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…Carolyn Morris, Ronelle Grier and Jodie Jacobs, all of West Bloomfield, Stacey Larson and Hayley Snyder, both of Farmington Hills, and Tali Wendrow of Commerce Township Friendship Circle's retreat creates lasting bonds for moms who have children with special needs. Ronelle Grier I Contributing Writer CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 By the time we left, a new sisterhood was born, comprised of women so diverse we might never have met if not for one co...…
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…I The Good, the Bad and the Inappropriate. n the early 1990s, I was an active leader in my synagogue's high school youth group. Even as a young teen, I appreciated the importance of communication in cultivating new members to the congregation's chapter of United Synagogue Youth (USY) and for keeping current members abreast of upcoming events. This membership communication came in the form of photocopied flyers on col- ored Xerox paper, phon...…
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…metro A Changing Tide? Federal judge to decide constitutionality of Michigan's same-sex marriage ban. Ronelle Grier Contributing Writer F ederal District Judge Bernard Friedman will decide the fate of the Michigan amendment ban- ning same-sex marriage following a two- week trial that ended Friday, March 7. The case, DeBoer v. Snyder, began as an adoption dispute wherein two Hazel Park nurses, Jayne Rowse and April DeBoer, sued the state ...…
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…metro >> around town 6 a Jetroit Make, Take And Give Aish holds Great Purim Parcel Project to make mishloach manot to be delivered. T he Great Purim Parcel Project at Aish Detroit on Sunday, March 9, drew families together to make yummy hamantashen and mishloach manot packages and to have their pictures taken in costume by Brett Mountain Photography. All who attended made Purim packages that will be delivered for the holiday to 100 Yad ...…
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…metro The Friendship Bakery Young adults with special needs bake bread for supermarket chain. W hen Friendship Circle of West Bloomfield started offering programs for children who have special needs 19 years ago, Rabbi Levi and Bassie Shemtov's mission was to assist and support families of children with spe- cial needs. Those children have now grown into young adults and Friendship Circle is continuing to develop programs that meet these y...…
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…eo _kM-O-SHANTEF ktrehyttc EMU Lecturer To Examine BDS Movement COUNTRY CLUB S elf-described "tenured radical" Cary R. Nelson will explore the issues sur- rounding the movement of educa- tional groups to boycott Israel at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 24, in Eastern Michigan University's Student Center Auditorium. - The program, which is part of EMU's Jewish Studies Program lecture series, is free and open to the public. Nelson, the Cary Nelson...…
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…metro >> calendar HOW TO SEND IN LISTINGS: Send listings by noon Tuesday, nine days prior to publication. Email listings and questions to calendar@thejewishnews.com . For telephone inquiries, call David Sachs at (248) 351-5140. C ohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies Much To Do! 0 The Pearl A. and George M. Zeltzer Lecture on Women and Judaism THURSDAY, MARCH 13 BUDGETS, BOYCOTTS AND BABIES: JEWISH WOMEN IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION op 1 ...…
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…points of view >> Send letters to: letters@thejewishnews.com Editorials T rrance Should Own Up To Survivor Justice he French government is acknowledging its failure to pay reparations to Holocaust survivors now living in the U.S. but who had been deported to Nazi Germany-run death camps in French trains. The late acknowledgment is a byproduct of French business aspira- tions in America. SNCF, a French government-owned rail company that op...…
…Essay Slavery And Beyond Acclaimed film stirs images of black-Jewish issues. T he raw intensity of the Oscar- winning movie 12 Years a Slave brings to mind the role Jews played on both sides during the Civil War and how instrumental they were in the civil rights movement 100 years later. The riveting historical drama traces the story of Solomon Northup, a free black from Saratoga Springs, N.Y., who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 184...…
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…>> Torah portion 0 SPEED LIMIT Self Imposed I imits Parshat Tzav: Leviticus 6:1-8:36, Deut. 25:17-19; / Samuel 15:2-15:34. WALK FOR ISRAEL p arshat Tzav continues our However, it does not recall God's education about the rules creation of the world; rather, it recalls governing the sacrificial rites God's cessation from creation on the of the Mishkan, the Tabernacle. The seventh day. It appears that the con- parshah also describes the ce...…
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