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Aug. 25-31, 2016 | 21-27 Av 5776 | Vol. CL, No. 4
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EMU student Shira Starr interned at
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fact that in 1948, Israel was established,
defended itself against all odds and is still
there.
The War of Independence was Israel’s
costliest war, with more than 6,000 Israelis
killed and 15,000 wounded.
The two items from 1949, however,
were most encouraging.
The first noted that shortly after the war,
after only one year of existence, Israel’s
population had topped 1 million people.
In short, despite the recent war and with
hostile forces on every front, there was still
a flood of Jewish immigration to Israel.
Amy and Noam Stein moved
to Southfield from Memphis when
Noam accepted the position as
high school principal of the Farber
Hebrew Day School. The couple
and their seven children were tasked
with a move to suburban Detroit
where they had no family or close
friends to advise them, and to find
the right home and neighborhood
sight unseen.
“What we found was a supportive
community in and around Young
Israel of Southfield,” said Noam.
“Howard Korman, who is a Board
member at both Young Israel and
Farber, and his wife, Michal, were so
helpful, even going so far as to
attend our home inspection before
the closing, since we were still in
Tennessee.”
“Hebrew Free Loan entered our
lives because homes aren’t typically
built for families with seven young
kids, tweens and teens,” Amy said.
“But the basement in our new home
was simply one empty room.
Howard had mentioned an effort
between Young Israel and HFL to
support Jewish neighborhoods
and make the area attractive to
families, so we approached HFL to
help us renovate the lower level. It
gave our kids their own space, and
helped our family make a good
transition.”
“Hebrew Free Loan struck me as
a modern agency, reaching out to
serve different constituencies,”
said Noam. “It was a polished,
professional and respectful process.”
“We now know that HFL helps our
community with a variety of needs,
not just emergencies,” said Amy.
“The home improvements helped
us settle in here and make a life.”
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Quick Click … From the William Davidson Digital
Archive of Jewish Detroit History
found a couple of interesting little his-
toric bits this week, next to each other,
in the Sept. 15, 1949, issue of the Jewish
Chronicle. These were published roughly
six months after the official end of Israel’s
War of Independence.
Generally, the war raged from May 15,
1948, upon the declaration of a State of
Israel, to the spring of 1949, when Israel
signed a series of armistices with Egypt,
Lebanon, Jordan and Syria.
Of course, one could easily argue that,
in essence, the Arab-Israeli War began in
1947 and it has never ended. But, it is a
Our Story
The second item noted that the first
train ran in peace on Israel’s newly
reopened line from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Not that far a ride, but a great accomplish-
ment in 1949.
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Want to learn more? Go to the DJN Foundation
archives, available for free at www.djnfoundation.org.
Hebrew Free Loan gives interest-
free loans to members of our
community for a variety of
personal and small business
needs. HFL loans are funded
entirely through community
donations which continually
recycle to others, generating
many times the original value
to help maintain the lives of
local Jews.
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