…OTHER, VIEWS Where's The Balanced Reporting? . Ilir henever, over the years, Israel has been forced to take military action against Palestinians, the news stories and headlines are all too predictable: "Israel Clashes With Palestinians, Kills Four, Including 4- year-old." Time after time, these headlines, along with TV film of "rock throwing children," have portrayed Israel as a bru- tal, uncaring, aggressive military power. Complaints of ...…
…What A Strange War Philadelphia ne gets the impression that U.S. military dominance is now so overwhelming," writes David Brooks in the Weekly Standard, "that the rules of conflict are being rewritten." Indeed they are. In both the Afghanistan war of 2001 and the Iraq one now concluding, traditional fea- tures of warfare have been turned upside down. But it's not just an American phenomenon; the same rewriting also applies in Israel's war aga...…
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…• • ¢•••• INSIDE: Jewish Women's Changing Role Nadell Joseph SHARON LUCKERMAN WSU's Cohn-Haddow Center presents conference with women rabbis, scholars and theologians. Artwork from the conference brochure, courtesy the American Jewish Historical Society. StaIT Writer I n 1972, Sally Priesand of Cleveland was ordained the first woman rabbi in America. "Few imagined the impact that event would have on Judaism," says Pamela Nadell, pro...…
…Federation's Jewish Entrepreneurs Network is for you! Are you a business owner? Under 45? "Women weren't running services, but they were leaders of communi- ties," she says. "But women have to nurture that tradition because it has- n't been developed much in the past few centuries." New Rituals, Old Ideas The results of this recent nurturing are ceremonies that are free and loose, for young and old women, in and outside of the synagogue a...…
…eog ti The Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit is pleased to announce the Friends Of Literacy Hold Book Sale 2003 Activist of the Year Award Volunteers are needed to set up and staff the Friends of Literacy Used Book Sale. To volunteer, call (248) 291-1235. The sale is sponsored by Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit, the Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit, the Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit, Scho...…
…PLUMBING TIPS BASEMENT FLOODING? Spring storms bring power Golden Hearts SHARON HART AND PERRY TEICHER TO RECEIVE UNITED WAY AWARDS. SHARON LUCKERMAN Staff Writer T wo of the 14 volunteers to be honored with United Way Community Services' prestigious volunteer awards began their volunteer "educations" at the same place: B'nai B'rith Youth Organization (BBYO), the largest Jewish youth group in the world. Sharon Hart, presi- dent of the ...…
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…"THE TWELVE TRIBES" Community LIMITED EDITION SILK SCREEN BY CALMAN SHEMI STAR TRAX Bar/Bat Mitzvah Matthew Jay Shur will be called to the Torah as a bar mitzvah on Friday, April 25, at Temple Emanu- El. He is the son of Michelle and Bob Shur and brother of Erica. Matthew is a seventh-grade honor student at O.E. Dunckel Middle School in Farmington Hills, where he plays the viola and belongs to the forensics club. He is employed as a Far...…
…Save the Date... RDAY, MAY 2ND & SATURDAY, MAY 3RD Two great shows, one fabulous weekend! CHARLES KRYPELL TRUNK SHOW Engagements FIRSEL-LUTZ Meet Designer Charles Kgpell as he presents "Precious Pastels", a new collection for Spring. E ric and Linda Lutz of West Bloomfield are delighted to announce the engagement of their daughter Hope to Chad Firsel, son of Michael and Sandi Firsel of Long Grove, 111. Hope is a graduate of the Univers...…
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…Sunday, August 17, 2003 10:00 am - 4:00 pm At the DoubleTree Hotel, Novi Bar / Bat Mitzvahs 0 Social 0 Corporate Events Planners° Decorators 0 Entertainers° Photographers o Gifts o Foodo More... FRIED-ROLAND . ari and Marc Roland of West Bloomfield are thrilled to announce the engagement of their daughter Randi Alison to Dr. Steven Ted Fried, son of Barbara and Joel Fried of Parsippany, N.J. Randi earned a bachelor's degree in theater perf...…
…`My Turn' Teacher of 4,000 b'nai mitzvah prepares at age 90 for her own bat mitzvah. SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN Stair Writer A fter teaching b'nai mitzvah students for more than 40 years, Sylvia Barr finally decided it's time for her to be called to the Torah as a bat mitzvah herself. Inspired by her recent 90th birthday, Barr will cele- brate becoming a bat mitzvah at Temple Shir Shalom on Saturday, April 26. Never intending to become the te...…
…_ IN MEMORY OF A BELOVED FRIEND, FATHER, GRANDFATHER AND GREAT HAIRDRESSER JOE BAKSHI THE STAFF AT FRINGE SALON WILL ALWAYS HONOR YOUR FRIENDSHIP. YOU WILL BE DEARLY MISSED. SERVICES WILL BE HELD SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 2003, 5:00 PM AT TEMPLE ISRAEL. SHIVA FOLLOWING AT 30232 MAYFAIR, FARMINGTON HILLS CALL FOR DETAILS 248.539.2211 IN JOE'S MEMORY, A TRUST FUND WILL BE SET UP FOR BRITTANY BAKSHI. PLEASE SEND DONATIONS TO: EDUCATION FU...…
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…Spirituality Torah Portion Reacting To Joy Or Tragedy: It's A Matter Of One's Faith pursuit of which man shall live: I am the Lord." This sentence is one of the most significant in the entire Torah. As the rabbis read it, the Hebrew words v'chai bahem mean that we should live by the Torah and not die by it. Saving a life takes priority over IV by is it that some people all but three mitzvot because the respond to a death in Torah is a sourc...…
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…A SURVIVOR'S ODYSSEY Ann Arbor's Irene Butter evolves from silent Holocaust victim to emissary of understanding. SHARON LUCKERMAN Staff Writer T heir hands clasped, Irene Butter, 72, and her 15-year old Israeli granddaughter, Amelie, press close together on the living room sofa. They are discussing Amelie's first visit to Germany — the first time, she says, she delved into her grandmother's Holocaust experience. "It was a hard journey," A...…
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…Cover Story ODYSSEY from page 52 But not forget. Since her retirement from U-M, Butter has talked to many student groups about her experience. She sees her life in stages. Born in Berlin, Butter says the first six years of her childhood were very happy and harmonious. Her father and grandfa- ther were bankers. To escape Hitler, the family immigrated to Amsterdam. But three years later, when the Germans invaded, the family was sent to Wester...…
…is pleased to announce A,p arhments the winners of our 2003 8services Eight Over Eighty Event! 'Lester Burton Leonard P. Baruch r rita Roth Drapkin Alan Kandel Irene Butter greets the Dalai Lama, who received the Raoul Wallenberg award at U-M in 1994. ing room that overlooks Geddes Lake. Though her mother was reticent, Pam says, "the Holocaust was in my genes." As a child, she remembers ask- ing her grandmother (Irene's mother) what hap...…
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…siness Outlook Bumpy Road AFTER THE 1990s, INVESTORS HAVE TO RE-ADOPT TRIED-AND-TRUE INVESTMENT TECHNIQUES. Above: Lyle Wolberg goes over a plan with Michael Serling of Birmingham. ED NAKFOOR Special to the Jewish News hen the financial markets were clip- ping right along in the not too dis- tant past, few could have predicted the severity with which they would come to a near-grinding halt, not to mention the time it would take to sh...…
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…INSIDE: U.S. Holocaust Museum Celebrates 10 Years . . . 76 Film Expert Comments On Holocaust In Film 78 A Roundup Of Recent Holocaust Books . . . . 82 Writer-director wrestles with God is new f Ed Solomon: 'I wanted this movie to live in that uneasy space between the secular and the spiritual. …
…Arts Entertainment Best Bets CLASSICAL NOTES Sponsored by the Institute for Retired Professionals, violinist Geoffrey Applegate, cellist Marcy Chanteaux and pianist Pauline Martin of the St. Clair Trio perform "Chamber Music of the Masters" 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 30, at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield. Free and open to the public. (248) 661-1000. Violin soloist Ida Kafavian joins the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in per- form...…
…• Homemade Soups & Salads • Coney Specials WOODY ON STAGE 1111 he Woody Allen comedy Play It Again, Sam will get a little doctoring when it's performed next week by Pontiac Theatte IV. Dermatologist Jeffrey Shuster, a Temple Israel member, will be the director, and pediatrician Udi Kapen, a one-time Congregation Shaarey Zedek performer, will have the main role. "The play has a nice, uplifting mes- sage — be yourself," says Shuster, who sig...…
…Entertainnte iwi At The Movies Solomon's Choice Writer-director wrestles with God in his new film, "Levity." NAOMI PFEFFERMAN Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles T he first images of Ed Solomon's thought-provok- ing film, Levity, came to - the writer-director while tutoring in a maximum-security youth prison in Calabasa, Calif., two decades ago. "One inmate kept a photograph of the boy he had shot, and he kept touching it, fingering i...…
…David Klein Gallery presents have more going on inside than they appear to, and I also seem to play loners and out- siders. "What I liked about Manual Jordan is that he's obsessed with get- ting forgiveness, yet he doesn't know if it's possi- ble to find redemption:" While Solomon says he was "terrified" on the set, it helped that Paroled murderer Manual Jordan (Billy Bob Thornton shared his Thornton) seeks atonement, tenuously befriending h...…
