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…TROITI THE JEWISH NEWS 13 FRONT This Week's Top Stories Matchmaker, Matchmaker Today's shadchanim find away to link up loves in the modern world. Love, American Style Jewish marital habits are about the same as those of the rest of the population. JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER Left: Irene Slobin, with her dog Frisco, has successfully matched over 100 couples. Below: "It's nice if you can make a Jewish co...…

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…OPINION February 14, 1997 • Political power plays affect our community. 27 TELL ME WHY A Diplomat From Gondar Israel's first Ethiopian-born envoy shares her experience with Michigan students. How did the famous Zero get his name? 36 Not just for your mother. page 18 Jewish Future In Argentina Two Argentineans — one studying to be a rabbi — are here for a crash course in Jewish community. THE PULSE Through illness, health, these coup...…

…rom Gondar Israel's first Ethiopian-born diplomat shares her experience with U-M students. ALAN ABRAMS THE DETR OIT J EWISH NEWS SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS (e0,0 mesh Zevadia can lay claim to a dou- '"first.” .., Not only is she Israel's first Ethiopi- orn diplomat, but, as she proudly is out, she is Israel's first female opian-born diplomat. e daughter of a former grand rab- f the h Ethiopian Jews, she is the No. epresentative at Israel'...…

…Ethiopian Jews leave Gondar in 1991 for Addis Ababa. oral Torah that adapted Judaism to the changing time periods and communities where Jews lived." When an Ethiopian Jewish woman gave birth to a baby boy, she would leave her home for 40 days to separate herself from the community. "This was done in order to purify herself," Ms. Zevadia said. "After a girl was born, she would leave her house for 80 days. This practice was fol- lowed because o...…

…r Keeping Talent Local Federation talks to college students, hoping to pinpoint what will keep future Jewish leaders in Michigan. LYNNE MEREDITH COHN STAFF WRITER C ollege students who grew up around Detroit say there isn't much the Jewish community can do to keep them here — but if they have al- ready decided to stay, a few moves just might enhance their decision. Federation met with focus groups of students at Michigan State University,...…

…Two Argentineans — are here for a crash course in Jewish communal leadership. JULIE WIENER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS F or most Americans, Ar- gentina conjures up images of a glamorous Eva Peron- as-played-by-Madonna crooning to the masses in Evita. But there is also a Jewish side to Argentina, acommunity strug- gling to rebuild itself in the face of such challenges as bombings, assimilation, a legacy of anti- Semitism and a struggling econ...…

…ARGENTINA page 9 A National Gathering Detroit is sending a bigger delegation than usual to a conference of Jewish community relations organizations this year. JULIE WEINGARDEN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS PHOTO BY GLENN TRIES T Ironically, the bombing helped "So then 25 people came the facilitate Mr. Avruj's dramatic next week. Now we have 150 peo- revival of the 45-year-old syna- ple for kabbalat Shabbat, 30 to gogue where he had been re- ...…

…DETROIT 1 THE JEWISH NEWS Vol. CX No. 25 PUBLISHED BY: The Jewish News Group of Waterspout Communications LLC Founder Charles A. Buerger Executive Vice Presidents Andrew A. Buerger, Arthur M. Horwitz, Sylvia Boyko Stafford Art Director Robyn Katz Assistant Art Director Fiona Lawrence Editorial Deadline: All public and social announcements must be typewritten, double-spaced and received by Thursday noon, eight days prior to desired date of ...…

…Detroit Independent Guild The Sinai Guild plans to ensure a Jewish presence at the hospital. PHIL JACOBS EDITOR T hey push book carts from hospital room to room. They work with new Americans, helping trans- late their problems into solutions. They fund-raise. For 45 years, the Sinai Hospi- tal Guild has provided the volun- teer services necessary for the facility to succeed. Making it dif- ferent from other hospital auxil- iaries is the J...…

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…Our readers deluged us with photographs of their loved ones. TH E DE TR OIT J EWISH NE WS JILL DAVIDSON SKI AR STAFF WRITER 14 e asked you to send in pho- tographs of the ones you love. And you did. In droves. In one week, about 70 en- tries were received in re- sponse to an advertisement in The Jewish News by Tap- - per's diamonds and fine jew- elry. The photos also served as an entry into a random drawing for a 1/2-carat dia- mond heart ...…

…Top left: "This is my cousin Ken Chupack. We were born on the same day, same year, just five hours apart," wrote reader Sheila Glantz of West Bloomfield. "He is my best friend and always has been." Middle left: Shovan, a 15-month-old Akbash dog, gives a kiss to his friend. The deer, injured when it was clipped by a car and later released into the wild, didn't mind when Shovan bestowed a healing kiss. "Everything he sees he wants to mother," s...…

…Sinai continues supplying for its kosher kitchen. JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER A conflict over who actual- ly oversees the supervision of Sinai Hospital's kosher kitchen has Rabbi Leonard Perlstein a bit peeved. For years, the Council of Or- thodox Rabbis of Greater Detroit (Vaad Harabonim) has listed in its newsletter, Voice of the Vaad, that it provides supervision for the hospital's kosher kitchen. But Rabbi Perlstein, director of pa...…

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…PHOTOS BY BILL HANSEN Not Juit For Your Mother Young professional women find a place in Hadassah's Ruach chapter. LYNNE MEREDITH COHN STAFF WRITER T he roots of Hadassah's Ru- ach chapter can almost be traced back to the cornfields of Iowa. Kari Provizer was living there, thinking about the difficulties that would accompany a move back home to suburban Detroit. When she returned in October 1994, she wanted a way to "network with other yo...…

…PHOTOS COURTESY OF AMANDA WARN ER Weekend In Washington Voicing their concerns, teens from Adat Shalom and Shaarey Zedek give members of Congress something to think about. LYNNE MEREDITH COHN STAFF WRITER C ollege acceptances are about to arrive and midterms are around the corner. But for 33 high- schoolers from Adat Shalom and Shaarey Zedek synagogues, it's also time to explore a little. The group of Detroit area teen- agers descended on...…

…Remember Those Homemade Valentines? gans and wives," he claims. "It's like Mother's Day if you're not a mother, or Thanksgiving if you are a turkey." "Lemme make sure I under- stand, Herb; kinda like the Fourth of July if you're a water- melon or hot dog?" TED ROBERTS SPECIAL TO THE JEW SH NEWS "You got that right," says Her- hy are women blessed make sure you're up. It chimes bie. Herb swears the last time he with Post-Mikvah Syn- off-key. O...…

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…Full Force Ahead Holocaust's Child JARC's young adult division decides on 1997 events. Revelations in adulthood about Jewish ancestry need privacy, and time, to absorb. LYNNE MEREDITH COHN STAFF WRITER WALTER REICH SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS T he young adult division of the Jewish Association for Residential Care (JARC) decided at its recent plan- ning meeting to sponsor six events in 1997. In addition to the annual pre- glow and theate...…

…publicity. She now must rework her sense of her identity at the same time that she must con- tend with a challenging and sometimes. intrusive press. What the world must still learn is how, common such late discoveries are. They take many forms and occur at many points in the lives of children whose parents hid them during the Holocaust, survived it or escaped from it. . The Holocaust's hidden chil- dren are in a category of their own. Desperat...…

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…than Christian divorce. I would venture to guess that because of the relative absence of alcoholism, spousal abuse is a lesser reason for divorce. We can sort of guess our way to what isn't causing it, but we're not good at guessing what does cause it," Dr. Mayer says. Lack of family support and dif- ferent cultural attitudes are ob- vious factors in marital instability among interfaith couples, but so might be parental marital histo- ry, he ...…

…tie . • . 'A . ..... 7414h ark The Secretary's Revelation In a sense, last week's reve- lation in the Washington Post that U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's family perished in the Holocaust — as Jews — changes nothing. We long ago passed the milestone of the first Jewish secretary of state when Hen- ry Kissinger took the job dur- ing the Nixon administration. Back then, overt anti-Semi- tism was still a factor for many Madele...…

…Community Views Publisher's Notebook Political Power Plays Affect Our Community Thank The Docs For Administering CPR DAVID GAD HARF SPEC AL TO THE JEWISH NEWS ARTHUR M HOMMTZ PUBL SHER - director of the Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit. oratory in many areas of human services policy. As a result of the 1996 federal welfare reform legislation, the most vulnerable Jewish popula- tion to be affected by the power shift is t...…

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