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…A Jewish Renaissance Media Publication saying ooc eye Helping children learn to deal with death. Summer Reading! A special feature in next ek's issue! …

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…Contents e . AJ A * DETROIT JEWISH NEWS isfx Winner of eight 2003 MPA writing, N design and advertising awards MICHIGAN PRESS ASSOCIATION RSSOO www.detroitjewishnews.com FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 2004 SWAN 29, 5764 • VoL. CXXV No. 19 NEWS WATCH 17 Detroit Basketball! Jewish fans celebrate Pistons' NBA triumph. ARTS & LIFE COVER STORY SPIRITUALITY 33 Let There Be MusicFest! Weeklong festival celebrating diverse Jewish music begins Sunday ...…

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…EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK Keeping Vigilant T he new assault waged by Jew haters is the worst Nazis left off. threat to world Jewry since the Holocaust, says So when Foxman said the American Jewish community of America's preeminent defender of Zionism and 2004, unlike its counterpart of 65 years ago, understands and fighter against prejudice. appreciates our role and responsibility on the world stage, it This well-armed propaganda and terrorist fron...…

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…I F)j9RE FILE PHILLIPCO City: Southfield Kudos: Special Ed's 'Can-Do' Guy Phillip Cohen, 63, principal since 1988 of the Washington Careers Center, a Detroit public school for 300-400 special-needs students ages 16-26, retired June 11 after 38 years in education. He known as a principal who knew and cared about every student and who instilled a "can-do" attitude that stayed a lifetime. Cohen has two children and two grandchil- dren and is a...…

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…jewish.com ) Whoppers, Blunders & Miscalculations Ariel Sharon is doing it. So is Arafat. And it's not helping either one of them or their con- stituencies. They are blundering, miscalculating, making -major mistakes. What are some of their biggest whoppers? Micah Halpern explains on ) Insomaniac Last week's jewish.com survey question asked: Do you think U.S. mail should have been deliv- ered Friday, June 11, the day of the funeral for fo...…

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…Something Extra Bringing It Home Help For Dementia Crystal Wish Webster has been singing at Temple Israel since she was 8. Now a 22- year-old vocal performance senior at Oakland University, Webster is bringing her senior recital to the temple — even without the faculty. Webster is inviting her fam- Webster ily and the community to a free, 70-minute concert at Temple Israel, 7 p.m. Thursday, June 24. If her wonderful voice isn't enough of an...…

…DETROIT Jewish _fans celebrate Piston's NBA triumph. HARRY KIRSBAUM and KERI GUTEN COHEN Jewish News Staff' S teve Mavrogiorgis, manager of the Gallery Restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, wasn't surprised that the power breakfast crowd was run- ning a bit late Wednesday morning. After all, the Detroit Pistons had just dismantled the Los Angeles Lakers 100- 87 in Game Five to win the NBA Championship Series. Don Albaum of Birmingham relished t...…

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…Important Lessons Couple challenges Farmington Schools' commitment to Holocaust education. DIANA LIEBERMAN Special to the Jewish News A Farmington Hills couple has volunteered to fund field trips to the Holocaust Memorial Center for 10th-grade students throughout the Farmington Public Schools (FPS). In an e-mail to Jerry Fouchey, curriculum director for the 12,000-student district, Bob and Linda Stulberg last week offered to subsidize the...…

…Editorials are posted and archived on JN Online: www.d.etroitjewishnews.com Blowing Up The Bedrock T he Bush administration and some of its Republican supporters in Congress are on a dangerously wrong track in their efforts to bring more religion into government and more govern- ment into religion. Their plans would weaken both government and religion and, even worse, erode the basic separation of the_ two that made America a model for demo...…

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…wish famili Saying Goodbye Helping children learn to deal with death. home and their parents would be there sitting shiv- ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM .AppleTree Editor little girl whose father had just died was corn- forted when a large packet of letters arrived at her door. It was from her school classmates; each wrote to express concern and sympathy. "I'm sorry to hear about your dad," most letters opened. "I hope you will be all right." One l...…

…Cover Story SAYING GOODBYE from page 26 that was. When children get older, they will be more emotionally prepared for the details of tragedy. didn't know he was more than a build- ing, more than a chapel. They didn't know the vibrant man who started a business from scratch and became a community leader." Then they sat in on a meeting with the rabbi before Ira Kaufman's funeral. "His grandkids still talk about listening to that," and they te...…

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…Promise, a gentle story of a boy whose father dies. (She also is the author of several workbooks on helping a child deal with cancer.) The book came about not from Cindy's own need, but from what she saw as a gap in the lives of families'dealing with grief. They needed a new resource. They needed hope. Daddy's Promise is a story of hope, of comfort, of knowing that a father who died is not suffering, that he is doing just fine. That someone de...…

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…Single In The Holy City An Oak Park native finds herself "married" in Jerusalem. MIRIAM LEWIS Special to the Jewish News Jerusalem erusalem. City of gold. City of white stone, winding streets, rolling hills and pleasant breeze. City of covered heads, baby strollers and family picnics. Where do the singles fit in? I made aliyah nine months ago. After several months of pointless affairs and disastrous blind dates, I had a powerful realization...…

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…Peter Himmelman Seth Rogovoy Sarah Aroeste lveiTity Frank London SHARON LUCKERMAN StaffWriter W hat do a Ladino-Mediterranean rock band and a "shtetl"punk” klezmer group have in common with female a cappella folkers and Bob Dylan's Orthodox son-in-law? These eclectic musicians draw themes and sounds from their Jewish roots and are part of 10 acts featured at the inaugural MusicFest of the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit...…

…Best Bets CLASSICAL NOTES The Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival con- tinues at a host of various venues through June 27. Highlights this week include Ruth Laredo in recital, playing works by Schumann, Beethoven, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff and Ravel, 7 p.m. Sunday, June 20, at Temple Beth El in Bloomfield Township, $22; and the Elements String Quartet's Snapshots, a multimedia performance featuring 14 short works commissioned from a diverse grou...…

…Father's Day Species? Buy 1 pound & Get 1 Pound Wayne State University's Hilberry Theatre presents Charlotte's Web, based on the book by E.B. White, 10:30 a.m. June 23-26, 29-30, July 1-2, 6-10. $4/$3 groups of 10 or more. (313) 577-2972. The International Freedom Festival, featuring North America's largest fireworks show, takes place Wednesday, June 23, as darkness falls in Detroit and Windsor on both sides of the Detroit River. Info: www.t...…

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…IISIZE IS STANDARD. MusicFest 2004 Schedule All MusicFest concerts are at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield, unless otherwise noted. Other venues are the JCC in Oak Park and Temple Israel in West Bloomfield For tickets, call (248) 788-2900. Sunday, June 20 • 1 p.m.: Family Father's Day Concert with Shira Kline. Educator and per- former Kline encourages fami- lies to get up and dance with her Jewish-Bop sing- along in honor of ...…

…Arts &Life Life With Father New book celebrates Jewish fathers. SUZANNE CHESSLER Special to the Jewish News T hree Michigan dads — one reg- ularly appearing in the public eye, a second serving as a role model after the death of a friend and a third remaining optimistic about his youngsters' special needs — explain their approaches to parenthood in Jewish Fathers: A Legacy of Love (Jewish Lights; - $30). U.S. Sen. Carl Levin recalls less...…

…Sanford Schulman of West Bloomfield: Yoe just knew I would do whatever was necessary for Alec." Jeffrey Cohen of West Bloomfield: "Bn very honored to be part of this book." just knew I would do whatever was nec- essary for Alec. "I want Alec to understand his dad, and I make that connection by telling him about my memories. Alec loves lis- tening to the stories. I believe he thinks of me as having the same characteristics as his dad. It's th...…

…Huntington Woods Library Librar!r and Woods Gallery preset! Bloomsday At 100 The fictional Irish Jewish protagonist ofJames Joyce's masterpiece "Ulysses" celebrates his centenary. juried Fine Art Fair Sat. June 26: 10-5 • Sun.. une 27: 11-5 SUZANNE CHESSLER Special to the Jewish News LOCITtion: Ltititerati Churc 1 itington COUPON ASIAN FLAVOR DINNER 4cip4N Choose 2 Entrees: • Samba! Beef • Hunan Beef • Sweet & Sour Chicken • Steak...…

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…Food Salads Rule! On a hot day, there's nothing like a salad to keep the kitchen and the cook cool. ANNABEL COHEN Special to the Jewish News T incorporate. Adjust salt and pepper to taste. Alternately, place all ingredients in a jar with a tight-fitting lid and shake well. Makes approxi- mately 1 cup of vinaigrette. he onset of warm weather has us hanker- ing for fresh, leafy, even fruity, meals. Each BROCCOLI, ALMOND, ORANGE year, we br...…

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…Sephardic Success Keter Torah celebrates its building's second year with a first annual dinner. SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN Staff jr ust two summers ago, Rabbi Michael Cohen stood inside the unfinished, sawdust-filled future home of Keter Torah Synagogue. The synagogue, completed in August 2002, is modeled after one in France — complete with its Old World ambience, inlaid wood ark doors, mahogany pillars and golden chandeliers. "We've come qui...…

…Spirituality lescopes Morning minyan gazes heavenward to witness Venus converging with the sun. KERI GUTEN COHEN Story Development Editor T hree local amateur astronomers turned the rare transit of Venus across the sun into a truly spiritual experience. At 4 a.m. June 8, the trio was busy setting up their various telescopes in the dark on the edge of the ball field at Avery Elementary School in Oak Park. They had much to get ready, inclu...…