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…as 61) O 0 Thriving community radiates Jewish diversity, fellowship. LYNNE MEREDITH SCHREIBER Special to the Jewish News W hen Rabbi E.B. "Bunny" Freedman bought his house on Sherwood Court 27 years ago, he struck up a conversa- tion with some neighbors about how long he'd live there. "We figured if we lasted five years, it would be worth buying a house," says Rabbi Freedman, who has since made three additions to that house. "I grew up...…

…mission to Israel. Many of the denomination lines," Warshay says. "Our neighbors That idyllic picture began to change in the mid- families they brought together are friendly with non-Jewish neighbors and non- 1950s when Detroiters started moving north. Up remain friends. observant Jews." went brick bungalows and colonials fit for growing Such cross-denominational Part of that camaraderie was surely generated by families. activities had rarely ...…

…Metro Special Report SOUL OF OAK PARK from page 23 self and Rabbis Nelson and Spolter. "There is only one Reform, one Conservative and, while a variety of Orthodoxy, one community Orthodox syna- gogue," Rabbi Klein says. "I don't think any of us feel in competition with one another. We are all offering something very different." And that means there is a place in Oak Park for virtually every kind of Jew. Rabbi Avraham Jacobovitz's Machon L'...…

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…Metro $li this summeL Make a Reaching The Next Level Harlene Appelman, Federation's top educator, accepts national post. DIANA LIEBERMAN Special to the Jewish News 111 ore than two decades ago, a small committee at Congregation Shaarey Zedek hired Jewish educator Harlene Appelman as family life director and permanently altered the course of Jewish education in North America. "I had the idea that we needed to begin some kind of outreach...…

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…Metro They'll Take Manhattan Jewish communal leaders David and Nancy Gad-Harf eye career shifts. HARRY KI RS BAUM SteqrWriter I is her turn. Flashback to 1988: David Gad-Harf, then head of the Jewish Community Relations Council in St. Louis, lands a job in Detroit as executive director of the Jewish Community Council. David's wife of nine years, Nancy, leaves her career as a women's division director at the Jewish Federation in St. Louis t...…

…T hey knew they had their work cut out for them when Aaron and Jennifer Ellenbogen fell more in love with the 1-acre backyard than the 1963 tri-level that came with it. turn around that impression," he said. DJI's programs, such as the Detroit Jewish Coalition for Literacy, which coordinates hundreds of volunteers to help kids learn how to read in about 40 public schools, "link us to important leaders and institutions in the city of Detroit,...…

…Metro I Know That Song! Russian performers delight at Circle of Friends benefit. R ussian musicians performed for more than 100 immi- grants from the former Soviet Union, bringing them back to their former homeland with Yiddish, Hebrew and English songs. The bene- fit raised money for Congregation Beth Shalom's program for new immi- grants, Circle of Friends. Beth Shalom began Circle of Friends seven years ago to absorb new immi- grants an...…

…I HAV SIMPLES 0 ' 11 AS 1 1 ES Gail Katz and her mother, Dorothy Mazer, both of West Bloomfield, share a moment of enjoyment at the concert. Soulful Songs Some songs brought guests to tears. "We weren't allowed to listen to Yiddish music in the former Soviet Union," said Manya Mochulsky of Oak Park, standing next to her daughter Esfir and two grandchildren, Sofiya, 26 and Ilya Nozhnik, 23, all of Oak Park. To be called a Jew in Russia was ...…

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…Metro Archivist To Be Honored • The rescuer of Detroit Central High School's 150-year-old historical archives will receive the 2005 Leonard N. Simons Award for the Preservation and Dissemination of Michigan Jewish History on Wednesday, June 8. Edith (Edie) Feinberg Resnick will be honored by the Jewish Historical Society of Michigan at its annual meet- ing, to be held jointly with the American Jewish Committee, at 7 p.m. at Congregation Beth...…

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…AVISit Of Consequence HARRY KI RS BAUM Staff Writer W hat was promised to occur "never again" is happening once again. That's the message an interfaith group of three rabbis and four African American ministers from Metro Detroit took to Michigan's congres- sional leaders in Washington, D.C., on May 25-26. The group of nine clergy members was first brought together by the Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit on a 2002 Council-s...…

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…World Counter-clockwise from top left: Rabbi Daniel Nevins in Rome with the Great Synagogue in the background Monsignor Edward Baldwin ,of Detroit's Sacred Heart Major Seminary in a Jerusalem park Brother Olivier Debois of Abu Ghosh monastery with the Rev. Ma g E. Biedron of North Congregational Church in Farmington Hills Rev. Kurt Stutz of Botsford Hospital at Yad VaShern's Valley of the Communities Standing In The Breach Clergy's journ...…

…World STANDING IN THE BREACH from page 43 INTRIGUE to visit the places where Christians are most Christian and where Jews are most Jewish. From the Vatican to the Sea of Galilee to the Western Wall, we all observed tradi- tions that spoke to our colleagues but were alien to us. The conversa- tions that grew from these observa- tions about our var- ious traditions and theological under- standings were of incalculable value. A particular focu...…

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…World Computer Gang Israeli police investigating "sickness" of industrial espionage. DAN BARON Jewish Telegraphic Agency Tel Aviv T he uncovering of an industrial espionage ring has Israelis running to their computers. It began Sunday, May 29, when police announced the arrest of at least 18 people from top Israeli telecommunications companies — including licensed private investigators — on suspicion of using a "Trojan Horse" virus to ste...…

…Crash Course With Hebrew literacy declining among Jews, group embarks on language project. JOANNE PALMER Jewish Telegraphic Agency r New York or more than 3,000 years, Hebrew has been the language in which Jews spoke, prayed, conversed with God and man and created wonderfully creative writings in every possible field — religious, literary, legal — you name it," said Anita Shapira, a professor of Jewish history at Tel Aviv University. But ...…

…Digest Religious Ideas In Prison OK israei eu Washington/JTA — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of laws that allow minority religious expres- sion in state jails and prisons. The high court reversed a decision in Cutter v. Wilkinson and said religious minorities have the right to religious accommodations that don't conflict with high government interest. The ruling backs the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons ...…