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…jews d BARBARA BAREFIELD on the cover in the Education Hero Kathleen Straus retires, but won’t stop fighting. SHARI S. COHEN CONTRIBUTING WRITER ABOVE: Straus with Eugene and Elaine Driker at the 40th anniversary celebration in 2014 of the Detroit Women’s Forum, of which Straus was a founding member. W hen Kathleen Straus retired in December at the end of her three eight-year terms on the Michigan Board of Education, she was one of t...…
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…jews d in the IZAK GRACY continued from page 10 ABOVE: Straus pinpoints her son in an old yearbook for a story on education in Detroit in the JN last December. RIGHT: Campaign flier for Straus’ run for WSU Board of Governors. After thinking she had won, a recount caused her to lose the election. tion stipulated in the federal Constitution. Michigan voters have rejected school vouchers three times, she says, voting against them with strong...…
…Sunday, February 26 at 1:30 p.m. Documentary Film & Discussion with Oscar-Winning Filmmaker Jon Blair Through her work in Lansing and Detroit, Straus met State Rep. Jack Faxon, who later became a state senator. Faxon chaired the Senate Education Committee, and Straus was named its staff director, serving from 1976 to 1979. Faxon says Straus was “very collected in her ability to work with different groups who would snap at each other but coul...…
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…jews d & in the Members of National Council of Jewish Women, Greater Detroit Section (NCJW/Greater Detroit) marched Jan. 21 with 8,000 others on the streets of Lansing in support of human rights, civil liberties and social justice for all. Irma Glaser, NCJW/Greater Detroit state policy advocate, and Sandi Matz, section president, led two full buses of members and supporters. “It is hard to picture one lonely voice making much of an impact,” ...…
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…jews d in the Rabbi Elya Silfen shares a meal and conversation with local Jewish teens. Sharing Shabbat & More JTeen is helping young people connect to their Jewish identities. STACY GITTLEMAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER C an today’s secular Jewish teens still relate to Judaism through Shabbat dinners, discus- sions over Talmudic texts and even the occasional retelling of a story by the Chasidic master Baal Shem Tov? Rabbi Elya Silfen, director...…
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…moments Micah Sam (Micah Shalom) Bienstock was called to the Torah in celebration of his bar mitzvah on Feb. 11 at Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills. Beinstock Micah is the son of Deborah Fishman Bienstock and Robert Bienstock, and brother of Julia Bienstock. He is the grandson of Marvin Fishman and the late Diane Fishman, Sylvia Bienstock, and the great-grandson of Rena Fishman. Micah attends Warner Middle School in Farmington Hills....…
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…JOAN MARCUS arts&life theater The Origin Of Love Stephen Trask chats with the JN about Hedwig and the Angry Inch, heading to the Fisher. Euan Mortan as Hedwig ALICE BURDICK SCHWEIGER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS BRUCE GLIKAS I t’s been almost 25 years since composer Stephen Trask began writing music and lyrics for a show about a drag queen. That show went on to become the colossal hit Hedwig and the Angry Inch, moving from downtown New...…
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