…INSIDE: BUSINESS/ HOW'S THE JOB MARKET FOR GRADS?; MITZVAH HEROES/ PEOPLE WHO MAKE THE DETROIT AREA BETTER. 75¢ DETROIT THE JEWISH NEWS 4 SIVAN 5755/JUNE 2, 1995 A School Is Born Jay Kogan renews his gift to the Hillel Day School community: $4 million to start a high school and $1 million for an endowment. JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER A fter months of de- up where Hillel leaves off in eighth grade. Another $1 mil- lion will fund ...…
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…June 2, 1995 Detroit OPINION Finding new ways to build bridges. 5 14 You Gotta Have Art 15 What's In A Name? WB Schools honor Dr. Seymour Gretchko. TELL ME WHY Emanu-El tots show off their natural talent. The rosy story of a Jewish Indy winner. Teacher Complaints TRAVEL 10 Opposition Slate 19 Detroit responds to its Jewish staff. A museum looks at land of milk and honey. 47 55 07 75 Israel In T Problem No. 1: Overcrowding, ...…
…A Vote Of Confidence For The Whole Community For years, those in our community interested in the future of its educational scene have won- dered what life would be like in this communi- ty if Hillel had a high school. Those moments of conjecture and "what ifs" could come to an end after hearing this week of Jay Kogan's landmark S4 million gift toward the establishment of a Hil- lel high school. A high school will offer educa- tional continuit...…
…Editor's Notebook Getting Caught Up With The Wrong Logos Building Bridges Of Understanding PHIL JACOBS EDITOR JEANNIE WEINER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS Went to a park the other day and saw a boy wearing a baseball cap with a Pistons logo, a T- shirt with Michael Jordan's picture emblazoned on it, a pair of gym .dect, shorts with a name brand of athletic wear, a trademark on his socks and sneakers with a pumping device. The kid was a walki...…
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…ATTENTION CHRYSLER MINIVAN OWNERS 9th Annual Shuman' s Classic Auto Show and Older 191 3 Saturday, 3uue3cd Graduations Are Worth Celebrating Call or Details Call to Register SEEIT'S YOE% ERICA MEYER RAUZIN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS June is a month of graduations, from kindergarten, from junior high and high school, from col- lege and grad school. But those graduations are for kids. Once you're past 20-something, you don't get to graduat...…
…ame JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER PHOTO BY GLENN TRIEST Dr. Seymour Gretchko is pleased with his new namesake. LIJ w West Bloomfield names a school in honor of Dr. Seymour Gretchko. cc JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR F- STAFF WRITER LU LLJ 14 r. Seymour Gretchko didn't have to retire to earn one of the highest tributes that can be paid to an educator. In fact, he was planning to sign a three-year ex- tension of his contract when the board of ...…
…Yo Lim otta Hav Temple Emanu-EI nursery students show off their natural talents in first exhibit. JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER Top: Michael, Robin and Sam Busker with teacher Shellie Kurtis at the clay table. Above: Bill, Lisa and Mitchell Barnett view the work. Right top: Reid Siegel points out some of his work to his parents, Caryn and Ron. Right bottom: Bob and Jim Cohen observe a work of art. indergartner Kevin Burnstein has alr...…
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…several school assemblies were begun with the black national anthem ("Lift Every Voice And Sing") instead of the "Star Span- gled Banner" and that some ad- ministrators were "insensitive to people of different religious back- grounds." They also included complaints about prayer at school functions, negative comments about Jew- ish employees wearing religious symbols, punitive action taken \.) or threatened against employees who properly take p...…
…Graduate to a Rolex. Show your special graduate how proud you feel. Discov Open Borders Metro Detroiters visit Jordan as part of a post-Mission adventure. RUTH LITTMANN STAFF WRITER osephine Jackson is a 73- year-old volunteer with the Detroit Institute of Arts who has long harbored a fascination with antiquities. But never, ever, did this Farmington Hills resident expect the real thing to be so grandiose. Petra. An ancient Nabataean city...…
…Alternate Slate Forming For Beth El Election JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER PHOTO BY GLENN TRIEST T he dust has not settled at Temple Beth El. What began with the forced sabbatical of Rabbi Daniel Polish in January has led to the formation of an alternate slate to run against the temple nominating committee's slate. Although two petition candi- dates have defeated official can- didates proposed by the nominating committee in the past, th...…
…The Neighborhood Project invites first-time home buyers to a Home Ownership Training Class Monday, June 12 6:45 - 9 p.m. Jewish Community Center Jimmy Prentis Morris Building 15110 W. Ten Mile, Oak Park LEARN: •How to qualify for a home mortgage •How to understand a credit report •How to budget your money •How to fill out a purchase agreement •How to choose a lender and areal estate agent •How to apply for a mortgage Reservations requir...…
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…o ti ll (1 In response to the Rebbe's call, and encouraged by his blessings, Michigan Lubavitch in 1988, launched plans for a unique campus of educational, religious, cultural and social/rehabilitative institutions on a wooded 40-acre site in West Bloomfield. Sunday, July 2, 1995, Tammuz 4, 5755 Honoring the Yarzeit of the Lubavitcher Rebbe of blessed memory 10:30 A.M. Groundbreaking Ceremonies For the Synagogue Campus of Living Judaism ...…
…Gerard Edery REEMMEMMEMPREADMINW Beth Shalom Concert Features Story, Song Peninnah Schram S toryteller Peninnah Schram and singer/guitarist Gerard Edery will combine their talents to present "Songs and Stories of the Jewish People" — a potpourri of music, wit and wisdom from Ashkenazi, Sephardic and Middle East tra- ditions — at Congregation Beth Shalom's annual Frank Fried- man Concert, Sunday, June 18, at 8 p.m. The free concert, which ...…
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…„, irol - 4 .1U:4 4k1 Ztkli V Uu; 1:1;6 ChildrCenH•oltil Holocaust =It Survivors Association in Michigan invites the community to hear our Guest Speaker MICHAEL TRAISON Mr. Traison will present a slide and video presentation on his recent trip to Poland where he attended the 50th Anniversary ceremony of the liberation of Auschwitz. Sunday, June 1 1 th 1 :00-2:30 p.m. J.C.C. Maple-Drake Bldg. No Charge Additional information call Ch...…
…CQNSERVATIVE: ADAT SHALOM SYNAGOGUE 29901 Middlebelt, Farmington Hills, 851-5100. Senior Rabbi: Efry Spectre; Rabbi: Daniel Nevins; Cantor: Howard Glantz; Cantor Emeritus: Larry Vieder. Services: Friday: 6 p.m., Saturday: 9:00 a.m., 9 p.m. Sunday: 8:30 a.m. Weekdays 7:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Bar Mitzvah of Adam Babcock, son of Cindy and Howard Babcock. Shavuot services: June 3 — 9 p.m.; June 4— 9 a.m., 6 p.m.; June 5— 9 a.m., 9 p.m. Sunday, June ...…
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…11111111111 ■ 1111 Beth Shalom Honors Teachers Congregation Beth Shalom will honor teachers and aides on June 3, during Shabbat services. The honorees are kindergarten - Susan Newman and Jennifer Sima; grade 1- Rhonda Pliskow and Joshua Kannon; grade 2 - Sheilah Goldberg; grade 3 - Jean- nette Tilchin; grade 4 - Seymour Kaplan and Barbara Eisenberg; grade 5 - Madalyn Rabinowitz and Ronit Lipsky; grade 6 - Sharon Wise and Nate Berman; grade 7...…
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…SZ Sisterhood Installs Board A community-appreciation day with activities for people of all ages and abilities Sunday June I I , 1995 1-4 p.m. New Officers For Na'amat Jewish Community Center Jimmy Prentis Morris Building 15110W. 10 Mile, Oak Park •Moonwalk •Clowns -Prizes 'Games & relays 'Open swimming •Skatemobile •Healthy food for sale -Baseball and soccer skills •1-our and use of JCC facilities •Aerobics, dance & t'ai chi classes ...…
…Group presidents also installed were: Marilyn Ash, Linda Belkin, Paulette Bonn, Gerry Botwin,Es- ther Dresser, Laura Dunn, Dorothy Eichenhorn, Amy Entin, Karen Jirik, Gail Katz, Marcia Kersch, Elaine Koshar, Susan Luria, Jaymie Mostyn, Shirley Robbins, Judi Schram, Anne Sukenic and Janice Traison. Nurse Speaks On Medications Using medicines wisely will be pre- sented on Tuesday, June 6, at 1 p.m. at Jimmy Prentis Morris Jew- ish Community Ce...…
…Tel Aviv WETNG i CRciv LL CO li typfiTE TERRORAS R it'S PRO LIM. 40 n my first years in Israel, during the late 1980s, I used to think that I came here too late, about three or four decades too late. I'd missed the heroic period of nation-building, that sepia-toned time when shirtless men labored in the sun to carve out new roads and farm the fields, when women in coarse cotton dresses milked the cows, when Israelis were hopeful and idea-...…
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…Fasten Your Seatbelt 42 what we've known — a rat-race society, a collection of individuals with little corn- mon purpose except to keep the Arab en- emy at bay, a two-tiered society of haves and have-nots, a predominantly Jewish Singapore covered with concrete, cars and bunched-up people. An Israel that, in its rush from the collective to the in- dividual spirit, will have pretty much thrown out the baby with the bathwater. We're in a heady ...…
…Fasten Your Seatbelt nesspeople here. We're attracting people of super quality, not just shleppers from Lod or Ramle (the nearby working-class, mainly Sephardi cities)." A few years ago, Israelis were amazed to learn that the gap between rich and poor here was the second largest of any developed country in the world, after the United States. While Israel used to be a nation mainly of clerks and laborers who made roughly the same modest salari...…
…Fasten Your Seatbelt The landscape was dominated by sand, debris, barefoot children and defeated adults. And this was the "capital" of the Gaza Strip. We didn't even go into the refugee camps. In Jericho, a couple of months after the Oslo Accord was signed, I went into the Akbat Jaber refugee camp. With its medieval-looking hovels, Akbat Jaber makes Gaza City look like a model of ur- ban renewal. After hearing from one and all that "peace" ha...…
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…Despite frustrations, the job market for graduates is improving. JENNIFER FINER STAFF WRITER creasingly difficult, the overall market is more promising for this most recent Graduate Karen batch of grads Gula with her than other recent parents. graduating class- es. But law schools are running counter to the general trend, ac- cording to Jack Crusoe, the ex- ecutive director of Wayne State's University Counseling and Placement Services. The j...…
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