…1 9 4 2 Celebrating 50 years of growth with the Detroit Jewish Community 1 9 9 2 THE JEWISH NEWS MAY 15, 1992 / 12 IYAR 5752 SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS ngler's Staff Bungles Tribute KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer - he Engler administra- tion this week reacted to angry Jewish leaders by signing a procla- mation that acknowledges the 25th anniversary of the •eunification of Jerusalem. Previously, the governor's staff members returned to Jewish F...…
…The Attorneys Division of State of Israel Bonds Cordially Invites You To Attend The Eleanor Roosevelt Humanities Award Dinner Guests of Honor Dennis w. Archer and Judge Trudy D. Archer With Distinguished Guest Speaker The Honorable Yehuda Blum, Israel's former Ambassador to the United Nations Tuesday, June 2, 1992 Congregation Shaarey Zedek ❖ 27375 Bell Road, Southfield George E. Bushnell, Jr., Carl J. Marlinga, Alan A. May — Dinner Cha...…
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…CONTENTS UP FRONT ' Some Tough Introspection \WINSTON PICKETT The UJA is critiquing its hard-sell approach. 11 SPORTS Hockey Shtick STEVE STEIN 7 OPINION A more positive look at Conservative Jewry. 14 For 20 years, Yeshiva Hockey League provides some fast action. DETROIT 49 • Emanu-El hires Rabbi Amy Bigman. • Beth El adopts inner-city school. 20 NOTEBOOK Jews and minorities and Hillel Levine. 31 BACKGROUND New nuclear ...…
…EDITORIAL A Sign We Need To Carry A solitary man holding a sign. He stood across the street from the en- trance of the Shrine of the Little Flower on Monday night. Inside the church, the Ecumenical Institute for Jewish-Christian Studies was sponsoring a tour of the Shrine and a fund-raising reception. The organiza- tion's funding is due to end this September. The nearly illegible writing on the sign was still clear enough to read. It said th...…
…A More Positive Outlook For Conservative Judaism LEONARD WANETIK he article on the Con- servative movement in last week's issue had two things wrong with it, from my perspective. First, it was a tad too pessimistic. Se- cond, it did not contain any- thing about Hillel Day School — an important part of each congregation's life — without which a discussion of Conser- -vative Judaism is incomplete at best. As for the first point, I com- pared t...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS J\ ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER: Arthur M. Horwitz EDITOR EMERITUS: Philip Slomovitz MANAGING EDITOR: Phil Jacobs ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Alan Hitsky ASSISTANT EDITOR: Is your small business or practice lost in the big bank shuffle? CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: ,( Elie Wiesel WASHINGTON K CORRESPONDENT: James D. Besser FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT: Helen Davis PHOTOGRAPHER: Glenn Triest LOCAL COLUMNISTS: Danny Raskin Carla Jean Schwartz Maybe it...…
…Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit cordially invites you to attend Our Annual Dinner Rosalyn and Rudolph 5"1 Shulman Wednesday, May 27, 1992 Adat Shalom Synagogue honoring Robert I. Schostak Rabbi Efry Spectre Honorary Dinner Chairmen Carla Schwartz Dinner Chair Rosalyn and Rudolph 51 Shulman Cocktails 6:00 p.m. Dinner 7: 00 p.m. Couvert: $150.00 per person For Reservations call - 851-6950 Cantor Larry Vieder Florine Mark R...…
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…P FRONT A Tough Look Inward An in-house report offers a sobering °. critique of some of the UJA's hard-sell Fundraising methods. LWINSTON PICKETT Special to The Jewish News hen more than 750 United Jewish Ap- peal executives and fund-raisers from across the United States converge here khis weekend, they'll be car- ving a report in their at- !aches that may change the way Jewish philanthropy is r conducted for years to come. The UJA-commis...…
…UP FR• Tough Look Continued from preceding page aRg TRADITION. Isn't there one more worth carrying on? Friday night. The end of the week. The beginning of Shabbat. A time to relax, reflect and renew. And as much a part of this tradition as the candles and the challah was knowing the weekly Jewish News had also arrived. It brought news about the community, the nation and the world. 'Today, that tradition hasn't changed. In fact, it's gott...…
…LOCAL NEWS • ROLEX • TUDOR • OMEGA • TISSOT • BERTOLUCCI • TAG HEUER • SECTOR • VAL ST LAMBERT • WATERFORD CRYSTAL • A T. CROSS • PARKER • ROLEX • TUDOR • OMEGA • TISSOT • BERTOLUCCI • PARKER • The Midrasha — College of Jewish Studies and Con- gregation Beth Abraham Hillel Moses will co-sponsor the annual Lag B'Omer event 7:30 p.m. May 20 at the synagogue. The topic to be discussed is titled, "Person to Person: According to Jewish Law." Rabb...…
…DETROIT I FIFTY YEARS AGO Temple Beth El Is Adopting All-Black Detroit School Half Of Campaign Goal Reached In First Week This column will be a weekly feature during The Jewish News' anniversary year, looking at The Jew- ish News of today's date 50 years ago. PHIL JACOBS Managing Editor T his week's lead headline told the Jewish community that over $526,000 was raised toward the Al- lied Jewish Campaign's $985,000 goal. A Page 1 photog...…
…This Year In Detroit. . . I Israel independence Day Rabbi Bigman interned at Emanu-El and tutored bar and bat mitzvah students, conducted adult education classes, preached her first sermons and followed Rabbi Steinger through his, daily schedule. She also served as a substitute rabbi at Temple Shir Shalom. She is a graduate of An- dover High School and the University of Michigan. Although her parents, Ron and Carol Bigman, now live in Flori...…
…DETROIT New Jewish Agenda Takes On The Far Right MOVING SALE: 50-75% OFF AMY J. MEHLER Staff Writer R esisting right-wing political agendas and building coalitions are the themes of this weekend's New Jewish Agenda Midwest Regional Retreat in Aim Arbor. "We need a government to take care of the people by the people," said Ken Wachsberger, New Jewish Agenda member. "I'd like to see this country go back to some of the ideas of the poets a...…
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…More Detroit suburban homeowners you want to reach Detroit's affluent suburban homeowners, you want to advertise in SPRING. Because SPRING's audited circulation of 728,609 more than doubles the suburban daily The Shulmans Hillel Dinner Honors Shulmans circulation of either The Detroit News (288,960) or Free Press (358,553). The Hillel Day School An- nual Dinner will be held 6 p.m. May 27 at Adat Shalom Synagogue. Rosalyn Shulman a...…
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…CLOSE-UP 1(. 10 /14 g4tk ` • Prominent Detroiters talk about their- T he boys were known as Public Enemy Number One and Public Enemy Number Two. They met in 1933 and became best pals when they both served on the yearbook staff for Choate School in Wallingford, Conn. Most of all, they loved making mischief and had a reputation as the school's troublemakers. Their names were John F Kennedy and Kirk LeMoyne "Lem" Billings. "Once, upon retu...…
…est pals. By Elizabeth Applebaum Richard Lobenthal • • Richard Lobenthal, direc- tor of the Anti-Defamation League Michigan Region, has three sets of best friends: John and Sandra Shephard, Robert Naftaly, and Karl and Julie Kadow. Mr. Lobenthal met Mr. Shephard, a judge with the Michigan Court of Appeals, through mutual friends in the early 1980s. The Loben- thals and the Shephards travel to Europe, rotate eders at each other's homes, and ...…
…CLOSE-UP Esther Shapiro Paul D. Borman Director of the Consumer Affairs Department for the City of Detroit, Ms. Shapiro met her best pal 20 years ago when they were neighbors. Her name is Carol Camp- bell. But it wasn't until the two worked together in city government that they really got to know each other. Ms. Campbell, who has since retired, served on Mayor Coleman Young's staff. "She earned my respect," Ms. Shapiro says of Ms. Campbell....…
…E,..- --' I t • S.- --- Don Shane WXYZ's colorful sports- caster and his best pal fit each other to a T. Not long after he arrived in Detroit in the 1970s, Mr. Shane met Dr. Ed Cohen — appropriately enough — on the golf course. "He was putting around , and I was putting around," Mr. Shane recalls. "And I heard him talking to the golf pro, saying he admired an attractive woman out on the practice tee. I had to tell him, 'By the way, that's ...…
…"WI Rejoice with Jerusalem Engler Continued from Page 1 A family celebration commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Reunification of Jerusalem issue. He immediately called upon the Jewish community to activate itself politically. Though he was surprised that the state agreed to reissue the proclamation, Mr. Schlussel did not change his plea. "We have become far too complacent and comfortable with our position within the American politi...…
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…DETROIT Shay Samuel Simani walked barefoot through the deserts of Sudan on his way to freedom in Israel. With the shirt on his back and the few things he could carry, Shay left the only world he knew to live in a land his people had dreamed of for centuries. Resettled with the assistance of the Jewish Agency for Israel, the former teacher now helps fellow Ethiopian Jews learn about their new home in Israel. As the Jewish Federation's major ...…
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…JCCouncil's Annual Meeting Will Feature A Town Forum The relationship between Detroit and its suburbs will be the focus of the Jewish Community Council's annual meeting 7:30 p.m. May 26 at Temple Israel. Panelists for the program, which is being presented in cooperation with the Race Relations Council of Metro- politan Detroit, are Edward Hustoles, deputy executive director of planning for SEM- COG; Rabbi M. Robert Syme of Temple Israel, and...…
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…°"""mm'i NEWS I LEBARON CONVERTIBLE RESIDENTIAL Gala Marked In Spain Toledo, Spain (JTA) — For \--, / a moment there, Toledo thought its Jews had come back. But the bustle of shopping, • touring, praying, curious Sephardim in the legendary was only a temporary • city . sight brought about by the commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the expulsion of Spain's Jews. The concert and spiritual gathering called "By My Spirit," which in its h...…
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…Photos by Glenn Triest SPORTS Allan Platt, Al Rosenberg and Mickey Zuroff take a quick breather during a recent game. Hockey Shtick STEVE STEIN Special to The Jewish News 0 n a recent late Sun- day night, a local tele- vision station showed the conclusion of the movie "Back to the Future II" just as a group of hockey players prepared to enter their own time machine. The 20 or so men limbered up on the ice at an otherwise deserted Oak Pa...…
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