…750 Celebrating 50 years of growth with the Detroit Jewish Community THE JEWISH NEWS 28 SHEVAT 5753/FEBRUARY 19, 1993 JHA's Fate Community leaders will look next week at the Home's future. KIMBERLY LIFTON STAFF WRITER ederation leaders next week will lay the ground- work for the future of the financially strapped Jewish Home for Aged, which operates Borman Hall in Detroit, Prentis Manor in Southfield and Fleischman Residence in West Blo...…
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…Vol. CH No. 24 Associate Publisher Arthur M. Horwitz Editor Emeritus Philip Siomovitz Managing Editor I \ Phil Jacobs Associate Editor Alan Hitsky Assistant Editor Elizabeth Applebaum Staff Writers Kimberly Litton Ruth Ullmann '-esley Pearl Contributing Editor Elie Wiese! Washington Correspondent James D. Besser 'Foreign Correspondent Douglas Davis 'srael Correspondents Ina Friedman Larry Derfner Photographer Glenn Trlest local Columnists Dan...…
…'HANKS FT:* THE ELEVEN COMMANDMEM„, 13(yr DO a WALLY Neel) 'This ONE Agoar FOR Philip Slomovitz: Following His Ideals Philip Slomovitz was one of those rare men who wrote of his beliefs and lived them as well. Mr. Slomovitz, who died Wednesday after a long, proud and fruitful career, not only wrote about the issues of the day — from the creation of the State of Israel to combatting anti-Semitism — but also became involved on a personal le...…
…ife May Know St. Thomas Aquinas, But We Struggle With Maimonides Bringing Home The lalentines' LAURENCE R. IMERMAN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS PHIL JACOBS MANAGING EDITOR -' My closest friend, current- ly living in an- other city, holds an advanced de- gree from Yale in medieval and Renaissance I history, in addition to a law degree from a prestigious university. He can discourse at length on arcane nuances of 13th-century Catholic the- olo...…
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…ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSISTANT EDITOR THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Rabbi Wolmark 14 hat happened this week on Ten Mile Road in Southfield could have been a scene right out of "Top Cops." The first man stood behind a large desk, a wad of checks in his hand. "If you don't get out of here right now, I'm calling the police!" he yelled. The second man, waving his fist in the air, was not intimidated. "Go ahead," he taunted. "You call the police." Her...…
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…FEBRUARY 19, 1993 Rabbi Glogower Plans Class On Talmud Rabbi Rod Glogower's win- ter-spring semester text seminar, "Selected Read- ings from Talmudic Literature," will begin at /- the Midrasha College of Jewish Studies Feb. 23. The class will meet 10 a.m. - noon Tuesday mornings in the United Hebrew Schools Building. There is no pre- requisite for this course, but some reading knowl- edge of Hebrew is helpful. The course will explore the wor...…
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…Cheryl Servetter now has photographs of her biological family. Find' Her Roo An adopted woman successfully wrestled bureaucracy to find her biological parents. ADRIEN CHANDLER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS GLENN TRIEST PHOTOGRAPHY I f Cheryl Servetter were an artist, she could now paint a complete self-portrait. The 31-year-old hair stylist's personal com- posite, filled with empty spaces and imagined details for so many years, is finally co...…
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