…75e DETROIT THE JEWISH NEWS 15 APAR H 5 755/MARCH 17. 1995 Study Continues Hillel Day School board requests extra time to examine task-force findings. JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER he wait is not over at Hillel Day School. One week after a task force studying a potential move to the Jewish Community Campus in West Bloomfield presented its findings, the board requested until April 10 to study the issue. At a regularly scheduled board...…
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…March 17, 1995 Detroit ROUND UP Barbra gets top billing from Brandeis U. 25 Purim Pleasures JARC lends a hand for the parcel project. TELL ME WHY Israeli artist Uri Katzenstein. page 41 And you thought FM. Benjamin was hip. 34 A tour of Jewish museums. page 48 ABOUT BOOKS How a British group spawned hate-mongers. 36 ENTERTAINMENT Jon Stewart makes the switch from comedy to late-night. 71 41 52 03 87 93 ANN ARBOR few Visio...…
…A REg r af Mk a •- 1111111181i, Vei., .NT , , Public Domain Is Appropriate For Once 'Private' Debate If you've been following these pages lately, it seems as if one group after another is holding critical town hall-like meetings to determine the very future of their organizations. Indeed, Hillel Day School is weighing whether to accept a $5 million gift that has as a condi- tion, moving to the Maple-Drake Jewish Com- munity Campus. The be...…
…Community Views Editor's Notebook The Jewish Stake In Our Government Wary Of The Amalek All Around Us DAVID GAD HARF SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS PHIL JACOBS ED TOR Item: The State velopments have in common? ership trip to Lansing, our com- Board of Educa They underscore the need for the munity's representatives met with tion issues a mis Jewish community to establish the speaker of the House, the Sen- sion statement and nurture ties with ...…
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…'G rid Pleasures JARC group enjoys lending a hand at the annual parcel project. JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER Danny Samet and David Higer find their first destination. Above: The Purim parcel factory produces packages. Right: Harold Folkoff readies for the road trip. or Harold Folkoff, participating in the Great Purim Parcel Project meant a lot. For one, this was his first time volunteering at the event held an- nually at the Agency f...…
…PHOTOS BY GLENN TRIEST HE Preschool students at Temple Emanu-El perform the greatest show on Earth. JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER Above: Emily Durnion walks the tightrope. Right: The circus performers join in a marching band. here were lions and tigers but no bears. A ringmaster, clowns and tightrope walkers came, but the bearded lady was nowhere to be seen. There were also about 100 people in attendance March 8 when the circus came t...…
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…Preschool Workshop Attracts 200 Educators JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER theme of the conference was: fit "What Is Jewish About Thurs- §, day?" t "What we have been trying to do is to give the teachers ways to 8 make the contents of their days a little li more Jewish," said Shawn Locke, director of school services for the Agency of Jewish Educa- tion. "You don't have to wait for a holiday to do something Jewish," she said. "You can do some...…
…On a tour of the classrooms, the teachers appeared to enjoy the lessons as well as a chance to be with like-minded profession- als. In one room, participants made puppets out of pieces of brightly colored felt; in another room, women danced in a circle, holding hands and singing. Many teachers said they would take the ideas they learned back to the classroom. "You are so into letters and all of that. You sometimes forget the Jewish things," sa...…
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…Quality you can build on, a name you can trust. To Teach Effectively, Encourage New Ideas MICHAEL MELLEN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS ow often do we try to tell someone how to live her life? How much less often does that person listen to what we have to say? Isn't it only when she comes to an under- standing on her own that the un- derstanding becomes hers forever? The root of Torah, y-r-h, means to throw or shoot. In a different grammatical ...…
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…OPEN EVERY SATURDAY /BILL COOK 131IICK 1995 REGAL I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar And you thought Pvt. Benjamin was hip? ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR Q:Is it true that Leon Trotsky's great-grandson lives in Israel? A: That's the story going 0 -u- m 33 Stk. #50379 24 months 1995 PARK AVENUE ALL VEHICLES EQUIPPED WITH: Dual airbags, ABS, cruise, tilt, AM/FM cass., power windows, locks, CD changer and more! 37911 Grand River West o...…
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…MARCH IS PARENTING AWARENESS MONTH SISTERHOOD OF TEMPLE BETH EL is pleased to present Yacht Club Elects Officers At the annual meeting of Great Lakes Yacht Club, the follow- ing slate was elected to serve as flag officers for the coming 1994-1995 season: commodore, Phil Oppenheim; vice com- modore, Rod Faudem; rear corn- modore, Rudi Straus; secretary, Patti Kommel; and treasurer, Martin Smith. There will be a Commodore's Ball on Saturday,...…
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…The Alexi Generation Of Israeli Artists. FELICE MARANZ SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS These are the best of times for culture buffs in Israel. The signs of an aesthetic sea change are everywhere. A new generation of uniquely Israeli artists is emerging out of venues such as the Tel Aviv Artists' Studios and the Jerusalem Print Workshop. Men and women in their 30s and 40s who never knew a time without a Jewish state are just start- ing to have...…
…Illurit David k ‘•"'". ".• — *""*kk* The artist with her latest painting: a portrait of her mother and herself. her newest painting. On a Saturday afternoon, the traffic passing on a order and a lack of order." Another play on the thin line between prose and painting comes in her series "To learn writing from trees." This time, it's more personal. The works take replete with painted photographs of her and her moth- er. Two colors recur...…
…Vri liatzenstein Sculptor, musician anti performance artist with his braSS 111111CideS. Uri Katzenstein, 44, is a mild-mannered, tattooed, black-clad rebel. A one-man cultural band, he is a performer, a musi- cian, a sculptor. Mr. Katzenstein is also Israel's answer to the "post-human" work of American artists such as Kiki Smith and Cindy Sherman, playing with convention and the human body, teasing and intriguing. Mr. Katzenstein's work ran...…
…lisal Ben-Ziri "Work inspired by Georges Latour," oil on canvas sack. A Jerusalem-based abstract painter and printmaker, Asaf Ben-Zvi, 41, is tall and powerfully built, his salt- and-pepper hair wiry. His spacious studio occupies two rooms in a harsh concrete building in the Tal- piot industrial zone. About a dozen he says. "Things are very lively." To get into his studio, you have to roll back heavy metal doors. Out- side, on a bitterly c...…
…David Reeb WIPP et %Mat immpumew • 03Y1 1.7"3' 3'U . T 1 . . (,) ...,.. U cn cn O Q O EL CO O O sat Acrylic or Israeli helicopter and soldiers with Hebrew alphabet. At 42, David Reeb is Israel's "only political artist," in the words of gallery owner Noemi Givon. Many of his pieces are paint- borders, superimposed on im- ages including interior scenes of his studio, the fancy IBM building in Tel Aviv, and ab- bin-Arafat Whi...…
…Sharon Po lialtine The artist in her Jerusalem apartment-studio. Sharon Poliakine, 30, lives and works out of a small apartment in central Jerusalem. She devotes one room to a studio, cramped with paintings, prints and pieces of metal. Her hair is close-cropped and she wears a long black shirt and black jeans early on a Friday morning. Like Mr. Ben-Zvi, she is a printmaker and painter. Both artists work part of the time out of the Jerusalem...…
…VOLVO 850 Local Palettes Two Israeli-born artists with Michigan connections work in different media. SUZANNE CHESSLER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS A lthough Israeli-born artists Gabriella Boros and Dalia Wasserberg have vastly different styles, they share developmental experiences. Both were strongly influenced by a par- ent, refined their skills at Michi- gan colleges and altered their approaches while living in the De- troit area. Ms. Bor...…
…ANd THEN THERE WAS SpRiNg, SILVER S PEARLS ANd . . • What's To See Don't plan a trip without checking into exhibits at Jewish museums around the country. ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR ARTFUL OBJECTS udah Magnes was a pacifist who believed in fighting. From his early youth, he ad- vocated outspoken support for and work on behalf of nu- merous Zionist causes. He was a leader in American Jewry's protest against the Kishinev pogroms,...…
