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…EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK i For 35 years helping people with disabilities • be fully included in community life (yin A Jewish Studies Champion A s undersecretary of the U.S. Treasury under President watch, the Jewish Studies program has helped counter assimi- Reagan, M. Peter McPherson worked with the Israeli lation and apathy by deepening Jewish identity among partici- government and U.S. Jewish leaders to cut the interest pating Jewish student...…

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…IL M]fg TaT& Spurning Synagogue Protest A Light To The World Ann Arbor A group of worshippers at Beth Israel Congregation are more determined than ever to counter 16 months of Shabbat picketing by Jewish Witnesses for Peace, which is protesting Israel's military occupation of the Palestinian-controlled West Bank and Gaza Strip. "Many who attend Shabbat morning services regularly find this more than a minor convenience," said Ann Arbor's Dr...…

…Waging Peace Seeds of Peace film shows the pain of learning coexistence in a combative world. DIANA LIEBERMAN Special to the Jewish News T he July 2002 session at Seeds of Peace International Camp in Otisfield, Maine, was not going well. Teens from the two major areas of conflict invited to the three-week ses- sion — the Middle East and India- Pakistan — did not seem CO be bond- ing as completely as in past years. The preceding spring had ...…

…WAGING PEACE from page 11 After serving two years in the Israeli Army intelligence unit and working for six months in the Seeds Jerusalem Center, Kaplan now is a freshman at Harvard University, majoring in gov- ernment. The Seeds Experience So far, about 2,800 teens from 22 countries or ethnic groups have attended the Maine camp, with 500 new campers every summer. Palestinian Badawi Qawasmi, 25, came to the first Seeds camp in 1993 from Ra...…

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…The Gift Of Love A trio of adopted siblings are wooed with affection and Jewish faith. Brandon, 7, Brittany, 10, and Christopher, 9, each light their own menorah with the help of their parents, Andy and Libby Beider. RONELLE GRIER Special to the Jewish News W hen Brittany, Christopher and Brandon Beider lit the Chanukah menorah this year, they celebrated the miracle of a loving family and a stable home, the first they have ever known. The...…

…A Great Need Brandon and Christopher play dreidel. Sept. 14, the day before Rosh Hashanah. Rabbis Jonathan Berkun and Eric Yanoff also participated. "They really began the New Year as Jews; it was a beautiful experience," said Rabbi Krakoff. "They are great kids, and we felt blessed to be a part of their ceremony. We love seeing them in stud and in Hebrew school. We've really developed a wonderful bond." Reality Sets In Andy and Libby had ...…

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…7 ot 0 ur kitchen was so old, it was becoming trendy again," quipped Steve Permut about the room he and wife Linda had considered redoing for years. Concerned about changing the character of their nearly 70-year-old home and perplexed that the only additional space they could add would require a size reduction of the unusually large dining room they loved, they put off what they knew needed to be done. Finally, when the colors of their old...…

…Digest Pick Up Chanukah Art All artwork submitted to the Jewish News Chanukah Art Contest is available to the artists at the JNoffice. All non- winning entries are available during reg- ular business hours (8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday) through Jan. 14. The winning entries in the Dec. 3 edi- tion are on display through Jan. 2 at Shalom Street in the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield. Those entries will be available for pic...…

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…Zohar Series Starts Rabbi Daniel Nevins of Adat Shalom Synagogue will present a lunch and learn series on Rabbi Moses de Leon and the Zohar at the synagogue on Thursdays, Jan. 13, 20 and 27. From Moses to Madonna, Jewish mystical insights have fascinated reli- gious seekers from all backgrounds. The current craze to learn the secrets of Kabbalah has little to do with tra- ditional texts and concepts of Judaism's ancient mystical tradition, Ra...…

…Cutbacks Hit Israeli Poor For Israel's growing cadre of poor, government cutbacks take tough toll. DINA KRAFT Jewish Telegraph Agency a Ashdod, Israel abriella Friedlander recently stopped paying her mort- gage. "It was either paying the mortgage or having electricity, water and gas," said the 38-year-old single mother, her hands clasped tightly together on a small crochet-covered table in her dimly lit apartment. Friedlander, who works pa...…

…Precedent Setting Chicago ruling on West Bank killing seen as a blow to terror supporters. RON KAMP EAS Jewish Telegraphic Agency Washington jury award of $156 million to an Israeli-American family whose son was killed in the West Bank strikes a precedent that could cripple U.S. fund-raising for ter- rorism, la\vyers for the plaintiffs said. The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were a key element leading to the award this month against thr...…

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…Mentor Works? outside the home, but few Orthodox women work outside the home. On the other hand, certain circum- stances conspire to increase the via- bility of large families. In the larger Orthodox communities in which a "Jewish neighborhood" is still a reali- ty, an unusually high proportion of grandparents help out with their grandchildren. Under this scenario, parents are never freed of serious, familial, finan- cial obligations. What T...…

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…OTHER VIEWS A New Year, A New Holiday? A New York City s we begin 0 to count down to the secular New Year — and with Chanukah just behind us and Tu b'Shevat not too far in the dis- tance — it is a good time to take stock of the Jewish holidays we celebrate. Some holidays are commanded in the Torah itself. Thus, we are told to observe the three Pilgrimage Festivals (Pesch, Shavuot and Sukkot). Other holidays are post-Torah and derive from ou...…

…ffEDINcieTEASE Builder And Apartment Honorees T he Building Industry Association of Southeastern Michigan (BIA) and the Apartment Association of Michigan (AAM) held their 2004 Leadership Recognition and Awards Night on Nov. 30 at the Ritz-Carlton Dearborn. The BIA represents 2,200 area builders, remodelers, multi-family prop- erty owners, developers and suppliers. Seven members of the Jewish commu- nity received special recognition at the N...…

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…After Chanukah sale Fireplace Gas Logs on sale from $200 to $800 In 1930 Europe, Jewish mothers in many ways lived to this ideal. They were deeply committed to home life, deter- mined to see to their children's educa- tion, both Jewish and secular, and involved in social activities, Ofer said. When the Nazis came to power, they implemented anti-Jewish legislation, several years before the start of the war. The result was "dramatic changes in...…

…David (Was) Weiss, Sweetpea Atkinson and Don (Was) Fagenson: Reteaming for a reunion tout; dubbed by the brothers Was as the "Life After Meth!' tour. Was (Not Was) reunites for New Year's Eve appearance at Royal Oak Music Theatre. LYNNE KONSTANTIN Special to the Jewish News T 12/24 2004 36 his is not the first time a story about Don Fagenson (aka Don Was) has appeared in the Detroit Jewish News. Before the Oak Park High School graduate c...…

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…At The Movies 'Meet The Fockers' Barbra's back — now can she please make a real movie? These 30-something lovers are pallid, banal figures who serve mainly as straight men for their parents' shenani- gans. here is only one thing that I expected to amuse myself by toting moviegoers will take with them up the Jewish in-jokes and asides, but it from the innocuous and insipid was slim pickings. And that includes an sequel Meet the Fockers. awfu...…

…On The Bookshelf For The Younger Set New kids book traces path of the world of the ancestors. PENNY SCHWARTZ Jewish Telegraphic Agency W hen Bruce Feller's Walking the Bible hit bookstores in 2000, the 434-page book became an instant bestseller, tapping into a groundswell of grownup readers thirsty for knowing more about the world once inhabited by Abraham, Noah and Moses. With the 2004 release of the kids ver- sion of the book, Walking t...…

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…Arts 15 Life Food Party Apps To please a crowd, try these delicious appetizers. utes until very hot and serve sprinkled with pepper. Makes 36 appetizers. ANNABEL COHEN Special to the Jewish News AL ppetizers scare a lot of people. With the multi- tude of ready-made offerings available at just about any mega-store and the ease of restaurant or carryout ordering, some people have all but forgot- ten how to prepare them. Although dough wra...…

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