…This Th Concern for a school tragedy; volunteers for Detroit; a reprieve for Akiva's building. Local school districts wasted no time in talking with students and staff in the wake of the shootings at a Colorado high school on April 20. Alexander Bailey, superintendent of the Oak Park School District, will judge the reactions of the students a couple days after the incident took place. "We asked the staff to pay close attention to the student...…
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…Editorials and Letters to the Editor are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.com Keeping The Public Informed T he announcement that Temple Emanu-El will take over the infant care program at the Jewish Commu- , nity Center in Oak Park is a wel- come development. The most immediate beneficiaries are the families of the 10 infants now in the program, who were facing a somewhat frantic search for an alternative nursery after...…
…COMMUNITY VIEWS Providing Learning To Maximize Potential regard to promoting the continuity of t was somewhere between Janu- Jewish traditions and education. Rabbi ary and April of 1968. I was Ahron Soloveichik in his book Logic of walking in the Old City of the Heart, Logic of the Mind discusses Jerusalem. the two fundamental components of There were still artillery holes in Jewish education, which he the walls. A group of Ortho- terms the ...…
…EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK An Unorthodox Response Conservative movements are uniquely 've received some wonderful, ill-equipped to do, despite their unsolicited mail invitations from protestations to the contrary. area religious leaders in recent The Orthodox do a much better weeks. Too bad they're all from job. In cities where I've lived — Christians. And too bad the Jewish Atlanta, Baltimore and Washington — world, particularly the non-Orthodox vib...…
…Cleaning & Storage Special . Without You, The Survivors' Stories Might Never Get Told She comes from Przemysl, Poland. She is among the 10% of Polish Jews who survived Nazi Occupation. Now she is in her 80's. Her family's graves are overgrown and crumbling. Her experiences have gone untold. Remembrance and Reconciliation, Inc., an Ann Arbor non-profit, is working to restore Przemysl's Jewish cemetery and to publish the stories of survivors ...…
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…tv,sxoromrig.M3 W: fiNgiiketn.M4'.: 401k %OKA: ,,; , . . 4 bus overturns on the Jerusalem-Jerico Highway. A mother dies and Mor, her 2- year-old child is paralyzed. Itamar, 17, falls 150 feet over a cliff while on a climbing expedition in the Negev. He suffers head trau- ma, fractures and is in a deep coma. Their local hospitals can keep them alive, but nothing more. What will happen to these children? On the outskirts of Jerusalem, dow...…
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…D c.we the Gift Thai e ps on Giving God Squad Visits Woman's World The God Squad, aka Rabbi Marc Gellman and Msgr. Tom Hartman, is coming to Woman's World '99, the annual fundraiser sponsored by Congregation Shaarey Zedek Sisterhood. The event is Wednesday, May 5. NC 1AT NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN GREATER DETROIT LJ SECTION 26400 LAHSER ROAD, SUITE 100 SOUTHFIELD, MICHIGAN 48034 The God Squad: Rabbi Marc Gellman and Msgr. Tom H...…
…Dove Dinner 1999 Ecumenical Institute honors 3 community leaders for building interfaith bonds. SHELLI DORFMAN Editorial Assistant W d_le schools, both in West Bloomfield. Blewett said the schools have been actively involved in the Ecumenical Institute Young Ambassadors program, instituted in honor of Deputy Superintendent Faber. The dinner, the Institute's prima- ry fundraiser, is chaired by Ecumenical Institute board member Tarik Daoud, ...…
…Hesder Yeshivot Friends Earning Recognition The Detroit Friends of Yeshivot Kerem B'Yavneh and Sha'alvim will host a brunch reception 10:30 a.m. Sunday, April 25, at Young Israel of Southfield, 27705 Lahser. The yeshivot are prominent Israeli post-high schools for young men, and part of the Hesder Yeshiva group of schools. The movement was started 45 years ago by the late Harav Chaim Yaakov Goldvicht, founder of Kerem B'Yavneh. The Hesder Yes...…
…Together With Purpose Seder for women at Congregation Beth Shalom celebrates heroines of Jewish history. ESTHER ALLWEISS TSCHIRHART Copy Editor BILL HANSEN Photographer F or one special evening during Passover, the din- ner guests were all female. Dressed in their best, they came to the Women's Seder hosted by Congregation Beth Shalom proud to be together as Judy Goldsmith of Huntington Woods mothers, daughters, grandmas, and her daughter...…
…ITENTION Siegel Addresses Donor Event The Congregation Beth Israel Sisterhood in Flint will host Danny Siegel as the featured speaker at their annual donor, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 5. Siegel will speak on "How to be a Mitzvah Hero and Do Big-Time Mitzvahs: VV/That Golda Meir, Henrietta Szold, Eleanor Roosevelt, Danny Siegel's late Danny Siegel mother and Liz Taylor All Have in Common." Danny Siegel is a lecturer, poet and writer, teacher an...…
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…Maze! Toy! D L D F 1 A dedicated Multiple Sclerosis volunteer dedicates her birthday to a fund-raiser. AMY MINDELL Special to The Jewish News r or more than two decades, Ina Cohen has contributed a lot to the local Multiple Sclerosis Society, but as far as anyone can recall this is the first time someone donated a birthday. When Cohen, a Huntington Woods attorney, discovered that last weekend's annual MS Society fundraising walk fell upo...…
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…Ffiendship Is A livo4 With The. Same Des. Births April 11 Beth (Dubrowsky) and Kevin Smith of Livonia are delighted to announce the birth of their son, Justin Robert (Yisrael Reuven). Thrilled first-time grandpar- ents are Gail and Arnold Smith and Sue and Harold Dubrowsky, all of West Bloomfield. Excited first-time great- grandmother is Evelyn Landau of West Bloomfield. Justin's Hebrew name is in loving memory of his parents' friend Robert ...…
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…Thirty Days Of Israel Harry, Eddie and Chaim — and other fun facts about the Jewish state and its founders. Harry Truman had a great fondness for Chaim Weizmann. Tel Aviv is Israel's largest city and relatively new. Elizabeth Applebaum #1) It might never have been called Israel. Literally hours before the state was declared, there was still much debate about its name. Some wanted Israel, which was Jacob% name after he wrestled with the an...…
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