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…$1.00 OCTOBER 24, 1997/23 TISHREI 5758 Inside: Kirk Douglas Turns To Torah; A Green Rabbi Profile of Rabbi Fred Dobbs ( DETROIT JEWISH NEWS …

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…DETROIT JEWISH NEWS :TN Oct. 24, 1997 Vol. CXII No. 9 Up Front 24 Green Rabbi Midwesterner Fred Dobb preaches from a Reconstructionist pulpit. * , Nrsest"-r**—* 67 Debating fatherhood. page 89 Happy Simchat Torah A coloring project for the holiday. Close tfp 83 Every Jew, Every Week How the Torah Portions make us one. Births 78 B'nai Mitzvah 79 Business 134 Community 45 Editorials 32 Engagements 46 Health 128 Marketplace 152 Obi...…

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…Six M11110 Pop Tabs ro at Vance wants students to understand the enormity of the number six million. A chemistry teacher, Vance is organizing the Roeper School's pop tab drive, and she is attempting to use the fundraising project as an opportunity for _ Holocaust education as well. For the past four years, students at the private school in Birmingham have collected tabs from empty soda cans and sold them for aluminum recycling. Money earned ...…

…3 The a 1 Photo by Krista Husa a ace Is On Jewish candidates are gearing up for next month's city elections. it 0 attending. I wanted to be a voice for the taxpayers. It's one thing to be a voice. It's another to be a voice with a vote," Kideckel said. • uriel Zweigel describes Two years ago, he said, Berkley herself as a "person of voters voted out the mayor and the people." much of the council. "Council pro- A Southfield resi- cedu...…

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…s ksN 0 \\\ ss,,s‘s\ Voicing • LIGZON 41 The area's only full-time Orthodox cantor, David Neumark teaches by inspiration. Photos by Krista Husa LYNNE MEREDITH COHN StaffWriter D avid Neumark didn't even con- sider becoming a cantor until the day he was ordained as an Orthodox rabbi. Kind of ironic, as he is now the only Orthodox cantor in the area, working full-time for Congregation Shaar Hashomayim in Windsor. "We had an open hou...…

…Left: Cantor David Neumark, outside Congregation Shaar Hashomayim in Windsor. Right: The exterior of Shaar Hashomayim. Below: Despite stunning architecture, Shaar Hashomayim has a shrinking membership. 0 r-, 0 singing into something practical, so he sought out the tutelage of Cantor Abraham Lubin, the only Chicago cantor who was teaching at the time. In his 30s, Neumark eventually contacted the Yeshiva University placement office and lan...…

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…i Michigan Region • Greater Detroit Ntomen's American ORT chapter of Hadassah • National Council of Jewish Women Greater Detroit Section • Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit Women's Campaign & Education Department • The Jewish News invite you to Joint Women's Day "FAMILY TIE 11 Thursday, October 30, 1997 10 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Program begins promptly at 10:30 a.m. Congregation Shaarey Zedek • Workshop Speakers: 1.Harriet Sarnoff ...…

…0 0 Left: A crowd of 130 people came to Barnes 6< Noble to hear Rabbi Stephen 0 Weiss. 0 0 Below: Rabbi Stephen Weiss talks about Kabbalah and Jewish spirituality. Bottom: Robert Rockaway talks about his book. • 0 _ o " 1"' kw mow 'Nam. - — Booking Jewish West Bloomfield's. Barnes 6- Noble and the Agency for Jewish Education unify the denominations almost better than the community. LYNNE MEREDITH COHN Staff Writer I t is perhap...…

…We Service Evenithing We Sell ... Everything Anybody Else Sells the community. "We try to get a rabbi from most every congregation to par- ,_,ticipate," she says. AJE's adult educational planners are looking "at other venues besides Barnes & Noble — people have really taken to the one-shot or short-series program," she says. Most Jewish events at Barnes & Noble are arranged through the AJE, but a few are independent, like Robert Rockaway's O...…

…• ditorials • • Simchat Torah Ending To Start Over • • Jewish state and hides behind the Law of Return as a shield from justice. That certainly was not the impetus for Israel's founding nearly five decades ago. But while Israel's actions were laudable, those This is the season to be joyful. With so much of some American officials in this nightmarish time, effort, energy, sadness and pain over our case have been appalling. In particular, ...…

…;COMMUNITY VIEWS When Forced To Pick The Greater Of Evils D1 VICTORIA GREEN Special to The Jewish News think one of the reasons I've been given the opportunity to write these commentaries is because I'm fairly average when it comes to being a young Jewish adult in metro Detroit. So, when I read in The Jewish News that the American Jewish Committee, an organization on whose board I used to sit, had published the results of a -Survey in which...…

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…LETTERS c-HoPE from page 32 Need a therapist? Maybe a laugh would do instead. Meet the star of the animated torial shows a glimmer of hope. The salient point is . that both Mr. i -Netanyahu and Mr. Arafat need each other. It is true that each has made serious errors in judgement, but maybe with proper nudging from the U.S., there can and, I believe, will be an agreement. It is not because the ci Israelis and the Palestinians will begin ...…

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…October 24, 1997 Dear Friends, As we conclude the High Holiday season and begin our new year, it is incumbent upon each member of our community to rededicate themselves to the critical task of Jewish continuity. To that end, we encourage your support and attendance at to be held Yeshiva Beth Yehudah, the Annual Dinner of the Hotel. Each year over 2,000 guests at the Westin Hote ests the November 16th gather to celebrate the great work and ac...…

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…Photo by AP/ Burhan Ozbilici Two Years Later, 1Viarch Slows To A Crawl JAMES D. BESSER Washington Correspondent ast week marked the two-year anniversary of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March. The huge gathering on Washington's Mall provoked dire predictions from Jewish leaders, but few proved accurate. For a variety of reasons, not least of which were his own bizarre activities since the controversial march; Mr. Farr...…

…Why do some people succeed in relationships and others do not? Is your intimate relationship healthy? How can you tell if you are doing it right? Israel `Islam Is The Answer' C;, Find out the Jewish Secrets To Self Improvement "How to Enjoy Intimate Pleasure" With Noted Lecturer Rabbi Shmuel Irons Tuesday, November 4, 1997 7:30 p.m. Jewish Community Center Ma i-Il/Drake Building There is no charge for this progi.‘ Refreshments will ...…

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…• Quiet Negotiations 16 Housing construction on ifie West Bank at issue in Middle East peace talks. STEVE RODAN and adMOHAMMED NAJIB • Special to The Jewish News srael and the Palestinian Authority are quietly negotiat- ing a halt to Jewish housing construction in the territories in exchange for the delay or cancellation of further Israel Defense Force pull- *backs in the West Bank, a government official said Saturday night. The official, ...…

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