March 19, 2004

…www.detroitjewishnews.com $1.25 MARCH 19, 2004/ADAR 26, 5764 DETROIT JEWISH NEWS inside: CELEBRATE! A Jewish Renaissance M NEW GUY ON CAMPUS Special-needs student tastes college life in new inclusion program. Planning a sinicha? Read Celebrate! in this issue! …

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…EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK A View From The Left I srael should unilaterally press on in its national interest and not wait for a peace partner to somehow emerge in Ramallah, says a 2001 University of Michigan graduate living in Tel Aviv. "Calling the Palestinians' bluff, and idly watching Palestinian leaders weakened by competing interests, the Israeli government sits by without much action," said Jordan Nodel, 24, recently in metro Detroit to visit...…

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…Faces Of Death Mother, neighbors, co-workers among the dead in Ashdod attack. the front pages of Israel's newspapers and at the lead of television broadcasts early in the week. Among the dead was Avi Avraham, Tel Aviv 33, who recently had been hired as a t was an act of kindness recipro- crane electrician at Ashdod's port and cated with murder. -who got married just four months ago. Crane mechanic Moshe His wife Ettie, 27, rushed to the scen...…

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…Hot Prayers . Shabbat Unplugged at Temple Israel draws the 20s-40s crowd. PHOTOS BY BILL HANSEN T emple Israel resumed its monthly Shabbat Unplugged program March 12, attracting a large crowd of 20-, 30- and 40-somethings to its alternative Shabbat service and afterglow. ❑ Rabbi Paul Yedwab, right, leads a prayer. Zina Usyser of Oak Park sings along. Crystal Webster, Melissa Hortick and Stephanie Michaels lead the young congregation in...…

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…SHARON LUCKERMAN Staffriter icah's going to college. And while thousands of Americans go every year, Micah Fialka-Feldman, 19, of Huntington Woods is a pioneer. Out of 7.5 million people in the United States with devel- opmental disabilities, Micah is one of the very few who attends college. And he's one of only three students in a pilot transition program started this January at Oakland University (OU) in Rochester. The program is designed t...…

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…STAGE SISTERS Wild Swan Theater artistic directors Hilary Cohen and Sandy Ryder make play-going accessible for all kinds of audiences. SUZANNE CHESSLER Special to the Jewish News Ann Arbor Et ilary Cohen and Sandy Ryder, artistic directors of Ann Arbor's Wild Swan Theater, share a favorite memory as they approach the 25th anniversary of the stage company they founded. The women, whose original family programs accommodate disabled young pe...…

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…`Passion' Actors Sound Off Jewish actor traded role in "Fiddler" to play a high priest in "The Passion." Mincer, also the child of survivors, monthly Shalom her growing uneasi- agrees with Morgenstern. He said he ness with the production as it pro- Jewish Telegraphic Agency doesn't believe Gibson is anti-Semitic, gressed. She said she felt so strongly and he hopes that the Rome about it that she refused to controversy around the allow the us...…

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