…Sephardic co `'mui iry starts a new some in West Bloom el d. Moshe Schwab listens to speakers near a waiting shovel. SHELL' DORFMAN Editorial Assistant S Rabbi Hanoch Gez breaks ground for the new building. 4/30 1999 14 Detroit Jewish News Judith Chicorel, who emigrated to Detroit from Turkey in 1917. Finding American synagogue melodies and service formats foreign, her father organized other new Sephardic immigrants into a congre- gati...…
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…Running On History • • For Poles, these infamous sites are on their jogging routes. TALI ZECHORY Special to the Jewish News I like to jog. I jog through my neighborhood, the perfect suburban setting, complete with minivans, golden retrievers and children behind lemonade stands. I saw a jogger last week. She looked just like every jogger I know and she was probably on her everyday route. But this route had no golden retrievers. Hers was a...…
…"Today's Poles should be educated about the Holocaust," says Daniel Greenbaum, a March participant and sophomore at Akiva Hebrew day School in Lathrup Village. "It is a part of their history; and the Poles should be regularly confronted with it now, so that nothing like the Shoah will ever happen again." Karin Weinstein, another March participant and .a junior at West Bloomfield High School, feels that consistent, intense remembrance could be ...…
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