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…Editor's Letter Family Event t Help Children with Disabilities and Their Fa Worsening Campus Ferment First of two parts A escorted out under police protection because General Union of Palestinian Students protestors had intervened and chant- ed,"Death to the Jews" and "Hitler should finish the job." That's beyond the pale on campuses that rely on public support. "One of the most egregious examples of this breakdown in the basic values of ...…
…Letters The following Letter to the Editor from Wayne State University President Irvin D. Reid appeared in the April 5 issue of the student newspaper on the Detroit campus, the South End. It fol- lowed a week that included a closed-door meeting between Jewish students and several Wayne State University administra- tors to discuss student concerns about anti- Dr. Irvin D. Reid Semitism and security. Also that week were a rally by the campus gr...…
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…Letters Hillel's Legacy My daughter Molly will SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 4 PM ► Rackham Auditorium The Jerusalem String Quartet is comprised of four young musicians who began playing together in Israel in 1993 when they were still in their mid-teens. With more than a decade as an ensemble, they have matured into outstanding artists, known for their "musical electricity" (The Strad). This new generation of Israeli musicians performs with beauty and...…
…Front Lines NOTEBOOK JNenline Cycling For A Cause This Week www.JNOnline.us Ann Arbor R obert Levine plans to pedal for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in honor of his mother, Evelyn, who died of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2003. As a volunteer in the Team in Training program, Levine, 40, is committed to raising at least $5,000 toward the fight against leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma as well as improving the quality o...…
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…HIGH SCHOOL S OPHOMORES JUNIORS PARENTS And Seniors headed to MSU JOIN US Michigan State University KIRSCHNER RECRUITMENT EVENT W. Bloomfield Jewish Community Center • Wednesday, April 25th at 7:30 p.m. Learn about the MSU experience, Jewish Studies, Study in Israel, MSU HiIlel and life on the Michigan State campus! Representatives from the MSU Office of Admissions, the Jewish Studies Program and Hillel will be on hand to answer you...…
…JEW' H SSANCE Expe So President/Publisher Editorial Fulfillment Arthur M. Horwitz Editor circulationdesk@thejewishnews.com ahorwitz@thejewishnews.com Robert A. Sklar Circulation Manager rsklar@thejewishnews.com Barb Yessian News/Life/Business Group: Circulation/ Customer Service Exec Associate Editor Fenton Jones Chief Operating Officer F. Kevin Browett kevin@jewish.com Advertising Sales Advertising Director Arthur M. Hor...…
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…The Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit's Second Annual Gala Building a beHer tomorroo or today's children ( The Center honors two individuals whose commitment to southeastern Michigan is helping to make Detroit a home of which we can all be proud. 'Tuesday, giptil 24, 2007 William Clay Ford, Jr. Florine Mark Executive Chairman of the Ford Motor Company First recipient of the Center's "City of Detroit" Boneh Kehillah Builder...…
…Rabbi Eli Mayerfeld with study partner Howard Jacobson of Bloomfield Hills Partners In Torah Yeshiva Beth Yehudah program grows while embracing all kinds of Jewish learners. Shelli Liebman Dorfman Senior Writer p artners in Torah educators have been known to travel to great lengths and unique locales to reach even one student. Avid snowboarder Rabbi Leiby Burnham has conducted both individual and group study discussions on the slopes. "W...…
…Metro ON HE COVER/SPECIAL REPORT Rabbi Leiby Burnham teaches a class Partners In Torah from page 15 The condominium building next door to Yeshiva Beth Yehudah While the purpose of the project was to enhance the local Jewish community, "the only official benefit the Yeshiva will have will be that the last seven units will be donated to the Yeshiva for faculty housing," said Gary Torgow, Yeshiva president and Partners mentor. "That will occ...…
…Partners n Learning Yeshiva-based Torah program is a spiritual pacesetter in Jewish adult education. Robert A. Sklar Editor I t's a few minutes before 8 on a Tuesday night at Yeshiva Beth Yehudah. Laura Aronson, a Franklin mother of three, awaits her study partner, Janet Snider, a Yeshiva graduate, Torah teacher and local pediatrician. By 8 p.m., it's study time in the Yeshiva learning center. The buzz of Jews of all ages and backgrounds ...…
…Metro tai P E C R T Partners In Learning from page 17 Family Ties Detroiters, gazes with excitement over the packed room of uninhibited learning. "My entire responsibility is to help fulfill the innermost desires of Jews in their search for Torah knowledge," he said. "None of the Partners staff has any fund- raising responsibilities. Our only mission is pure Torah learning with no strings attached." The Partners in Torah program is natio...…
…Sta ff photo by Ang le Bea n hen Rabbi Josh Bennett and his wife Meg VV recently began to feel the burden of an outdated home, one in which their family was quickly outgrowing, they realized it was time to take action. "We have a tri-level built in the 1950's, and it had 1950's styling and no basement," explained Rabbi Bennett. Though they were eager to update their lifestyle, he said he and his wife were apprehensive at the idea of moving f...…
…Metro RETIREMENT LIVING ON THE COVER "It's wonderful to be surrounded by friends." Partners In Torah from page 19 "I was lonely at home; I missed laughter. My move to The Park at Trowbridge was a wonderful experience. The entire community is warm and gracious, and I was welcomed like royalty. I like everything about The Park at Trowbridge—the wonderful staff, food, transportation, entertainment, friends and 4 0* neighbors. And...…
…Educating individuals. Impacting communities. DIGS visions of hope 2007 Walk of Ages Earlier The annual Walk of Ages community walkathon sponsored by Jewish Home and Aging Services Auxiliary will be held Sunday, May 6, on the Applebaum Jewish Community Center campus in West Bloomfield. The date was moved from September to avoid conflicts with other JHAS events. Proceeds from the fifth annual walk will help support elderly residents of the...…
…Metro Jewish Apartments & Services is Pleased to announce the honorees for THE 2007 EIGHT OVER EIGHTY TIKKUN OLAM AWARD SENIOR ADULT HALL OF FAME Counter-Protest Non-Jews lead effort to stop Shabbat demonstrations in Ann Arbor. Harold Berry Marvin Danto Phil Elkus Don Cohen Special to the Jewish News Ann Arbor H Ethel Goldenberg Norman Katz Eve Lieberman Jack & Miriam Shenkman Ida Nathan Sunday, May 20 Inside Handelman Hall at...…
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…CHEW WELL AND HURRY NOT "It is many years since I left Frarnpo4 but as soon as I shut any eyes I am there again." Gimpel There are threads that bind the Jews. We are a people of pogroms and persecutions, of displacement and Diaspora. And we are bound by threads of faith and place. We are drawn as a people to a common home, to Israel. And we are drawn as individuals to our personal home, to the Yanev's and Bilgoray's and Zamoshoh's of Isaac...…
…World Emotional Journey Holocaust survivor reunites with Polish family who saved his life. Esther Allweiss Ingber Special to the Jewish News Left: Maciej and Zofia Dudzik of Czajkowa, Poland, sheltered Zygie and Sol Allweiss on their farm. T hose who survived the Holocaust sometimes attribute it to luck. Certainly, it was "luckier" to be an able-bodied Jew between ages 12 and 40, not much younger or older, when Germany invaded Poland on ...…
…Emotional Journey from page 25 65 Years Left: Zygie Allweiss works in an ORT machine shop in Germany after the war. of Caring Right: Zygie Allweiss sits while men dig at the site of a Nazi labor camp searching for the remains of his mother. for the Jewish Community Uncovering The Past Michael Schwartz Helping Job Seekers Michigan's dire economic climate has affected our neighbors, friends and relatives who are unemployed, facing fina...…
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…DIG Sugarloaf Art Fair *MD . April 20, 21, 22, 2007 Pope Views Mideast Rome/JTA — Pope Benedict XVI, in his annual Easter message, noted some "signs of hope in the dialogue between Israel and the Palestinian Authority" while lamenting the "con- tinual slaughter" in Iraq. Also citing unrest in Afghanistan, the pontiff denounced terrorism and kidnappings, and "the thousand faces of violence, which some people attempt to justify in the name ...…
…B'nai B'rith Foundation of the United States cordially invites you to attend World DIGEST B'NAI B'RITH INTERNATIONAL'S 2007 Guardian of the Menorah Award Dinner Honoring Alan Dorfman & Jonathan Dorfman Answering Israel's Critics The Charge Co-Owners of the Dorfman Chapel An editorial from an out-of-state newspaper published last week in the local press encouraged Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to push Israel hard to start a neg...…
…Opinion Editorials are posted and archived on JNonline.us. Greenberg's View Editorial Loans From The Heart T hey are seeking loans, not hand- outs. And the borrowers can be profoundly scared. Michigan's depressed economy, wors- ened by the crisis state of the auto indus- try, has shoved once middle-class Jews into the crosshairs of financial hardship. The professional, service and retail sectors of our economy alike are affected. Blue- c...…
…Opinion OT E R VIEWS A Modern Approach To Halachah Mendota Heights, Minn. A round the time of my ordina- tion at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York in 1985, many people skeptical of the ordination of women asked, "What's next? The ordination of gays and lesbians?" The question angered me. After all, the issue of embracing the full equality of women directly affected 50 percent of the population or, I could well have sa...…
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…Business & Professional In The Stars Bill Carroll Special to the Jewish News M ike Gold of West Bloomfield isn't much of a celebrity. He's not an actor, singer or competi- tive athlete — although he's tall, tan and handsome and could probably pass for one. Instead, the 44-year-old Jewish busi- nessman has a starring role of a different kind. Gold is the president of Celebrity Placement Services in Farmington Hills. From a small office on W...…
…▪ 1011660111. To Life! AROUND TOWN Staff photos by Angie Bean Judy Seigel of West Bloomfield, Lynne Obron of Bloomfield Hills, Debbie Gordon of West Hillary Shaw of Bloomfield Hills with Doug and Judy Etkin of Bloomfield Hills Bloomfield and Andi Sklar of West Bloomfield and Billy Stern of West Bloomfield Music Of The Night Auction, concert, Rabbi Bennett's bar mitzvah year all highlight Temple Israel benefit. F Johannah Whitefield...…
…To Life! IN ERF,-, r „ Family Life The prospect of intermarriage. Ann Arbor T hroughout my book tour, I have gotten the chance to talk to many great people about interfaith family life. About half way through the tour, I suddenly noticed that each city had a common element. No, I'm not talking about how every town in the U.S. has a Marriott and an Applebee's. The common thread existed in the form of a question. In , every book fair an...…
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…Arts & Entertainment 35 E 0 0 .0 West Bloomfield's Lee Brody knells about the star of a new film set in Michigan. Elaine Perlin Crossley Special to the Jewish News H e may have said his dewy-eyed goodbyes as the quirky, lovable Seth Cohen on the hit TV series The OC, but Jewish actor Adam Brody, now 27, is greeting the big screen with a new brand of charisma as he stars in two films opening April 20. Opening nationwide is In the Land ...…
…Arts & Entertainment About 4•1 Gail Zimmerman Arts Editor The Gerard Edery Ensemble East Meets West The Gerard Edery Ensemble and Cantor Alberto Mizrahi perform pieces from the Sephardic and Ashkenaz oral tradi- tions — songs in some dozen languages, including French, Spanish, Ladino, Hebrew, Yiddish, Arabic and English — 4 p.m. Sunday, April 22, at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, at the synagogue's annual Laker Concert. Composer, singer...…
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…0 Arts & Entertainment Keeping The Story Compelling A Yom HaShoah roundup of recent Holocaust books that crosses all genres. Suzanne Chessler Special to the Jewish News T he psychological weight of the Holocaust bears down in diverse ways each year as survivors, their children and scholars confront experiences and perspectives in new books about the devastating events, remembered each year on Yom HaShoah, which this year falls on April ...…
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