…Editor's Letter A Holy Gift A Sefer Torah — God's words — is an unusual gift. So when one congregation extends this gift to another, the dynamic is something special. Many congregations worldwide lack a Torah they can call their own. Like Ohel HaChidusch, a Berlin chavurah begun in 2007. The 50-member congregation, affiliated with the Renewal movement, celebrates Shabbat and holidays. It stresses learning and spiri- tuality. The Berlin Jewi...…
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…Special Report HELPING OTHERS Mitzvah Day Magic A teen and her family share holiday cheer with Alzheimer's patients. Gabriella Ring Teen2Teen Staff Writer A Verna and Gabriella Ring, 15, of Oak Park play "Chrismakuh" bingo. Ruthe Levy of Waterford lights the menorah with Larry Terebello, whose wife is a resident. s the old joke goes, aside from movies and Chinese restau- rants, there's not a lot for Jews to do on Christmas Day. But my...…
…For Mitzvah Day, Sarah Kiperman, 21, of West Bloomfield and resident Benjamin Hardy sing a duet of "Baby, It's Cold Outside" at the Fountains of Franklin retirement community in Southfield. Rabbi Daniel Syme and Jim Hiller with donations from Hiller's Markets. Julia Friedman, 19, of West Bloomfield stirs the huge pot of cooked vegetables at St. Leo's Soup Kitchen, Detroit. Helping Hands Temple Beth El food drive gets big boost from Hill...…
…Special Report ANALYSIS: OPERATION CAST LEAD Behind Hamas Don't forget the Iranian connection. David Horovitz Jerusalem Post Jerusalem A mong the many negative conse- quences of the Second Lebanon War in summer 2006 was the distraction it provided from Iran's nuclear program. So focused was the international com- munity on 34 days of fighting, and so inarticulate was Israel in explaining that it was (indecisively) confronting the Irania...…
…Metro ON THE COVER Sirens Of Chrome New book explores the changing role of women auto show models. Bush administration is expected to help General Motors and Chrysler get through the first part of the year. Despite the diffi- cult times, a fresh crop of models will take their places at Detroit's North American International Auto Show Jan. 17-25 at Cobo Center and do their best to put a positive spin on these trying times. "It is frightenin...…
…ON THE COVE Sirens from page All talent with offices in Detroit, Chicago and Los Angeles. "I'd like to think I helped the auto show culture evolve out of T&A to a place of professional respect:' she says. This fashionable model for the 1989 Pontiac Grand Prix sees all kinds of people in the auto show audience all day long, including mothers who use the car's back seat to change diapers. Designing Woman Clothing designer, Shari Barnett, cr...…
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…Metro AROUND TOWN Can-Do Attitude! Chabad-Lubavitch group assembles giant menorah made of cans. Rabbi Kasriel Shemtov from the Shul-Chabad Lubavitch in West Bloomfield with the "Can-Orah" to benefit Yad Ezra t took months of collecting canned food items and weeks of practice stacking and balancing the cans, but in the end, a menorah built with 5,000 donated cans of food stood tall and strong at Bonaventure Family Skating Center in Farming...…
…DIGEST Paid Internships Earn $2,368 this summer and a world of knowledge. New Board For ZOA The Zionist Organization of America Michigan Region has elected a board of directors for 2008-2010: president, Beverly Baker; honorary chairman of the board and executive board, Rabbi Milton Arm; chairman of the board and executive committee, Joseph Savin; executive vice president, Margot Gardner; vice presidents, Dr. Leora Bar-Levav, Cheryll Israel,...…
…Metro More Than A Building Downtown Synagogue gains unlikely supporters bent on revitalization. Shelli Liebman Dorfman Senior T Writer he deterioration and the declining use of the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue building has spurred an expected proposal for its future. The newly formed Detroit Action Synagogue Committee (DASC) — made up largely of non-synagogue members — hopes to fundraise to renovate the building into revenue-producing...…
…- explorations." That early meeting also spurred Smith to begin work on a Wayne State- directed study project, documenting oral histories of black and Jewish Detroiters. Goldenberg received a $450,000 esti- mate for repairs and renovations to the building from a building contractor. "Our hopes for the building are to have it be a relevant and open space," Goldenberg said. "That there will be daily activity in the building: prayer, congregatin...…
…I 11411111. World Pilgrimages In Kazakhstan, Jews span miles to create community. Michael J. Jordan Jewish Telegraphic Agency Dina Itkina is director of the Jewish community center in Astana. Just as the size of Kazakhstan has long been a challenge, so, too, has the task of bringing Jews together. Unlike unique, historic Jewish commu- nities across the former Soviet Union — like the shtetl Jews of Ukraine, the Litvaks of Lithuania, the ...…
…ATES, LTD4 ortune...Only Look Like It Photos by Michael J. Jordan of snow, ice and wind. In many villages the blacktop soon dissolves into muddy, unpaved tracks. To counter the logistics of distance, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee created 13 sepa- rate Hesed offices nationwide to provide food and welfare. The warm and humble operations, typically located in dilapidated apartment buildings, reached Jews in 160 towns and vil...…
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…Your Cellular Superstore! Ask the Expert Backing Down Threat of litigation averts British boycott menace. Daphna Vardi Jewish Telegraphic Agency London W hen the threat of a new boycott against Israeli academics emerged from the annual conference of the British University and College Union of lectur- ers' conference in May, Israel support- ers turned to London attorney Anthony Julius. Well known for his hard line against anti-Semitism ...…
…Work Cezanne DIGEST Dali Degas Gauguin Magritte Matisse Pay Raise Waived Jerusalem/5A — Due to the difficult economic times, Israel's Knesset members will waive a 2009 pay raise. The Knesset House committee decided Dec. 23 that lawmakers would give up an automatic 3-percent pay raise in January, according to reports. Knesset members earn about $8,300 a month and receive raises tied to the retail price index four times a year. They also...…
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…I Spirituality Torah Alive! In an emotional ceremony, Shir Tikvah consecrates newly scribed Torah and also donates a Torah to Berlin congregation. Carol, Jacob, 6; Alana, 9; Benjamin, 11; and Ricky Blumenstein of Bloomfield Hills and Michael Silverstein of Troy Yerman and Taylor Friedman now are honorary members of Congregation Shir Tikvah. Wedding - Like Ceremony Scribe Jen Taylor Friedman, Rabbi Arnie Sleutelberg and sofer Neil Yerma...…
…I Spirituality Torah Alive! from page A25 ored to be able to help with this project. The Torah belongs to the Jewish people, and we are just in custody of it. Our five children all wrote a letter in the Torah and they will never forget that." Congregational Family While Taylor Friedman was writing the 304,805 letters of the Torah for the past year, Yerman was helping CST congregants and family members write a parchment from the Song of the ...…
…CREE 11111.:` PtkittOtkiG in the 4 It -141w AIM Compuware garage 11 - 6pm Mon" \Oh skating a dmission 100. 00, Shelli Hutchinson of Bloomfield Hills and her daughter, Rou Rou, 6 as she clutched the Torah to her heart. "I promise that if we ever buy a Torah of our own, we will pass this one on to another congregation in need." "It feels so good to give a Torah to a congregation in Germany where Hitler tried to destroy the Jewish people...…
…I Spirituality Amicable Change Adat Shalom caterer now to be supervised by Rabbi Jason Miller, not Vaad. Shelli Liebman Dorfman Senior Writer 0 n the heels of a new partnership and a name change, A&J Kosher Catering — formerly Rosenberg Kosher Catering — has taken on a new kashrut supervisor. Conservative Rabbi Jason Miller will provide kosher supervision for the business, inside Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills. The change cam...…
…TORAH PORTION Family Circle Conference The Ties Of Family And A Happy Ending Expert offers ways to work with kids with challenging behaviors. Shabbat Vayigash: Genesis 44:18- 47:27; Ezekiel 37:15-28. I Ellen Maiseloff, Dr. Ross Greene, Nancy Kaufman of the Kaufman Children's Center and Helene Weiss Kohn, AJE pro- gram assistant and para-educator coordi- nator 0 pening the Doors Partnership, a program of Federation's Alliance for Je...…
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…Opinion Editorials are posted and archived on JNonline.us. Dry Bones Pigly Editorial A Chilling Read T here is probably no country on the planet that engages in a more rigorous and ongoing self- examination than Israel. It is practically a cottage industry among the literati in that country, and the surest way to make a splash is to produce a book that attacks the philosophical roots of the Jewish state. According to a recent New York Ti...…
…Opinion OTHER VIEWS Reforms Vital To Israeli Stability Jerusalem/JTA A s the United States looks for- ward to a presidential inaugu- ration, Israel is facing another general election. A little more than a month ago, the new leader of Israel's Kadima Party, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, failed to establish a coalition government following the res- ignation of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. The breakdown of coalition talks forces Israel into p...…
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…• Arts & Entertainment A Meditation On Identity Author/filmmaker describes time spent in India researching her Jewish roots. Sandee Brawarsky Special to the Jewish News S adia Shepard grew up in a white clapboard house in Newton, Mass., just outside of Boston, with three parents — her Pakistani Muslim mother and her Colorado-raised Protestant father, who jointly ran an archi- tectural firm, and her Nana, her mother's mother, who came fr...…
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