…rl Obituaries Obituaries are updated and archived on JNonline.us. SIMON ASH, 93, former Detroiter of Pembroke Pines, Fla., died March 17, 2007. Mr. Ash was founder of Ash Gear in Michigan and was a 33rd-degree Shriner. He moved to Florida in his later years and was well known in the real estate community. Mr. Ash was an avid long distance swimmer. He loved to play the viola and entertain at community events. He was a kind, loving man who wa...…
…Obituaries YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH School for Boys • Beth Jacob School for Girls • Early Childhood Development Center 5751 W. Lincoln Drive • Southfield, MI 48076 • (248) 557 6750 "The entire world is sustained by the Torah study of young children" - Obituaries During the coming week, the students of Yeshiva Beth Yehudah will study in memory of the following departed friends. In addition, Kaddish will be said during the daily minyan. Samuel...…
…West Bloomfield. Mrs. Isenberg is survived by sons and daughters-in-law, Steven Isenberg and Evie Tse of Lexington, Pa., Jon and Lorrie Isenberg of Beverly Hills, Mich., Dr. Richard Isenberg and Dr. Eve Wood of Tucson, Ariz.; grandchildren, Jeffrey Isenberg, Rachel Isenberg and fiance Brian Lundman, Mallory Isenberg, Benjamin, Gabriel, Shira and Glory Beth Wood-Isenberg; sister and brother-in-law, Julie and Dr. Warren Schlanger of Bryson City,...…
…FEDERATION'S WOMEN'S CAMPAIGN & EDUCATION DEPARTMENT 2007-2008 SLATE The Women's Campaign & Education Department is proud to announce its Slate of Officers and Board members who will be elected and installed at the 61st Annual Meeting, The meeting is scheduled for Monday, May 14, 2007, at 10 a.m. at Congregation Shaarey Zedek. All women in the community are invited to participate. If you would like to attend, please call the Women's Departmen...…
…I Obituaries Obituaries from page 67 SAM LEADERMAN, 96, of Delray Beach, Fla., died March 28, 2007. He is survived by his wife, Beatrice Leaderman; daughter and son-in-law, Lois and Richard Wonboy of Novi; son and daughter-in-law, Richard and Sherry Leaderman of Longmeadow, Mass.; grandchildren, Jana Leaderman, Jared Leaderman, Alexandra Leaderman, Howard and Stella Gitler, Aaron and Carly Gitler; great-grand- children, Branden Gitler, Gabri...…
…al1111111111111111111111111t- -411111111111111111.11111111111111 1 Obituaries Obituaries from page 69 SYDNEY ROSENBERG, 87, of West Bloomfield, died March 31, 2007. He is survived by his children, R. Susan (Scott) Bisel, Lawrence (Maria) Rosenberg, Michelle (Jerry) Newman, Rene (Michael) Twomey, Terri (Timothy) Webster and Scott (Jody) Rosenberg; also survived by 12 devoted grandchildren. Sydney was the beloved husband of the late Maxine R...…
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…m:Via*.n,A::',. Contents A 2001 Michigan Press Association Newspaper of the Year A Time For Prayer And Action nd what a week it was . . . the seemingly unremitting suicide bombings during the holiday of Passover, then Israel's retaliatory strikes into Ramallah and other parts of the West Bank, interwoven with Detroit Jewry's visible response in a show of solidarity and outrage — and as a memorial to the Israeli dead. "At this time of terr...…
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…EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK T Coming Together As Jews he Israelis who died during Passover became more than faceless names as Detroit Jewry gathered Monday to unite behind the Jewish homeland. In a moving candle-lighting ceremony, with the song Jerusalem of Gold playing in the background, they became our martyred brethren — Jews willing to die to be Israeli. On a gray day, soon after a car exploded in downtown Jerusalem, killing a police officer and ...…
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…For Openers Messaging The Media gP, t 5cha onl Know I srael has every right to defend innocent civilians from the "horrendous butch- ery of Hamas, the Palestinian Authority and Other terrorist groups," says George Barahal, a Southfield psy- chologist. And he's not afraid to tell that to President George W. Bush or to the editors of some of the largest newspa- pers in America. "If American children, adolescents and innocent civilians were b...…
…ta; Week Staff Notebook SALEABRATION 2002 DEVILLE DOWN 469* 12,000 Miles/Yr. 36 Month Lease AUDETTE WidVW.audettecadillac.corn BREAK -.7-- THROUGH 7100 Orchard Lake Road, W. Bloomfield Mon. & Thurs. till 9; Tues., Wed., Fri. till 6 The Michigan chapter of Seeds of Peace, an organization dedicated to bringing Israeli and Palestinian teen-agers closer together, announced the post- ponement via e-mail. The program was scheduled to f...…
…Special Report: Dayenu ISRAEL JCCouncil-sponsored solidarity and memorial gathering draws 400 people to Adat Shalom. HARRY KIRSBAUM Staff Writer 0 ne by one, they strode across the Adat Shalom Synagogue bimah Monday afternoon, lighting a candle and calling out a name. Shultz Abramovitch. Avraham Beckerman. Andre Fried. Amiram Hamami. Dvora Karim . . . Forty-six names — Israelis killed in terrorist , attacks during Passover. The solemn ser...…
…• • Staff photos by Krista Musa Taking It To The Streets Grassroots e ort puts community support for Israel and protests of escalating violence into public view. RONELLE GRIER Special to the Jewish News I IVO t4 4/5 2002 14 n scenes reminiscent of the late 1960s, groups of children, par- ents and grandparents gathered Monday to carry hand-painted signs to protest the mounting violence against Israel. "After the Haifa blast last week...…
…Cloud Over Passover Massacre in Netanya affects seders across the U.S. JULIE WIENER Jewish Telegraphic Agency New York T he news of the Passover eve suicide bombing at a Netanya, Israel hotel had particular resonance for members of Congregation B'nai Israel in Jackson, Tenn., as they, like the terrorist victims, sat down for a large Passover seder at a hotel. The fact that someone had walked into a seder just sent shockwaves through us al...…
…never p Special Report: Dayenu — Enough! r Ion roaming What About Arafat? Israeli politicos split on working with or exiling the Palestinian leader. issue. Moreover, Ben-Eliezer said, he was adamantly opposed to expelling Arafat, and Labor would leave the gov- ernment if the step was approved. The heads of Israel's intelligence services backed Ben-Eliezer. The coordinator of government activ- ities in the West Bank, Amos Gilead, a former...…
…Where they differ is over how to do this. Double Entendre The Sharon-Ben-Eliezer school was greatly strength- ened by a series of damning intelligence reports that emerged late last year. For example, according to Israeli military intelligence, the day before Arafat announced a cease-fire in mid-December, he con- vened a group of Palestinian intellectuals at the Casablanca Hotel in Ramallah and detailed a long-term strategy for the destructi...…
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…STREETS WAYN E STATE UNIVERSITY from page 14 14th Annual Samuel M. Levin Economics Award Lecture Stephanie Dorfman, Mike Skoczylas and Pam Goldfaden, all of West Bloomfield, make posters. A group of teenagers displayed their messages of "Peace for Israel" and "Stop Suicide Bombers" at the corner of 14 Mile and Orchard Lake roads in West Bloomfield. "We feel it's really important for the whole community, especially the teen-age community, ...…
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…Cover Story Not To Be Forgotten Professor Sidney Bolkosky uses the Internet to give broad access to Holocaust survivors' oral histories. HARRY KIRS BAUM Staff Writer S idney Bolkosky believes the oral histories of Holocaust survivors should be seen and heard — not just stored on shelves. So the University of Michigan- Dearborn history professor has taken some of the 150 transcripts of interviews from the oral history project he began in 1...…
…1 Sidney Bolkosky, producer-editor Mary Kay Carter and media engineer Greg Taylor work on. a Holocaust survivor's oral history video. Lost Childhood Ruth Webber's Holocaust survival story appears with others on the UM-Dearborn Web site. HARRY KIRS BAUM Staff Writer II It takes about 150 hours of work to get one interview on the Web after the first rough draft of a transcript of an audio interview is written. The staff works on about 20 t...…
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…85 Years And Still Delivering "The Fusion of Design and Technology" dent of the HMC, will deliver the memorial address. Greetings will be presented by Dr. Steven Grant, HMC past .presi- dent; Lawrence Wolfe, JCC past president; Erna Gorman, represent- ing the Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust; Dr. Charles Silow, president of CHAIM (Children of Holocaust Survivors Association in Michigan); Richard Nodel, Anti-Defamation L...…
…Special Report: Dayenu — Enough! ARAFAT from page 17 ate Arafat's double game of condemn- ing terror while encouraging the terror- ists or to allow the Palestinian leader to subvert every attempt to reach a cease- fire, including the latest mission by U.S. envoy Anthony Zinni in March. The trouble is that Sharon doesn't have very good options. He feels he can't kill Arafat, because he promised the American administration that he wouldn't. S...…
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…pushing them to the ground. The two men, described as wearing clothing that identified them as Orthodox Jews, suffered minor injuries. The attack came after German officials said they would increase security at Jewish sites following attacks on Jewish sites in Belgium and France, and following pressure from German Jewish leaders. To extend Middle East violence `to include all Jews shows the true, grotesque face of fanatical Islamists, who ulti...…
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…Insight Remember When • • Ideas & Issues Bring Them Home From the Jewish News pages for this week 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 years ago. AiNgqk ems V,; ':, ; Visiting Israeli reminds us not to forget the Israeli MIAs and POWs. DON COHEN Special to the Jewish News T he man was on vacation, but he wanted to talk about Israeli policy and politics. Yaacov Abramovitch, 29, of B'nei B'rak spoke about the current situation in Israel, the prospe...…
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…Editorials are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.com Dry Bones Responding To War Mr 1 ith each suicide bombing, with each sniper attack, Israelis tend to their dead and wounded, then regroup for another day. They're physically and emotionally battered. But they vow to press on, despite the dangers imposed by Palestinian extremists tied to Yasser Arafat. But as the casualties mount on both sides from the 18-month-old i...…
…OTHER VIEWS Clipped To The Holocaust W hitwell, Tenn., is a small town, a mountain valley about 30 miles west of Chattanooga, with a population of under 2,000, predomi- nantly Christian. David Smith, deputy principal and football coach at Whitwell Middle School, was looking for something to teach his students about hatred and intolerance. In the summer of 1998, he attended a teachers' semi- nar in Chattanooga and heard a Holocaust survivor ...…
…Locked Down In erusalem Jerusalem very few of the townspeople, had o, I'm a bit housebound at ever encountered a Jew. That's what the moment. After the night- makes their achievement so much mare the first night of more meaningful. It was most Passover turned into, police uplifting to listen to those students have suggested that we not leave our briefing us about their worthwhile homes this evening due to a rumor project. that there are about...…
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…'41010011W11100 INSIDE: Community Calendar 42 Mazel Toy! 44 0 0 Generati Holocaust survivors' Einstein Lodge of B'nai B'rith enlists members' children to ensure survival. ESTHER ALLWEISS TSCHIRHART Special to the Jewish News A fter losing so much in the Holocaust, many survivors in Detroit found comfort, friend- ship and a sense of purpose by joining Albert Einstein Lodge of B'nai B'rith. "In the beginning, everyone lived within t...…
…The Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit is pleased to announce the 2002 Activist of the Year Award to be presented to Elaine Driker 2002 Annual Meeting Tuesday, May 21 7:30 p.m. Congregation Shaarey Zedek Dessert Reception No Charge To learn more about opportunities to honor Ms. Driker, please contact the Jewish Community Council office, (248) 642-5393 Jewish AA Community Council the T E BEAUTY OF ALL WHEEL DRIVE 2002...…
…The Center Of It All JCC stalwarts talk about the good old days. Ecumenical Institute's Dove Dinner To Fete Volunteers, Rescuers' Kin At its annual Dove Dinner to be held on Thursday, April 11, the Ecumenical Institute for Jewish- Christian Studies will be present Anneke Burke-Kooistra with the k*, Right: Avern Cohn, Irwin Shaw. and Melba Wine migration. The United Jewish Foundation (Federation's financial arm) showed "great foresight," ...…
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