…750 1 SIVAN 5753/MAY 21, 1993 Alose Up Engler's Appearance Cites Jewish Ties The governor is the first state leader to address an agency annual meeting. 1:3 KIMBERLY LIFTON STAFF WRITER May I Offer You A Bit Of Advice? o, your mother- in-law came over last week and she couldn't help noticing that you need new carpeting — blue would be nice — and the brisket was good but it needed a little more salt, and do you really let little Sophie ...…
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…DETROIT I THE JEWISH NEWS Vol. CIII No.11 L Associate Publisher • Arthur M. Horwitz • Managing Editor • Phil Jacobs • Associate Editor • Alan Hitsky • Assistant Editor r Elizabeth Applebaum Staff Writers Kimberly Litton `- Ruth Littmann Lesley Pearl ;7. Contributing Editor Elie Wiesel Washington Correspondent James D. Besser /-1 Foreign Correspondent • Douglas Davis 12 Israel Correspondents Ina Friedman Larry Derfner Photographer r Glenn ...…
…N N We Can Start With A Walk We have programs that give Detroit Jews every opportunity to show this community's exemplary support of Israel. Almost 1300 of you proved that with the recently completed Michigan Miracle Mission. Then there are the programs that continue to draw thousands of us, be it a Mini-Mega Mission program spon- sored by JEFF, a Yom Hazikaron program or the Walk for Israel. Still, with all of this involvement, it's import...…
…k Editor's Notebook Community Views Talking It Out lome Alone IV Left In Detroit) GARY ROSENBLATT EDITOR -.DR. MYER H. ROSZLER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS ndeed, the Michigan Mir- acle Mission touched and changed the lives of all the participants who were for- 4 iunate enough to go to Israel. -'-' It also changed my life, and I didn't even leave Detroit. \_. My wife, Janis, went on the Mission, leaving me home alone with my four children...…
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…ission brings the land of Israel e home to young Detroiters. RUTH UTTMANN STAFF WRITER Left: The Weitman family helps Melody Wood pet Sandy the shark. Below: Danny Kay, age 4, examines his goldfish from "Eilat." Photos by Marsha Sundquist C/3 LLJ Cr, LLJ F- C) CC F- LU LU 14 he mossy-looking tentacles of a live sea urchin didn't frighten 9-year-old Stephanie Kauffman of Oak Park. She picked the creature out of a pool of water with...…
…U-M Senior Wins National Contest Networking Pays Off For JVS Task Force RUTH LITTMANN STAFF WRITER RUTH LITTMANN STAFF WRITER O ne dark March morn- ing, Mara Benjamin, a senior at the University of Michigan, was lying awake wishing she could take her father, Frederick, to Israel. Ms. Benjamin, coordina- tor of the Jewish feminist group at U-M Hillel, trav- eled last year through Israel, but her father, an attorney in Southfield, had never...…
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…Young Israel Council Honors Local Couples The Young Israel Council of Metropolitan Detroit will hold its annual dinner June 14 at the Maple-Drake Jewish Community Center. The Council is composed of four local Young Israel branches: Young Israel of Greenfield, Young Israel of baseball team and is a coach for the Young Israel Little League. He is a past presi- dent and past chairman of the board of Young Israel of Greenfield and 2nd vice presi...…
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…The Cultural Commission of Congregation Shaarey Zedek proudly presents The Fourteenth Annual Peter & Clara Weisberg Concert Wednesday, June 2, 1993, 7:30 p.m. at Congregation Shaarey Zedek MAUREEN FORRESTER In a program of Jewish, Classical and Broadway Selections ORTHODOX: BAIS CHABAD OF BIRMING- HAM/BLOOMFIELD HILLS Rabbi: Dovid Polter, 646-3010, 544-8639. Services: Saturday 10 a.m. Study group 9:30 a.m.; kid- dush following servic...…
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…torah Portion Calling BBYO, B'NEI AKIVA, COMMUNITY JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL, MYSTY NCSY, New Americans, USY, Young Judaea • • -TEENS (Grades 9-12) CAFE JERUSALEM '93 From Multiplicity Emerges A Unity Sunday, May 23, 1993 5 - 7 p.m. United Hebrew Schools Auditorium TO CELEBRATE YOM YERUSHALYIM RABBI IRWIN GRONER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS The 26th Anniversary of the Reunification of Jerusalem 0 ! AMAZING GIVEAWAY ! 1 - $500.2 - $300 Scholor...…
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…You are cordially invited to attend the Metropolitan. Detroit Annual Dinner on behalf of The Jewish Theological Seminary of America AND THE BUSH r110 ■ 11 WAS NOT 'MIK 03P4SUMED 5.ox Saluting These Distinguished Guests of Honor William & Susan Graham Renee & Richard Gunsberg Joel & Loraine Shapiro Max M. Shaye Howard & Susan Tapper Adat Shalom Synagogue Congregation B'nai Moshe Congregation Beth Abraham Hillel Moses Congregation ...…
…- Scratching The Surface Harvey Ovshinsky tells tales of struggle and truth in the Motor City. Photo by Glenn Triest LESLEY PEARL STAFF WRITER Harvey Ovshinsky recently won a Peabody Award for his latest documentary. hen Harvey Ovshinsky pub- lished the Fifth Estate, an un- derground newspaper in the mid-1960s, he began a career of telling stories. Almost 30 years later, Mr. Ovshinsky is an established producer of documentaries — recentl...…
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…BY KIMBERLY Proposal 'A' Means Many Things indy Nathan, a Bloomfield Hills parent running for school board, plans to vote for Proposal A on June 2. But she doesn't like it. Her friend, Bloomfield Hills school board mem- ber Linda Finkel, calls it regressive and has been lobbying for the propos- al's defeat. Bloomfield Hills School Superinten- dent Robert Docking pub- licly supports it. Bloom- field Township officials are lobbying against it...…
…FE R you a bit of ADVICE? Finally, some unsolicited advice you'll actually want! Local experts offer E words of wisdom on everything from L7_, making chicken soup to comforting a grieving family. 40 ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSISTANT EDITOR Illustrations by Michael Fleishman 1 Where do I you start if you're interested in kashering your home? T he first thing I would say is that it's not nearly as hard as you think to kasher a kitchen. Wi...…
…kashered by being thoroughly cleaned, then set aside for 24 hours and put in a pot (also kashered) of boil- ing water. "Ovens have to be burned. After a thorough clean- up with cleanser, you put the oven on the highest de- gree possible for one hour. Burners can be kashered by turning them on for about 15-20 minutes on the highest degree. "This is just the general information. Anyone in- terested in kashering his home should consult a rab- bi....…
…May I Offer You A Bit Of Advice? plain a concept, a point of view or an ideal so that a high-school junior can grasp it, then you have missed the boat when it comes to getting your point across. "Rule #3: Begin with something interesting to keep people's attention. If people aren't at- tracted to your first utterings, it's much harder to get them back for what you want them to learn. The first thing in a speech is the hook that makes the rest...…
…"The most important thing is to show under- standing. I remember once a man came into a shiva house, sat down and cried for 10 min- utes, then left. And that was appropriate. "As a general rule, we want to follow God's way, show that 'I am with you in your pain.' " — Rabbi Boruch Levin, director of Hebrew Memorial Chapel 10 Looking for true love: what's the hot spot for meet- ing Jewish singles? 0 ne of the best places for meeting singles ...…
…ADVICE page 43 jWokheaty'soaugc000ud idJreew peisaht in front of anyone? A young man was talking with his mother about the recent Michigan Miracle Mission to Israel. That got him thinking about travel, and he mentioned to his mother, 'Think about those astronauts. Do you know how much it costs to go to the moon? Millions and millions!" "Well," his mother replied, "if you have money, you travel." — Max Sosin, of Southfield, a retired sales...…
…Visa Limits In Canada Toronto (JTA) — Canada has imposed a visa requirement on visitors with temporary Israeli travel documents be- cause of the rapidly increas- ing number who have claim- ed refugee status here in the last three years. The new regulation, an- nounced last week by Employment and Immigra- tion Minister Bernard Valcourt, is intended to halt a stream of bogus refugee claims, many of them filed by Jews from the former Soviet Unio...…
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…ackorou Are The Arabs Serious. fter two weeks of sterile conversation, the Mideast peace talks in Washington have adjourned inconclu- sively, leaving experts to ponder whether the Arab delegations are willing or able to strike a deal. If the Palestinians are indeed the key to a broad agreement, the signs are looking particularly omi- nous, for as the talks lurched on, the Pales- tinians signaled their con- tempt for the process by deliberate...…
…MON i.:46' SOFBUILDING ARABS SERIOUS page 47 *1° /967/1993 A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JEWISH FEDERATION APARTMENTS al Wasat, which suggested - You are cordially invited to view a candid photo exhibit created by residents of JFA in celebration of Older Americans Month SINAI HOSPITAL Outer Drive Lobby 6767 West Outer Drive Detroit, Michigan Photographs will be on display May 17th - June 30th II11 R 1\\11 I R•1R1 1 1 !1 ENTER HERE that th...…
…News Rabin Meets To Avert Crisis Jerusalem (JTA) — In an effort to avert a major polit- ical crisis, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin has been holding intensive meetings with leaders of his two coali- tion partners, which are engaged in a bitter feud with one another. The Orthodox Sephardic Shas party has threatened to quit the government if Shulamit Aloni, leader of the left-wing Meretz bloc, is not removed from her post as education minister. ...…
…For some it was the realization that after generations, they might have been the first in their family to pray at the Wall. U_I cn LU O CC Grandmother Mary Fink and granddaughter Sherry Fink share a private moment. LU Linda Klein leads a candle-lighting ceremony. 50 …
