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…Metro A Valuable Tool Disabilities activist promotes learning through failure. RONELLE GRIER Special to the Jewish News T he best thing we can do for our kids is give them more opportunities to fail, says trainer/therapist and disabilities activist Norm Kunc. "What one person sees as failure, another person sees as the first try," said Kunc. "Failure is not something out there, it's our own perception." Our society is so focused on a nar...…
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…Tablets On Trial Religious or historical displays? U.S. Supreme Court to rule on Ten Commandments. MATTHEW E. BERGER Jewish Telegraphic Agency Washington re the Ten Commandments a historical doc- ument or a religious symbol? A That's one of the questions that will be before the U.S. Supreme Court when it hears two cases early next month on the public display of the Decalogue on government property. The central issue is whether states and ...…
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…OTHER VIEWS Keeping Hope Foremost N othing. And so, once again, we pray and hope. We look towards Jerusalem and think, "Well, maybe this time." Can we be blamed for being skeptical? We have visions of the White House handshake that we watched teary-eyed and with fervent hope. We listened as the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin embodied all our dreams and gave us chills when he said, "Enough of blood and tears. Enough." Sadly, it all came t...…
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…rT@ @Jr -1 helping wish famili Special Tips ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM AppleTree Editor Around the Family Table: A Comprehensive Bencher and Companion for Shabbat and Festival Meals and Other Family Occasions by Rabbi Shlomo JN 2/24 2005 32 Riskin. Published by Urim Publications (www.UrimPublications.com). Copyright 2005. $19.95. 216 pages. At the Passover seder table, many families enjoy having their own Haggadot. Because various editions ...…
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…Revitalized The Young Adult Division is doing an "Extreme Makeover" TAD Changed My Life ROBIN SCHWARTZ Special to the Jewish News I The YAD board discusses the new allocation project. ROBIN SCHWARTZ Special to the Jewish News y ou could call it "Extreme Makeover." Like the popular TV show where homes are torn down to their foundations and rebuilt, the Young Adult Division of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit is renovating...…
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…Learning Experience DON COHEN Special to the Jewish News F ew things divide people more than what they have in common," Rabbi Marc Saperstein told an audience of more than 300 Christian and Muslim clergy as he began the first of two talks at Temple Beth El's 63rd Glazer Institute on Judaism on Feb. 11. The institute, founded in 1942 by Beth-El's former Rabbi B. Benedict Glazer, annually hosts an interfaith audience to learn with a top Jewi...…
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