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…I Metro AROUND TOWN The Gift Of Learning At Akiva banquet, Rabbi Weil spells out importance of a Jewish education. Elyse and Jerome Schostak of Franklin; Rosa Chessler, Stuart and Janelle Teger, and Andrew Weil, all of Southfield p roviding a Modern Orthodox, Zionist education for more than 300 students from preschool through 12th grade is serious business. Akiva Hebrew Day School in Southfield has successfully offered a college preparat...…
…Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit Young Adult Division 2010-2011 Board of Director's Slate President President elect Harm Liss Joshua Levine - Advisor to Executive Committee David Kramer Still Defiant Officers: Rabbi Leiby Burnham Jeremy Crane Michele Rosenblum Rachel Wright Torah Center dinner features a talk by the son of a Holocaust hero. Executive Board: Mandy Friedenberg Steve Migliore Lindsey Maddin Adam Orley Gen...…
…Metro ROUNDUP DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS A Shoah Remembrance OAKLAND COUNTY — Amid the observance of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Memorial Day, on April 11, Oakland County officials remembered the Afik,17)," Eyes The European in African Art, 1500—Present April 18—August 8, 2010 Portuguese sailors landed on the shores of West Africa more than soo years ago. Strangers at first, Europeans became trading partners, settlers, and eventually co...…
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…MICHIGAN EWISH A Great Place To -Live. A Great Place To Be Jewish. ALLIANCE' It's Wedding Season in The D ADAT SHALOM YOUNG ADULT GROUP BOWLING And the closest thing I've got to a boyfriend is that guy with the mini-eggrolls For the most part, summer is a great time for dating: People go out more, there are more opportunities for fun dates and everyone looks better when their skin is a little less pasty. But there is also one major downs...…
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…Spotlight HOLIDAY 101 So Good, But So Cheesy How to make the perfect cheesecake for Shavuot. Stories by Elizabeth Applebaum Special to the Jewish News I f spiders and being in high places top the list of Americans' greatest fears, the challenge of making a good cheesecake can't be far behind. First of all, you're certain to get that hideous crack right in the middle. Second, you're going to flub up the whole consistency thing. The outsid...…
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…I World Reaching Out Israeli Noa and Palestinian Awad promote peace through music. Robyn Berkowitz SIMPLY THE BEST CAMPS EVER! 30 May 13 • 2010 Special to the Jewish News East Lansing I t is during times of war that we must come together and break the cycle of violence,' said Noa, one of Israel's star musicians, dur- ing a May 5 concert at Michigan State Univerisity's Wharton Center. "We must learn how we can live in peace?' Known i...…
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…Community Featured Speaker MITCH ALBOM The Jewish Community Relations Council is pleased to invite you to join us as we honor A Musical Uplift Temple Israel along with Living For Music Inc. will host Jazzalot — Music For the Soul at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 25, at the West Bloomfield temple. Performing will be jazz musicians George "Saxman" Benson And the Cliff Monear Trio with Cliff Monear at the piano, Nick Calandro on bass and Sean Dobbin...…
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…Opinion Survivors And Liberators Nancy and Robert Schostak Community View 0 n April 13-15, we were able to experience the 2010 national Days of Remembrance tribute dinner in Washington honoring the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's board chairman, Fred Zeidman of Houston. Aside from the obvious success of crowd size and dollars raised (often the measurement of success at communal dinners — $1.3 million and 930 people in attendance, both rec...…
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…teens in action by Heather Rosenbaum giving back annual J-Serve day of service allows teens to make a difference in their community. I do J-Serve to have fun while also volunteering with my friends," said Nate Strauss, 16, a student at North Farmington High School. J-Serve, this year on April 25, is an annual national day of service for Jewish teens. Student activities included a gardening project in Detroit, baking at JARC in South- fiel...…
…teen profile by Mari Cohen S tudent Exchange Ann Arbor teens learn Israeli teens share much in common. Ann Arbor t's not often that we get to corn- pletely experience another cul- P tore and develop friendships with people our age who live thou- sands of miles away. I was lucky to have this opportunity earlier this year on the Nahalal-Ann Arbor Student Exchange. I hoped that in journeying to Naha- lal — Ann Arbor Jewish Federation's Partner...…
…feature learning of the heart by Chaviva Bluth continued from page T17 lessons from art R ;. ecently, students at Akiva Hebrew Day School in Southfield fed their creativity during a visit from New York artist Yona Verwer. Her art is inspired by her love for Judaism. Verwer showed a slideshow of her work, starting with simple objects and moving to "protection amulets" made for New York landmarks af- ter the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attac...…
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…entrepreneur Healthy Choices West Bloomfield cite Entrepreneur Of Year. T he Greater West Bloomfield Chamber of Commerce will honor West Bloomfield native Stacy Goldberg, a registered nurse committed to health, fitness and entrepreneurship. She will be recognized as 2010 Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the annual Chamber Awards Dinner at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 18, at Shenandoah Banquet Center in West Bloomfield. The founder of Stacy two ...…
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