…750 Celebrating 50 years of growth with the Detroit Jewish Community THE JE SH 2 6 ADAR 5753/MARCH 19,1993 The Home Heals Amid Funding Debate Optimism abounds and non-institutional care for the aging is discussed as the community grapples with the fate of the Jewish Home for Aged. KIMBERLY LIFTON STAFF WRITER espite the past problems at the Jewish Home for Aged – serious health code viola- tions, exorbitant clean-up fees, con- tinually...…
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…Israel Has A Lot Invested In Israel Bonds. I N 1951, PRIME MINISTER DAVID BEN-GURION launched the Israel Bonds program as a major source of investment ISRAEL BONDS HAS A LOT To OFFER INVESTORS. capital for the young nation. The fun- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ISSUE (EDI) BOND damental importance of Israel Bonds 6.00% quickly became apparent to leaders of world Jewry. Forty-three years and nearly $13 billion in investments later, Israe...…
…DETROIT I THE JEWISH NEWS Associate Publisher Arthur M. Horwitz Managing Editor Phil Jacobs Associate Editor ontents March 19, 1993 Alan Hitsky DETROIT Assistant Editor Elizabeth Applebaum Staff Writers Kimberly Litton Ruth Ullmann Lesley Pearl Contributing Editor 14 Sweet Home A popular show helps Neighborhood Project. Elie Wiese! Washington Correspondent James D. Besser Foreign Correspondent Douglas Davis Israel Corres...…
…Time Bomb Still Ticking For most of the 1980s and 1990s, there was a time bomb waiting to explode within the Jewish community; No, we are not talking about terrorists or images of the mangled un- derbelly of New York's World Trade Center. We're talking about the Jewish Home for Aged. A basic institution in our community, fac- ing a series of challenging demographic, fi- nancial and regulatory issues, was unable to respond effectively. The res...…
…Opinion Editor's Notebook We Spend Too Much Time Judging Someone Else's Pain PHIL JACOBS MANAGING EDITOR Far be it for me to judge what is going on in the Dr. Jack Kevorkian situation. I think, though, that no one should judge the terminally ill people who choose the doctor's assistance. Too many times men and 01 1 1 1 1 1 ' • still intact. This is what is so difficult to deal with. Trapped inside a failing body, a body that could not c...…
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…a I for one am convinced that when historians evaluate our generation there will be a chapter or more on the contribution that Ohr Somayach has made to Jewish revival, to a renaissance of Jewish commitment and pride. 150 Mr. David Zaidner, European Industrialist " Only through the work of institutions such as Ohr Somayach can we ensure a Jewish future in Israel. ► 1(4 Ohr Somayach has imp ressed me as the Harvard of Torah Institutions. Xi ...…
…RUTH LITTMANN STAFF WRITER T HE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Louis Kay asks Ray Sinai about locks. 14 ommunity building" took on a literal and figurative sense last Sunday at Neighborhood Project's second annual Home Sweet Home Show. The event, an exhibi- tion of 60 businesses that cater to the needs of homeowners, attracted private citizens interested in building or remodeling their homes. The show also drew local residents who came to schmooze. N...…
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…Dr. Marvin Fox, Director, Lown School of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University Please join our Detroit community for the Ohr Somayach/Tanenbaum College T.O.R.A.* Lunch and Learn program Tuesday, March 23rd, 12:30 p.m. — 1:30 p.m hosted by the Agency for Jewish Education at the Max M. Fisher. building 6735 Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Hills with special guest speaker Board of Directors Co-Chairs Helen Garden Jeffrey M. Garden Lo...…
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…Pvq JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE MARCH 1993 T H E INSIDER JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE & RESETTLEMENT SERVICE NEW S L E T TER JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AWARDED FISHER GRANT FOR CHAPLAINCY PROGRAM The Fisher Foundation Board of Directors has approved funding for the first year of a Jewish Community Chaplaincy Program. This program has been developed to work in conjunction with the Jewish Hospice Program, a joint endeavor of Hospice of Southeastern Michig...…
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…AJC Honors Eugene Driker Eugene Driker The Institute of Human Relations of the American Jewish Committee will present its Judge Learned Hand Human Relations Award to Eugene Driker at a dinner at the Inter- national Center in Greek- town May 4. Mr. Driker, a partner in the Detroit law firm of Barris, Sott, Denn & Driker, is a 1961 gradu- ate of the Wayne State University Law School, where he served as editor in chief of the Law Review. He wa...…
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…fire on the streets not only of West Bank and Gaza Strip but of Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Jerusalem, causing who knows what damage to life and limb. Yet not everyone was put off by the idea. "Since it's obvious that the police lack the ability to pro- tect peaceful citizens from rampaging murderers from [Gaza], and the old notion of the deterrent 'cop on the beat' was abandoned years ago, there seems to be no avoiding the solu- tions of carrying we...…
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…A fresh look at some of the stories we reported on in the past weeks. Tenants Remain At Fisher Building LESLEY PEARL STAFF WRITER The Fisher Building Jewish Presence At Butzel KIMBERLY LIFTON STAFF WRITER THE 0 RA/ 0 . <4 itr, hen Federation announced it would move from the old Butzel Building on Madison in Detroit, officials promised to maintain a Jewish presence at the facil- ity. They kept their word. Still located at the down- ...…
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…Bara Zetter t was unusually quiet inside the small shack. As she had for the past six months, ever since the mysterious man moved into the shack in March 1946, the maid brought a meal and left it outside the door. This time, no one came to take the food. What caused the man's death was no surprise: He was infected with tuberculosis. But what he left behind continues to haunt everyone who comes in contact with it. What he left was a massive pa...…
…Micah and Shoshana Hamarri, who built the aperion, with Tamar Siegel of Ann Arbor and Reuven Prager. Ms. Siegel also worked on the aperion. 11111•111•11111111MMINI 38 ■ mml the artist was tormented by the faces of the dead, of for- mer friend and acquain- tances. After the war, Aczel went to Hamburg, Germany. He had contracted TB and was homeless. In October 1945, Aczel was lying in the gutter, blood pouring from his nose, when he saw a yo...…
…. 41;111.. VA • ,2/ INTERNATIONAL SECURITY CONSULT RIVh112 11111(gtenn kagn TA A TIC)1420011CMA protect it from the elements. Perhaps it would have re- mained there were it not for a chance encounter last sum- mer. Bara Zetter, a 23-year-old U-M student about to receive her Master of Fine Arts in art history, visited Mr. Prager with a group of friends while in Israel last year. He offered to show them the painting. "He took us into this r...…
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…Artzenu Yisrael Future Leadership Mission to Israel JIEVVISH I1A11011AL Lubavitchers See 'Lost' Books Moscow (JTA) — In the midst of a turbulent week in Russian politics, the Lubavitcher Chasidim won a small victory here last week. For the first time in nearly 70 years, Lubavitch rabbis laid eyes on some of the books that once belonged to the father-in-law of their current rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson. The Lubavitchers have been trying ...…
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…Sports Determination! Esther Frank's six months of training has led to a berth in the World Maccabiah Games. RUTHAN BRODSKY SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS 4 1- 2 ' Esther Frank Is one of six on the U.S. women's team. n late January, on an outdoor court in Florida, Esther Frank competed for a spot on the women's masters tennis team for the 14th World Maccabi- ah Games to be held in Israel this summer. She was one of nine tennis players fr...…
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