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…DUISOIT JEWISH NEWS Contents m A 2000 winner of Michigan Press Association and American Jewish Press Association awards February 23, 2001 Shevat 30, 5761 Vol. CXIX, No. 2 AppleTree This Week 75 Two-By-Two 14 Heart-Of The People Sephardic congregation celebrates traditions, dedicates new Torah. In honor of 2nd month of 2001, cool facts with number 2. Arts & Entertainment Opinion 27 Part Of Who We Are Sephardim a small but vibrant...…
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…EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK How We Learn Matters N early 600 people considering SAJE, Detroit Jewry's popular adult learning program, turned out on a cold night last week to hear Rabbi Lawrence Kushner warm them spiritually. Seventy-five people signed up for SAJE (Seminars for Adult Jewish Enrichment) classes that night, bringing the early enrollment to more than 400. Part of SAJE's success is the volunteer teaching corps of local rabbis, cantors, ed...…
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…Cover Story AND FAMILY RALLY TO SUPPORT MATT MATT LASH IN HIS FIGHT AGAINST CANCER. SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN Staff Writer atthew Lash has learned more about cancer and chemotherapy in the last eight months than he ever hoped to know. But serious illness also has allowed him to realize the blessings of unyielding family support and remarkably true friendship. After his Dec. 28 diagnosis of Ewing's sarcoma, a type of bone cancer, Matt, 20, say...…
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…This Week Sephardic congregation celebrates traditions, dedicates new Torah. SUSAN TAWIL Special to the Jewish News D ancing and singing to the rich rhythm of Middle Eastern music, punctuated by the trilling tongues of the women, a crowd of more than 100 wel- comed a new Torah to the Sephardic Community of Greater Detroit. At the Hachnassat Sefer Torah (Torah dedication) held Feb. 18, a stunning silver-encased Sephardic Torah was paraded i...…
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…at the Jewish Community Center LAST CHANCE to SAVE UP TO 45% on our Winter Membership Special: Matt Lash at his desk at Michigan State i ty Warner Middle School in Farmington Hills. "They all met in sixth grade. The boys absorbed him," she says of a relationship ongoing and unbreakable. At the first parent-teacher confer- ence after moving, Man's mom remembers how the teacher couldn't believe he was new in school. "She told me it was as i...…
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…TRInk Show by attention, he said, but "the real purpose here is to listen to the parties, to see where they want to focus any new talks." Powell knows in advance most of what he'll hear — an insistence by the new Israeli government on a slower, more incremental approach to peace talks with the Palestinians, and Palestinian demands that the talks pick up where they left off under outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Barak. That demand has already bee...…
…Denial Dilemma Knollenberg presses for U.S. recognition ofArmenian holocaust by the Turks — allies of Israel and America. HOWARD LOVY Copy Editor oseph Knollenberg leaned back in his chair in his Farmington Hills office recently and quietly, calmly rattled off his credentials as a longtime supporter of Israel and other Jewish causes. But the U.S. reprensentative's Jewish constituents might want to pay attention to another issue dear to the...…
…• In Search Of Solidarity U.S. Jews urging Israel toward national unity government. AVI MACHLIS Jewish Telegraphic Agency merican Jewish leaders are considering issuing an appeal to all Israeli political parties to come together in a national unity government. The idea, floated quietly behind the scenes this week as the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations began its annual mission to Israel, reflects a growing p...…
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…Insight Remember When From the pages of the Jewish News for this week 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. Deity Over Disney Florida Jews preach tolerance over _park that mixes Moses, Jesus. JOYCE MOED CHARMAN Jewish Telegraphic Agency West Palm Beach or Dawn Short and Jennifer Willis, the wait to visit a newly opened "messianic Jewish" theme park was worth it. Ticket sellers bluntly told Short and her friend Willis when they arrived on Satu...…
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…Editorials are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.com Dry Bones Part Of Who We Are The net result is that the Sephardic Com- f patience is a virtue, then the munity of Greater Detroit has about 150 Sephardic Community of Greater families to draw from, but only 60 are active. Detroit is a virtue woven into the fab- ric of Detroit Jewry. Cultural Changes Nomads of sorts for 83 years, the small Though smaller in number, th...…
…OTHER VIEWS Validating Who We Are As A People IVIIT Nether a first-time visitor or a frequent traveler, every trip to Israel is meaningful. However, none was more important to me than the recent Michigan Unity Mission, which was a success on many levels. If the objective was to prove that it is safe to travel to Jerusalem, dayenu. If the purpose was to provide encourage- ment to our hosts that we have not forgotten them in a particularly tur...…
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