…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...…
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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...…
…Arts & Entertainment Rising (Jewish) Star Canada's Sophie Milman hits all the right notes. Suzanne Chessler Special to the Jewish News I is just over a year since Canadian jazz singer Sophie Milman first appeared in Michigan, but bookings around the state followed her perfor- mance in Berrien Springs. A stop in Lansing, where she worked with sax player and music professor Wes Anderson, will enhance her upcoming Paradise Jazz Series concer...…
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…Obituaries Obituaries are updated and archived on JNonline.us . Young Israel Leader R abbi James I. Gordon, rabbi emeritus of Young Israel of Oak Park and former rabbi of Young Israel of Oak-Woods, died in Jerusalem on Dec. 23, 2008, at age of 85. Rabbi Gordon was a graduate of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University in New York, where he was a student of "the Rav," Joseph B. Soloveitchik, during the war years. ...…
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…Editor's Letter Beyond The Door I t was a wish for the ages. It came in a public service announcement. Kids with cancer asked other kids to smile at them, not stare. The request still resonates today, nine years later. Such is the power of the plea conceived as a Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan dream by Alexandra Graham in her courageous, painful, final days of life in 1999:She and nine other kids afflicted with cancer playfully share th...…
…Letters A Winning Way When technology is harnessed to enhance global communication and community building, we all win. The article "Passover Connection" (April 17, A29), describing the model seder celebrated concurrently by fourth-grade classes in Michigan (at Congregation Beth Shalom in Oak Park) and Israel (at Gilad School, Nazareth Illit), is a perfect example. Federation's Partnership 2000 School-to-School pro- gram has great promise and ...…
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