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…THE JEWISH NEWS I) FRONT This Week's T o p Stories Class Of 2002? A Jewish Future For 17 years, Machon ['Torah and "Rabbi J" have shown Detroiters what being Jewish is all about. LYNNE MEREDITH COHN STAFF WRITER Rabbi Naftoli Kirzner: Machon's presence in Ann Arbor. abbi Avraham Jacobovitz never wanted to be a pul- pit rabbi. Technically, he still is not. But for many Detroiters, the man who is af- fectionately known as "Rabbi J" is no...…
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…April 25, 1997 9 Detroit OPINION Missionaries and anti-missionaries. 37 La Unica A West Bloomfield woman makes her mark in Hispanic areas with a weekend radio show. Spring fling. page 17 TELL ME WHY Don't sing it again, Sam! 48 Hat In the Ring Gilda Jacobs is already gearing up for a run for the state House next year. THE PULSE Challenging the Ten Commandments. WASHINGTON Detroit Surprises Farrakhan and whites raise the race ca...…
…JEWISH FUTURE page 3 Snider, who is on the presidium of Machon. "What really brings people in is a sincere thirst for Jewish knowledge." Operating out of a small house on 10 Mile Road in Oak Park and an historic house on Hill Street in Ann Arbor, Machon does not charge for classes and charges only a nominal fee for programs, to cover costs. Rabbi J does not want to associate religion with money. "Synagogues charge high dues per family. I want...…
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…ni c a PHOTO BY DANIEL LIPPITT JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER A West Bloomfield woman makes her mark in the Hispanic community through her weekend radio show. Sonia West talks to her audience during her regular weekend broadcast on 560 AM. onia West talks a mile a minute, barely breath- ing after one thought before launching headfirst into the next. A local radio personality, she is known for this rapid-fire delivery on her weekend afte...…
…The new owners of Prentis Manor plan to open a kosher assisted-living facility in mid-summer. JULIE EDGAR STAFF WRITER I t'll be called Ilan Village. With each new admission, the area's newest assisted-living facili- ty — "Tree Village" in Hebrew — will make a donation to the Jewish Na- tional Fund for the planting of a tree in Israel. This is Prentis Manor's new incar- nation, a kind of continuation of the old — in keeping with the theme o...…
…DETROIT 1 THE JEWISH NEWS Vol. CXI No. 9 Publisher Arthur M. Horwitz Editor Phil Jacobs Associate Editors Elizabeth Applebaum, Alan Hitsky Assistant Editor Gail Zimmerman \-- _Copy Editor Lynne Konstantin Senior Writer Julie Edgar Staff Writers Lynne Meredith Cohn, Jill Davidson Sklar, Julie Wiener Contributing Editors Michael Davis, Neil Rubin Washington Correspondent James D. Besser Foreign Correspondent Douglas Davis Israel Corresponden...…
…Gilda Jacobs is already gearing up to run for a state House seat next year. JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER ilda Jacobs doesn't like term limits. Yet she may ride them all the way to Lansing in 1998, when Rep. David Gubow falls victim to the political guil- lotine. He is among 72 of 110 members of the House who can- not run for re-election. Ms. Jacobs, 48, the co-devel- opment director at the Jewish As- sociation for Residential Care for 14 years ...…
…High-Tech March The Detroit Teen Poland/Israel Experience will be the subject of a documentary and a Web site. JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER T he Detroit contingent set to attend the Internation- al March of the Living in Poland next week is go- ing to be one of the most docu- mented missions yet, organizers say. First, the participants will be filmed by a representative of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation for a docu...…
…R.,,. ' . *>T - -:.. ,,, - • klAK, ao:stt.l. .itNt4 RIFT page 13 world Jewry," he wrote, 'the state must be Jewish, not Orthodox." "We've had enough," said Rab- bi Spectre, whose brother, Rabbi Pinchas Spectre, is the leader of the Conservative movement in Is- rael, known as Masorti. "It's gone on and on. There's a lack of re- spect. These people have no idea of what pluralism is all about. This is a very serious situation. I hap- pen...…
…A Gentle Goodbye At Life's End PHIL JACOBS ED TOR 7— 0 n so many mornings, metro Detroiters awaken to hear the news of yet another as- sisted suicide. Typically the person was suffering greatly from an incurable disease or condition. At 7:30 p.m. Monday, May 12, a panel discussion at Congrega- tion Shaarey Zedek's B'nai Israel Center in West Bloomfield will explore alternatives to assisted suicide. "A Gentle Goodbye ... Explor- ing Alterna...…
…Min or asters A nursery-school exhibit celebrates young artists at Temple Emanu-El. JULIE WIENER STAFF WRITER BILL HANSEN PHOTOGRAPHER Top: Wall of fame. Below left: Jonathan Abramson, 41/2, shows off his seder plate. Below right: Jacob Malkin, 41/2, points out his artwork to his dad, David. III t was a spring evening in Oak Park and the artists, drinks in hand, mingled with the crit- ics. The drink was nonalcoholic fruit punch, and fe...…
…oom To Grow B'nai Moshe celebrates the completion of a new school building. JULIE WIENER STAFF WRITER JOHN M. DISCHER PHOTOGRAPHER i ds of all ages enjoyed a magic show, dancing and art projects that heralded the corn- pletion of Congregation B'nai Moshe's new education wing. Adults at the Spring Fling on April 13 checked out an introduction to the West Bloomfield congregation's adult ed program, workshops and a display of Passover resour...…
…PH OTO BY DANI EL LI PPITT Keep On Learning Jewish classes for adults combine in-depth study with timely topics. LYNNE MEREDITH COHN STAFF WRITER W ith the approach ofYom HaShoah comes the study of Holocaust poet Primo Levi. As we anticipate spring and Shavuot, out comes the Book of Ruth. "Eilu v'Eilu," an ongoing study series sponsored by Hillel Day School and con- gregations B'nai Moshe and Beth Abraham Hillel Moses, kicks off a new ro...…
…PH OTO BY BILL HANSEN A New Tradition A father creates a new flower for his daughter's bat mitzvah. JULIE WIENER STAFF WRITER W hile studying for her bat mitzvah at Con- gregation Shir Tikvah, Erin Michelle Wolson learned a lot about her Jewish roots. And at her bat mitzvah party, her guests received a dif- ferent kind of root: the root of a specially hybridized day lily that bears Ms. Wolson's name. In a departure from the usu- al bat mi...…
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…Jews On Film A cultural historian touches on the Jewish American experience in Hollywood. RICHARD HALPRIN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS id you ever wonder why the United States film in- dustry is based in Cali- fornia? Or what forces shaped the classic anti-Semitic charge that the Jews control Hollywood? Could the answers to these questions be interrelat- ed? For anyone interested in ex- ploring these issues, the Jewish Community Center in Wes...…
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…Opinion Editor's Notebook Christian Missionaries And Anti-Missionaries Defining Your Jewish Beliefs MARTIN J. WARMBRAND SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS PHIL JACOBS EDITOR I here is a David and Goliath battle going on between a number of Jewish anti-mis- sionary groups and individ- uals and the evangelical Christian missionaries. The Christian missionary dri- ve is funded by more than $150 million. It has millions of volun- teer missionaries ...…
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