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…THE JEWISH NEWS 13 FRONT This Week's Top Stories A Passion For History A Jew is tapped to create the core exhibit at the new Museum of African American History. MEGAN SWOYER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS Remembering W Detroit area Jews light candles and recall the torment and suffering of those who fell during the Holocaust. LYNNE MEREDITH COHN STAFF WRITER A lthough many vow to "nev- er forget" the atrocities of the Holocaust, most do...…

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…/ 11 May 2, 1997 Detroit OPINION The Storyteller An internationally known scholar and historian, Norma Goldman loves stories by local writers. Different dayenu, a new outlook. 31 TELL ME WHY A Happy Home Marm and Polly put Mugs, Bugsy to shame. 40 Menorah House is getting higher marks from the state of Michigan year by year. THE PULSE Taking the pain out of your golf. 5 SPORTS Money And Dating Does it matter if a man makes les...…

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…Parents clamor for a group shot. BOUND 1STO A group of 60 teen-agers, four rabbis and one educator are heading east for a journey D back in time. JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER PHOTOS BY DANIEL LIPPITT Left: Zelig Barr, 17, and Ari Lerman, 16, tag their luggage. Above: Arnie Gross adds a finishing touch to daughter Lindsey's backpack. ara Cimmino and Andi Lipton felt secure about their background in Jewish histo- ry Wednesday as they prepar...…

…A Happy Home Menorah House is getting higher marks from the state year by year. JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER udging by the decreasing number and nature of the citations recently brought against it by the state, Menorah House has trans- formed itself into a-model nurs- ing home. Less than two years ago, the 211-bed kosher facility in South- field was slammed in Consumer Reports as an example of a par- ticularly bad nursing facility. A reporter ...…

…Unleavened Lunch Mr. Hayes addressed the pressure sores citations, saying sometimes they are unavoid- able: residents might not coop- erate with medical staff in caring for their wounds, he said. Once a plan of correction is in place, the state may decide not to return for a reinspection be- cause of the low level of severity of the citations. Mr. Hayes said the state levied no fines against Menorah House nor indicated its Medicaid/Medicare ...…

…A doctor-turned-prisoner-turned-crime writer aims for goose pimples with his latest novel. JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER R obert Davis is the kind of character you'd find in the pages of a hard-boiled crime story: He starts out good, battles drug and alcohol addictions, gets nabbed for a crime he says he didn't commit, goes to prison, straightens up ... and writes a few novels. Dr. Davis, a Farmington Hills native, just published the first of f...…

…DETROIT ) THE JEWISH NEWS High Tech Means Low Prices! Vol. CXI No. 10 Publisher Arthur M. Horwitz Editor Phil Jacobs Associate Editors Elizabeth Applebaum, Alan Hitsky Assistant Editor Gail Zimmerman Copy Editor Lynne Konstantin Senior Writer Julie Edgar Staff Writers Lynne Meredith Cohn, Jill Davidson Sklar, Julie Wiener Contributing Editors Michael Davis, Neil Rubin Washington Correspondent James D. Besser Foreign Correspondent Douglas ...…

…MEDICINE MEN page 10 Quaalude addiction, sold com- modity options for a year and fin- ished his schooling at the American University of the Caribbean. He decided to move west to ski, and snagged a resi- dency at the University of Neva- da. But drugs and alcohol dogged him. Dr. Davis dropped out of two residency programs because of his Quaalude addiction and then took up drinking as a stand-in for the drugs. Still, he functioned. He ran a medi...…

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…Above: Julius Travis reads from his Haggadah'. ver 100 guests atUnded a iddish seder at the Jewish Community Center in Oak Park last Friday, yearly event sponsored by Frances Driker and her children. JCC staff and a slew of volunteers, many of them seniors, cooked, served food and participated in the seder, reading from a modified Haggadah. El Freedom To Far left Lina Pinczewski helps herself to some greens. Lat.:Standing with her Slia, Ja...…

…1$iNG PIRITS Abovo jai. Galina roomann provide. 'it° entertains'" Above: Jeff Rosenberg prepares over 100 bowls of soup. Far left: BettySilverfarb offers wine to Edward Godzina. Hettie Deutch (foregTund} and Bessie Chase greet guests at the door. • The League of Jewish Women's Organizations provided another seder for Jews scattered throughout the metro area. JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER PHOTOS BY BILL HANSEN ews from all the metro area c...…

…Behind The Curtain Owners of Swiss bank accounts and their heirs are encouraged to check a document at the Holocaust Memorial Center. With much joy, Congregation Beth Shalom opens its new social hall. LYNNE MEREDITH COHN STAFF WRITER JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER A t first, the document at the Holocaust Memorial Cen- ter appears just to be names with hometowns and nationalities. But in the last column of the page is the clue that this...…

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…like all other seders — a re- counting of the Exodus of the Is- raelites from Egypt. Alicia Nelson, the rebbetzin of Beth Shalom, was one of four leaders, although the reading was shared among the five tables. Michele Goldstein, who ac- companied her mother, Mar- garet Eichner, found the Haggadah "interesting." "I think we'll incorporate it into our Haggadah," she said, noting that her father appends articles, poems and the like to Miriam San...…

…PHOTOS BY BILL HANSEN the family seder each year. He even played a Bob Mar- ley song one year. Ms. Goldstein, a 28-year-old mem- ber of Congrega- tion B'nai Moshe, said she plans to use oranges in the family's seder next year. The oranges originated with au- thor Susannah Heschel, daughter of Torah scholar Abraham Joshua Heschel. While she was lecturing in Florida on the role of women in Jew- ish life, a gentle- man opined that The women's se...…

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…Flooded North Dakota synagogue survives waters, evacuates congregants in time. LYNNE MEREDITH COHN STAFF WRITER The 40 families who worship at B'nai Israel Synagogue in Grand Forks, N.D., were safely evac- '— uated during massive flooding two weeks ago, but the sanctu- ary will not emerge unscathed. The synagogue, which is lo- cated in the city's downtown area where some of the worst flooding occurred, was deluged with water, according to R...…

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…PASSION FOR HISTORY page 3 /- close-knit. Within the group of percent of Asian, Hispanic or [exhibit designers], there's a very, African-American descent; 50 very small number of people. And percent women. Ralph's the best." "Appelbaum is at the top of the The designer has a personal curve when it comes to doing ex- connection to the museum. hibit developments," Ms. Camp "African American history is in- said. "[He and his associates] separab...…

…THE DETROIT CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE Thursday, May 1- Conservative Movement Lunch* and Learn Max M. Fisher Federation Building, 6735 Telegraph Rd. 12:00 lunch, 12:30-1:30 study for reservations call JTS (810) 258-0055 Women In the Rabbinate (or What Will They Call Your Husband?) Rabbi Debra Orenstein Shabbat Morning Services, May 3 Shaarey Zedek • 9:00 A.M. A Holiness Code for Contemporary Jews - Sunday, May 4 Women's Le...…

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…Dream Dialogue he has "learned a lot about Jewish culture, my culture and how people can work together." Michael Bagdade, a Jewish senior at West Bloomfield High, said he has been impressed by the commonalities between Jews and African Americans, and feels that tensions between the two groups are often exag- gerated. "We feel the media re- ally feeds on that and loves to keep the tension going. Black on black crime is not front-page news, but ...…

…wxvo44z!MI:la kk-1 „A, m . Keeping The Meaning Alive All Through The Year It's been a few days now since we've switched from matzah to chametz. The hours and hours some of us spent searching for that last bread crumb is now filed away with those of other Passovers. Put away, like a box of kosher for Passover dishes in a remote part of the base- ment. By now almost all of us have a joke about nev- er wanting to see another piece of the "c...…

…Community Views Editor's Notebook A Different Dayenu, A New Outlook Please Tell Us Your Camp Tamarack Story JEANNIE WEINER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS PHIL JACOBS EDITOR I have a Jewish friend who works with Hindus, Buddhists, Chris- tians of a variety of denominations and people of dif- ferent races. It is not uncommon for her to enter- tain these colleagues in her home, and she is scrupulous in her plan- ning to be certain that each gue...…

…Conference COMPENSATION FOR HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS Sunday, May 18, 1997 • 1:00-3:30 pm Congregation Shaarey Zedek 27375 Bell Road • Southfield, MI •Featuring a presentation by Holocaust Survivor compensation expert, attorney William R. Marks This conference is free of charge and open to the community. Free Transportation is available from both campuses of The Jewish Community Center. Buses will depart for Congregation Shaarey Zedek promptly...…

…ZING /-) groups should never ban Israel's representatives. Instead, make them miserable. Every Israeli leader should be welcomed and then, in the finest of Jewish tra- ditions, yelled at after the em- brace. Fax them, mail them, get in their face if they refuse to con- front the issue. Reform and Conservative Jews also should skip absolutist de- mands and seek creative solu- tions for this 250-year-old dilemma. Don't ban Israeli leaders. Em...…

…Video Conference From Israel Ohr Somayac.h. Detroit will present a live, interactive Town Meeting Videocon- ference with the Chief Rab- bi of Israel, Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, noon-1:30 p.m. Monday, May 5, at the Max M. Fisher Jewish Federation Building. This meeting, which is being sponsored by The JewishNews, Rock Finan cial and the Bank of Bloomfield Hills, will bring together participants from all segments of the Detroit Jewish community to ...…

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…Jewry's Role in Human Advancement One century ago--to the month--Alfred Nobel drafted a behest into his will for the annual gathering that bears his name. What he created to award human ingenuity and research is a touchstone for civilization and progress. Many Jews have taken their place among history's Nobel Laureates with pride and distinction. ADOLF VON BAEYER (1835-1917) b. Berlin, Germany While also an Organic Chemist inspiring teacher ...…

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