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…DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 'TN www.detroitjewishnews.com December 4, 1998 Vol. CXIV, No. 15 This Week Lebenon Redux. page 31 6 Counselor-In-Waiting David Gorosh tries to keep Jack Kevorkian out of jail. 10 A New Alternative Special interest minyanim increase Saturday morning attendance. AppleTree 61 it It Snow! Great ideas for winter fun in and out of the house. The Scene Let It Snow. page 61 66 Out Of The Saddle Cattleman's closes it...…
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…Kevorkian's Yeinda' lawyer David Gorosh gets his turn on the media circuit. JULIE WIENER Staff Writer D avid Gorosh is enjoying his 15 minutes of fame. Whether he's Dr. Jack Kevorkian's attorney or not. Since early last week, the young Jewish lawyer from Southfield has been in the spotlight defending Michigan's most infamous physician. That's despite the fact that Kevorkian, who is charged with first-degree mur- der in the videotaped killin...…
….1r T o help celebrate Israel's 50th Anniversary and Promote Teen Travel to Eretz Yisrael, the Detroit Jewish News would like to share your teen's special memories with our readers in our new Israel Album feature. Send us the following information plus a photograph of your teenager with name address and phone number printed on the back (school photo is fine, but not the tiny wallet size pictures). What We Need to Know: Name, age, address ...…
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…Jewry's Role in Human Affairs A HOMELAND IS BORN, THE INGATHERING BEGINS being observed in the main sanctuary. The High Holiday success spawned a The bar mitzvah boy chanted his monthly informal service in the small Haftorah while about 200 people fol- chapel, a Minyan Midrash, which is lowed along, stretched out in long already well attended. This is in addition rows with lots of space to spare. to the already existing and successful Altern...…
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…414 ,- . 0060 Long after their return from Israel, a Miracle Mission group sticks together. ping pictures of the trip, sharing good HARRY KIRSBAUM Staff Writer T he Miracle Mission, a 10- day tour of Israel for adult Jews in the Detroit area, was created as a way to touch the neshama (Jewish soul), of partici- pants, in order to foster a better identi- fication with Israel and to get the peo- ple involved in the Jewish community. The 42 ...…
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…Coming Home A Detroiter's Jewish journey brings him home to teach. exploring what was so backwards and anti-social that it needed to be Staff Writer replaced by something else. "17. my experience in the yeshiva for avid Shapero grew up in a many years, I found that I didn't Reform family in Detroit understand why it needed to be that was involved in Jewish changed at all." communal activities but Shapero went to Brandeis did little religious...…
…63® executive director of Ohr Somayach. His parents, Mary and Walter Shapero, still live in Detroit (she's the granddaughter of Rabbi Franklin). Shapero succeeds Rabbi Eric Krohner at Ohr Somavach and credits him with purring the Detroit branch on the map during his five years at the helm. "Rabbi Krohner really built it .up from scratch," Shapero said, adding that "when vou have some- thing going with a lot of momentum, it•s a pleasure ro jum...…
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…Strategic Thinking New committee on Jewish education is urged to be patient. JULIE WIENER aran-:n-- ina as well as fostering a sense of Staff Writer community and belonging. He theo- rized that the reason Jewish camps, day schools and Israel experiences have all been powerful remedies for assimilation is because they immerse youngsters in Jewish life and build community. Alliance members who spoke to The Jewish News after the meeting gave...…
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…Letters to the Editor are updated daily and archived on JN Online: vvvvw.detroitjewishnews.com The Meaning Of Gifts epending on the numbers in both your age and wallet, these are either exciting or dreaded days. Last week- end started the mad, final shopping frenzy of what's generically known as the "win- ter holidays." For many Jews, the crunch is even harsher; Chanukah starts this year at sundown, Sunday, Dec. 13. It would be too easy to r...…
…COMMUNITY V16WS The Election Fallout Affects The Democrats Democrats tasted the most delicious merica is changing. The of victories. last election dramatized What does this reality mean for that. The voters of Ameri- us as Americans and as Jews? ca are very different from It means that sexual morality in what they were 30 years ago. The America has changed. Thirty years Republican Party suffered the conse- ago, the Clinton scandal would have...…
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…over at the tears in my younger daugh- ter's eves and saw that she realized, as I did, that the time was 7:30, and Kim's plane was at that moment taking off from New York for Israel. The next day, Kim called on her new Israeli pe ephone," from her dorm in the Greek Colony neighbor- hood in Jerusalem. After her first Shabbat, she told me how she attend- ed a service at the Promenade at sun- set, overlooking the Old City. We talked when she regi...…
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…Enforcing Order Studying Change Israel's police are under the magnifying glass as claims of beating residents increase. LARRY DERFNER Israel Correspondent school in Umm el-Fahm, police never set foot inside the school, Ben-Onn says. And the live bullet shells found on the ground? "Police used only rub- ber bullets," he insists. What about the blood on the walls and floor? "It was probably from a rioter who'd gotten hit with a rubber bullet ...…
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…Tommy Mandel A babynaming ceremony is marked by joy ... and sadness. Allie Mandel ALAN HITSKY Associate Editor A lexandra "Allie" Brenner Mandel returned to her Michigan roots last week to visit with aunts, uncles and cousins, and to be named for a grand- father she would never get to know. According to a letter written by Allie's father, Mark, of San Diego: "My daughter was born Aug. 21. Two weeks before Allie was born, my father Tommy ...…
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