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…April 5, 1996 Detroit WASHINGTON Immigration bills: pluses and minuses Games And A Band Jewish youth groups unite to give JARC residents a night of bingo, checkers, cards and some music. 25 TELL ME WHY Was anticipated date the cat's pajamas? 34 Pesach From A-Z Beth Abraham HiIlel Moses offered a novel way for children to learn about Passover holiday. Crowning three champions. page 65 HEALTH All that sparkles could lead to a rash....…
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…A synagogue offers a novel way to learn about the holiday. PHOTOS BY DANIEL LIPPITT > / - Pesach From A-Z hildren in the Beth Abraham Hillel Moses Samantha Erin Rosen Nursery School last week learned all about Pe- sach through song, arts and crafts, cooking and drama. Presented in conjunction with Jew- ish Experiences For Families, the program featured stations where chil- dren could participate in various ac- tivities. At the art statio...…
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…The Prentis Closure: Expediency Vs. Responsibility The Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit and the Jewish Home for Aged have announced the impending closing of Prentis Manor nursing home in Southfield. The long-term care facility has housed Detroit's most frail Jewish elderly for many years. Fed- eration and JHA say the closure will lead to bet- ter facilities and better care for our elderly. But the families of the Prentis residents ar...…
…Editor's Notebook Community Views The Numbers Games On Election Day There Is No Fear In Just The Numbers ALAN HITSKY ASSOCIATE EDITOR RICHARD LOBENTHAL SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS My daily newspa- pers weeks ago re- lied on exit polls to tell me how De- troit voters decid- ed the Tiger Stadium issue. The electronic media, only min- utes after the polls closed March 19, projected that the new stadium proposed for the Fox Theatre district h...…
…APRIL 5, 1996 Archaeology Lecture Set Congregation Shaarey Zedek will host Pro- fessor Moshe Fischer, head of archaelology, Department of Classical Studies at Tel Aviv University, who will give a lecture and slide show Southfield on Sunday, April 28, at 10 am. on the subject of "Digging Up Your Roots." The public is welcome to attend the free breakfast leacture, which will be hosted by the Men's Club, and to participate in the Red Cross bloo...…
…\Th Douglas Bloom, president of the Jewish Community Centers of Metropolitan Detroit, accepts a $2,000 check from Matt Thomas, manager of the new Southfield Target store in Northland Mall. The check is part of a $4,500 gift which will fund inter-generational and cultural programs for the remainder of 1996 and part of 1997 at the Jimmy Prentis Morris Jewish Community Center in Oak Park. The Metro Detroit Israel Bonds Women's Division recently...…
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…Metro Detroit's young pulpit rabbis are nurturing a new generation of knowledgeable and committed Jews. JULIE EDGAR STAFF WRITER T wo thought they'd go into law. Another might have been a financial giant on Wall Street. One Ivy Leaguer considered a life in academia, and another thought he'd become a clinical psychologist. Only one knew she was bound for the rabbinate. Meet six of Detroit's young pulpit rabbis. They're un- c„= der 35,...…
…/ Rabbi Joshua Bennett of Temple Israel H \ _ Rabbi Joshua Bennett Josh Bennett has a new passion: Climb- ing steep rock faces at Planet Rock in Pontiac. He says it's a way to avoid "func- tional fixiveness" or the certainty there is only one way up. "It's changed my entire perspective. It's taught me about risk-taking and trust," he says. Rabbi Bennett, 28, has never taken the easy road, nor readily accepted the way things are. His choic...…
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…Rabbi Steven Weil of Young Israel of Oak Park Rabbi Steven Weil Steven Well calls himself a "farm boy." Odd for someone who holds an MBA in finance from New York University, who dresses more like Wall Street than "Green Acres," and who appreciates Aristotle and fine cigars. He gave up chewing tobacco at his mother Cookie's behest some years back. The Weils, dairy farmers, were the only Jewish family in Lindonville, N.Y., or for that matter, ...…
…THE GOD SQUAD Rabbi Amy Brodsky Rabbi Amy Brodsky of , Temple Emanu-El 48 When she joined Temple Emanu-El in Oak Park four years ago, congregants were charmed. "Look at the cute little reb- betzin," they'd say. "I had to explain to people that a reb- betzin is a rabbi's wife and I'm not that. I'm an ordained rabbi." If Rabbi Brodsky has had to fight mis- conceptions about her role in the syna- gogue, she's also resisted being made a kind ...…
…Rabbi Aaron Bergman of Congregation Beth Abraham Hillel Moses Rabbi Aaron Bergman I Sonny Rollins, Led Zeppelin and Dr. John cassette tapes vie for space in one of the crowded bookshelves in Rabbi Aaron Bergman's office. A CD/cassette player is jammed into a nook beneath the jum- ble. A glance over the rest of the office leaves no doubt that its denizen is a person of myriad interests who doesn't care too much for order. His own paintings, ...…
…THE GOD SQUAD Rabbi Michael Moskowitz Rabbi Michael Moskowitz of Temple Shir Shalom Rabbis run in the Moskowitz family. Michael Moskowitz's brother Steven is a rabbi, as is his sister-in-law Susie. But as • an undergraduate at Duke University, Rabbi Moskowitz thought seriously about a career in law. It wasn't until he spent part of his junior year in a political science program in Edinburgh, Scotland, that his future became clear. "There wa...…
