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…Contents DETROIT =WISE NEWS CI A 2001 winner of American Jewish Press Association and Society of Professional Journalists awards ww-w.detroitjewishnews.com AUG. 24, 2001 ELUL 5, 5761 VOL. Oa, NO. 2 This Week Arts & Entertainment 75 Rising Son 12 On Their Own? The Wallflowerslakob Dylan at last acknowledges his famous lineage. Seniors sue to retain valet parking at Southfield apartment complex. Living Well Opinion 95 Golf Pheno...…
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…EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK LETTERS Letters are posted and archived on JN Online: vv-ww.detroitjewishnews.com An Early Window Into Judaism y ou may be born Jewish, but that doesn't mean you know what it means to live Jewishly. Because you are most impressionable as a youngster, pre- school may well be the best time to learn about Jewish history and her- itage. Look around in your everyday experiences and it quickly becomes apparent that preschoole...…
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…For Openers Back To The Future A lives of as many kids as possible," Feldman says. fter bumping into one another in an "This is a great way to overcome and heal the Oak Park grocery store, former elemen- results of the riots from 30 years ago and the exo- tary, school classmates Marcy Tatken dus of Jews from Detroit." Feldman of Huntington Woods and A fund-raising silent auction at the reunion will Deborah Blocker Elston of Lathrup Village ...…
…JEWISH m RENAISSANCE PUBLISHER EDITORIAL: Community Advisory Board Editor Robert A. Sklar rsklar@thejewish news.com Marc Bakst Marion Freedman Mindy Soble Kaufman Sally Krugel Lila Lazarus Steven Schanes David Techner Gary Torgow Jeff Weingarten, M.D. Alfred N. DeRusha aderusha@thejewishnews.com ADVERTISING SALES: Advertising Di rector Mark Lewis tnlewis@thejewishnews.com Sales Coordinators Mina Vickers Kristen M. Komlen Directions: O...…
…Can you be spiritual without being religious? Can you be rational and spiritual at the same time? Is there an ethical dimension to spirituality? Do beauty and the arts fit into the spiritual experience? Are science and SECULAR SPIRITUALITY: PASSIONATE JOURNEY TO A RATIONAL JUDAISM October 18th - 21st, 2001 Pivnick Center for Humanistic Judaism The Birmingham Temple 28611 West Twelve Mile Road Farmington Hills, Michigan Secular an...…
…Dinner Co-Chairs TIM ATTALLA JOEL E. JACOB HELEN & Chapter Chairs Journal Co-Chairs TARIK DAOUD ARIELA & ASA SHANI LISA & HANNAN Lis SEEDS OF PEACE a mbassador David Hermelin Peacemaker Award to ACQU ASSER President and Chief Executive Officer, Ford Motor Company Empowering Children of War to Break the Cycle of Violence -00 Special Honored Guest Monday 2001 i (D epstember10, THE HONORABLE MARTIN INDYK United States Ambassador ...…
…Staff Notebook Helping Hands eff Jenks, along with his wife Nati, recently returned from South Korea, where they partici- pated in a five-day project for Habit t for Humanity. Jeff, a Huntington Woods city corn- missioner and a Michigan elector, went to Asan, South Korea, because of the support he received from the local Korean community during his bids for the state senate in the late 1990s. Asan also was the site where former presi- dent J...…
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…Etalachic Fine Points Cloning of human beings raises questions among Jewish ethicists and leaders. SHARON SAMBER Jewish Telegraphic Agency L . ast month's U.S. House of Representative's vote to ban all human cloning, both repro- ductive and therapeutic, brought about var- ied views from Jewish ethicists and leaders. While most are in general agreement that cloning cells to benefit medical research would be acceptable, when it comes to dup...…
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…This Week Another Try Peres Arafat meeting in Berlin is seen as one more last chance. DAVID LANDAU Jewish Telegraphic Agency Jerusalem N 8/24 2001 16 be virtually impossible to enforce. The Sharon-Peres understanding was not much of an opening, but Fischer resolved to try to widen it. Officials on both sides cautioned against heightened expectations, though they need hardly have bothered. Previous attempts at diplomacy, including a pu...…
…Spreading The Word With Israel solidarity rally a month away, activists are mobilizing Jews across the country. MICHAEL J. JORDAN Jewish Telegraphic Agency V is planes, trains and automobiles, tens of thousands of Jews from across North America are expected to descend upon New York on Sept. 23 for the long-anticipated continental rally in support of Israel, organizers say. Preparations for the rally have begun to gel, with speakers and spon...…
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…VC'S IWING1.0 16gAet. 1t4 20021 JUNE 30-AUGUST 5, 2002 Coming Together New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, center, greets Carmel Cato, right, father of 7-year-old Gavin Cato who was struck down by a car in the motorcade of Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Schneerson, and Norman Rosenbaum, whose 29-year-old, rabbinical-scholar brother Yankel was killed by an angry mob after Cato was hit. Rosenbaum and Cato met for the first time in 10 years on...…
…This Week Insight Remember When • Ideas & Issues From Pushke To Power Suit From the pages of the Jewish News for this week 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. Jewish Womens Foundation changes the way women give. 1991 The Israeli navy test fired the new Barak anti-missile missile. Anne Gonte Silver was elected the first woman president of the Zionist Organization of America's Metropolitan Detroit District. SHARON LUCKERMAN Staff Writer ...…
…F v or the third year, our Voices section focuses on Jewish education in metro Detroit. This year's "voice" is that of the preschool student, our hope for the future. A 2000 report by the * v Alliance for Jewish Education of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit targeted preschool as the first stepping stone - to Jewish learnin g could last a Furtherny„ , : preschoo r- . . asm about' (i' sm can - infect the whole family. As Federatio...…
…Jewish early childhood educators join parents in advocating for scholarship assistance. DIANA LIEBERMAN Staff Writer W hen Jason and Bonnie Roskind moved to Oak Park last December, they assumed they would enroll their 8- month-old son, Raffi, in a Jewish child care center. Jason had been hired as director of informal Jewish education at the Agency for Jewish Education of Metropolitan Detroit. Then, Bonnie found a job as an administrative as...…
…ers throughout the United Stares are enthusiastic about Jewish preschools, their enthusiasm does not translate into scholarship money. "One of the things that bothered me at the time was we were both Jewish communal workers. We felt they wouldn't even help one of their own," Jason Roskind said. The best the Pitt Center could do was to offer the Roskinds a fee of $1,024 a month, the rate charged for five-day-a-week care at Raffi's age group the...…
…voices Preschool teachers at Jewish schools remain underpaid despite awesome responsibilities. nizing that salaries are less than issue as we try to attract more ideal. "The issue is a citywide, young people to the field," statewide and probably nation-- Firestone said. "Instead of being wide issue," said Marlene Thav, a second salary for a few years director of Temple Beth El's until they have children, it nursery school, "It's certainly no...…
…would definitely Ix more scholarships necessary — it's just that those fami- lies who can't afford it keep their chil- dren home." In San Francisco, "the federation does provide scholarships to Jewish Community Centers who, in turn, provide scholarships to parents," a JECEP member wrote. But the e-mail continued, "As far as I know, there is no direct scholarship set aside for early childhood education, except for recent immigrants. According t...…
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…Arthur Horwitz becomes AJE _president as community focuses on Jewish education. Arthur Horwitz DIANA LIEBERMAN StaffWriter I is in an era of unparalleled support for lifelong Jewish education that Arthur M. Horwitz, publisher of the Detroit Jewish News, assumes the presidency of the Agency for Jewish Education (AJE) — Detroit Jewry's central resource for educational services. Allocations from the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit t...…
…ime Adat Shalom nursery school . , director Liottie Levztsky re on kids- education and retirement. C",1 • V 28 D DIANA LIEBERMAN Staff Writer ottie Levitsky has been tuned in to preschoolers' moods for most of her adult life. So when Levitsky, who retired July 6 as nursery and kindergarten director at Adat Shalom Synagogue, heard kindergartner Sydney Rosen of West Bloomfield ask her the same question over and over, she sensed some anxie...…
…Retiring nursery school director- Dottie Levitsky at the foot of the tube slide in Adat Shalom Synagogue's Rona and Herbert Freedland Memorial Playground. school Hebrew immersion program. Depending on age, children spend as much as half a day speaking and hear- ing nothing but Hebrew. In addition, Levitsky brought many afternoon enrichment programs to the school, such as woodworking and cooking. Teacher Debbie Silverman of West Bloomfield say...…
…,Odies 63 Gentlemen Please be seated... COLOR MY LIFE page 29 how to tie it. As far as toilet mastery, you can't learn it driving around town in a car. You need consistency — being in one place." In addition, she feels that today's preschoolers take longer to learn how to communicate and how to negotiate with others, even though their speech and phonics may be excellent. "If I could change one thing," she says, "I'd give more hands-on skill...…
…Pitt Center assistant director Robin Herman, director Fredelle Schneider and infant/toddler and transition coordinator Katie Gorbach at the center's new toddler gym. rtit":1 0:0 ,4; * W il:r tr 4,Q00 „„, DIANA LIEBERMAN Staff Writer F our million dollars pays for a lot of school bells and whistles at tt. Sarah and Irving Pitt Child Development Center — along with 15 classrooms, a sprinkler system, toddler gym, music room, child-sized kit...…
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…oo • Who who and what's what in Detroit-area Jewish preschools. ADAT SHALOM SYhAGOGUE 29901 Middlebelt, Farmington Hills 48334, (248) 851-5105. Jordana Weiss, direc- tor; stream of Judaism: Conservative. Nursery School and Kindergarten: Nursery: Parents can choose own schedule. Half day: 9-11:30 a.m., stag- gered arrival and departure. Full da) 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Min. 2 half days. Kindergarten: Five full days. 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Student/teacher rati...…
…rrr.Rivf I '7 X 1 I '7 voices LOOKING FOR A PRESCHOOL? page 33 X Aron and Salim Friedman, 2 and 4 respectively, of Southfield, participate in a dance where each child got to play a musical instument at Camp Akiva at Yeshivat Akiva in Southfield in July A year-round resource for adults seeking to connect with Jewish history, holidays, culture, and Torah, sponsored by the Michigan Conservative movement and open to everyone, regardl...…
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…sj "Great work Gittleman" LOOKING FOR A PRESCHOOL? page 34 iving with the dirt and disruption produced L by a renovation or addition to your house can be trying at best. At least that's what Doug and Wendy Hamburger thought prior to hiring Gittleman Construction to add two upstairs bedrooms and baths as well as recreate the family room in their Franklin home.- `'We lived through this from April to September and it couldn't have been e...…
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…lin ' on Editorials are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.com Dry Bones Lives On The Line I srael is morally correct in trying to kill the men who organize Palestinian terrorist attacks; it's a matter of self-defense. The pious criticism by the hand-wringing moralists in America, Europe and, no surprise, the United Nations, is just plain wrong. The issue is stunningly simple. Leaders of extrem- ist, usually religion...…
…OTHER VIEWS An Intricate Puzzle KEVIN SCHWARTZ Special Commentary Otis zeld, Maine he wake-up bell rings each morning as it did last sum- mer, but something is dif- ferent because of who is at camp to hear it and who is not. Since the inception of Seeds of Peace in 1993, Israeli, Egyptian and Palestinian delegations have attended each summer's two three-week sessions in Maine. They have stood as formida- ble pieces of the intricate puzzle o...…
…Meet The Goodmans David & Annise. Met at a Friday evening service at Adat Shalom. Married in the Main Sanctuary on August 5. David: Came from Chicago and chose to settle in Detroit. U-M Engineering Degree. Cooking, golf, bowling and auto racing enthusiast. Joined Adat Shalom in 1998. Co-Leader, Y.A.S.S. (Young Adult Shabbat Service). Member, Adat Shalom Synagogue 2000 Team. Member, Synagogue Board of Trustees. Member, Jewish Community Center...…
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…tin American Kecl Mayen David For Jsrae 5upporting Israel's National Emergency Medical Service HOLOCAUST from page 40 invites the community to attend the theater. It was some show." Felt good? About what? Some show, indeed. No Educational Value There are those who argue that movies like Schindler's List "educate" millions who otherwise would not know any- thing about that morbid history. But "educate" must be interpreted in the broadest...…
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…1 Letters from camp reveal the humor, honesty and daring of our children. -OD r-) n,x4 ; 25 i f , f, w .2 ••-.1 L enters home from camp to parents, grandparents, siblings, friends and even pets can become cherished family heirlooms. They also give insights into the workings of our children's minds when they're inde- pendent and away from home. Here's a sampling of what area kids had to say from camp. The names have been withheld, b...…
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…Ri d in Local bicyclists honor the memory of Alex Graham, making other kids' dreams come true. his wife on a recumbent tandem, a low-seated bicycle built-for-two. When the couple Every Thursday, participants received SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN learned a young girl who a group e-mail from a team member let- Staff Writer lived on the bike route ting them know where that Sunday's had received her wish of ride would be. n her final days, 17-year-old...…
…Co m m u ni ty THE DETROIT PARTNERSHIP GROUP ARTHUR HORINiZ R.ENE ANO DAViD TECHNER RABBI BUNNY FR ,'ECIMAN STEVE SCiiANES IOWA MAZOR•POZt ■ iER .1.044, ■ •• ■ • MARK MR.,GROM Alyn For The Kids Detroit supporters of Israel rehab hospital feats the Techners. SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN Staff-Writer D avid Techner's connection with the physically disabled children of Alyn Hospital in Jerusalem came about in a most unlikely way. "In the d...…
…Bar -Ilan Hosts Carl Reiner Far Left: Leypsa, Debbie and Rabbi Irwin Groner Center: Ilene and David Techner at Alyn Hospital David Techner visits with children at Alyn Hospital. constraints, had an amazing life — through the love and opportunities given to her by her parents. She had an amaz- ing spirit. I always felt better when I left her house than when I got there — and that's how I felt at Alyn." In that spirit, a special tribute will...…
