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…DETROIT THE JEWISH NEWS This Week's Top Stories NT Campaign Clout A $28 million Allied Jewish Campaign translates into increases for local Jewish agencies and services. ALAN HITSKY ASSOCIATE EDITOR T he board of the Jewish Federation of Metropoli- tan Detroit on Tuesday approved $24.2 million in allocations from the 1997 Allied Jewish Campaign. The funding for local Jewish programs to- taled $9.8 million, an 8 percent increase over 199...…
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…14 20 Hp From OPINION Next Generation What has happened to my Orthodoxy? 29 Local Jewish organizations change emphasis to attract a younger membership. TELL ME WHY Fund Needs Infusion A red calf stirs up Israel. State Rep. David Gubow reads a plaque before presenting it to Jew- ish War Veteran National Commander Robert M. Zweiman. page 15 JFS has helped families cope with catastrophic illness; now it needs a helping hand. Business ...…
…D JEWISH N ALLOCATIONS CLOUT page 6 1996 EDUCATION pp, for Jewish Education $2,681,316 $3,011,316 $1,039,158 80,000 312,158 $1,132,758 50,000 122,500_ 320,358 ---- 305,000 414,000 435,000 96,000 340,700 456,000 484,000 105,000 0 adult day program, which was threatened by federal cutbacks; increased funding of scholar- ships for congregational schools, as well as higher allocations for four local day schools. Israel is doing well e...…
…fives PHOTO BY GLENN fR IEST f David Honigman were a cat, he would be on about his eighth life. As a candidate for state representative and then state senator, he survived election bat- tles to capture and then hold onto his seat. As a politician, he faced down opposition in order to push for the concerns of his con- stituency and make laws for the welfare of the citizens. But last year, after a long battle with health problems, the senator ...…
…Full Force Ahead always happening, it's a very vi- brant place, and there seems to be something there for everyone." He heralds the growing mem- bership as "absolutely fantastic," adding that "we have accepted in the last year approximately 30 new members without any LYNNE MEREDITH COHN STAFF WRITER dues whatsoever because of their inability to pay." n the door to Rabbi Daniel Add to that "over 280 new He says it's not a "membership Syme's of...…
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…FULL FORCE page 8 "full of life and energy. It's very ex- citing for the youth; they had a Broadway play recently and the children were so happy. They had such excitement to go to temple, you could see it in their faces." Plus, says Ms. Fink, the temple has something for everyone — "from the Temple Beth Elders that my parents are involved in, [to] Torah class, the Glazer Insti- tute, which is an ecumenical weekend where we had a speaker ... i...…
…DETROIT THE JEWISH NEWS O Vol. CXI No. 18 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 Correspon...…
…FULL FORCE page 10 gregation to offer personal bless- ings." "The Reform movement is be- coming more inclusive of ritual," he admits. "The early Reform movement tried very much to Americanize itself, be very much like their neighbors. They looked to the Protestant Church as a model — sit in pews, choral mu- sic, organ music, prayer in the ver- nacular, decorum. It is much less formal now." Back then, Reform congregants "weren't allowed to" we...…
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…mc , Generation Future members? Ericka Wolfe, Mindy Nigoff, Shirlee Berman and Margo Berman on ORT's young leadership mission to Israel. (no photo credit) Robert Colbum: Younger people don't have the money. Local Jewish organizations work to attract younger members. Patti Aaron: Smaller amounts of time. JULIE WIENER STAFF WRITER ast month, three Women's American ORT members brought their teenage daugh- ters with them on the orga- nizati...…
…> 0 Jewish War Veterans celebrate their 56th annual convention by giving scholarships to 26 deserving students. JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER /- whirlwind weekend of honors and speeches marked the 56th annual convention of Jewish War Veter- ans, Department of Michigan. National Commander Robert M. Zweiman, who was honored at a banquet that kicked off last weekend, toured the new Veterans Adminis- tration hospital in downtown Detroit and spoke ...…
…< PHOTO BY HOWARD KAPLAN Just Doing It With a little help from friends and strangers, the JCC is continuing to examine and improve itself. JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER he Jewish Community Center already has some answers for members of the community who are ei- ther distressed by its shortcom- ings, who have abandoned it altogether, or who never joined. A wide-ranging survey of com- munity attitudes, distilled in a report released last week, ...…
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…Alk PASSING page 18 anced budget and not had to cut services. It hasn't always been easy. "As people are elected, they don't au- tomatically get wisdom," said Mr. Robinson. "You have to deal with dispositions and temperaments." Although two Jewish council members are leaving, Mr. Robin- son does not think the Jewish community in Southfield will suf- fer. "Most of the council has been sensitive to the fact that [South- field has] a large Orth...…
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…Southfield Jewish Council Members Step Down Letters Can Conversion Be A Destroyer? Quietly, two people important not just to the instrumental in the success of the Young Israel Southfield Jewish community, but to the entire of Southfield's eruv, , or ritual boundary. It is, perhaps, easy to stack up one achieve- city, have announced plans to step down. Southfield City Council members Suzanne ment after another here in this space. But what G...…
…41 Community Views Editor's Notebook What Has Happened To My Orthodoxy? MARK E. SCHLUSSEL SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR The events over ues were compromised by the se- writings should be awed by the these past few duction for the outside world. compendium of Jewish thought months where Those who argue that we have and the challenge they present to one segment of failed miserably may have some each of us ...…
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