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October 15, 2015 • Page Image 54

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…obituaries >> Ruth Driker Kroll: Trailblazer For Women R uth Driker Kroll, who civic institutions. passed away on Sept While this issue was being raised 30, 2015, at age 90, was elsewhere, it was Ruth who pressed one of the earliest advocates for AJC to address it here. Thus was born the place of women as leaders in the Detroit Women's Forum with Jewish communal life. Ruth as its founding director. The In the 1970s, Ruth was Forum launched ...…

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…His Humanism Aided Humanity H enry Krystal, an American psychoan- ulatory and adaptive behavior. He noted that alyst and expert on the psychological under stress, traumatized and addicted indi- impact of the Holocaust, died Oct. 8, viduals tended to lose the capacity to accu- 2015, at the age of 90. The cause was compli- rately identify and express their emotional cations of Parkinson's disease. state. Instead, traumatized individuals tended...…

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…Ellie and David. Mrs. Konvisser was the beloved wife of the late David Konvisser and the late George Haskin. Internment was at Mt. Olive Cemetery, Solon, Ohio. Contributions may be made to the Faustman Lab-Cure Diabetes Now Fund, fndr.se/XSJs; or the Israel Center for the Treatment of Psychotrauma-Peace of Mind Project, traumaweb.secured.co.il// donate.asp?lang=en&PageId=15 (note ICTP-POM in Comments box). YOU'VE ALWAYS ANTICIPATED EACH OTHER...…

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…obituaries >> continued from page 64 Terror Attacks In Israel Kill 3 Aviv and home to many immi- grants from English-speaking countries. JTA.org An eastern Jerusalem resident employed by a local rehabilitation t least three Israelis have T. center stabbed pedestrians at a bus been killed and more than .. stop on Ahuza Street, the city's main 20 wounded in a rash of ter- . g. thoroughfare. He was subdued by rorist attacks throughout the coun...…

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October 15, 2009 • Page Image 1

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…JN Contents - thejewishnews.com Oct. 15-21, 2009 27 Tishrei-3 Cheshvan 5770 Vol. CXXXVI, No. 11 Nutritionall y Speaking By Barbara Beznos, RD, LD/N Integrated Nutrition, LLC Time To Dance Jeffrey Eisman of West Bloomfield was among 400 people at the multi-synagogue Simchat Torah celebration Saturday night. Dear Readers, On The Cover: Special Report Beyond The First 25 Years 11 Holocaust center welcomes new director. Metro Lungevi...…

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…The Insider NEWS & VI WS Easing Local Hunger U are the missing ingredient in Yad Ezra's war against hunger in the Jewish community. That was the theme last week at the independent agency's strolling supper at Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills. The 20-year-old kosher food bank in Berkley is now serving 3,700 clients a month, the equivalent of 5 percent or more of Detroit's estimated 72,000 Jews. Dinner honoree Ron Charfoos told 425 ...…

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…Letters How to Send Letters We prefer letters relating to JN articles. We reserve the right to edit or reject letters. Letters of 225 words or less are considered first. Longer ones will be subject to trimming. Letter writers are limited in frequency of publication. Letters must be original and contain the name, address and title of the writer and a day phone number. Non-electronic copies must be hand signed. Send letters to the JN: 29200 No...…

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…fi Front Lines xrpor,, SSANCE DETROIT JEWISH NE G E T theJEWISHNEWS.com Advertising Sales Stamp It Chanukah The 2009 Chanukah stamp went on sale on Friday and should be available at all local post offices. It features the new menorah design. The U.S. Postal Service has printed only 35 mil- lion Chanukah stamps. So distribution to local post offices will be only 15 per- cent of what it is for other new stamps. If the 2009 Chanukah stamp...…

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…It's not just a black eye. Does someone you love intimidate you? insult you? control your finances? tell you that you are a bad parent? threaten you? hurt you? Does someone you know seem ashamed? feel isolated? make excuses? live in fear? Participating Agencies: Adat Shalom Synagogue Yeshivat Akiva Alliance for Jewish Education Anti Defamation League BBY0 Central Station Detroit Chabad Jewish Hour Congregation Beth Atm/ Congregation B'na...…

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…Special Report REMEMBERING THE SHOAH I ON THE CO \L_, As the Holocaust Memorial Center marks its silver anniversary, a new executive director looks to the future. Shelli'Liebman Dorfman Senior Writer A s the Holocaust Memorial Center (HMC) on the Zekelman Family Campus in Farmington Hills commemorates the achievements of its first 25 years, new executive director, Stephen M. Goldman, looks to its future, instituting new pro- grams, planni...…

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…Special Report REMEMBERING THE SHOAH The History Of The HMC 1963-1977 — In 1963, members of Shaarit Haplaytah ("The Remnant"), a sur- The First 25 from page 11 Art in Tulsa from 2004-2006. Since that time, he worked as administrator and executive director of Temple Beth El in St. Petersburg and as a consultant for several museums and centers for the arts. At the Florida Holocaust Museum, Goldman led a $13 million expansion program that sa...…

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…"Although academic excellence can be found at other schools, what we experience at Hillel is a passion for learning that we just haven't seen anywhere else. Hillel is one of the most important decisions we have made in our lives, and we have never looked back." —Julie and Brad Feldman, Current Hillel Parents This is the Hillel Difference. HILLEL DAY SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2009, 6:45 p.m. 32200 Middlebelt Road, Farmingto...…

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…Special Report REMEMBERING THE SHAH The First 25 from page 12 "I have extensive experience with those issues that comprise genocide, Nazism, anti-Semitism, discrimination and prejudice he said. "I have much knowledge of the history contextualiz- ing those topics and others. I thoroughly enjoy making history accessible to oth- ers. Referring to himself as a "historiogra- pher," Goldman said, "I am not an histo- rian in the academic sense of ...…

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…ZOAIS MAKING A DIFFERENCE FO ISRAFLANO THFAEWISH PEOPLE ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA-MICHIGAN REGION married for nearly 40 years to Sylvia, a former librarian at the Canadian National Film Library at Canada House in London, England, and a retired assistant office administrator. Their fam- ily includes daughter Shimon, a Tampa head-hunter married to Rich Maddock, a high school teacher and football coach, and their children, Ryan, 10, and J...…

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…Join Us as We Walk for a Cur, LUNGevity's Metro Detroit Lung Cancer Walk A FAMILY FUN WALK! • 01N. Drake Sports Park LUNGevity West Bloomfield FOUNDATION www.lungevity.org Dedicated to funding lung cancer research Drake Road Just South of Maple Road To register, contribute, or to find more information on the Metro-De- Sunday, October 25, 2009 12:30 PM • Rain or Shine troit Lung Cancer Walk, please visit: www.lungevity.org/detroit...…

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…Metro Going The Distance Family and friends of LUNGevity founder gear up for second annual walk. Missy Lumberg Zagon Robin Schwartz Special to the Jewish News L ike the small army of walkers they're assembling to aid in the fight against lung cancer, Sherri and Eddie Lumberg of West Bloomfield are determined to keep moving forward. They're in the midst of an uphill battle against the disease that claimed the life of their 39-year old dau...…

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…Metro AROUND TOWN JETting Onward Jewish Ensemble Theatre supporters look to the future amid tough economic times. Don Benyas and Florine Mark of Farmington Hills Guy and Nora Barron of Bloomfield Hills and Bill and Susan Winer of Chicago, Melba Winer of West Madge Berman of Franklin Bloomfield, and Jan Winer of Los Angeles T he curtain went up this week on the world premiere of Kitty Dubin's newest play The Blank Page, the story of a...…

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…World At Technion Helm Sleep medicine pioneer eyes stronger embrace of higher education in Israel. Haifa S Jeep medicine expert Professor Peretz Lavie was inaugurated last week as the president of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, after unanimous approval in June by the Technion Board of Governors. Lavie took office Oct. 1, replacing Professor Yitzhak Apeloig, who is completing his second of two four-year terms. "This is the mos...…

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…Up To The Task Board chairman identifies . Technion challenges. ttracting the brightest and best young faculty and convincing the Israeli government to reverse its higher education appropriation cuts are the most pressing issues confronting the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. The Detroit-bred chairman of the International Board of Governors assures that the 13,000-student cam- pus in Haifa is up to the challenge. On the faculty fron...…

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…World ROUNDUP Weizmann Chemist Wins Nobel Prize RehovotlJTA — A Weizmann Institute sci- entist was awarded the Nobel Prize in chem- istry, only the fourth woman in history to Ada Yonath secure the prize. Ada Yonath joined Americans Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz in winning the prize on Oct. 7 for mapping ribosomes, the mechanisms that manufacture proteins within cells. The work has helped medical research- ers tailor antibiotics ...…

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…Cookies For Cancer Camp Friends of Camp Mak-A-Dream, Michigan Chapter, is partnering with the Somerset Collection and 17 area bakers to present the 11th Annual Cookies N' Dreams event. Proceeds will enable children, teens and young adults with cancer to attend Camp Mak-A-Dream, a cost- free camp in Gold Creek, Montana. There they experience a full range of recreational activities as well as meet others who share similar challenges with cancer....…

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…World Politics By Bulldozer Demolitions are at center of battle over Jerusalem. Dina Kraft Jewish Telegraphic Agency Jerusalem D eep in a valley below Jerusalem's Old City, a narrow alleyway leads to the remains of three bulldozed Arab homes in an area slated to become an archeological park. The homes, now just slabs of collapsed concrete, are in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan. Despite interna- tional protests — including f...…

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…ur Our Deportation? Native-born children of foreign workers pose dilemma for Israel. Dina Kraft Jewish Telegraphic Agency Tel Aviv T he round-faced boy given the unusual first name of Rabbi by his Filipino parents was born 11 years ago in Israel and has never known another home. He speaks only Hebrew and has never traveled to the Philippines, but along with some 1,100 other children of foreign workers without work permits in Israel, the ...…

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…World ASTRF, NS CREATIVE 'JEWELERS PAYS YOU The Pulse Of American Jews Results of annual AJC survey: • Increasing concern over Iran nukes; • Positive outlook on U.S.-Israel links. PER GRAM or higher* FOR 1 4KT GOLD WHAT'S YOUR LOCAL JEWELER PAYING? 6 Convenient, Honest, Secure Service a Top Dollar Paid to You On-the-Spot! 9 10kt, 14kt & 18kt Gold, Platinum & Silver c NO CHARGE to Remove Gemstones! In-House Surveys & Gold Stores Poppi...…

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…World American Jews from page 26 On Jerusalem When asked whether Israel, in the framework of a permanent peace with the Palestinians, should be willing to compromise on the status of Jerusalem as a united city under Israeli jurisdic- tion, 37 percent are in favor and 58 percent opposed. In 2007, 36 percent answered yes and 58 percent no. "While ideologically-driven Jewish groups of the left and right assert that a majority of American Jews s...…

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…Opinion A MIX OF IDEAS Editorials are posted and archived on JNonline.us . Domestic Violence Greenberg's View THE HOLOCAUST DIDN'T EXIST. GAYS IN IRAN MEANINGFUL OPPOSITION DON'T TO MY EXIST. ELECTION DOES NOT EXIST. I n January 1993, I began a journey of and dangerous responses to her behaviors. discovery by being in the right place People ask, "Why doesn't she leave?" at the right time. The answer to that question is complex As part o...…

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…CHALLENGING QUESTIONS CELEBRATING REALITIES Opinion FSU Renaissance Needs Support Tulsa/JTA F COLLOQUIUM 2009 OCTOBER 23 25 ARE YOU SIGNED UP YET? - CHALLENGING CONVENTION: SECULAR AND HUMANIST AND JEW WHO ARE SECULAR AMERICANS? CAN YOU BE GOOD WITHOUT A GOD? CAN YOU SEPARATE 'SYNAGOGUE AND STATE' IN ISRAEL? WHEN IS CONFORMITY GOOD? Secular Humanistic Judaism challenges convention in many directions. We challenge conventional wisdom, ...…

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…Opinion offth,a,irta/AfAciceto-tio-& Safe and affordable housing in a Jewish Communal Setting Kosher meals, activities, professional staff and transportation Immediate Occupancy Prentis Jewish Apartments Teitel Jewish Apartments Residences of Jewish Senior Life of Metropolitan Detroit 15100 & 15106 West Ten Mile Road, Oak Park, Michigan 48237 A. Alfred Taubman Jewish Community Campus For an application or more information, call Jewish...…

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…I Spirituality Dancing In The Streets Four West Bloomfield synagogues join together to celebrate Simchat Torah. Clockwise from upper left: Benton Karesh, 9, of West Bloomfield has fun on Simchat Torah. Rabbi Eric Yanoff of Shaarey Zedek leads the crowd in song. Rabbi Daniel A. Schwartz of Shir Shalom leads the Havdalah service before the Simchat Torah celebration begins. Shelli Liebman Dorfman Senior Writer T his past Shabbat morning, Ra...…

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…L I Spirituality Traveling Sukkah Project Two portable sukkot spend the holiday at new homes each year. Shelli Liebman Dorfman Senior Writer R achel and Nathan Bloch consid- ered building their first sukkah this year, but after checking out prices of prefab structures, they decided not to pursue it. "But the kids really wanted a sukkah," Rachel Bloch said. In previous years, they'd placed sticks over the roof of the playhouse in their F...…

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…+0: A THE EXPERT ....N . L. •■■ Rituals For Burying Worn, Sacred Items Q: What is the protocol for burying damaged Jewish prayer books and shawls? Should they be wrapped? Can they be buried in my yard? Are there special prayers to be recited? - Linda, Randolph, Mass. A: It sounds like you're talking about burying the contents of a genizah, Linda. Genizah means "reserved" or "hidden" in Hebrew, and is tradition- ally a place where Jews ...…

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