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… Cross and Pear Tree: A Sephardic Journey Nov. 15 at 4 p.m. Location to be an- nounced. American Movement for Is- rael at the University of Michigan Hillel Foundation will present Haim Koren, consul for…

… University of Michigan Hillel Foundation will have a Shabbat Vegetarian Potluck Nov. 19 at 7 p.m. Call Hillel 769-0500, for informa- tion and location. VIA Hillel, Hillel's com- munity service organization…

… Calendar Hillel Foundation at the Uni- versity of Michigan will spon- sor a panel discussion on "The Role of Women in Judaism" Nov. 15 at 7:30 p.m. at Hillel. Panelists will represent Reform, Conservative…

… press and infor- mation at the Consulate Gen- eral of Israel in Chicago. Koren will discuss the recent breakthroughs in the Israeli- Palestinian peace process Nov. 17 at 7 p.m. at Hillel. Israel-Michigan…

… Political Action Committee at the Uni- versity of Michigan Hillel will welcome State Senator Lana Pollack, D-Ann Arbor, Nov. 17 at 7 p.m. at Hillel. The Jewish Lesbian, Bi- sexual and Gay Collective at the…

… Potok 7:30 p.m. Nov. 10 at Hillel. There is a charge. The Jewish Feminist Group at the University of Michigan Hillel will sponsor a text study and discussion of the Torah portion 7 p.m. Nov. 11 at Hillel…

… the University of Michigan will present David Broza 8 p.m. Nov. 9 at The Ark, 637 S. Main. Tickets are avail- able at the Michigan Union ticket office. Celebration of Jewish Arts will present Chaim…

… Corrine Stavish. On Nov. 7, the social action committee will sponsor a nurs- ing home visit; meet at Hillel at 2 p.m. On Nov. 10, Rabbi Jacobovitz of Machon L'Torah in Oak Park will speak on "Life and Death…

… At the Tip of The Tongue" 7:30 p.m. at Hillel. On Nov. 11, the social com- mittee will sponsor "The Dat- ing Game" at 8 p.m. U M Hillel Sets Calendar - The Ark and B'nai B'rith Hill Foundation at…

… charge. AJC Sponsors Essay Contest After Baby's-To-Be, Inc. The Hillel Jewish Student Cen- ter at Michigan State Univer- sity will host the following events. On Nov. 5, Hillel will spon- sor a Shabbat…

…, in cooperation.with Hillel Foundations, is sponsoring an undergraduate essay contest on the topic "What Being Jewish Means To Me." The winner will receive a cash award of $2,500. The contest, open to…

… Machon L'Torah, with the Uni- versity of Michigan will hold an educational evening 7:30 p.m. Nov. 9 at the Union. Rabbi Avraham Jacobovitz will lead a discussion on "InterDating, InterMarriage and Racism…

…On Campos MSU Hillel Sets Calendar Before International Award Winning. Photographer Carol Goren Visit our Fabulous New Studio and Fashion Boutique. 29499 Northwestern Highway at the Parkwest…

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…, 851- 5100. Machon Visits MSU, Western Machon L'Torah, in conjunction with the Hillel Student Center of Michigan State University will hold a special Shabbat weekend program titled "As- similate or…

… reservations to take part in the service, call the synagogue of- fice, 788-0600. U-M Hillel Slates Video Hillel Foundation at the Uni- versity of Michigan will present "Intermarriage: When Love Meets Tradition…

… charge. For information and reservations, call Hillel, (517) 332-1916; or Machon 967-0888. Also, Machon, in conjunction with the Western Michigan University Kalamazoo Hillel, will sponsor an educational on…

…. But this instance of vandal- ism struck an especially disso- nant chord in Jews at Michigan State University. It came on the eve of a campus-wide Holocaust memorial event, sponsored by six different…

… university organi- zations, including Hillel. The highly publicized memo- rial, which took place Tuesday, commemorated the 55th an- niversary of Kristallnacht — the night of the broken glass. In No- vember of…

… prove that Nazis tried to perpetrate genocide against the Jews. Mr. Smith wrote a similar let- ter that was published in the University of Michigan Daily in October. ❑ Happy Simchah! The Jewish News…

… shattering. It seemed to go on for a few minutes, like a shower of broken glass. Everybody was paralyzed." Jennifer Epstein, program- ming director for the B'nai B'rith Hillel in East Lansing, was working in…

… her office Mon- day night when vandals threw a brick and a stone through the large window near Hillel's front door. "I ran out of my office to see what happened," she said. "By the time I called police…

… time since we've had an incident of this nature in East Lansing," he said. Hillel's windows are broken at least once a year — usually with beer bottles thrown by drunken party-goers, Ms. Ep- stein said…

… premeditated." Mark Finkelstein, executive director of Hillel, said he also believes the vandals intended to send a message. "There are times when it is simply a product of drunkness and times when the vandalism…

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… mailed us their gift or left embers of the at the congregants could pick a money with the sisterhood Jewish and gen- Hillel Stu- candle and purchase a gift to buy a gift," Ms. tile communities dent Cen…

… Hillel, said she This week, Ms. comes up Behrmann took two with clues leading to was "pleasantly surprised" carloads of gifts to the arrest and convic- when someone from the of- fice of MSU President Pe…

… ment Service, it's becom- goods we can't use, and we president of Michigan anonymous, Ms. other groups. Some ing a somewhat tiresome have to pay to get rid of them." Behrmann said. students believe it…

… B'rith Hillel after vandals gan State this program," Ms. $18 and use either struck. University Behrmann said. "There Chanukah or nonsecular Two weeks ago, a stone campus. Hillel were several people…

… was State University, I call us refrain: We get a lot of There is always a special "There were people motivated by anti- all to cherish the diversity that adds so much to our who lived in Ann Arbor good…

… what may be their only Chanukah gift, thanks to Sara Behrmann's Project: Light One Candle. Ms. Behrmann wanted Lansing Hillel Receives Support nil RUTH UTTMAMI STAFF WRITER Shir Tikvah in Troy where…

…- for a child whose age and Behrmann said. came to the sup- ter, just off sex was provided. Participants were asked port of East Lansing's B'nai the Michi- "People really enjoyed to spend between $14 and…

… who wrapping paper. and a brick shattered glass is offering a Re- wanted to partici- $1,000 re- becca Poger, pate but there were ward to any- president of the student no extra candles." one who board of…

…- Jewish Family Ser- tion of the vandals. vice. Caseworkers The incident oc- ter McPherson called to will distribute them curred on the eve of a read her a statement that RUTH LITTMAN STAFF WRITER on Nov. 29…

…1994•INFINITI Q45 Hillel Council Plans Events On Dec. 4, Hillel of Metropoli- tan Detroit and the Metro Council will close out their fall semester's programming with a Billiards Bash at Breakers…

… S-- 110 Wine To Discuss Mideast Peace Infiniti of Farmington Hills LIMITED TIME OFFER Machon Sets Talk At U-M Machon L'Torah will hold an evening program at the Uni- versity of Michigan 7:30 p…

… of Oakland Uni- versity, Wayne State Uni- versity and OCC. On Dec. 8, Oakland University's Jewish Students Organization will have a table located by the lounge in Oakland Center from 12 noon -2 p.m. On…

…. Reserve tickets by calling Neil Gottheil, 577-3459. The bash will take place at Breakers, 2727 North Woodward Ave., Royal Oak, from 9 p.m.-11 p.m. Hillel will have its Great Dreidel Giveaway on the campuses…

… Dec. 14 the Jewish Students As- sociation at Oakland Com- munity College will be set up near the bookstore in the J building, from 12 noon- 2 p.m. On Dec. 15 Wayne State Uni- versity's Hillel will be on…

… the first floor of the Student Cen- ter Building from 12 noon-2 p.m. Metro Council of HMD has selected chairpersons for their committees. They are Social Events, Alyssa Katz- man; Public Relations and…

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… Wine of the Birmingham Temple will pre- sent the last of four talks on the theme "Peace in the Middle East" 8 p.m. Nov. 29 at the tem- ple. He will discuss "Making Peace Work." There is a charge. El…

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…, November 22 — "A One-Way Love Affair? The Jews of Germany, 1780 to 1933" will be discussed by University of Michigan Pro- fessor Miriam Bodian at Tem- ple Emanu-El, 8 p.m. Call 354-1050. NO VEMBER N 0 V…

… study lunch and learn. A past president of Jeff Kaye Elliot Pachter has been elected president of the Michigan Re- gion of the Rabbinical Assem- bly, the international organization of Conservative…

…'nai Moshe in West Bloomfield. Hillel Day School, she serves as chair- man of the Tuition Allowance Commit- tee. Mrs. Bernard is national vice president of the board of trustees for the Conservative Movement…

… periodontics in Farm- ington and Dearborn where he has been practicing since 1966. He was a past examiner for the Michigan State Board of Dentistry and has served on the ethics and peer review com- mittee of the…

… Community Church, 7:30 p.m. Monday, November 22 — "The Binding of Isaac in Mod- ern Poetry" will be discussed by Rabbi Aaron Bergman at Congregation Beth Abraham Hillel Moses, 7:30 p.m. 0"") Monday…

…e 111111111,111 naToBenlac d A Seminary Names General Chairmen Anaruth Bernard and Dr. Alden Leib have been named as chair- men for the Detroit Friends of the Jewish Theological Seminary. Mrs…

…. Bernard has been a Seminary supporter for many years. She has served in a number of capacities including chairman for Sunday at the Seminary and helping to create weekly Conserva- tive Movement's Torah…

… rabbis. Also elected were Rabbi Aaron Bergman, secretary, and Rabbi David Nelson, treasurer. Rabbi William Gershon is the immediate past president. Rabbi Pachter is spiritual leader of Congregation B…

…'s Solomon Schechter Day Schools. She is a former president of the Alyn Hospital, Detroit chapter, and a past vice president of the Re- settlement Service Agency. A member of Congregation Beth Shalom, she has…

… been on the board and was co-chairperson of the Beth Shalom Cultural Commission. Dr. Alden M. Leib served as the 1991 and 1992 Metro Detroit Seminary Dinner chair- man. Dr. Leib specializes in…

… University of Michigan junior Tammy Wasserman is concerned, Jewish stu- dents in Ann Arbor can be broken up into four categories: Hillel, Greek, Closet and Floating Jews. In interviews with 24 students at the…

… roots. The "Hillel" group represents A students involved in any branch ciology course on the American of the organized Jewish commu- Jewish community, is not scien- nity at U-M. "Greek" represents tific…

…7 50 DETROIT THE EWISH NEWS 12 KISLEV 5754/NOVEMBER 26, 1g93 Still Another Lack Of Progress At the 62nd GA, the issues of years past again surface unsolved. PHIL JACOBS EDITOR AND NEIL RUBIN…

…. school and then Hebrew school. She also told She stared down the pro- of how in her synagogue she "wore" the fessional panel of social work- proverbial scarlet letter because she didn't ers, Ph.D.s and…

… educators who have a spouse. had just completed an hour Across the hall, audience members told of discussion on Jewish iden- speakers on intermarriage that, unless they tity and continuity and asked…

… experienced marrying out of the faith, the them where she fit into real "experts" were in the audience. Jewish life. A child of sur- Not one of the 3,000 participants at last vivors, she week's 62nd Council of…

… said the general Jewish com- Jewish Federations General munity only superficially Assembly in Montreal didn't tried to understand and help know the significance of the her with the second genera- number…

… 52 — the current in- tion of pain she lived with. termarriage percentage ac- That pain, she said, altered cording to CJF. her ability to exist "normal- Then there was the dis- ly" as a Jew. cussion…

… of 35 Photo by Paul Hackner duced herself on the audience and 40, who have done ev- microphone as a single par- Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak erything asked of them. ent. She told a similar panel…

… Rabin addresses Journalists at the NO PROGRESS page 30 Montreal Queen Elizabeth Hotel. w hat do you object to?" Students of Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism are accustomed to this question…

…, 7 p.m. Wednesday, December 1 — "Talking to Our Children About Love and Sexuality," lecture by Dr. Sylvia Hacker of the University of Michigan and Rabbi Mitchel Cohen of Camp Ramah, at Hillel Day…

…0 V EMBER 2 6 1 9 9 HMC Anniversary Features An Exhibit Calendar T he Holocaust Memorial Center will kick off the celebration of its 10th anniversary with an exhibition commemorating the 50th…

… anniversary of the Danish rescue. The exhibition, "October 1943: The Rescue of the Danish Jews from Annihila- tion," will be on display at the HMC Dec. 5-Jan. 16. The exhibition covers the rise of National…

… Socialism, the his- tory of the Jews in Denmark, the German occupation of Den- mark, Danish resistance and the rescue of the Jews. Preben Munch-Nielsen is a Danish rescuer who will speak at one of the HMC…

… exhibition are: Dec. 6, 7:30 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center — a showing of the documentary An Act of Faith about the Danish Rescue will be followed by a presentation by Prevan Munch-Nielsen, a Danish…

…. His book, The Rescue of the Danish Jews: Moral Courage Under Stress, will be available for sale and auto- graphing. Holocaust Memorial Center hours are 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Sunday through Thursday. Museum…

… admission, the exhibition, and all programs associated with the exhibition are free of charge. The HMC is wheelchair accessible. Saturday, November 27 — Kiddush, honoring B'nai B'rith's 150th anniversary…

…, November 29 Joyce Klein of the Mentz Cen- ters in Israel will speak on "Creating Jewish Culture: Jewish Issues Through the Writer's Eyes." Three pro- grams: 7:30 p.m. Nov. 29, 7:30 a.m. breakfast Nov. 30…

…, noon lunch Nov. 30, all at the Max Fisher Building. Call 642- 4260 ext. 254. Thesday, November 30 Australian singer Devorah will perform in concert to ben- efit Children of Chernobyl at Southfield High…

… School, 7:30 p.m. Call 443-0635. Abby Gben NAM C.1) w Cr) w CD w w F- 34 bba Eban, a found- ing father of the modern State of Is- rael, will address the com- munity at the opening gathering of…

… Ms. Rand's (above) ethical treatise. A compilation (left) of controversy. a_ tenets of Objectivism, outlined in Ms. Rand's novels, plays and works of non-fiction. In Michigan, at least three…

… objectivist clubs have formed: in Detroit, Ann Arbor and East Lansing. Jews comprise a sig- nificant percentage of the clubs' membership nationwide. Quoting the Rabbi Hillel, Ayn Rand once quipped that she…

…- tence. It tells human beings what type of universe they live in "...whether they live in a world of solid entities, natural laws, absolute facts, or in a world of illusory fragments, un- predictable…

…n1 L;r1 . L Students of Objectivism BY THE AUTHOR OF ATLAS SHRUGGED AND THE FOUNTAINHEAD `The Fountainhead' and with additional articles by NATHANIEL BRANDEN AYN RAND The Virtue of…

… Selfishness A NEW CONCEPT OF EGOISM For the first time in book form, here are col- lected articles on the ethics of objectivism, the challenging philosophy that has forged a revolution among today…

…'s Intellectuals. t t `Atlas Shrugged' have many Jews looking to the philosophy behind Ayn Rand's novels. RUTH UTTMANN STAFF WRITER COVER STORY from page 1 is the concept of man as a hero- ic being with his…

… own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute." Thus stated Ayn Rand, moth- er of Objectivism. Ms. Rand was born to…

…: politics, eco- nomics, religion, art and edu- cation. Despite Ayn Rand's antago- nistic stance toward religion, many Jews are avid supporters of her philosophy. Throughout the nation and around the world…

…, including Israel, people have been captivated and mo- tivated by what she had to say. Many supporters of the phi- losophy have formed objectivist clubs. During meetings, mem- bers explore the philosophical…

… considered a virtue. And, when it comes to politics, Jews have been notori- ous Democrats, most often sid- ing with left-wing leaders. So why, given our track record, are a significant num- ber of Jews…

… spon- sored by the Michigan Region of the United Synagogue, the Michigan Region Rabbinical As- sembly, and the Jewish Theo- logical Seminary. Rabbi Gershon serves on the board of Hillel Day School, the…

…-Drake Jew- ish Community Center. Professor Feinstein is a mem- ber of the political science de- partment at Wayne State University. He teaches courses in American government, ur- ban politics and policy, and…

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… Prentis Mor- ris building for the restaurant (cashier and food preparer) and the office (answer phones and clerical tasks). Call Leslee Magidson, 967-4030, to help out. Abe Gornbein leads a dis- cussion of…

… current events the first three Fridays of Novem- ber and December. Ethnicity Is Discussed "Ethnic Diversity in Our Lives Today" will be the topic of Pro- fessor Otto Feinstein 1 p.m. Dec. 2 at the Maple…

… eth- nicity. Professor Feinstein's research interests are in the ar- eas of adult higher education policies and the questions of ethnicity. For information, call the IRP office, 967-4030. Rabbi Gershon…

… Leads Torah Study Session Rabbi William Gershon, of Con- gregation Shaarey Zedek, will lead the Conservative Move- ment Torah Study 12:30 p.m. Dec. 9 at the Federation build- ing. The study session is…

… State University, a Holocaust re- visionist letter made its way into the campus newspaper. Vandals, meanwhile, threw a brick through the window of the campus Hillel on the 55th anniversary of…

… of the difficulties German youth are having in being part of society. Where have we heard that before? We don't have to travel to Germany for ex- amples, either. Last week on the campus of Michigan…

…• Let's Stop Questioning Holocaust Memorials' Intent Much has been written and said about the open- ing of the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washing- ton, D.C. Those who have toured it have either given…

… it their support or have not found it to their liking. There is little gray area. Some don't like the Holocaust Museum because it isn't fo- cused totally on the extermination of the Six Million. The…

… Jews, some will say, hold own- ership of the Holocaust because of the sys- tematic way in which they alone were killed. There is no argument here. There's nothing to dispute. Yes, there were millions of…

… complete. We're writing about who suffered more. Meanwhile, look what's happening in the modern, "safe" world of 1993. An American Olympic luge team barricades itself in its ho- tel rooms because it is…

… terrified by neo-Nazi skinheads in a small German town. One of those lugers was black, another Jewish. Last week, a young neo-Nazi filed to run in a race for mayor of his town. He's seen by some as a symbol…

… Kristallnacht. Why are we debating who has a better Holo- caust museum? Why does it matter that part of the U.S. Holocaust Museum confronts not only the Final Solution of the Jews but also the slaughter of 5…

… million others? We waste our time on this sort of debate. We waste our time when we look around the world and we see that, like a dormant earth- quake, the aftershocks of hate shake our souls and make us…

… challenges are many. As each Holocaust survivor dies we lose another living "muse- um," and it becomes all the more important that we teach our children about the Holocaust with a sense of unity. Let's stop…

…UJIMOU i. INK Of P'ninah Stein BBYO Names New Director P'ninah Stein is the new assis- tant director for Michigan Re- gion BBYO. Ms. Stein received her bachelor darts degree with honors from…

… Hillel Day School will be honored at a Consecration Ser- vice Nov. 13. The children will be called to the bimah where each will receive a gift form the synagogue. The youngsters will present a program of…

… Michigan State University, with a major in re- lational communications in 1991. Last year, she participat- ed in Project Otzma, a post- graduate volunteer social service fellowship in Israel Ms. Stein has a…

… something outstand- ing? The Jewish News wants to honor that kid in our Super Stars column. Please send a brief type- written, double-spaced de- scription of what your nominee has done, a non- returnable…

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… The brotherhood of Temple Beth El will mark the Thanks- giving holiday with a blood dri- ve 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Nov. 21 at the Temple. Early donors will receive a complimentary breakfast at 9:30 a.m. provided…