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…contents July 28-Aug. 3, 2016 | 22-28 Tammuz 5776 | Vol. CXLIX, No. 26 SHABBAT LIGHTS Shabbat: Friday, July 29, 8:37 p.m. Shabbat Ends: Saturday, July 30, 9:43 p.m. Shabbat: Friday, Aug. 5, 8:29 p.m. Shabbat Ends: Saturday, Aug. 6, 9:33 p.m. Times accoding to Yeshiva Beth Yehudah calendar. Cover design: Michelle Sheridan The Detroit Jewish News (USPS 275-520) is published every Thursday at 29200 Northwestern Highway, #110, Southfield, M...…
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…viewpoints » S end letters to: letters@thejewishnews.com Nutritionally Speaking By Barbara Beznos, RD/LD/N Integrated Nutrition, LLC for openers I See You! S ome of you may there seems to be even recall a children’s more bad behavior, even author named Munro crime. Perpetrators often Leaf. He is remembered, if at go unidentified and/or all, for a series of Watch Bird unpunished. Hmmm! books that were attempts to Security camera use is ke...…
…viewpoints » S end letters to: letters@thejewishnews.com DETROIT JEWISH NEWS theJEWISHNEWS.com guest column Whose Rights Are Bill Schuette Protecting? Certainly Not My son’s. I have a 17-year-old son. He’s about to be a senior in high school. He’s learning to drive. He has a part-time job, and he is painting his room. He’s a pretty typical teenager in most ways. He listens to music I don’t understand; he consumes media I’ve never heard o...…
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…viewpoints » S end letters to: letters@thejewishnews.com point Israel’s Battle For Peace Between Religion And State T he relationship between diaspora rabbis whose conver- over the majority of the Western Wall) as religion and state in sions are approved by the Israeli to those in search of a more egalitarian Israel is stormy. Lately, it Chief Rabbinate. environment (the ability to pray freely in seems the ultra-Orthodox have And earlier t...…
…viewpoints » s point continued from page 8 promised the Mikvah Bill will have no impact on women, but it is difficult to see how those promises can be any- thing more than mere words. What would prevent a mikvah attendant, even one who is acting independently, from imposing her view on the wom- en’s immersion process? But even as we are pained by recent events, we must take a posi- tive perspective. The current battles are a result of the f...…
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…metro » o n the cover Cooperation And C nflict Changing relationships between Detroit’s African American and Jewish communities. Robin Schwartz | Contributing Writer R iots, looting and destruction in Detroit (in 1943 and 1967), jobs, housing and white flight, solidarity, the Civil Rights Movement and the fight for equality are among the complex issues that have united and divided Detroit’s African American and Jewish commu- nities over t...…
…ROBIN SCHWARTZ Judge Avern Cohn looks at an old photo of himself and his late wife, Joyce, participating in the 1963 Walk to Freedom. King who, he says, always insisted there be Jewish representation at any program. She told him Jews “were a friend to the Civil Rights Movement” and that always stuck with him. “We have a history through the Civil Rights Movement. The NAACP was found- ed by blacks and Jews together,” he says. “Jewish people ha...…
…metro » continued from page 13 ‘All Lives Matter’ Detroiters react to violence involving black men and police. Barbara Lewis | Contributing Writer M embers of the Jewish community were saddened and concerned by recent events involving black men and law enforcement officers — the killings by police of black men stopped for minor offenses followed by the murder of white police officers by skilled black marksmen in Dallas and Baton Rouge. “...…
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…metro » Minyan Aids Apps can help locate minyans, even rustle up 10 participants. Shari S. Cohen | Contributing Writer F An example of the Minyan Now app or observant Jews who minyanim worldwide with times travel, finding a local shul and contacts. “You type in the zip for Shacharit or Minchah code for minyanim for five or 10 services can be a challenge, often miles of where you are on a busi- with some time pressure. ness trip and it’s ...…
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…metro » Peer Power Move over, Millennials. Here comes Gen Z. MEET EMMY LULKIN: IN SHORT Vivian Henoch | Special to the Jewish News What were your projects? Emmy: I worked with the Eden Garden Block Club, associated with the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue (IADS). Eden Garden is really a beautiful place, fighting blight in a neighborhood on the east side of Detroit. Food grown in the garden goes 26 July 28 • 2016 to neighborhood volunteer...…
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