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…Contents A 2001 Michigan Press Association Newspaper of the Year This Week Opinion Community 20 Orange Cones Ahead 31 On Separate Grounds 35 To The Rescue Ring road construction will close main entrance to Applebaum campus. An IDF soldier's burial raises "Who Is A Jew?" again. Animal rescue, gift shop gives pets a second chance. Purim Arts & Entertainment 21 Not Enough Visiting rabbi sees ruling as first step to Israeli recognit...…
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…EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK A Feverish Embrace I developed a fever welcoming Shabbat, the holiest of days, at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield on Friday night. It's a fever I hope to keep. That's because the Kabbalat Shabbat (Welcoming the Sabbath) service, "Friday Night Fever," was something special, especially with so many kids and grandkids there. Led by Shaarey Zedek Rabbi Jonathan Berkun and his wife Rabbi Lauren Berkun, a Jewish Theolog...…
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…In these troubled times... Where does your support for Israel stand? Now, as never before, ISRAEL NEEDS US. Thousands of men, women and children, new immigrants as well as sabras, have had their lives upended by events of the past year. With the need to redirect social service funds to ever-increasing defense needs, the poor, the sick and the vulnerable are in danger of falling through the widening cracks of Israeli society. How can you he...…
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…Cover Story NONE SHALL GO rwAmm, War ." ;A Yad Ezra redoubles outreach to fight Jewish hunger against the backdrop of a spacious, new distribution center. . • A Growing Concern "Every president here has a focus, and Mickey Eizelman's[who served 1999-2001] was outreach to families not availing themselves of our services," Luger says. Under Eizelman, the kosher food pantry increased efforts to reach out to synagogues and day schools. Rabb...…
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…Orange Cones Ahead Ring road construction will close main entrance to the Applebaum campus in West Bloomfield, bringing a new campus gateway. HARRY KI RS BAUM Staff Writer T he main entrance off Maple Road to the Eugene and Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus in West Bloomfield will be closed for improve- ments beginning March 11. The other two entrances to the 196- acre campus will remain open during the project, scheduled for comple...…
…Narrow Ruling, Broad Impact "Who is a Jew?" controversy in Israel could affect links with American Jews. DOUGLAS M. BLOOMFIELD Special to the Jewish News Washington, D.C. he Israeli High Court decision last week permitting non- Orthodox conversions could help heal a major rift between American Jewry and Israel — or it could lead to a dangerous split. The ruling itself was a narrow one, simply allowing Israelis who undergo Reform and Conserv...…
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…An unforgettable NOT ENOUGH on page 21 Rabbi Futterman, a native of New York and a graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York City, made aliyah 16 years ago, settling in Ashkelon, where he lives with his wife and children. "There are 150 Orthodox synagogues in Ashkelon and two Conservative ones," he says, referring to his own con- gregation and its offshoot, a 70-family Russian-speaking congregation, estab- lished by...…
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…Kiss And Forgive Israelis warm to Hillary Clinton, but visiting Americans were skeptical. SIMON CARROLL Jewish Telegraphic Agency Jerusalem sraelis are praising Hillary Clinton's recent swing through Jerusalem as a successful public relations trip that makes amends for her past indiscretions toward Jews and Israel. But some visiting American Jewish leaders are critical of what the New York senator did not say, lamenting the absence of any p...…
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…Uncle Sam meets Uncle Mordechai. SHARON LUCKERMAN Staff Writer BILL HANSEN Photographer his year, the Shul-Chabad Lubavitch in West Bloomfield celebrated Purim with an American theme. On the evening of Feb. 25, "Uncle Sam" read the Megillat Esther (Scroll of Esther), as 170 kids and adults dressed in American- and Purim-Chemed costumes listened to the story of Queen Esther and her Uncle (or some say cousin) Mordechai and shook their noisemak...…
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…Synagogues • Torah Porti Left: Rabbi Lauren Berkun inspires adult learners at an Eilu vEilu beit midrash. Above: Cathy and Dr Rene Lichtman of West Bloomfield. Far left: Jeff Lupovitch works with Rabbi Scott Bolton of Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit to study texts from Purim and Yom Kippur. k tt•b .\ , , DIANA LIEBERMAN Copy Editor/Education Writer Two Thursday night learning sessions, each running from 7:30-9 p.m., remain i...…
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