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…4t 12 MONTH CERTIFICATE High Holiday In Grosse Pointe 5.75' 5. 870 INTEREST RATE The Grosse Pointe Jewish Coun- cil will celebrate Yom Kippur with religious services to be held at the Grosse Pointe Unitarian Church on Sunday, Sept. 22, at 8 p.m. and Monday, Sept. 23, at 9:30 a.m. (morning service), 1:30-2 p.m. (children's service) and 3 p.m. for the afternoon, memorial and concluding ser- vices. Rabbi Joseph Gutmann will officiate. The ca...…
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…Mere"' Gets A acob Soberman and 4 Max Milgrom are buried side by side in the Workmen's Circle cemetery off Gratiot Avenue. They stuck togeth- er in life, too. Devout Jews who came to the United States from the Polish town of Ozarow in 1913, the men were like two sides of a coin — different faces, same des- tiny. With a pot and a brush in hand, the partners built a small dynasty. Jacob and Max raised their families together, oc- cupying differ...…
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…ou e arching What happens when we die? ADAM KATZ-STONE SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS ike a dead man rising from the grave, the long-forgotten notion of a Jewish afterlife has itself been resurrected. For years no one talked about Gan Eden, the Jewish paradise. Who knew from Gehenna, the Jewish hell, or Sheol, the Bible's nebulous netherworld? And don't even mention tehiyyat ha metim, the literal rising of the dead at the end of days. This is t...…
…wife went looking for him, and found him ly- ing in a pool of his own blood, with the man- uscript of his next book in his hands and identity card missing. I had had class with him the afternoon before. "I didn't have a kind of spiritual experi- ence out of it," he says, "but then, my next book is about funeral customs, and I have to wonder why. I mean, I have sound academ- ic reasons for choosing the subject, but still..." Professor Fine know...…
…Slinl Se arching "(hi hall just 100 years, and there is no question about the afterlife. It's as normative as chalk!' on Shahhos." where women can walk the streets safely, where men can communicate to one another intimately." According to one rabbinic tale, Professor Raphael explains, "for a wagon driver, Gan Eden has new horses, a new wagon, and he can drive around forever. You get whatever is within your own spiritual capacities." • Finall...…
…41 OD • timately satisfying," he says. "Now people are asking, `What is my spiritual essence? There's a spiritual side of me that's starved.' And concurrent with this, there is a whole body of evidence by serious researchers that there is an afterlife. It's hard to just dismiss that evidence out of hand." Thanks in part to these broad social changes, people are beginning to seek out Jewish sources on Round And Round Again the hereafter — an...…
…Sou l Searching For years, the afterlife was "like the ugly cousin or the rude in-law in Jewish life: they're kind of always at the table at family celebrations, but you don't want to pay attention to them." doesn't matter how much you do, the important thing is that you did your best and your motive was pure," Rab- bi Irons explains. For those not up to the task, there are several paths be- sides Gehenna. One may purify oneself in a kind o...…
…/- matter, and all these things have come to- gether to bring about a new interest in this topic." In his essay on "The Fate of the Soul," which appears in Rabbi Riemer's book, the very founder of the Jewish renewal movement, Zalman Schacter-Shalomi, confirms his own commitment to a Jew- ish belief in the hereafter. "Classical Jewish belief is very clear," he writes. "There is this world, Olam HaZeh, and there is the world-to-come, Olam. HaBa...…
…CHECKING OUR MEWW.111. ny reminiscences of the past NEIL RUBIN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS CI) Lu C/) LU CC F- LU LU 00 year's Jewish events are corn- manded to begin with the ag- onizing pain and aftermath of Yitzhak Rabin's assas- sination. For some, its shadow has not reced- ed. That moment, which we pray re- mains a singular one in the modern history of our peo- ple, revealed an intriguing glimpse into the psyche of pre- sent-day...…
…decades, the Jewish safety net — which provides for our most vulnerable such as the elderly and immigrants — was strung taut with matching federal funds. In the past year, Wash- ington loosened the clamps on those chords, with promises of more fraying of the bonds to come. Providing a double wham- my, it was happening as Jewish federation campaigns remained stagnant at best, particularly when pitted against inflation and population increases. ...…
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…Ethical Web Project makes it easy to access ethics info. SANDI DOLBEE SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS hink of it as a kind of window to wealth of information orbiting cy- the World Wide Web of ethics. berspace, sorting through it all ing at a university is that we are lumbia's Centre for Applied Ethics paid to teach and nurture stu- maintains an index Web site Interested in "Religion and can be overwhelming. dents — but also they pay us to (http:...…
…Cancer AnswerNiiiht Matter Of The Heart Over 100 women gather at Young Israel of Oak Park to learn about healthy habits. Prostate Cancer: How to Treat It. How to Beat It. PHYLLIS MEER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS Presented by Joseph E. Oesterling, M.D. Urologist-in-Chief, Director of the U-M Prostate Program Thursday, Sept. 26, 1996 7-8:30 pm with O. & A Marriott Hotel at Laurel Park Place (1-275 and 6 Mile Road in Livonia) This event is f...…
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…The New 1997 ES 300. Coming Soon. Comedian Rondell Sheridan will entertain at a special benefit for the Ronald McDonald House at the Roostertail in Detroit at 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16. Tickets for the dinner and per- formance are $150 for sponsors and $200 for patrons, a portion of which is tax deductible. For more information or to purchase tick- ets, call Jackie Sunday at (313) 745-5911. To have an event inci the Memos colurnri, please inc...…
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…The Christian (i.e. Republican) Coalition gets its partisanship all in a row. JAMES D. BESSER WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT o be fair to the Christ- ian Coalition, which met in Washington over Rosh Hashanah for its Road to Victory conference, the group is only trying to do what many Jewish groups have done over the years — apply their re- ligious values in the po- litical marketplace. And they are doing so with growing vigor and political so- ph...…
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…> So far Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has been able to hold together his het- erogenous coalition by speaking with one message in Washington and another in Tel Aviv. But within the next few weeks he will have to act on Hebron, and it is very hard to see how any decision he makes will go down well with both Mr. Clinton (on /--' whose goodwill he depends) and the strong ultra-right-wing ele- ments in his own constituency (on whose goodwill...…
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…/— Uncharacteristically, Israel's two Chief Rabbis were divided in their response. Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Meir Lau supporting it and Sephardi Chief Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron saying that it should not be followed. Women's organizations like Na'amat and WIZO praised the judgment, while a representative of the Association for Men's Rights complained that "the ju- dicial system is hostile to men on this subject." Dani and his supporters por- tray...…
…Sukkot Inside And Out Tips for families to celebrate the happiest holiday of the Jewish year. THE ULTIMATE 1996 OLYMPIC SOUVENIR I JANICE P. ALPER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS he leaves are falling in Michigan and autumn is in the air. There is a holiday on the Jewish calendar that celebrates the crisp outdoors and the harvest that signals the end of summer. Sukkot, the festival of booths, begins at sundown, Sept. 27, and lasts for eight day...…
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…ORDER YOUR '97s Now Netanyahu, Clinton Waltz Around Issues JAMES D. BESSER WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT I sraeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's tete- a-tete at the White House was something more than a social call on President Clinton, something less than a diplo- matic summit. In fact, according to sources here, it was more like a ballet as both leaders did a delicate dance around a number of ex- plosive issues. Mr. Clinton used the occa...…
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