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…Editor's Letter A Dream Unfulfilled H Eleonora Rabkin is a physician from Lithuania whose interest and experience in cardiology showed her a need here in Michigan for better access to vascular health screening. Eleonora, a registered sonographer, is now the owner of Portable Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging. She and her equipment travel to the offices of various physicians across the area administering scans and tests to their patients, someti...…
…MAKE EVVRY MOMEN Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, a classic anti-Semite, as a spiritual inspiration and gave him a Spirit of Detroit Award and a key to the city. The Farrakhan honor besmirched Detroit and people of good will in general, regard- less of race, ethnicity or religion. It detracted from the inroads pur- posely achieved by black and Jewish groups to improve racial harmony and galvanize understanding. All Kilpatrick's press o...…
…Front Lines JNenline NOTEBOOK This Week www.JNonline.us Working Together News Videos Added JNonline is now featuring videos from Fox Business and Fox News, bringing timely national and world feeds. Just visit JNonline.us and scroll to the bottom of the homepage. Temple Beth El seventh-graders create quilted tribute to the Kotel. S eventh-graders at Temple Beth El, in collaboration with artist- in-residence Marilyn Kaczander Cohen, cr...…
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…Front Lines News Hargreaves CHEVROLET Parshah Goes 'YouTube' Rabbi Herschel Finman of Oak Park, who hosts the radio show The Jewish Hour on WPON 1460, launches YouParsha, a YouTube feature. The weekly videos are produced and edited by Brad Richter at Specs Howard School of Broadcast Arts in Southfield and feature an insight into the weekly Torah por- tion. For more information, contact Rabbi Herschel Finman at rhfinman@gmail.com . - Keri ...…
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…I Me tro Breast Cancer Komen Race for the Cure battles disease that afflicts men and women. The Way To Race W hen Tami Fink of Farmington Hills was diagnosed with breast cancer in early March, she decided to keep a journal as a way of keeping family and friends updated and to get her thoughts and feelings out by sharing her experiences with others going through the same treatment. Fink is doing so in a blog — which can be viewed at www.c...…
…I Metro AROUND TOWN Spirited: IDF takes center stage to mark Israel's 60th birthday. Party attendees make a toast to Israel's 60th birthday. I sraeli music, food and support flowed at the Michigan Friends of the Israel Defense Forces' communitywide Yom HaAtzmaut celebration on May 10 at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield. The Israel Independence Day party saluted 60 years of Israel statehood. About 180 people, including many ...…
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…I Metro Dancing With The Stars Shir Shalom celebrates its 20th anniversary with gala. Art Fishman of Oak Park, with Suzi and Rabbi Dannel Schwartz of Bloomfield Hills T emple Shir Shalom hosted a "Dancing with the Stars" party May 10 to commemorate its 20-year anniversary. The gala honored Robert Fineman, David Levine, Wally Sampson, Alan Mindlin, Steven Simons, Bunni Lieberman, David Steinberg, Stuart Bas and George Leikin, who were all...…
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…Metro Your Cellular Superstore! Question: Do you have any advice about using a cell phone and staying safe while driving? An s w e r: Many studies have found talking on your cell phone while driving contributes to a distraction from the main task at hand — driving. The results have been so strong that many cities and states across the U.S. are implement- ing laws that mandate you use a hands-free device while driving. To stay safe and ticke...…
…BlackBerry from Wireless Giant New Head Of School Rabbi Eric Grossman to stay with his Frankel Jewish Academy "family." V 11 FREE Tips & Tricks class 6'lackeerry when you purchase your BlackBerry smartphone from the BlackBerry® Store from Wireless Giant! *MA .15 , Keri Guten Cohen Story Development Editor R abbi Eric Grossman has been named new head of school for the Frankel Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit in West Bloomfiel...…
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…Looking Toward A 'Strong Future Washtenaw Federation names new executive director. Ann Arbor D avid Shtulman has been named the new execu- tive director of the Jewish Federation of Washtenaw County Most recently the director of agency endow- ments at the United Jewish Federation in Pittsburgh, Shtulman has spent his professional career serving the global Jewish community. "David brings a depth of experience and knowledge that will help con...…
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…A group of workers leaves the Agriprocessors Inc. plant with federal agents on May 12. Where's The Beef? Federal agents cite possible drugs, illegal workers at kosher plant. Ben Harris Jewish Telegraphic Agency New York I n laying the legal groundwork for last week's massive raid on the country's largest kosher slaughterhouse, federal authorities cited claims that illegal narcot- ics production took place at the factory and hundreds of i...…
…World Missing In Action Males disappearing from liberal Jewish life. Sue Fishkoff Jewish Telegraphic Agency San Francisco T he stereotypical portrait of a seder table with the man of the house leading the service may look out of place to the next generation of liberal Jews. This is because outside the Orthodox world, men are becoming less and less engaged in every aspect of Jewish life, from the home to the synagogue to com- munal organ...…
…Giving At A Key Juncture Tel Aviv/ITA ewish philan- thropy in Israel is at a crossroads. Powerful trends are mar- ginalizing its impact on Israeli society. More than a billion dollars of philan- thropic giving from Jews worldwide, spurred by endless goodwill, passion and care, are not impact- ing Israel or contributing to global Jewish people- hood to the extent they should. The current system is in dire need of an over- haul. I write this p...…
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…World , ANALYSIS President Bush gestures at Israeli President Shimon Peres' "Facing Tomorrow" conference in Jerusalem on May 14. Failed Mission? Bush falls short in advancing policy or bolstering Arab moderates. Leslie Susser Jewish Telegraphic Agency Jerusalem/JTA A fter major speeches in the Knesset and at Sharm el- Sheik, President Bush left the Middle East Sunday with little to show for advancing America's strate- gic goals in t...…
…Come for the Lifestyle. ANALYSIS Mission from page A31 Achronot. "Not today. America is tired, neutered and torn." In Barnea's view, the message this sends to Iran is that it can go ahead with its hegemonic ambitions and nuclear weapons program without fear. "Deterrence is gone he wrote. "This is bad for the moderates — Egypt, Jordan and especially Israel." Gilboa sees a parallel between Lebanon and Iraq. He maintains the United States in I...…
…American Committee for Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem c7 .2e,t.,e,cazLerio4,, p7 e.a„cer :7 Divestment Nixed Jewish groups celebrate Methodist rejection of five anti-Israel proposals. Ben Harris Jewish Telegraphic Agency New York ewish groups have been worried for months that the United Methodist Church at its convention would revive a push for anti-Israel divestment measures. Instead, the May 2 meeting emit- ted no fewer than ...…
…The Community is Invites to Attend the 80th Annual Meeting of Jewish Family Service featuring Rabbi Irwin Kura Ranked #8 in Newsweek Magazine's Toy 50 Rabbis in America Ii?arning to Serve: The Aricticr of Going R.abbi Kula is president of CLAL The National Jewish Cente r Leamin,sr and yderchip, a leadership training insti- tute, think tank and soi u center. A faculty member of the Wexner Heritage Foundation, Rabbi Kula is a regular on...…
…Dry Bones ZE 1.13040j Opinion Editorials are posted and archived on JNonline.us . Editorial Neo-Nazis In Our Midst I is impact isn't likely to disrupt or threaten the Detroit Jewish community. But that doesn't mean we should ignore the fact that one of the most active white supremacist groups dedicated to racist and anti- Semitic activity is based in the Motor City. What we know will help dictate how we react to the presence of the Natio...…
…Opinion OTHER VIEWS Moniek Milberger with daughters Sharon Milberger and Stacey Crane, his wife, Barbara, and son Avery at Auschwitz for the March of the Living in April 2001. In Our Father's Footsteps Sharon Milberger and Stacy Crane Community View 0 ur journey began seven years ago when we went on the March of the Living, with our father, Moniek Milberger. The march took local Jewish teens on a two-week trip through Poland and Israel....…
…The Silk Scarf F ebruary of 2007 is when this story begins although you might say it really began 60 years ago. Our son, Nate, was performing stand up comedy at a dinner sponsored by Hillel of Metro Detroit. The Congregation Beth Shalom social hall in Oak Park was full, but not with Nate's usual heavy smoking 20-something demo- graphic. This was more like a 50- to 80- something Catskill Resort demographic. It was a polite crowd, meaning ther...…
…Israel sixty 1948 - 2008 Young Protector Left: Lapides' kinder- garten photo, 1934. He's in top left corner with striped collar. Lapides recounts his role as a teen in the Right: Jerry Lapides' military ID photo, 1948 new Jewish state. Harry Kirsbaum Special to the Jewish News N o sense of youthful joie de vivre (love of life) showed on any student's face in Jerry Lapides' 1934 kindergarten photograph, least of which on his. Looking ...…
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…Cap & Gown Our annual tribute to the Michigan Jewish community's top high school seniors. Edited by Man Hitsky Page design by Deborah Schultz Cap & Gown is archived on JNonline.us Left to right: Alex Fishman, Scott Rich, Brian Indianer, Emily Stern, Scott Goldstein, Brandon Lebowitz, Jillian Kushner, Todd Jaffe AMANDA AARON Ann Arbor Pioneer Forensics team, Key Club volunteer, Habitat for Humanity volunteer, Rustic Pathways ESL volunteer...…
…SHELBY AMBROSE West Bloomfield LAURA BARNETT Yeshivat Akiva, Southfield National Honor Society, yearbook editor-in-chief, varsity tennis, OAA Scholar-Athlete, Law Club, Temple Israel mad- richim, JARC volunteer, Temple Israel High School graduate. National Conference of Synagogue Youth Detroit Chapter, Central East Region NCSY vice president, varsity basket- ball, nursing home volunteer, Friendship Circle, Yeshiva University Model United Na...…
…Cap & Gown We are so proud of you! Always remember who you are, what you want and never let go of your dreams. JASON BERGER North Farmington WU:Laud& &Lye', Mat lAwxem, iAltdeigam Wide,Aetui, AattU6a, PwAt Ciadek,ttade.t\leal,W.4.a.zi k Mita Varsity cross country, wrestling and tennis, National Honor Society, Class Board, Jolson AZA treasurer, Michigan Region BBYO chapter development chair- man and Regional Convention coordinator, AP Schol...…
…MICHAEL BRODSKY West Bloomfield Varsity tennis (Laker of the Year), varsity cross country, AP Scholar with honors, Student Council (vice president 9, 10), National Honor Society vice president, Sunshine Award, Most Representative Student Award, morning announce- ments, Model U.N., U.S. Congressional Page nominee, Danforth Scholarship nominee, U-M Regents Scholar. Washington, St. Louis DAVID BLEZNAK Cranbrook Kingswood, Bloomfield Hills Young ...…
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…DANIEL CHUDNOW Frankel Jewish Academy Be proud of who you are and what you have accomplished. Work hard! Play hard! and Enjoy life! Friendship Circle FJA president of Boys Division, NCSY regional vice president, Habitat for Humanity volunteer, National Honor Society, student news- paper staff writer, drama department actor/direc- tor, school mascot, Michigan Regents Scholarship, Michigan Competitive Scholarship. Michigan ALEC COHEN Birmingh...…
…Ca k Gown 5Ctimeh . R09174 STEVEN COLVIN West Bloomfield U-M Dean's and Regents Merit scholarships, U-M Club of Greater Detroit Scholarship, National Merit commended student, AP Scholar with honors, Japan- America Friendship Scholar, BBYO, Greater West Bloomfield Youth Coalition, JV and varsity ski, JV tennis, Model U.N., National Honor Society, OAA Scholar-Athlete, USAA National Math Award. Michigan We are so proud of you and of your accom...…
