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…OF BLESSED MEMORY 52 | APRIL 1 • 2021 and even trained with the U.S. Olympic Trap Shooting Team. More than anything else, Barry will be remembered as a loving and dedicated brother, brother-in-law, son, uncle and great uncle. He took joy in his family and will be sorely missed at future family gatherings. Mr. Sinkoff is survived by his brother, Gordon Sinkoff (Elizabeth Harris Sinkoff) of Solana Beach, Calif.; sister, Brandy Si...…
…APRIL 1 • 2021 | 53 A ccording to the Italian American Historical Society, the pizza is of Jewish origin and its true ancestor is the matzah ... unleavened bread eaten at Passover, this year March 27-April 4 ... Roman soldiers in about 200 B.C. decided to chop up the matzah with a dab of olive oil and some cheese ... Lo the pizza was born. The pizza went into decline when Rome fell, but the custom of having public ovens in the t...…
…Looking Back From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History accessible at www.djnfoundation.org 54 | APRIL 1 • 2021 Wikipedia Turns 20 T here is an anniversary this year, a birthday for a famous, everyday information resource. Wikipedia is 20 years old, and in the two decades since it was launched, it has become ubiquitous. One would be hard-pressed to find any user of the internet who has not encountered Wiki...…
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…JSL is pleased to announce the 2010 Eight Over Eighty Honorees Edie Resnick Harvey Weisberg Dr. Hershel Sandberg Rochelle Sable Betty Provizer Starkman Frances Fisher Judith Levin Cantor Leonard Trunsky jzill these people in one room on the same day? at a celebration this will be! Come and honor them for their lifetime of dedication to Tikkun Olam, repairing the world. Sunday, May 16 11:00 A.M. Jewish Community Center West Bloomfiel...…
…Front Lines DIGEST JEWISH c, „ RENAISSANCE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS The Relevance Of Passover E ach year, we sit at the seder table some dutifully some reluctantly and go through the Haggadah — the story of the Exodus. The text is ancient and so naturally there is a perception that it must have lost relevance long ago. Some years ago, an infamous Palestinian terror- ist, Salah Taamari, who was captured in the 1982 Lebanon War, was sitting in ...…
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…Front Lines ROUNDUP Roundup from page 9 The list, dated April 18, 1945, is 13 pages and contains 801 names. It was compiled by Schindler and his accountant, Itzak Stern, and made famous decades later in the Oscar-winning film Schindler's List. Several copies of the list were written; the four surviving original lists are in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, the German federal archives in Koblenz and two at the Yad Vashem in ...…
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…World United Voices Detroiters Jewish and non-Jewish join in support of Israel at AIPAC conference. Don Cohen Special to the Jewish News S eventy-two hours. Seventy-five hundred delegates. And just about one of every 50 delegates was from Michigan. Michigan's 159-person presence at the AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) Policy Conference, held March 21-23 in Washington, D.C., was a signifi- cant expression of Jewish and non...…
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…Robert Sklar Editor I Detroit Jewish News Vanessa Denha-Garmo Editor I Chaldean News First of a nine-part monthly series haldeans have more in common with the Jewish community than with any other nationality:' declares Chaldean American philanthro- pist Mike George, a local entrepreneur. "And in the five years since the Chaldean Cultural Center at Shenandoah Country Club was created across the street from Temple Israel in West Bloomfield,...…
…JN Publisher Arthur Horwitz and Chaldean News Co-Publisher Martin Manna Two Newspapers, Two Ethnic Journeys at Wayne State'University's Old Main in Detroit. • At the height of Hitler's madness in 1942, an impassioned journalist left the Detroit Jewish Chronicle to share his vision for Jewish life in America and a Jewish state in Palestine. With financial backing, Philip Slomovitz found- ed the Detroit Jewish News on March 27, 1942. In 19...…
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…took students to Israel and the West Bank to study Middle East history, politics and culture. We Dr. are committed to support Conrad the initiative fully." Giles Weighing In Dr. Conrad Giles of Bloomfield Hills, the new national chairman of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, added his perspective. "While as a Jewish commu- nity, much of our focus has been on our concerns related to the uncertain- ties in the Middle East and the affect of...…
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