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…DETROIT JEWD3E NEWS Contents Fri A 2001 winner of American Jewish Press Association L id and Society of Professional Journalists awards Terror In America Opinion 20 Family Hit By Tragedy 33 On The Day Of Atonement Doreen Hermelin learns her nephew is missing in the World Trade Center. Hearing the sound of God's promise that the world has been born anew. 22 United In Grief Community- Terror attacks touch many families in Detroit. 38...…
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…EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK Rallying Together S o many emotions, so many things to think about, so much ro say ... In horror, Detroit Jewry viewed the tele- vised or published images of the Sept. 11 attack on America — haunting images of death and destruction. The enemy was faceless. We didn't know what spurred the carnage at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and on the Pennsylvania countryside. We were stunned that anyone could have the wherewitha...…
…LETTERS Story Content Spurs Anger I am quite angry to have been misquot- ed addressing local reaction to the attack on America ("Local Reaction," Sept. 14, page 30). I merely stated that I had both an emotional and an intellectual reaction; that I would comment only on my intellectual reaction; that I saw a circular jet trail in the sky that day, probably over the airspace of Detroit Metropolitan Airport, and that its appearance was quite st...…
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…For Openers Paces In Time D etroit's ongoing Jewish "reunion" is surging ahead — the collecting of school yearbooks from the past 100 years. In only two years, the Jewish Historical Society of Michigan has received donations of more than 550 yearbooks of local high schools, middle schools and religious schools. Despite the stockpile, many more yearbooks are needed to complete the col- lection. But the historical society has even loftier goa...…
…Cover Story Mission Of Emotion Detroiters visiting Israel discover that solidarity goes both ways in wake of attack on America. Bernie Brawer of Franklin, Morris Silverman of Farmington Hills and Bert Stein of West Bloomfield march with youths from Detroit Jewry' Partnership 2000 region in the Central Galilee at Timrat. HARRY KIRSBAUM Staff Writer 3 11 ust moments before hearing the first report of the terrorist attack in New York City,...…
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…Cover Story MISSION from page 12 up north with our [Partnership A Long, Happy Flight 2000] family." All missions begin the same way — excited participants meeting together in an airport. This group began to coalesce instantly. They found they shared the same story — friends and family were worried about them going to Israel. Valeri Sirlin of Bloomfield Hills said family members expressed con- cern. She expected the trip to be tense becaus...…
…Michael and Suzan Folbe Curhan of West Bloomfield make Rosh Hashanah cards with Ethiopian children at the Mevasseret Zion Absorption Center. Jill Sidman of West Bloomfield gives a new Ethiopian immigrant a photo she had just taken of him at the Mevasseret Zion Absorption Center. Marilyn Hertzberg of Bloomfield Hills plants a tree in front of the Netofa School in the Central Galilee at a memorial ceremony the morning after the terrorist attack ...…
…To our brothers and sisters in Jewish Communities of Michigan... hocked and horrified by the terrible disaster that has struck America, we share the pain of every American and the anguish of the American nation. S Forever bound by our past history, we stand by you in true partnership as you face this challenge, sharing, more than ever, the bond of our common destiny. On the eve of our New Year, we can only ask that our prayers be heard and...…
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…This Week A Humble Award Winner Doreen Hermelin earns the Federation's highest honor for her nonstop involvement in the Jewish community. BILL CARROLL Special to the Jewish News T he process for selecting Doreen Hermelin as Detroit Jewry's 2001 winner of the presti- gious Fred M. Butzel Memorial Award was one of the fastest in history The 16-member selection committee, comprised of previous winners of the award and current officers of t...…
…Shaarey Zedek Hosts Communal Meeting D oreen Hermelin will receive the Fred M. Butzel Memorial Award for distinguished commu- nity service at the com- bined annual meeting of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit and its banking/real estate arm, the United Jewish Foundation. The meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 25, at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield. The meeting will fea- ture the election and installation of new ...…
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…Our Youth Is M A Difference Zionist Organization of America's Balfour Concerts makes this program possible CONCERT Michigan participants in the Masada "Summer in Israel" and other Israel-based programs under the auspices of the Zionist Organization of America. 2001 ZOA SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS ZOA Masada program has become the largest program of its type in the United States. ABRAMS; AVIVA ADELMAN. DORI ALISON. BARR ALTER, JESSICA ARKIN, J...…
…Terror In America United In Grief Terror attacks touch many families in Detroit. SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN Staff- Writer he early hours of uncertain- ty following Tuesday, Sept. 1 l's terrorist attacks in America turned from the heart-wrenching stories of strangers to the confirmation that Detroiters have been identified as being among those injured, killed, lost or grieving. "Doreen Hermelin called to tell me her nephew was missing in one o...…
…What Kind Of Coalition? Seeking Muslim, Arab allies in terror war, U.S. pressures Israel relationship. that attacks another Muslim country. Predictably, the coalition effort is already producing pressure to change U.S.-Israel relations and the adminis- tration's generally hands-off approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Freedman said. Some countries have already made it clear that they won't participate in a coalition that includes Is...…
…Terror In America Brooklyn's Experts Israeli emigres say Americans must learn about terror as a fact of life. "It's important not to hide these things from the children," he says. "We don't want to scare the kids, Jewish Renaissance Media but they need to know the basic facts. This is life." Dabbas says that Americans, too, need to face real- Brooklyn ity squarely and not flinch at hard truths. He's n Brooklyn, some front-line witnesses to ...…
…Are ou sick & tired of bein fat? acceptance of security checks at malls, the- aters and restaurants. Druvan applauds these methods born of necessity in her home country, though her praise is rueful. "We ran away from Israel because of this," she says, brown eves bleary with unspilled tears. At the offices of FlatRate Moving, on Maiden Lane. a few blocks from what was the World Trade Center, general manager Mitchell Zafrany, 37, discusses the ...…
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…United Jewish Communities opens Emergency Relief Fund for victims of terrorist attacks on America. and rehabilitation of the victims of this tragedy and their fami- lies. On September 11, 2001, four airline jets were hijacked and All proceeds of the UJC Emergency Relief Fund will go directly to assist individuals, families and other relief organizations. used as jet-propelled terrorist weapons against the American people. In response, an...…
…Opinion Editorials are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.com On The Day Of Atonement hen the shofar sounded the end of Yom Kippur a year ago, many American Jews were thinking about Israel and the campaign of terror that the Palestinians had launched at Rosh Hashanah. The idea that the world that was being made new in 5761 might be worse, very much worse, for America was hardly credi- ble. We were thinking about the boo...…
…OTHER, VIEWS Searching For Answers and our way of life. Who can assess the darn- age to our psyche from view- ing hours and hours of video footage of destruction and its aftermath? What is the toll of this macabre, mod- ern-day ritual of instantly and repeatedly experiencing world tragedy on the enter- RABBI E.B. tainment centers in our liv- "BUNNY" ing rooms? FREEDMAN Iffy colleagues in How does one comfort a the rabbinic Other Views 9-year...…
…DANIEL PIPES from page 34 Islamism This is the body of ideas that takes the religion of Islam and makes it the basis of a radical utopian ideology along the lines of fascism and Marxism- Leninism. It has ambitions to replace capitalism and liberalism as the reign- ing world system. Islamism accounts for the anti- American hatred coming out of places remote from the Arab-Israeli conflict, like Nigeria and Afghanistan. Adherents of this outlo...…
…To the members of our Great Lakes Jewish Community: The B'nai B'rith Great Lakes Region joins with all Americans in mourning the loss of so many innocent lives in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington DC. This great tragedy drastically changes the lives of the families who are now left behind to suffer the losses of loved ones, as well as the injured who must now put their lives back together. We are asking for your help in this time of nee...…
…Can you be spiritual without being religious? Can you be rational and spiritual at the same time? Is there an ethical dimension SECULAR SPIRITUALITY: PASSIONATE JOURNEY TO A RATIONAL JUDAISM October 18th .21st, 2001 Pivnick Center for Humanistic Judaism The Birmingham Temple 28611 West Twelve Mile Road Farmington Hills, Michigan to spirituality? Do beauty and the arts fit into the spiritual experience? Are science and Secular and...…
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…U The strolling dinner will be donated by local restaurants, with entertainment donated by Starshowz DJ Entertainment. In July, Starbuck's Coffee in Birmingham held an after-hours coffee night, raising 52,000 for Herman's care. A football pool, organized by brothers Scout and Dale Turken, who are long- time friends of Herman from school days in Farmington Hills, has brought 54,000 in pledges. A fund has been set up for donations to Herman to ...…
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