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…www.cletroitjewishnews.co m February 19,1999 Adar 3, 5759 Vol. CXIV, No. 26 DEPARTMENTS 6 • HMC To Expand Torah True. This Week page 14 New wings will examine pre-war European Jewry and the "Righteous." 26 Sinai Closing Nears Planning body tells DMC Sinai should merge into Grace. Business 64 Pain Relief Will remedies, regulations and strategies mean big business? its tertainment Appian() 57 Anniversaries 51 Bar/Bat Mitzvah ... 45 B...…
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…How The Jewish People Left The Wilderness Zoning had been achieved in actual he Torah tells us that our practice during the past 39 years. As a ancestors wandered in the result of this study, the Commission wilderness for 40 years after finds the Mishkan to be in violation on the Exodus before entering the following counts. the land of Canaan. 1. Unscheduled re-siting of the According to ancient documents, Mishkan has disrupted established ca...…
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…Rabbi Avraham Cohen, Rabbi Steven Weil and donor Morris Flatt prepare for completion of the Torah. Prentis Apartments resident Shulamith Filler shows a 50-year-old, family-owned megillah. Celebrants and Torahs pack the Young Israel sanctuary. Cantor Emmanual Mittleman chants while Morris Flatt holds the Torah. Rabbi Avraham Cohen fills in one of the Torah's final letters. 2/19 199c: 1 5 …
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