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…Metro Book 11 • Day schools excel in Southfield's reading battle. Tied for first, fourth grade: The Title Waves — Isaac Wolf, 9, Akiva; Jacob Kornblum, 9, Akiva; Avi Parshan, 9, Akiva; Jake Weil, 9, Akiva; Ami Zuroff, 10, Akiva; Ben Kellman, 9, Yeshiva Beth Yehudah. ewish day schools showed their literary prowess in the Southfield Public Library's annual Battle of the Books, which encourages the sport of reading and recognizes students w...…
…World Back To Our Roots Three generations support planting trees in Israel and bringing back JNF blue boxes. Shelli Liebman Dorfman Senior writer W hen 12-year-old Sam Sklar learned that a mind-boggling 2 million trees were burned by rockets fired into Northern Israel this past summer, he knew what he had to do. Sam made telling others about the devastation and collecting funds to help replace the trees a community service project he delv...…
…World Photo by PPO/BPH lmages/JTA Ho Hum? Israel, Quartet lukewarm on Hamas-Fatah agreement. Dan Baron accords seemed only to harden Hamas' line against the Jewish state. Officials from the Islamic group, which Jerusalem the United States and European Union consider terrorist, lined up to reaffirm arely in the annals of Middle their opposition to ever recognizing Israel. East diplomacy has a major rap- Mushir Masri, a Hamas lawmaker, said...…
…Birthright Boost Adelson gift of $25 million a year gives huge boost to Birthright Israel. more than 120,000 young Jews from 51 countries to Israel for free. It has Jewish Telegraphic Agency become widely accepted as the most successful and formative Jewish expe- New York rience for young adults. The program has been jointly he Adelson Family Charitable funded by private philanthropists, the Foundation made its first Jewish Agency for Israel...…
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…Dry Bones sue, lez Opinion Editorials are posted and archived on JNonline.us . Editorial Israel's Self-Destiny W hen John Bolton's appoint- ment as the U.S. delegate to the United Nations was not renewed, some Jewish organizations feared a wavering of America's rock- ribbed support for Israel would follow. But the recent U.N. resolution repudiat- ing those nations who deny the Holocaust ameliorated some of those concerns. It was initiate...…
…•-• Opinion OTHE V i EWS A Jew Down Under A ustralia is about the size of the United States, so a visit offers just a glimpse; but squeezing in Jewish sites can be a highlight of the trip. On a city bus in Sydney, I spotted an elegantly dressed older woman sitting primly with her purse on her lap. I recog- nized her as a Holocaust survivor whom I had seen earlier at the Jewish Museum of Sydney as she was speaking with a group of Jewish t...…
…Park Avenue Lifestyl Meets Woodward Avenue Location. Luxury. Lifestyle. exceptional. Given Israel's precari- ous status and the current state of its political culture, that vision seems to have been reversed. But the good news is that change is coming. Mr. Katsav, after all, is being brought to trial. The plethora of sex-related accusations against prominent Israelis is an indication of a maturing society no longer indulging the excesses o...…
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…CRANBROO- K Summer Day Camps 2007 Early Enrollment Temple Israel 5725 Walnut Lake Road West Bloomfield, MI 48322 Phone: 248-661-5750 www.temple-israel.org Enjoy a summer of fun with the early childhood center at Temple Israel Summer Programs! Camp Shemesh for ages 3-5 years and Sunshine Kids for ages 12 months-2.5 years. Sessions are available June 18-August 10. Brookside Day Camp for Boys & Girls ages 5 6 - Cranbrook Day Camp for Boys a...…
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…To Life! S PI TUAL Wrap It Right David Sachs Senior Copy Editor Angie Baan Staff Photographer C onservative men's clubs across several continents celebrated the World Wide Wrap on Feb. 4. Locally, Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills and Congregations Beth Shalom in Oak Park and B'nai Moshe and Beth Ahm in West Bloomfield participated. "It was a great success;' said Rabbi Steven Rubenstein of Beth Ahm, where two dozen people parti...…
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…T he five families had spent winter break together since the kids were little. Aruba, Acapulco, Florida — the vacations all meshed together into memories of saving lounge chairs, crowded restaurants and good times. This year was different. When Gary Weisman of Franklin and Steve Friedman of West Bloomfield- returned from the Fisher mission last October, they knew the following holiday break would be spent taking their families to Israel. The ...…
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…Arts & Entertainment Almost ••• Jewish Comic and The View co-host Joy Behar, often mistaken for a member of the tribe, brings her stand-up act to town. Alice Burdick Schweiger Special to the Jewish News F ans of ABC's The View will have a chance to see one of the show's co-hosts, comic Joy Behar, in person during appearances Friday and Saturday, Feb. 23-24, at the Andiamo Celebrity Showroom in Warren. Although she is Italian and sometimes...…
…Arts & Entertainment About 4•11 O Urban Artist Ben Aronson: Under the El (Chicago), 2003, oil on linen. 4 o Ben Aronson is one of eight artists participating in "Urban Landscape,' an exhibition of contemporary landscape paintings showing at the Lemberg Gallery in Ferndale through March 10. The Boston painter continues his ongoing exploration of the elusive balance between realism and abstraction in his intimate views of cities. "Fine pa...…
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