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…I Editor's Letter The Contours Of Learning ewish day schools matter a lot. Synagogue schools could matter more. But both are integral to sustain- ing Jewish life in America. Both help assure passage of our heritage from one generation to the next. Both also are shackled with obstacles. As a Jewish community, we confront a myriad of issues: a shrinking, aging populace, young adult flight, insufficient school and camp scholarships, mounting e...…
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…I Front Lines NOTEBOOK JNenline This Week Citizen Fire Spotter Robert A. Sklar Editor B Jonah Stiennon receives a civilian oy Scout Jonah Stiennon, a West Bloomfield High 12th-grader, was hon- ored Sept. 18 as a Citizen Fire Spotter for helping prevent potential danger in the Farmington Hills area. On June 21, Jonah was in a car headed for an Upper Peninsula canoe trek when he spotted a wisp of smoke from a telephone pole along Orchar...…
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…Metro Tons Of Help Volunteers start the new year working to alleviate hunger. Ar___ Yad Ezra President Allan Sefton of Beverly Hills piles sorted items into a cart. Shelli Liebman Dorfman Senior Writer ust one day after Yad Ezra's Yom Kippur Food Drive ended, tens of thousands of pounds of grocer- ies, healthcare items and household goods were already delivered to the Berkley- based kosher food pantry for sorting. Collection sites includ...…
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…World Staff photos by Angie Baan Eyal Shalev of Beersheva, Hadar Tenenbaum of the Golan Heights and Ilan Shahar of Tel Aviv Stefenie Sasson, second from right, of Birmingham with Karen Weiss, Brenda Wayne Berris and Nancy Pomish, all of West Bloomfield Making An Impact Friends of the IDF help send Israeli soldiers to college. Robin Schwartz Special to the Jewish News I lan Shahar, 29, of Tel Aviv says he couldn't have done it alone. Th...…
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…World Boycott Dropped Lawyers say U.K. academic union's proposal would breach laws. Vanessa Bulkacz Jewish Telegraphic Agency London T he decision by Britain's largest academic union to drop its pro- posed boycott of Israel may not spell the end of the union's campaign to ostracize the Jewish state. Britain's University and College Union announced last week that union lead- ers, after consulting with lawyers, had determined that an acade...…
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