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…Reception Honors Rabbi Rabbi Yeruchim Olshin, rosh yeshivah of Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, N.J., will be honored at a reception 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 23, at 15041 Burton in Oak Park, hosted by Mrs. Sol Nusbaum, Rabbi and Mrs. Dov Loketch and Rabbi and Mrs. Joseph Nusbaum. Beth Medrash Govoha is the largest kollel of advanced talmudic Rabbi Olshin studies. The local Kollel of Greater Detroit in Oak Park was founded by Beth Medrash Govoh...…
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…Something Extra Community Calendar Thursday, Jan. 20 Saturday, Jan. 22 Women in Art "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly — Women in Art" is the subject of a Temple Beth El Sisterhood tour of the Detroit Institute of Arts led by docent and art history professor, Wendy Evans, 11 a.m.- 3:30 p.m. $20 bus and tour; lunch, in the DIA Cafe, extra. RSVP: (248) 851-1100, ext. 3135. Tribute to Naomi Shemer Sisterhood Shabbat at Congregation B'nai Moshe ...…
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…I t' s My f For 42 years, Rabbi Charles Rosenzveig has been the Holocaust Memorial Center's one-man show. ,‘: 4 tf • 1,01 *&. ALEX K HARRY KIRS BAUM Staff Writer is fingerprints are everywhere. From fund-raiser to museum curator, library builder, educational programmer, dinner organizer and special-event coordinator, Rabbi Charles Rosenzveig, founder and executive director of the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills, ove...…
…Metro Cover Story IT'S MY LIFE from page 17 Rabbi Rosenzveig in his office from place to place. In America, creat- ing a living memorial to all who had been slaughtered became his quest. Rabbi Rosenzveig conceived the concept of the HMC — the first free- standing Holocaust memorial center in the United States — and made a reality in it its original location next to the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield and then last year in a grea...…
….Fgr.m1PRIMITIFF" Rabbi Rosenzveig said that he "never took a dime" in salary from 1963- 1982, when he was still trying to raise money for the HMC. "I said if I take a salary, we won't be able to put up a building," he said. In 1984 when the HMC opened, he was paid about $75,000 a year with- out a contract. In 1992, only after he raised a $4.5 million endowment as a cushion, he finally agreed to sign a contract with the HMC, stipulating a sal...…
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…World Powerful Imprint Auschwitz trip builds Jewish identity among teens. CHANAN TIGAY Jewish Telegraphic Agency New York A decade after taking part in the March of the Living, Bradley Laye still credits his experience with launching him on a career in Jewish communal service. "The march was the thing that start- ed it," said Laye, now the CEO of Hillel of Broward and Palm Beach, Fla. "It was the seed for my Jewish involve- ment and love...…
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…OTHER, VIEWS Seeds Of The Next War Jerusalem ne of the most meaningful gauges of the integrity of a peace process and its likelihood for success is the degree to which the "peace partners" educate towards peace. It is for this reason that the entire Palestinian Authority (PA) education apparatus, both formal and informal, has been such a tragic disappointment. Instead of seizing the opportunity to educate future generations to live with Isra...…
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…Arts di Life Best Bets A FuN-GEFILTE EVENING The Cleveland-based klezmer band Yiddishe Cup revives the Jewish humor of the 1950s and 1960s by parodying everything from cha-cha to doo-wop to rock. They also play a pretty mean mainstream klezmer. collection of Greek stories, which he fin- ished around 8 C.E. in an attempt to tell the story of the world, numbered 250, of which playwright-original director Zimmerman chose eight for her play. T...…
