…vim!. Congregation Shir Tikvah is proud to present The `Detroit Tremier of Detroit's premier performance of RENT; Winner of The Tony Q./4),yard for Best Musical, is Wednesday, eApril 8, 1998 at 7:30 pm, at the Fisher Theatre. Call the Shir Tikvah Fundraising Line for an invitation or a certificate for use as a Hanukkah gift at (248) 706-1703. 'Proceeds from premier ticket sales to benefit Congregation Shir Tikvah's Capital Campaign. These do...…
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…HELPING JEWISH FAMILIES GROWTM 4TIN THE APPLE TREE" •.. Mrs. Applebaum: The Little Moments That We Remember The Big Story: Are You Gar'ne For Some Nonviolent Computer Fun? Listen Up: Something Special Is Cooking Here For Children Life In Israel: When Every Day (Almost) Is A Celebration Family Album: Adorable Faces Around Town Births Bnai Mitzvah Cover Art: Photo by Glenn Triest. Danielle, Zack and Evan Goodman of Farmington Hill...…
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…CalenDaR Bob Alper L Rabbi/Stand-UP Comic (Really) What's Up? 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14 Youtheatre will host Theatrewords/USA in a perfor- mance of Charlotte's Web for the Movin' Up Club, children aged 7 and older (no one under 5 will be admitted). All shows are -at Music Hall, 350 Madison Ave. in Detroit. Tickets are $7 in advance, S8 at the door. For information, call (313) 963-2366. Bob Alper: "The world's only practicing clergyman doing...…
…The BiG Story Game Plan Some terrific, non-violent - games for the young computer enthusiast. Rick Broida Special to The AppleTree car mows down hapless pedestrians. A disgruntled ostal worker goes on a shooting spree. Cops blow away a bus load of escaped criminals. Headlines ripped from today's news? Nope, just the plots that drive some of today's most popular computer games, and the games most likely to turn up on your child's wish list....…
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…40 bifr Listen UP A 4 DETROIT JEWESS SEWS 0 A J Gift Subscription. Recommended for all ages. Call ► 248-354 -6620 Or Fax ► 248-354 -1210 Elizabeth Applebaum AppleTree Editor The Good Housekeeping Illustrated Children's Cookbook (Morrow) -Remember when you were . young and you vowed that when you had children you would never, ever make them go to bed at 9 p.m. or do dishes or pick up their boots? I certainly hope you've gotten over t...…
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…4 CeleBraTe ‹.*.`sabAknk.S. 4i."v 's s Elizabeth Applebaum AppleTree Editor ou've eaten the Iatkes, lit the menorah, spun the dreidel. Now what's to do? Yes, you could always sit down for a stimulating evening of "The Shopping Channel" (only 1 million bottles of that fabulous cleaning solu- tion left!), or you could do some great family holiday projects. The choice, my friends, is up to you. Fun Projects For Little Hands #1) Lots of Latk...…
…fledged plant and you can transplant it to your garden. Next year, you can make latkes out of the sweet potatoes your have grown yourself. Or, if this is too healthy, just eat lots of choco- late coins. #4) It's In The Cards You will need: sturdy paper scissors crayons (D Children can color in this picture, then affix to sturdy paper and mail as a Chanukah card to friends and family. Make your own messages inside, or con- sider these though...…
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…BirtHs PLEASE JOIN US FORA MAGICAL EVENING OF DINNER, CANDLELIGHTING, HANUKKAH CRAFTS, AND A MIRACULOUS MAGIC SHOW BY BAFFLING BILL C Karen (Freedland) and Jim Berger of West Bloomfield wel- come with love the birth of their daughter, Jaclyn Alesi (Yafa Aliza), born Nov. 24. Welcoming Jackie home are her big sister Hallie and her big brother, Joshua. Sharing in their by are grandparents Rona Freedland of Bloomfield Hills and Sue and Ted Ber...…
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…The Waif Is Over:... a WHEN ONLY THE BEST WILL DO... vah on Saturday, Dec. 13, at Temple Israel. He is the son of Marlene and Richard Heimlich and brother of Amy. He also is the grandson of the late Gladys and Alex Heimlich and the late Bertha and Albert Myers. Greg attends Berkshire Middle School, where he is on the football and swim teams. His interests revolve around team sports: soccer, swimming and tennis. He also enjoys skiing and gol...…
…F eminism compatible Are they Orthodoxy ? LYNNE MEREDITH COHN Staff Writer Photographer DANIEL LIPPITT • S or most of her life, Blu Greenberg has davened in Orthodox synagogues where the mechitzah (partition separating men and women) cut straight down the middle of the sanctuary. She rarely strains to hear the chazzan chanting or to see the bimah. And that, says one of the most vociferous and respected Orthodox feminists in this country, ...…
…O Shira Breuer: Teaching observant Israeli girls the same topics that boys learn. just the way it is. So it's living with tension," she said. Jewish society, from which many famous feminists emerged, "was one of the last groups to grapple with the challenges of feminism," said Greenberg, who wrote the 1981 book On Women and Judaism. Neither (Reform, which called for full equality of men and women in 1846 at the Breslau Conference, nor the Re...…
…*.c of Young Israel of Southfield who attended the Skokie conference. "Specifically, it does bother me that we have no access to the Torah. In our shul, on Simchas Torah, the women don't even bother showing up. I was one of 10 on the first night, but most say 'Why bother?' and that's sad to me because this is supposed to be a Torah that matters to us, yet we have no access to it, we have no access to kissing it as it walks by. It's a powerful...…
…feminist movement really devalued family. What used to make me uncomfortable is that they seemed to want to make women into female forms of men, and they didn't seem to understand there were differences," she said. Orthodoxy conveys the kind of spirituality and principles that many women believe, including Goldfein. "I understand that things have to change slowly and you can't throw the baby out with the bath water. Women have to be in the for...…
…Borrowing From Tradition Jewish And Otherwise Some wedding customs we take for granted actually come from other religions. 12/12 1997 70 ALLISON KAPLAN Special to the Jewish News I f you really want to get back to the roots of Judaism in planning your wedding, forget the cere- mony. As Rabbi Dannel Schwartz of Temple Shir Shalom explains, "The whole wedding ceremony is not a Jewish event." That's right — even the breaking of the glass i...…
…These two seemingly contradictory movements, says Fine, actually are working together to create a more individualistic wedding ceremony that has real meaning to the bride and groom. "Our goal was to highlight aspects friendship and love — what our marriage is really about," says Southfield native Debbie Goodfriend Kennedy, who got married three months ago. Her husband Scott Kennedy is not Jewish. The couple was married under a chuppah in Madis...…
…She SaYs Its amazing what a proposal can do to a girl. ALLISON KAPLAN Special to The Jewish News ogi; Atlanta and_ taff'ro America .Wetebirated y- Rabbi Steven bow at the..134 dad° ..bothOod.'bf Ail anta. h o pe never in m life:again to have to ` go from the. highest Of feet': zngs t!i almost the lowest in a. split went from second," sy$ . ...cutting our cake to literally five minutes later I *as.in an arnbuiance with J 12/12 1997 72 ...…
…The Wedding's Off except me. Two weeks before the Big Day, everything was ready Here's why I said, "I don't." t was 14 days before our wedding. My parents had paid nonrefundable deposits to the caterer and florist. One hundred and twenty guests were confirmed; gifts were piling up in my mother's house; the dress of my dreams — low in front, low in back — hung in her closet. And here I was telling my fiance, "I've changed my mind. I 4, don't...…
…411 DAVID KUSHNER Special to The Jewish News S he's carrying a clipboard. He's standing next to her, looking rather confused. They're sur- rounded by flatware. She holds up a fork and twists it slowly, reflecting the blinding, incandescent mega-mall light. "I don't know if I like this," she says, then falls silent, waiting for the desired response she knows will never come. He shrugs. "It's just a fork." "It's not just a fork!" she snaps, ...…
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…• ADAM MARCUS Special to The Jewish News CI n a wintry night in early November, a small group of worshippers gathers at a syn- agogue in Ann Arbor for a quick dose of evening prayer. Though the Tuesday night minyan is two short of 10, that doesn't stop them from a brief discussion of the Hebrew letter "kaph" and some moments of silent meditation. From appearances, it is not a particularly devout group, nor a particularly strict one. Two wom...…
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…C WE ARE eLway- s BUYING 0 He reels off the list of local ports, adding that 19 ships will sail into Akaba, 15 to Haifa and 25 to Ashdod in 1998. That's 69 opportu- nities for Israeli companies to board a cruise line for a seven-day pep rally. Maharam believes he's found a niche by targeting the hi-tech indus- otry, given their widespread sales and distribution forces which meet sever- al times a year to marshal their mar- keting efforts....…
…Sports the yachtsman 1105 S. Adams Birmingham, MI 48009 BB Basketball Meeting Monday (248) 723-9838 The B'nai B'rith basketball league will be starting its 23rd season next month, and will hold an informa- tional meeting for teams or individu- als looking to join. The division in which a team plays depends on the level of com- petitiveness. The season is 10 weeks long, plus playoffs, with trophies going to the regular season and play- off...…
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