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…THE JEWISH NEWS p FRONT This Week's Top Stories Bringing The Seder Home A Shaarey Zedek workshop shows how to personalize the Passover celebration. LYNNE MEREDITH COHN STAFF WRITER t David Hermelin's seder, purpose is to enable us to have em- you've got to pay atten- pathy for all who are oppressed, to be tion. He calls on every per- grateful for our freedom and to work son at the table to read a for the liberation of humanity." Rabbi Gr...…
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…April 18, 1997 Detroit OPINION Tuesday Night Noshing 9 Sperber's North on Tuesdays has become a weekly event for the kosher-keeping community. 16 Simple answer sought to Holocaust query. 35 Marcy Lefkowitz and 7-year-old son Ian sing. page 16 TELL ME WHY Where there's a will, there's a Zionist. 44 A Trial Run The model seder at Beth Shalom gets the students ready for the real thing on Monday. THE PULSE Bread of affliction: Pharao...…
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…N o sh JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER Sperber's North has come to the rescue of the kosher-keeping community with the city's only sit-down restaurant. Inset: Sperber's owner Alan Linker works with his whole family, including wife Peggy and daughters Elana, 6, and Rebecca, 2 1/2. o say Alan Linker was hesitant to open his cafe- teria on a Tuesday night is a bit of an understatement. "I didn't really want to do it, to be honest with you," ...…
…Passed Over An advocacy group says Michigan makes it difficult for Jewish prisoners to observe Passover. JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER ew of Michigan's Jewish prison inmates will be able to properly observe Passover — and that's part and par- cel of a longstanding pattern of re- ligious discrimination, says a Florida-based prisoner advocacy organization. The Aleph Institute is over- whelmed with orders from state and federal prisons all over th...…
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…heroes of our past that made the future possible," Mr. Fineman said. "Raoul Wallenberg showed the world that one person with the courage to care can make a difference." Mr. Wallenberg is credited with saving the lives of thou- sands of Jews at the height of the war in 1944 when he was appointed a Swedish diplo- matic envoy to Hungary. He used his position to issue thou- sands of falsified Swedish pass- ports. Additionally, he is attributed wi...…
…Neo-Nazi Home Hit A white supremacist record company, based in a Jewish-owned home, is raided for failing to pay state sales taxes. JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER F N or the second time, a record company that produces racist and anti-Semitic mu- sic and literature has taken up residence in a Jewish-owned home. According to reports, 76-year- old Pauline Walber leased a home in Highland Township to the operators of Resistance Records. On April 9...…
…t. 4*:1. Sylvia Jordan and Judi Rosen co-chaired the seder. Coming Together African-Americans and Jews join hands to celebrate escapes from slavery to freedom. LYNNE MEREDITH COHN STAFF WRITER 0 ver traditional Passover food, African-Americans and Jewish Americans came together Thursday, April 10, for the eighth annual Anti-Defamation League-spon- sored black-Jewish seder at Tern- ple Shir Shalom in West Bloom- field, which combined com...…
…I Luck Of The Draw Federation lottery enable's 30 students to see Israel. JULIE WIENER STAFF WRITER D A CM A Q hirty local college students everything' and feel like "going won the lottery last week. home." Said U-M freshman Erica The Israel Dream Lottery, Karp, "It was such a surprise. I that is. In a brand-new program spon- was flipping out I was so exited." sored by the Women's Campaign Ms. Karp, a graduate of Andover and Education De...…
…▪ LYNNE MEREDITH COHN ST BILL HANSEN PHOTOGRAPHER Above: Slavery is endured by Chelsea Foster, Emily Durinon and Megan Justice. 1 ongregation Beth Shalom in Oak Park has hosted model seders for congre- gants' children for a dozen years, but this year's seder had a twist. On Sunday, April 6, the kindergarten Right: through third grades re- A "commercial enacted the Jews' Exodus break" is from Egypt. helped along by Rhonda Parents lined up ...…
…Children tried their hand at matzah-making at the JCC. JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER lour flew and pins rolled during an afternoon of matzah- making at the Jewish Community Center last Sunday. Children donned bakers hats and rolled up their sleeves to re-create the experience of their ancestors' Exodus from Egypt. Yisroel Rosenblum ran the baking programs at the Maple- Drake JCC from Sunday, April 6, to Sunday, April 13, show- ing children how t...…
…PHOTOS BY JOHN DISCHER Slaves Of Ann Arbor? Because of final exams, many U-M students stay at school and host their own seders. JULIE WIENER STAFF WRITER T his Passover, many Uni- versity of Michigan stu- dents may want to add a new plague to the list. final exams. With the dreaded tests sched- uled for the week after Passover, students can barely make the ex- odus from the library, let alone leave Ann Arbor for a family seder. As a resul...…
…Arnold says the dinner will prob- ably be potluck, but he and his housemates will probably do a lot of the cooking. "I love Passover," said Mr. Arnold, who went home for seder his freshman year and to a friend's family last year. "Fm ex- cited to have a seder with my peers." He anticipates his seder will be more laid-back than the family ones to which he is accus- tomed. Another first-time host, Eric Tennen, a college junior from Mi- ami, said...…
…I I Off Broadway Theater in West Bloomfield •r e n t Beyond Matzah EMU administrators and U-M Hillel work together to expand Passover dining options for EMU students. JULIE WIENER STAFF WRITER W by FEATURING Sol Frieder KLEZMER ARNOLD PERL Mack Pitt directed by EVELYN ORBACH & RIVI YARON "A FUNNY, APRIL 30 musical, whimsical evening, for the ,41111 CHRYSLER TAY FUND Hot, prepared dinners for the holiday. th rti JUNE 1 TIC...…
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