…A Jewish Renaissance Media Publication $1.25 JANUARY 18, 2002/SHEVAT 5, 5762 State House Race. In'Commerce And West Bloomfield Heats Up DETROIT JEWISH NEWS www.detroitjewishnews.com MAKING HIS MARK Acclaimed Detroit architect Louis Redstone has always put his heart into his work — here and in Israel. …
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…EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK The Way We Live I t was billed .as a spiritual warm-up for four weeks of adult Jewish study. We came to the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield last week — 600 strong, repre- senting every stream of Judaism — in search of a spark to sharpen our focus on learning through Detroit Jewry's Seminars for Adult Jewish Enrichment (SAJE). We got it, too. _ Giving the third annual Shiffman Family Lecture, Rabbi Eddie Feinstein...…
…LETTERS No Further for the "Ultimate Party" JWV Museum Worth A Visit Executive Director David Sorkin's let- ter regarding finding room at the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit for the Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America Department of Michigan memorabilia ("The JCC . Responds About The JWV," Dec. 28, page 5) brought back fond memories of my husband's and my visit a few years back to the JWV museum in Washingto...…
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…T is eek State House Battle Republican Marc Shulman seeks to retain West Bloomfield-Commerce seat against Democrat challenger Stuart Brickner. He charged that Shulman has "done nothing" for residents, especially on the infrastructure needs of the community, other than "trying to pass a couple of pork-barrel projects for local interests. It would be wo Jewish West Bloomfield politicians, helpful for the community to have a partner in both lo...…
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…This Week News Digest Taking Fire A shrinking group ofArab recruits into the IDF are in a no-win situation. GIL SEDAN Jewish Telegraphic Agency Hai a eath has been a guest in too many Israeli and Palestinian homes during the past 16 months, the heavy toll of the Palestinian intifada (uprising). But it is not often that Arab soldiers die serving in the Israel Defense Forces. The four soldiers killed last week near Kibbutz Kerem Shalom nea...…
…Dwindling Resolve Conscientious objectors, reservists' attitudes reflect dissatisfaction with war in the territories. AARON LIGHTNER Jewish Telegraphic Agency Tel Aviv IV e don't cry, we don't shoot!" they yelled. "We refuse to be murderers!" The 50 or so Israeli demonstrators had arrived at a hill overlooking Military Prison No. 6 near Atlit, where conscien- tious objectors are detained. "It is a soldier's duty to disobey illegal orders,...…
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…Editorials are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.com Dry Bones The Need For Audacious Faith M ore than 35 years ago, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke movingly of his dreams for a society free of the terrible curse of racism. His words captured the spirit of black Americans, of course, but they also resonated passionately in the hearts and minds of Jewish Americans. Jews knew what it meant to escape slavery — ...…
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…INSIDE: 1 NORMA WYNICK GOLDMAN Special to the Jewish News A nyone who has entered the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield has met Louis Redstone, the artist. His bas-relief brick sculpture of the great menorah decorates the left wall just before the main entrance. What everyone may not know, how- ever, is that the entire building, com- pleted in 1976, is the work of Louis Redstone, the architect. Everything, from the large main lobb...…
…From Israeli Pioneer to American Architect (Iowa State Press, 1985), Redstone reflects back over his life from the small cheder room in Grodno, where he learned his Hebrew letters, to his graduation from the presti- gious Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills with an advanced degree in urban planning under the direction of the famed architect Eliel Saarinen. In his early years, Redstone lived through the dep- rivations in the tragic yea...…
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