat Ends: Saturday, Feb. 20, 6:54 p.m.*
Shabbat: Friday, Feb. 26, 6 p.m.
Shabbat Ends: Saturday, Feb. 27, 7:02 p.m.*
* Times according to Yeshiva Beth Yehudah calendar.
Cover design: Michelle Sheridan
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Chabad rabbis with Detroit ties welcome vacationers to the Caribbean. Here Jews in the
Virgin Islands celebrate Lag b'Omer with a bonfire.
Around Town ............... 28
Arts & Life .................... 49
Calendar....................... 34
Dining In ...................... 54
Editor’s Picks ............... 52
Family Focus ............... 38
Israel ....................... 42-47
jewish@edu ................. 40
Life Cycles .................... 59
Marketplace ................ 62
Mentsh of the Month 15
Metro ............................ 10
Obituaries .................... 65
Spirituality ................... 37
Sports ........................... 48
Spotlight ...................... 65
Synagogue List ........... 36
Torah Portion .............. 35
Viewpoints......................5
10
Columnists
Annabel Cohen ........... 54
Ben Falik .........................5
Ryan Fishman ............. 56
Danny Raskin ............. 58
Robert Sklar ..................6
Detroiters in Florida: Cantor David Propis
and Rabbi Aaron Starr of Shaarey Zedek
held a concert in Boca Raton Feb. 14.
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Quick Click … From the William Davidson Digital
Archive of Jewish Detroit History
Mike Smith
Detroit Jewish News Foundation Archivist
S
ummer camps for Jewish youth
have a long history in Michigan.
The Feb. 4 issue of the JN featured
its annual camp guide. And, I won-
dered — when did the JN or the Jewish
Chronicle (JC) first feature ads or stories
about summer camps?
The first entries I could find regard-
ing summer camps were in 1917, on
the Chronicle’s “Society” pages. For one
of many examples, in the Aug. 24 issue,
it was noted that “Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Selling” were motoring to visit their
daughter, Louise, who was at summer
camp in Maine.
Another entry from Oct. 29, 1920,
noted that the Detroit Community Fund
would provide $9,221 to the Jewish Fresh
Air Society, which maintained a “sum-
mer camp on the Grosse Pointe Shore
Line.” In August 1921, it reported that
the Shaarey Zedek Boy Scouts left for the
“Detroit Council Camp, Osius.”
The first detailed story on a summer
camp was about E.H. Saulson opening
his Camp Grand Sable for boys, 3.5 miles
from Grand Marais, in Michigan’s Upper
Peninsula. The story was published on
May 12, 1922. Camp Grand Sable also
had the first advertisement for summer
camps, which ran in the June 9 issue that
year. Indeed, summer camps have been
a topic for nearly 100 years in the JN and
JC.
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Jewish Fund’s
Teen, Adult
Surveys Online
T
he Jewish Fund, in part-
nership with the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit, has launched a comprehen-
sive community study to gauge the
health and welfare needs of the Jewish
community. The results will be used
to ensure that the right programs are
in place today, tomorrow and into the
future for those who need assistance.
“In many instances, funders make
decisions based on what they think
certain needs are, or will be,” said
Karen Schoenberg Sosnick, Jewish
Fund chair. “The better decision for
us is to base our decisions on a com-
bination of objective data and subjec-
tive observations from a broad array
of key stakeholders. This will allow
us to ensure that our investments are
helping the most people and having
as big an impact as possible.”
The community study will include
focus groups and online surveys for
Jewish agency executives as well as
online surveys for Jewish adults and
teens, which can be accessed now
through March 9 at www.jewishcom-
munitysurvey.morpace.com for adults
age 18 and older and at www.jewish-
teensurvey.morpace.com for teens
ages 13-17.
The community study will also
assist all of the Jewish agencies in
Metro Detroit that serve Jewish peo-
ple via health and welfare programs
and services because the results
will be shared broadly, said Margo
Pernick, Jewish Fund executive direc-
tor.
The Jewish Fund and Federation
are working with Farmington Hills-
based international research and
consulting firm Morpace Inc. on the
community study.
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Want to learn more? Go to the DJN Foundation
archives, available for free at www.djnfoundation.org.
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