…Metro Room For Everyone 10 Unique relationship buds between synagogues over Laker building. Shelli Liebman Dorfman Senior Writer 0 n Aug. 27, Congregation Shaarey Zedek (CSZ) members voted overwhelmingly to approve the sale of the Irving and Beverly Laker Education and Youth Complex to Temple Shir Shalom at a purchase price of $2.5 million. The Laker building and Shir Shalom are less than two miles from one another on Walnut Lake Road in...…
…2007 GRANT REQUESTS The Sinai Guild V WISHES YOU A I Safe&Healthy NewYear! 2005 2006 BOARD OF DIRECTOR GRANTS BOARD OF DIRECTOR GRANTS Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital Purchase 13 biphasic defibrillators. $16,500 Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan Purchase of a Reo therapy robot to assist stroke and brain injury patients. $39,000 Jewish Family Services Purchase prescription medication for the uninsured. $50,000 Sinai-Grace Hospital Eight...…
…WOMEN IN PHILANTHROPY 2007 This year, on Wednesday, October 17, The Sinai Guild welcomes noted writer, actor and producer Alan Thicke to our Women in Philanthropy br'east cancer benefit hosted by Women in Philanthropy co-chairs Rose Rita Goldman and Barbara Nemer. He will be speaking from his own personal experience caring for several family members. The event will be held at Congregation Shaarey Zedek at 10:45 and includes a luncheon. ...…
…Staff photos by Angie Baan Metro Friendship Circle co-founders Rabbi Levi Shemtov and his wife, Bassie, as the rabbi sounds the shofar to begin the walk. Making A Difference Friendship Circle draws 1,500 walkers for fundraiser. 20 September 13 • 2007 Keri Guten Cohen Story Development Editor G od smiled on Friendship Circle's second annual Walk4Friendship in many ways on Sunday, Sept. 9. What looked like a rainy day in the morning tu...…
…`7 947,71•",it Walkers head west along Maple Road toward the Meer Friendship Circle Center. 0.0 liana Borson of West Bloomfield with Ryan Chekan, 5, of Bloomfield Hills, and Max Haaseth, 4, of West Bloomfield Kurt and Leah Einhaus of Huntington Woods with their children Henry, 5, and Grace, 7 t oinall/Pao 110e11" 'an pep/ 1 4ily terdSI David, Julie, 1, and Max Ferber, 8, of West Bloomfield Dani, 12, and Linda Blumstein of West Bl...…
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…(See page 22) World 13 Reaching Out Reform Rabbi Eric Yoffie electrifies Muslim forum. of Muslims." If the police are looking for a rapist, you look exclusively at male, not female, suspects:' Pipes said. "If you look out for Rosemont, Ill. Muslim terrorists, you look at the Muslim population." he delegates trickling into the The Islamic Society of North America massive convention center chat- has been named as "an unindicted co- ted, ren...…
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