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…....SIMI DETROIT JEW= NEWS Rabbi Leo Franklin in his study at Temple Beth. El, circa 1941. N www.detroitjewishnews.com December 31, 1999 Tevet 22, 5760 Special Report A Century Of fewish Detroit page 5 1717471fillteS ,1 A Century Of Jewish Detroit The history of Detroit Jewry is a richly woven story of people fiercely loyal to their hometown roots, no matter where life's jour- neys may have taken them. A native Detroiter whose fami-...…
…our r5ance to Attend ,.;.••••••• • 2 . . A ••of Metropolitan Detroit For further information and reservations, contact Director of Recruitment, Dana Rhodes at 248-489-5669, or Head of School Rabbi Lee Buckman at 248-592-JAMD(5263). 12/31 1999 4 Learn what it means to be a pioneer from the founding parents of the New Jewish High School in Boston Marion and David Handleman Hall D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building of the Jewish Community Cent...…
…Special Report 1900-2000 Downtown Detroit, circa 1910- 1919. On the last day of the 20th century, it seems fitting to glance backward in Detroit's Jewish history to see how far we've come before planting our feet solidly in the future. The Jewish News enlisted local historian Sidney Bolkosky to help us make sense of Detroit's rich history as it dovetails with national and international events of the last 100 years. Photographs and memorabil...…
…A Century of Jewish Detroit 1900-1910 ro .Arv. Apkzx 17.110e' , • 1900-1910: The "reluctant melting pot" characterized these years. As the Great Migration of eastern European • 00,W.04• 1.* ,..44 0 immigrants continued, the question of Americanization, with the threat of losing Jewish identity, loomed large. It was a decade of organization and reorganization as the United Jewish Charities spoke on behalf of the Jews of Detroit...…
…1910-1920 Cornerstone-laying ceremony for Congregation Shaarey Zedek on Nov. 13, 1913. From right to left in front row, Rabbi Abraham Hershman, Rabbi Judah Levin and congregation president David Simons. • 1910-1920: Yiddish culture was alive and well in Detroit in the first David Simons: real estate civic leader and member nine-man city council. decades of the century. Sholem Aleichem visited the city as a guest of the Progressive Liter...…
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…A Century of Jewish Detroit 1920-1930 Rabbis at the first national meeting of the United Orthodox Rabbis o America, convene by Rabbi Judah Levin, pose on the steps of Congregation Shaarey Zedek at Brush and Willis streets, circa 1920. C • 1920-1930: In 1920, Rabbi Judah Levin convened the first V 0 C . cd Fred Butzel, success liaison between Jewish constituencies and between Jews and non-Jews, was the city's premier philan- c 1 70 ...…
…A Century of Jewish Detroit 1930-1940 0 t t s , 1., 4 Cd ro ro O 0 0 C) on ti 0 O Cd 0 en ou ' Have United Hebrew Schools class at the Tuxedo-Holmur branch, Detroit, led by Joseph Chaggai, 1930s. s Call CAEAllac 8570 (No fees - I Sttpi)t)rit'di MEN AND WOMEN Admixti*ttatiev, Froi,mxiinwsi, Inchsv.nal Avpzemtirs Celebrating the opening o sanctuary on Chicago Sou in 1931 are leaders of Congregation Shaarey Zeck . left, Is...…
…Shaarey Zedek 1940-1950 U 0 Reburial service in 1948 for Lt. Raymond Zussman, holder 0 Congressional Medal of Honor for conspicuous bravery durn World War II. n Rabbi Morris Adler saying Kiddush at a - military hospital during World War II, circa 1943. 0 0 z —C • — • • Parents stand in the rain at 7•30 a.m. in front of the Aaron DeRoy Jewts Community Center at decade, as World War II and the Woodward and Holbrook to register t...…
…1950-1970 Attending a his- toric Allied Jewish Campaign meeting in 1955, from left, Golda Mein Julian Krolik, Gertrude and Henry Wineman. • 1950-1960: Missions to Israel, the remarkable coalescence of forces to con- struct Sinai Hospital in 1953 and a diverse community on the move north and west marked the decade of the 50s. With overt threats from the House Un-American Activities Committee, free speech underwent a sort of chilling ef...…
…I O L 1970-1990 uiet Diplomat" Max Fisher at a meeting with Israeli amabas- sador Yitzhak Rabin and President Richard Nixon in the Oval Office, 1970. Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir meets in 1973 to discuss Yom Kippur War con- sequences with UJA executive vice presi- dent Irving Bernstein, UJA General Chairman Paul Zuckerman of Detroit and UJA President Edward Ginsberg. U.S. Sen. Phil Hart (7) speaks at a Soviet Jewry April 20, 1972. SU...…
…1990-2000 Founded in 1953 to combat discrimination against - Jewish doctors, Sinai Hospital merged with Grace Hospital in 1999. The Detroit Medical Center bought Sinai in 1997 for C C $65 million, which was used to establish the Jewish Fund. • 1990-2000: The decade began in crisis: Iraqi Scud missiles, prompting a need for gas masks, threatened the lives of Israelis during the 1991 Persian Gulf Way: As the missiles fell on the Jewish...…
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…1900-2000 JEWISH DETROIT from page 5 some of the more significant events heading HIAS's nationwide effort to that broadened and set the direction bring relief to the Jews of the Soviet of Jewish Detroit. Union in 1925, a harbinger of things As almost always in Jewish history, to come. non-Jewish history intertwines and the confluence of local with non-local THE EMERALD CITY subtly appears. Here, then, are some Origins define the nature of th...…
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…1900-2000 S tart the new millennium la g planning for gour future Ask yourself the following questions: of attitudes regarding Palestine; and the arrival and integration of Holocaust survivors. THE MAGNET: ISRAEL • Are you 50 years or older? everywhere by the birth of Israel, and for all the contributions survivors brought to Detroit Jewish life, noth- ing good came from the Holocaust. Israel did not arise because of the murder of the J...…
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…Challenge Of Peace Pho to by AP/Nat i Harnik As Mideast peace prospects brighten, questions mount for a Jewish identity forged by hostility. NEIL RUBIN Senior Editor I srael at peace with her neighbors — suddenly a possibility — poses a new challenge to modern Jewish identity, ones that many experts say American Jews are vastly under- prepared to handle. If peace truly comes, they say, the Jewish world both in Israel and in the diaspora w...…
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