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…DETROIT =WISE NEWS JN WWW.detroitjewishnews.com June 11, 1999 Sivan 27, 5759 Vol. CXV, No. 16 6 Setback On Setbacks DEPARTMENTS Anniversaries .67 AppleTree 119 Bar/Bat Mitzvah .... 60 Births 60 Calendar 56 Carla Schwartz 118 18 A Jew For A Century Crossword 96 Like the community itself, Crossword Answers 136 Mabel Rose Alvin struggled successfully Cyber Spot 78 to maintain a Jewish identity. Danny Raskin 102 Editorials 33 22 The Birthday...…

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…Strangers Welcome HARRY KIRSBAUM Sta Writer xcept for the part about the black hoods, Avdullah Fazliu's story could have come out of the mouth of a Holocaust survivor. But now, staying with volunteer hosts in the Detroit area and moving into an apartment by week's end, Kosovar refugee Fazliu and his family have found safety. Sitting in a small conference room at h,„ Jewish Family Service in Southfield this week, staff members and interprete...…

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…Garden usiasts at Temple Emanu-El find a new row to hoe. Clockwise from top: Bea Sacks of Huntington Woods has plans for the sunflowers. A tomato plant gets the attention of Helen Friedman of Southfield. Milt Levine of Oak Park tends a garden bed. DIANA LIEBERMAN Special to the Jewish News ust when most synagogue activities are winding down for the summer, the Temple Emanu-El Garden Chavura is going full speed ahead. The chavura is a gro...…

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…The Jewish Century 1 19 olLAINVMMEM47*n. "'"'"':''''e"'::AMESEEM `2, CATHY SHAFRAN Special to the Jewish News Wk. 0 el Rose Alvin celebrated her 00th birthday recently. So did organized Judaism in metro Detroit. Alvin — sharp, funny and vital in an interview Sunday in her modest Southfield apart- ment — reviewed the rich tapestry of her life, recall- ing that it was always important to her that it be a Jewish life. At the personal level,...…

…Mabel Rose Alvin in her Southfield apartment. "I eventually got involved in a Jewish organization, in Utica. It was called the Young Women's Hebrew Association." The Jewish community held together despite the economic hardships of the stock market crash of 1929. In the late 1920s, the newly married Mabel Alvin had moved to her new husband Robert's home of Pontiac, Mich. He was a shoe buyer before opening a men's clothing store, where she hel...…

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…The Jewish Century Jewry's Role in Human Affairs AT THE CROSSROADS OF GOVERNMENT close to Alvin's life once again. "My brother-in-law wanted to build a house in Bloomfield Hills, right next door ro the Kingsley Inn, Alvin said. "He was a builder. People wouldn't sell him the land at first because he was Jewish. They tried to stop him from building. He rook it to court. Eventually, he built a beautiful home on six acres of land. But he didn...…

…The Jewish Century netliclay - HARRY KIRSBAU1v1 Staff Writer I n a single climactic Sunday, the Detroit Jewish community's largest philanthropic organiza- tion — and 3,000 or so guests whose lives it has touched — celebrat- ed both a year and a century. The Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit marked the end of the organized Detroit Jewish com- munity's centennial celebration at the Jewish Community Center's Jimmy Prentis Morris Bui...…

…Israel of Oak Park member, attended the walk for the first time. He applauded Federation's efforts to include the Orthodox and its support of local yeshivot. "It's very positive for the Federation to go the kosher direc- tion so that everybody would be able to participate," Beres said. About 1,500 people registered for the Walk for Israel, half the number of last year's walk, which celebrated Israel's 50th anniversary with a walk from the JPM ...…

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…N KIA OLDSMOBILE Hyurrooi 1999 KIA 4x4 1999 ALERO GX This year, the Federation, affiliated with nearly 20 local agencies, serves approximately 100,000 Jews living in the Detroit area. Its recently completed Allied Jewish Campaign raised close to $30 million, about half of which goes to national agencies to send to Israel. Aronson said the critical issue for the Federation in the future is "rele- vance to the lives of the Jewish people." ...…

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…David Gad-Harf for West Bloomfield School Board Dear West Bloomfield School District Voter: I am a candidate for the West Bloomfield School Board, and I welcome your support. to bring about a reconciliation within the Jewish public, not with the Arab public." Meanwhile, Barak spokesman David Ziso addressed the issue. The incoming prime minister, he said, "will be judged by his actions, and a Barak government will be committed to achieving e...…

…This Sophia Loren Film Lands 2nd Showing Bus Pals Thirty members and friends of Temple Emanu-El came together for the Walk for Israel, part of Sunday's Israel Fest in Oak Park. Wearing their Bus 14 T- shirts, the group was part of Michigan Miracle Mission III to Israel in April. "We decided as a group to show other Derroiters that we support Israel by taking part in the Walk," said Linda Kaploe. Award to William Clay Ford Jr., who chairs t...…

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…► fiTITEditorials Editorials and. Letters to the Editor are posted and archived on JN Online: w-ww.detroitjewishnews.com The Virtual Voter VOTE The donations I intend to give to Jewish organizations in the coming year will be ... More Less Same Voce on JN Online vvww.detroitjewishnews.com Results from last week's poll (52 respondents) Should the Detroit Jewish community take a stand on state gun control? Yes (83%) No (17%) IN FOCUS Is...…

…COMMUNITY VIEWS Preaching Hatred Must Stop lence in our culture, in TV, films, ongratulations on your stand music and video games, is undoubted- against Arab Palestinian text- ly a contributing factor in the kind of books that preach hatred violent acts perpetrated by American and advocate violence kids on their peers, teachers and par- against Jews and Israelis. ents in the latest killings in our public Mothers Against Teaching Chil- school...…

…EDITOR'S WATCH > The Strife Within "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. " —Anne Frank ✓ ews reports that fervently Orthodox Jews (haredim) harassed Conservative Jews at mixed-gender Shavuot services on the Western Wall Plaza in the Old City angered me. They angered me because heck- ling and assault have no place at this holiest of ROBERT A. sites for our SKLAR 4,000-year-old Editor faith. And they a...…

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…\ Th /- right. The Jews have been persecuted for more than 5,000 years and it con- tinues to this day; so gun control should not go hand in hand with Judaism like Mr. Diaz would have you believe. Where would Israel be without guns? It would have been wiped out years ago if not for the Jewish people taking up arms. Mr. Diaz works with the Violence Policy Center. His group's goal, alone with handgun con- trol, is an outright ban on the manu- f...…

…LETTERS WALTO\ \VGDD Assist d Living Residence and educa- tional series on issues that affect us as Jews and as human beings. The Council has been a forum for compromise and under- standing within and outside the Jew- ish community. Under the superb leadership of David Gad-Harf, the Jewish Communi- ty Council builds good will, intelligent dialogue and outstanding community relations. We have cause to celebrate. Ann Zousmer Waltonwood of ...…

…8 •,?..VX Of L ife Young woman instills the best in those who honor her memory. Elan Rosenberg, Alex Graham, Sarah Schwartz and Dlia Salei in Traverse City during the summer of 1998. SHELLI DORFMAN Editorial Assistant I n life, Alexandra Graham touched those around her in a way that seemed to inspire goodness. Since her death on Jan. 25 of this year from osteogenic sarcoma, a form of bone cancer, the 17-year-old West Bloomfield residen...…

…Jason Maltzman, Talia Salei, Lauren Lovinger and Alex Graham following a Grand Rapids music concert. hand-decorated hat on her front porch, anonymous gifts she used to cover her head following cancer treatments. Alex came to call this person the "hat fairy." After Alex's death, her family found flowers and a candle in the same spot where the hats had been left. As she had hoped, many good deeds have been done in Alex's memory. West Bloomfield...…

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…Beverly Liss Is Re-Elected Beverly Liss was re-elected president of the Women's Campaign and Education Department of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit. Also elected were vice presidents Margie Krasnick, Susie Pappas and Cheryl Schanes, education; Nancy Glass, business and profession- al; Paula Glazier, cam- Beverly Liss paign; Diane Perlman, corresponding secretary; Linda Zlotoff, recording secretary; and Rose Rita Goldman and Che...…

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…ilf;11 ibC ATHERWOOD Here's Tom Sa Owen Alterman graduated from Princeton University summa cum laude (with highest honors). He will spend two years with the Peace Corps in Romania, after which he will attend Harvard Law School. He served as an editorial intern for the Jewish News and for Time mag- azine in the Hong Kong bureau. WHO SAYS THERE'S No SUCH THING AS A FE IAA Samantha Rollinger, a senior at West Bloomfield High School, will a...…

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…AlITENTLION GM EMPLOYEES & FAMILY MEMBERS Adat Shalom Men Elect Supowit Jeff Supowit will return as president of the Adat Shalom Men's Club, having held that office during the 1995-97 seasons. Supowit has been an executive officer of the Great Lakes Region of the Federation of Jewish Men's Clubs. He is a member of the synagogue board of trustees, having served Adat Shalom as ritual chairperson and membership co- chairperson. In addition, he...…

…Call for Nominees for the 12th Annual Berman Award for Outstanding Professional Service created by Mandell and Madeleine Berman President's Award Winners Named Eligibility for Nomination: All Jewish communal professionals employed by Federation or its agencies who have been working in the Detroit Jewish community a minimum of five years. Criteria for Selection: The recipient of the Berman Award must demonstrate the highest professional...…