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…THE JEWISH NEWS UP FRONT This Week's Top Stories As educators struggle to control expenditures, tuition continues to climb at area day schools. JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER F or years, parents of Hillel cut costs and keep tuition af- for the wealthiest families. Day School students suf- fordable. Moderate-income families fered through tuition in- "We have tried very hard in paid $6,550. creases, some nearly 20 keeping those costs dow...…

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…Healthy information on labels. page 69 March 14, 1997 7 1 Detroit OPINION Whatever form it takes, intolerance hurts. 27 Genetic Archaeology A handful of professional sleuths can search deep into your American Jewish past. TELL ME WHY iLA T iON &' Remembering Ron The strange legacy of Josef Stalin. 30 For Fred and Kim Goldman, Jewish mourning ritual hasn't removed their pain. THE PULSE Healthy information on new food labels. 69 ...…

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…chaeology A handful of local professional sleuths have made it possible for American Jews to search deep into their pasts. DARCIE LUNSFORD SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS PHOTOS BY DANIEL LIPPITT n some ways, Bloomfield Hills resident Betty Provizer Starkman considers herself to be a finder of lost families. In other ways, Mrs. Starkman sees herself as a detective, following one clue to the next. In still others, she's a historian, recounting t...…

…GENETIC page 7 weren't here," Mrs. Starkman said. "And then I got hooked." Down the road in Oak Park, genealogist Phillip Applebaum tells a similar story of curiosity turned to lifelong pursuit. He was a teen-ager, boning up on the history of the British roy- al family, when he began to won- der about his own family. "I began asking my father about our own family history," Mr. Applebaum recalled. His Polish-born parents survived the Holocaust...…

…PHOTO BY DANIEL LI PPITT A War Of Words Rabbi Arnie Sleutelberg and 50 others go to Israel to fight legislation that would bar non-Orthodox converts from making aliyah. EMILY SENDLER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS abbi Arnie Sleutelberg of Troy's Congregation Shir Tikvah visited Israel in January with 50 other Re- form rabbis from around the country. Their purpose: to put a stop to legislation that would bar non- Orthodox Jewish converts from ...…

…Coming Home Still In Limbo Rabbi Joseph P. Klein returns to the region to serve as Temple Emanu-El's new leader. David Tenenbaum remains off the job while the FBI continues its investigation. JULIE WIENER STAFF WRITER JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER Detroit Jewish community as a strong, vital and viable Jewish community," he said. While in Chattanooga, Rabbi Klein organized and co-directed a community religious school that is supported by his ...…

…DETROIT THE JEWISH NEWS Vol. CXI No. 3 Publisher Arthur M. Horwitz Editor Phil Jacobs Associate Editors Elizabeth Applebaum, Alan Hitsky Assistant Editor Gail Zimmerman Copy Editor Lynne Konstantin Senior Writer Julie Edgar Staff Writers Lynne Meredith Cohn, Jill Davidson Sklar, Julie Wiener Contributing Editors Michael Davis, Neil Rubin Washington Correspondent James D. Besser Foreign Correspondent Douglas Davis Israel Correspondents Ina F...…

…• 7: • From Profits To Prophets Local rabbi participates in new corporate training program. JULIE WIENER STAFF WRITER L ong a staple in the world of profits, corporate training is now entering the realm of prophets. Under the auspices of an in- novative new program, Rabbi Steven Weil of Young Israel of Oak Park, along with 16 other young Orthodox rabbis from all over North America, has been se- lected to spend the next two years enhancin...…

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…Above: History buffs Daniel Newman, liana Borzak, Yissachar Jerusalem, Eitan Codish and Rebecca Halpern. eacher Janice Salter's fourth- graders at Akiva Hebrew Day School let their creativity Right: Eitan Codish's family was all over the map. branch out as they dug up their roots. As part of a class project on immigration, the social studies cip Lu students tracked their back- grounds by talking to their grandparents and great-gra...…

…Akiva students travel to the past to uncover their personal histories. JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER DANIEL LIPPITT PHOTOGRAPHER search Top left: Yissachar Jerusalem used an apple tree to tell his story. Top right: Rebecca Halpem has a heavenly heritage. Above: Ilana Borzak mapped out her history. Left: Daniel Newman's flow chart tracks the Newman dynasty. …

…For Fred and Kim Goldman, the rituals of Judaism haven't taken away the pain of mourning their murdered son and brother, Ron Goldman. JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER K im Goldman and her broth- er Ron both got the same present from their grand- parents to mark their b'nai mitzvah, a "Chai" pendant. Al- though both symbolized the He- brew word for life, Ms. Goldman liked her brother's version better. "Ron's was so much cooler than mine," sh...…

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…GOLDMAN page 16 "For the time [it takes to say Kaddish], I think of nothing but my brother and that is painful for me," she said. The family also finds it difficult to find forgiveness for the man held responsible in the civil trial for the death of Ron. "I hate him. He murdered Ron" Mr. Goldman said. "I certainly don't feel love or compassion for him, and I don't think I ever will." For now, the family has no plans for a movie or other ven- ...…

…dents say they are continuously challenged. "She is the best teacher I ever had," said student Dana Katz, 9. "I want to go to school every day." That's a change from previous years, said Dana's mother, Rhonda Katz. "[Mrs. Harris] makes it fun. She puts a lot of time into it. Her whole life is these kids." Mrs. Harris, a longtime mem- ber of Temple Israel, uses tech- nology and interactive activities to make learning relevant and fun for studen...…

…vrtr MSU Hillel Jewish Student Center, The Jewish Studies DeNttment and The All UniversityExcellence in Diversity Conference and Lecture Series, and The Greater Lapsing Jewish Welfare Federation present A Round Of Golf, Little-Kid Style ERICA MEYER RAUZIN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS M y parents have two grandsons, my little boy, who just turned 7, and my nephew, who is al- most 6. Neither of them have hit the links yet, but they are comin...…

…BRIGHTEN UP YOUR WINTER BLAHS, PURIM'S ON THE WAY. CHEER A PERSON WITH A TREAT ON-THIS SPECIAL DAY. THE GREAT V at e 41 g 111P 11 SUNDAY, MARCH 16, 1997 - In his instruction to the Jews, Mordechai told them to make Purim "days...of sending portions one to another and gifts to the poor." FOUR WAYS la elp us deliver parcels rop off your parcels Decorate plates and fill them with at Sunday, March 16, 1997 from 10 am - 1:30 pm leas...…

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…WAREHOUSE SALE 2 DAYS N LY ! of the change in circumstances they've seen in just one year. She said, though, that the answers remain largely with Mr. Ne- tanyahu, that he's not the same person who presented messages favorable to her group's way of thinking. "It's ultimately God's decision, not Bibi's," said Mrs. Resnick. "But there is still an issue of truth. When we see a video like this, and we see Arafat saying these things against peace,...…

…t °Poiitmls) Allied Jewish Campaign THE COMMISSION ON JEWISH ELDERCARE SERVICES (CODES) is researching the need for Jewish adult day care programs for older adults with Alzheimer's disease and other dementia disorders. If you are a caregiver or relative of an older adult with a dementia disorder, living in the Metropolitan Detroit area, we need your input and opinions. Please join us for a discussion group to talk about the establishment ...…

…ALLEGRI • CANAL! • CORNELIANI • LUBIAM • NANI BON • REPORTER • RENE LEZARD • TINO COSMA • VESTIMENTA • ZANELLA RENAISSANCE ANN •ARBOR public policy with regard to the handling of accident victims in any other way. And there you see the tragic and pathetic result of our sense of victimization. Anyway, about three hours af- ter the traffic accident and sever- al blocks away, a group of black youths came upon 29-year-old Yanke1R,osenbaum, a ra...…

…• , . *.‘,V*\ •k ' -, * W ki4r$5'0" tir, ( , ,t. • gh ' ti 'fiNgSONSIAINtiglat10.1,'a. skill. More often than ever before, our schools need to recognize their human resources and pay them. What's also favorable over recent years is the level of commitment Federation has placed into day-school education. The numbers reprinted in the tables inside chronicle this commitment. We'll never write, however, that it's enough. Schools, teachers,...…

…Community Views Publisher's Notebook Whatever Form It Takes, Intolerance Hurts Questioning Shouldn't End After The Seder JOE KORT SPEC AL TO THE JEW SH NEWS ARTHUR M. HORWITZ PUBLISHER Anti-Semitism. Being Jewish, I knew of the con- cept growing up but never actual- ly suffered from direct acts of it. I knew epithets like "Jew boy," "kike," and "Jew them down" existed but never had any of these words or phras- es directed to me personall...…

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…"\N MARCH 14, 1997 Doug Ross Will Be Honored The America-Israel Chamber of Commerce of Michigan (AICCM) will honor former Michigan Commerce Director Doug Ross at the Chamber's annual dinner 6:30 p.m. Sunday, March 16, at the Somerset Col- lection in Troy. Mr. Ross was selected because he initi- ated,a novel "technology pipeline" for link- ing Michigan's manufacturing base with Israel's pool of technical talent, which re- sulted in the first...…

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