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…WE REMEMBER During the coming week, Yeshiva Beth Yehudah will observe the yahrtzeits of the following departed friends with the traditional memorial prayer, recitation of kaddish and studying of mishnayos. Katie Glicklin Lena Miriam Lieberman Bernard Markofsky David Sherman Ralph Slootsiry Aaron Yampolsky Sam Yanchair Max Feldman William Milton Fleisher Morris Green Helen Koelner Israel Hirsh Mason Harry Overton Anna Spears Minnie Weberman A...…
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…Personal connection. Opinion page 36 www.detroitjewishnews.com April 16, 1999 Nisan 30, 5759 Vol. CXV, No. 8 6 Alternatives For Tots Private homes, Emanu-El offer infant t are options. 73 AppleTree Bar/Bat Mitzvah ... 58 58 Births 51 Calendar 118 Carla Schwartz 93 Crossword 14 Building. Identity In Poland and Israel, 42 local teens seek the Jewish experi- ence firsthand. Crossword Answers ..... Director's chair. The Scene page107 its...…
…April-May SPRING FORWARD WITH LIFE-LONG JEWISH LEARNING LATTE EC LEARNING 'The Jews of Syphon:2W 1999/ 5759 (IP A. with Rabbi Aaron Bergman Eilu v' Ellu joins with Adat Shalom Synagogue - in offering this five-part history series with Rabbi Daniel Nevins—April 14-May 12 Wednesday nights @ 8:00 pm • Borders Books & Music 30995 Orchard Lake Road, Farmington Hills Mondays @ 10:00 am Each session is self-contained and can be attended in...…
…Learning A Lesson About Impressions D SARA GOTTLIEB Special to The Jewish News id you ever try to make a good impression on some- one special in your life? Why is it that every time I meet that someone, I am caught off guard? Perhaps I'm late for a carpool and did not take the oppor- tunity to look myself over quickly in the mirror; or my car is in the shop and I am driving a neighbor's old jalopy. It might happen on one of those days when ...…
…Photos by Krista Husa Saving The Day(care) Temple Emanu-El agrees to run infant program at Oak Park Kr LONNY GOLDSMITH Staff Writer A Reform synagogue has agreed to lease space to continue running the endangered infant-tod- dler day care program at the Jewish Community Center in Oak Park. Temple Emanu-El, next-door neighbor to the JCC's Jimmy Prentis Morris Building, reached an agreement with Center leadership at a meeting on Tuesday, wit...…
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…JULIE WIENER Ste' Writer ith rising enrollment and rising Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit allocations, times are good for Detroit's Jewish day schools. Many of the News afternoon Hebrew Analysis schools — the tradi- tional venue for American Jewish edu- cation — wish they could say the same. With a reported 6,000 students locally and an estimated 60 to 70 per- cent of Jewish students nationally, Hebrew schools, also known as congre-...…
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…44,, .‘‘A \';• tV Living Memories (01- [571,7 A Detroit-area survivor makes history real for March of the Living youths. SHIRR TRAISON Special to The Jewish News t was a peaceful spring day in Poland, the golden sun setting, mild clouds decorating the clear blue sky when the Holocaust finally became a reality for us. 0 0 to . 9 U Jewish students and their tutors pass by a guard's tower at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz a...…
…HARRY KIRSBAUM Staff Writer Participants And Affiliations Id ark Tapper wasn't quite sure what clothes to pack last week to take to Poland and Israel, but he knew he had to make room for a camcorder. "In a few years, the survivor genera- tion will be gone," said Tapper, an 18- year-old senior at Cranbrook Kingswood School in Bloomfield Hills. "It's my responsibility as a Jew to be able to explain it to the generation after mine." "I don't k...…
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…• 4 TOM HAMAR COMMENTARY Holocaust Memorial Day, 5759 A survivor and the child of a survivor were among the speakers at the Memorial Acad- emy hosted Sunday at Congregation B'nai Moshe, sponsored by Shaarit Haplaytah of Detroit and the Holocaust Memorial Center. Their comments are reprinted here. The Academy was a tribute to the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust and to Israel's victims of terrorism. HMC Director Charles Rosenzveig ...…
….EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK Myopia Extends Beyond The Serbs memory of the Six Million. We dishonor our own humanity, the Judaism we 0 0. supposedly profess and the God to whom we pray. If Jewish martyrs are the only ones who matter, then we have crossed over. We have A radical, independent validated the rationale of the Listen to a few quotes Kosovo could be a hotbed Serbs, the Nazis, the Khmer gathered over the last week for radical fundamentalists ...…
…gd2blaarrnY.7teNilr'"Iiririt8 SPECIAL COMMENTARY P hoto cour frightened boy with his hands in the air, wondering why these men with rifles want to hurt him and his family. A man at the last moments of his life. Both pho- tographs I've seen many times before, but only recently did I learn that my grandfather recov- ered them at the JOSHUA close of World War PAUL CANE II. IN Online I am fortunate that Web Producer my family has been very voca...…
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