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…Si 01) January 31.1997 / 23 Shevat 5757 …

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…THE JEWISH NEWS \, UP FRONT Home, Sweet Home After years of renting space in area schools, some local congregations are making plans for their own educational roosts. A Tbs Holocaust lisolorlal Cantor HMS JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER fter years of roaming from school to school in / search of educational space, Congregation Shaarey Zedek is planning to put down stakes and open a new educational center in the fall. Complete with 21 ...…

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…January 31, 1997 Detroit OPINION Will unity prevail over animosity? 31 A Spot Of Warmth Rabbi A. Irving Schnipper lights up the lives of Jewish and non-Jewish nursing home patients. Hold The Onions Classic Coney Island closes its doors, leaving Detroit again without a full-menu kosher restaurant. The 5 5 Were the Romanovs saved by a Jew? 40 84 Radio Days Jewish Life In My 20s With a little help from our friends, The Jewish News s...…

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…Fiddler On The Hoof laying the violin has become a soli- tary pursuit for Faina Fuchs. In the early evening, she plays softly in her Oak Park apartment. During the day, she plays in se- cluded space at the Jimmy Pren- tis Morris Building in Oak Park. Her Austrian-made instrument, its patina worn thin from continual use, is packed in a time-marked case for its journey from her new living quarters to her new social center and then back again. J...…

…!Iv Detroit Shalom, Talmidim The Agency for Jewish Education offers a rich Hebrew curriculum. So why aren't students clamoring to enroll? JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER H ebrew study seems to have lost its appeal, says Nira Lev, the director of Hebrew programming at the Agency for Jewish Education in Southfield. After the Six-Day War in 1967, Jews flocked in droves to Hebrew classes. Synagogues launched ambitious language programs in afternoo...…

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…SHALOM page 8 active Learning Center, which she helped establish 10 years ago, is regarded as a model by other institutions pondering the continuity of Hebrew in the Di- aspora. Ms. Lev recently returned rom a two-day conference in ew York as a member of the newly formed National Com- mission on Hebrew Teaching, which was set up by adminis- trators and language specialists to hash out a future for the teaching of Hebrew. BEATEN PATH page 8 ...…

…DETROIT) THE JEWISH NEWS Vol. CX No. 23 Publisher Arthur M. Horwitz Editor Phil Jacobs Associate Editors Elizabeth Applebaum, Alan Hitsky Assistant Editor Gail Zimmerman Senior Writer Julie Edgar Staff Writers Lynne Meredith Cohn, Jennifer Finer, Jill Davidson Sklar Contributing Editors Michael Davis, Howard Lalli, Neil Rubin Washington Correspondent James D. Besser Foreign Correspondent Douglas Davis Israel Correspondents Ina Friedman, Lar...…

…Remembering The Horror JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER T eaching the Holocaust is teaching tolerance, Joshua Hearshen says. For the second year, the Berkley High School senior has spearheaded a Holocaust learn- ing week that began on Wednes- day in the classrooms, corridors and library at the school. "I was sick of being around people who used the word 'fag- got,"' Mr. Hearshen says of the impetus to form the Holocaust Curriculum Committee last y...…

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…r A pack of dogs took over Fleischman last week JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER JOHN M. DISCHER PHOTOGRAPHER Top: Herman Pollak gets a sloppy kiss from Sadie, a golden retriever. Center: Fleischman workers and residents with Pet- a-Pet dogs. 14 Right: Stan Rosenblatt can't help but kiss Willow, a golden retriever. I t was a "tail" of true bonding between seniors and 11 dogs at the Fleis- chman Residence in West Bloomfield last week. For the...…

…Top: Sadie, a golden retriever, takes her turn on the keyboard. Above: Berle looks happy on the lap of Max Sosin, who is flanked by Frieda Kates and Sally Newman. Benny seems to be jealous of the attention Berle's getting. Above right: Bess Eisenberg pets Bailey, a golden retriever, while Betty Lamer looks on and worker Fran Stern holds onto the dog. Right: Mae Rosen pets Desi alongside Pet-a-Pet volunteer Barbara Moelman. …

…Trying Hard Not To Forget A German adolescent ends a year-and-a-half stay with Detroit's Jewish and survivor communities. LYNNE MEREDITH COHN STAFF WRITER F alk Daviter cannot remem- tary service. Those who "consci- ber exactly when he first entiously object" can instead do learned of the Holocaust, civil service, providing they write but books about the Shoah an essay explaining why they have lined the shelves of his opted out of the mil...…

…the openness of the American ;Jewish community." Mr. Daviter says hearing ;.;survivors stories had a profound impact on him. "My first day ?-here, I walked through the ";museum — there was very little I didn't know about. What I didn't have was an emo- tional connection to the Holo- caust." Listening to survivors can pre- the Holocaust from becom- s. % ing just another topic in history, he says. In Germany, "the guilt of the generation after n...…

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…On this day, Rabbi Schnipper recited prayers in He- "The community is anxious for this," Ms. Parr said. brew, including the Sh'ina, and spoke of the crusade of "The needs are just tremendous." Rabbi Schnipper says he would be willing to con- Martin Luther King Jr., weaving in the theme of the enslavement of both blacks and Jews, tinue his work, but he doesn't know coming back finally to the Rev. King's how the new chaplaincy will work. message...…

…From The Mouths Of Babes NCJW takes its Passport to Israel program to area schools, hoping to build cooperation and teach tolerance. LYNNE MEREDITH COHN STAFF WRITER I t looks like a puppet show in Linda Alecu and Jeanine the front of the classroom Ware, both 13, especially liked when Marilyn Hoffman Ja- the heads during Mrs. Jacobson's cobson prepares her displays recent presentation to their 7th- about Israel. grade social studies class ...…

…chapter members have visited the Jewish state, and volunteers met with community shaliach Jeff Kaye to gain additional informa- tion. Mrs. Jacobson hangs maps of Michigan, the United States and Israel around the room, and sets up an exhibit with photographs of the Jewish state's varied ter- rain. One map of Michigan boasts an outline of Israel inside the state's outline, to illustrate ex- actly the small geographic area of the only Middle Ea...…

…Kosher Closing 1 Classic Coney Island is forced to close its doors. PHIL JACOBS EDITOR k; . ■ T hirteen months ago, cars were pulling up to the one vacant restaurant at 10 Mile and Greenfield, send- ing a child from the back seat to see if the door was unlocked and if the rumors about a new kosher restaurant opening were true. On Monday, owner Steve Ra- binowitz saw cars approach the front door again. Only this time they slowly pulled a...…

…The People Speak With A Little Help NEIL RUBIN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS I have to retire about 20 years early, which means in about 20 years. That's to live long enough to read everything that I keep saving "for when I have time." As visitors to my office know, here's a pile of old Southern Is- aelites threatening to cascade ff the shelf directly above my omputer and into my lap. A tack of faxes sits in a basket on he left of my desk. Jew...…

…PEOPLE SPEAK page 23 "Then I'm not giving to the Fed- eration this year on Super Sun- day." When I responded, "We're in- dependent of the Federation, but think they deserve your support," one person said, "That just proves that you are arrogant and influ-_, enced by powerful people and or- ganizations." An informal survey of Jewish newspaper readers is a bit scary. * In the center study, slightly more than half of the respondents believed t...…

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…BATTLE page 3 afftd cod4 00t that there would be a greater benefit by having all of the com- munal resources at one location. "We were persuaded to build there," he said. "But we didn't foresee the number of visitors we would have on a daily basis." "We have 30 to 40 times the visitors we hoped to have," he said. "We need more space." But Mr. Sorkin said the land was left over during the initial construction of the Jewish Com- munity Center...…

…inter Woes ICA MEYER MUM PECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS any people I truly respect have ecided to endure winter. More power to you, but no anks. Fm sure the Almighty had His no when He created sleet, ice d freezing rain, but — as with any things — those reasons are inscrutable tome. Punishment is e closest rationale I can guess. I can find no room in my heart to love a climate that requires pending an hour per child just undling them up to go out...…

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…Something Different At U-M Could Be Model For Nation In the coming weeks, Jewish students in Ann Arbor will be given an opportunity to participate in what will be a unique program. As in biblical days, when a half-shekel was re- quired of each Jew to be counted, each Jewish student is being asked to donate at least $1 to the United Jewish Appeal. This is much more than a chance to give mon- ey, to offer tzedakah. It is very much about be- ing...…

…Unity Prevail .: . ':10ver Animosity? Reporter's Notebook Looking At Prejudice 50 Years After The Shoah RABBI STEVEN WEIL SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS LYNNE MEREDITH COHN STAFF WRITER After reading and hear- branches of the Jewish community only ing some of the invective facilitates suspicion, animosity and anx- which has traveled back iety among us. These suspicions are the fertile soil for and forth in the commu- nity since Rabbi Felkier'...…

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…Relevant Facts To Be Weighed - Following a lengthy period of silence on the Pollard case, The Jewish News in a Jan. 10 ar- ' title by Publisher Arthur Horwitz suggests that the Jewish com- munity should abandon its efforts to gain Jonathan Pollard's free- dom. This view is based on the be- lief that Pollard's punishment is commensurate with his crime of spying for Israel. Such an assessment is not, un- fortunately, based on full knowl- edge o...…

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…VOLVO HMD Plans Party, Discussion Hillel of Metro Detroit will host "An Evening of Intrigue," a mur- der mystery party 9 p.m. Satur- day, Feb. 15, at the Potomac Club, 6200 Farmington Road, West Bloomfield. For cost, information, and to respond, call the HMD of- fice, (313) 577-3459. HMD's February Coffee House Night will be 9 p.m. Monday, Feb. 10, at Lonestar Coffee Co., 207 S. Woodward, Birmingham. Rabbi Avraham Jacobwitz will lead a discu...…

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…THE DETROI T JEWISH NEWS 50 returned to the Detroit area just before Thanks- giving, in time to watch as delicate flakes of crisp snow covered the bare branches of the trees with which I had grown up. In time to watch the Red Wings battle team after team on ice as familiar to me as the Bruce Springsteen poster hanging in my childhood room. In time to learn that Detroit had become to me, barely an adult, a city of mystery, intrigue and soul. ...…