…DETROIT JEWISH NEWS $1.00 JUNE 5, 1998/SIVAN 11, 5758 Inside: Beth El Selects Woman Rabbi, Educator Has Chrysler's Partner Made Holocaust Amends? ■.■ 411k aloor..!„.,:16,4,,,,,mrismovevispi;tai Celebrating the birth of the Baal Shem Toy. …
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…June 5, 1998 Vol. CXIII No. 15 Up Front 18 New Faces Beth El hires its first woman rabbi, and a school director. AppleTree 71 About Books Something old gets something new at Akiva. Community 48 Editorials 31 Marketplace 132 Maze' Toy! 57 Obituaries 158 Remember When 28 Synagogues 66 This & That 28 Torah Portion 69 The World 41 The Scene 79 Discovering Spirituality Young adults figure out what Judaism means to them. Close tip 83 Up...…
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…Up Front Setting Boundaries LYNNE MEREDITH COHN Special to The Jewish News T Rabbi Eli Jundef "encloses" two square miles of West Bloomfield to allow observant Jews to carry on Shabbat. public domain under Halachah, Jewish law.) Rabbi Elimelech Silberberg, founder of Bais Chabad of West Bloomfield on Maple, east of Orchard Lake Road, constructed an eruv years ago. But that enclosure ends at Orchard Lake Road. The two eruvim will not con...…
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…Shabbat, With VFAS TI Jewish Community Center preschoolers give Shabbat a new sound. Photos top to bottom: Jake Katzman plays along during the Shabbat program. Risa Strauss leads the singers. Janice Buchanan videotapes her son Alex in the program. Preschoolers sing Shabbat songs to the tunes from the movie "Grease." LONNY GOLDSMITH StaffWriter KRISTA HUSA Photographer 0 ver the course of this year, Risa Strauss, Judaic specialist in t...…
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…A summertime ritual begins at Kahn Jewish Community Center. JULIE EDGAR News Editor KRISTA HUSA Photographer Above: Danielle Krasman, 12, of Farmington Hills, leaps from the diving board. Right: The Olympic-size pool at the Kahn JCC 6/5 1998 22 …
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…EDITOR'S WATCH Detroit Jewry's United Communal Outreach Goes Back To Beth El's Rabbi Leo Franklin upswing" in 1997-98, "spurred in part immigrants who passed through Ellis from its original values," states UJF's s we embark on the 100th by the stock market but also reflective Island in New York harbor with little just-released 1998 Progress Report. anniversary of the organizing of the generosity of our community, savings. They arrived in Det...…
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…Mild' Outrage At The Wall Though Conservative worshipers were heckled in Jerusalem, their Shavuot certainly wasn't as bad as last year's. LARRY DERFNER Israel Correspondent T he Conservative Jews put -up with chants of "Nazis!" and "Goyim!" They got hit with a few pebbles and a few plastic bags of chocolate milk. They got pushed and pulled by a throng of furious hared- im trying to break through the ring of policemen to get at them. All in...…
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