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…Contents A 2002 Michigan Press Association General Excellence winner www.detroitimishnews.com Friday, July 4, 2003 Tammuz 4, 5763 Vol. CJOU11, No. ANN ARBOR O ■ UNFURLED FREEDOMS 18 All In The Family The Lichter brothers teach the healers. A THIS WEEK 19 Flash Point Farmington international course draws objections. OPINION 21 Still In The Dark . Supreme Court vote fads to address education inequality. Paul and .Allen Lichter C...…
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…EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK All Things Jewish "The JCC — more than any other agency more than any other organization — has the opportunity and the ability to affect and permeate the lives of every person in our communi t y. " — Sharon Hart, immediate past president I is Detroit Jewry's central address — a place to learn, advocate, mingle, work out, dine, relax and grow culturally, whatever one's Jewish upbringing. But is the Jewish Community Center ...…
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…For Openers Lending An Ear T eens and telephones: The mix might be every parent's night- mare, but not for Robert and Nancy Levy of West Bloomfield. Their daughter, Alanna, decided to collect old cellular telephones as her mitzvah project for her bat mitzvah at ALAN Temple Israel in West Bloomfield last HITS KY April. Associate Collect old phones? Not wear them Editor out? Nancy Levy saw a notice for donatea- phone.com , an Ann Arbor-based ...…
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…Something Extra Covering The World merica's major newspapers and news- magazines gave significant coverage to the Iraq war, but whether they did enough to prepare and enlighten readers about terrorism and related issues before 9-11 is a legitimate concern. A top Los Angeles Times editor hammered on this theme in his greetings at an awards banquet of 80 Jewish journalists last week in California. The ban- quet, the highlight of the four-day a...…
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…TaMEIFICIFF DODGE Energy's Impact Oil deters peace, says expert. he problem is not just about running out of oil or who is providing it," said former Clinton administration Chief of Staff John Podesta. The problem, he said, is "we are running out of environment." Podesta, now a senior fellow at the National Resources Defense Council, gave the 2003 Milton M. Alexander Memorial Lecture at Temple Beth El in Bloomfield Township before 350 peopl...…
…phis Week Analysis What's Next? Just getting to the cease-fire was hard enough. LESLIE SUSSER Jewish Telegraphic Agency • Palestinians say is taking their land? The cease-fire declaration coincided with a visit to the region by Condoleezza Rice, the White House's national security adviser. Her main purpose was to make clear to both sides what the United States expects of them, and to signal the U.S. determi- nation to push the road map. ...…
…TIT/ missioning illegal weapons. The Americans also are exerting heavy, and apparently successful, pressure on European and Arab countries, especially Saudi Arabia, to clamp down on fund- ing for Hamas as part of the struggle to strengthen the Palestinian Authority and weaken the fundamentalists. But what if the Palestinian Authority is unable to impose its authority on all factions, and the shooting continues? On June 30, the day after the c...…
…Ihis Week MORTGAGE at a ANK you can TRUST our 'ASE OFFER Conventional and Jumbo ADJUSTABLE and FIXED RATE MORTGAGES Some American media are reporting that the recently announced "cease- fire" by Palestinian terrorist groups is a response to the growing strength of Mabmoud Abbas' Palestinian Authority; a recognition that the violence brought no politi- cal gains and a decision to join with the Abbas government in the renewed negotiations...…
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…All In The Family The Lichter brothers teach the healers. never wanted to do anything else. We both set our sights on that goal and we Staff Writer were both fortunate enough to get there." Ann Arbor When Paul started college in 1956, at the kvells uena Lichter Allen was only in fifth grade, so they thought of her two boys. weren't very close. Retail Prices "They're both wonderful "I don't remember him growing up. sons to me and I can't do a...…
…Insight Remember When • • Flash Point From the pages of the Jewish News from this week 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60 years ago. Farmington Schools adopts international affairs course, despite community objections. DIANA LIEBERMAN StaffWriter semester. Also voting against the half- credit course were trustees Linda Enberg and Jack Inch. Voting for adoption of the course for fall 2003 were trustees Priscilla Brouillette, Gary Sharp, Frank Reid...…
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…OpE'on Editorials are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.com Still In The Dark Dry Bones he U.S. Supreme Court last week pro- vided a terribly disappointing decision on affirmative action, one that ratifies the status quo, but does almost nothing to resolve the larger question of how America is to deal with the persistent educational inequality plaguing blacks in our society. Writing for a 5-4 majority, Justice Sandra ...…
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…• 31 www_z'Sn , * State-of-the-art library planned with future growth in mind. BILL CARROLL Special to the Jewish News T ITN 7/ 4 2003 24 he new Southfield Public Library building, described by some as the "Taj Mahal" of city libraries, has opened its 185,000 books to the public. When proposed, the library's size divided the city politically. It took three millage votes before the struc- ture was approved in 1999, but once the archit...…
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…INSIDE: Synagogue List 44 Torah Portion 45 0 Rabbi Wine, with students at the Birmingham Temple. THE POWER OF MAN Retiring Rabbi Sherwin Wine, founder of Humanistic Judaism, weathers controversy to leave a worldwide legacy. SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN Staff Writer fter a congregational career highlighted by the founding of a Jewish movement, Rabbi Sherwin Wine retires from the Birmingham emple confident its new leaders are well- prepared...…
…Cover Story THE POWER OF MAN from page 37 Celebrations Rabbi Wine, 1963 Rabbi Wine at the 1971 dedication of the Birmingham Temple building. receiving bachelor's and master's degrees in Hebrew letters. Following ordination, he served as a U.S. Army chaplain in Korea, was assistant rabbi at Temple Beth El in Detroit, then was founding rabbi of the Reform Congregation Beth El in Windsor. "While I very much enjoyed being a rabbi, I was not c...…
…because we were in the neighborhood, but because they believed in what we were creating," he said. "It solidified us with the result of the battle proving what Humanistic Jews believe — in solving the problems of life through people." Though they met in various cities, the congrega- tion retained the name Birmingham Temple, even through their final move in 1971. It was to a seven- acre campus in Farmington Hills, now housing the temple, the 19...…
…Spirituality THE POWER OF MAN Cover Story from page 39 Susan Citrin 11' 7/ 4 2003 40 Rabbi Silberberg Rabbi Nevins Rabbi Cohn-Sherbok Deborah Rose with Rabbi Wine at the retirement celebration. Temple involves a presentation on an admired figure from Jewish history. "Why should they be reading some- thing that they don't understand that is chosen because it coincides with their birthday?" Rabbi Wine said. "This way, they choose so...…
…maintain his position as dean of the movement's rabbinical school. He also will continue to lead and expand public discussions at the Center for New Thinking in Birmingham, which he founded in 1976 as a com- munity forum for new ideas in the arts, science and philosophy. He will, no doubt, continue to be a fixture in his Birmingham community, where he begins most days early, with a three- to four-mile walk, followed by hours at a table in the ...…
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…N. • Aging Gracefully Modern lifestyles are changing the definition of old age. RUTHAN BRODSKY Special to the Jewish News B aby boomers are creating a demographic shift so enor- mous that people in their 50s or even in their 60s are no longer defined as old. Born between 1946 and 1964, boomers are breaking all sorts of myths about aging. For instance, the feverish demand for Viagra by men age 55 and older should dispel the myth that the l...…
…Red, White And Jewish In honor of Independence Day: surprising, fun and downright weird information about Jews and the United States. ove over, Clint Eastwood. Eat your heart out, John Wayne. America's first really big Western star came around long before anyone had even heard of those two His stage name was Gilbert Anderson, and he was Jewish. (More on this in a minute ...) `I , Wive-hundred Westerns — now that's a real man. Today, not t...…
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