…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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…of Hebrew programs. Temple Israel, West Bloomfield. (248) 645-7860. Israel and Overseas Department- Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, Friends of IDF — Monday, April 15, 7:30 p.m. Yom Hazikaron observance to remember Israel's fallen soldiers and Israeli victims of terror. West Bloomfield JCC. Joey Selesny (248) 203-1457. Labor Zionist Affiance Education Fund — Sunday, April 21, 11:30 p.m. Luncheon with guest speaker Dr. Jeffry Mallos, ...…
…OBI unity Mazel Toy! Bar/Bat Mitzvah Elyssa Danielle Felsenfeld will be called to the Torah as a bat mitzvah on Saturday, April 6, at Adat Shalom Synagogue. She is the daughter of Drs. Robert Felsenfeld and Brenda Weingarten and sister of Joshua, Matthew and Zachary. Proud' grandparents are Dr. Charles and Ruth Weingarten and William and Shirley Felsenfeld. She is the great- - granddaughter of Belle Rosender. Elyssa is an honor student at ...…
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…Pauline Schulkind takes a break from her Passover baking. A secular, Jew joins an Orthodox seder and discovers a connection to her past. Once piano teacher, later psychologist, my mother wo years ago, my mother wanted to make it laughed, sang Yiddish songs, and whispered stories to to one more Passover seder. Fearing cancer the rabbi. would claim her first, my sister, two broth- Her last few weeks became a healing time for the ers and I b...…
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…Bais Menachem Academy & Ganeinu Education Center Annual Dinner Celebrating A life of Dedication to Education & Community Dr. Renee Lerche Honoring Dr. Renee Lerche Recipient of the prestigious Chinuch Award And paying tribute to our loving Zayde Hyman Blumenstein o.b.m Hyman Blumenstein 0.b.m With Guest Speaker Peter J. Pestillo C.E.O. Visteon Corporation Monday, April 29th, 2002 • Lag B'omer Eve, 17th lyar, 5762 Jewish Community...…
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…Light Of The Soul Why do we burn candles to memorialize those we've lost? ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM AppleTree Editor I n Hebrew, it is called the ner neshamah, or "light of the soul." When a Jew dies, a memorial candle is lit and placed by his side until his burial. Candles also are to burn during shivah, the seven-days' mourning period, and, among some, during the shloshim, the 30 days after a death. One year later, and on every anniversary of t...…
…The Big Story Through a series of pic- tures featuring Ariella Eichenbaum (the photog- rapher's daughter) and Ariella's grandfather, Sigfried Halbreich, a little girl learns for the first time about the numbers on her grandfather's arm. The two are doing the dishes when Sigfried begins telling of the attacks on Jews, of family he lost, of Auschwitz where he was a prisoner. The girl says, "There were tears in Grandpa's eyes and in my eyes, too...…
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