…inion Editorials are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnevvs.com The Neighborly Way Dry Bones t was intended to be a temporary lender for home buyers and renovators in older Jewish neighborhoods of south Oakland County, but it kept busy for 17 years. There's still a demand for the interest-free incentive loans, but to lesser degrees in recent years as the neighborhoods stabilized. Still, we wonder if younger Jewish familie...…
…OTHER VIEWS Mission To Remember L 'shanah haba'a b'Yerushalayim: Next year in Jerusalem! For years, these words signaled to me that the seder was over and I could start folding up the aluminum tables and the bridge chairs and shlep them back down the basement. But now this phrase has a totally different meaning because for 10 days next year, April 18-28, the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit will conduct its fourth Michigan Miracle ...…
…Americans Fuel Terrorism he irony could not be any deeper. Every year, American Jews send money overseas to support Israel. But every day, American Jews also send their hard-earned money overseas to regimes that fund, shelter or other- wise support the terrorist groups that are sworn to Israel's destruction. We enrich anti-Israel forces by the simple act of filling our gas tanks. This irony isn't confined to the Jewish community. Americans sp...…
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…INSIDE: reserving OUR Community Calendar 39 Mazel Toy! 41 HISTORY Jewish Community Archives hit by Federation budget adjustments, but will be maintained. WENDY ROSE BICE Special to the Jewish News 1 n our everyday lives, most of us never give much thought to an "archive" — a repository for past papers, photos and artifacts; a museum of filing cabinets and gray boxes. Yet, barely a day passes when each of us is not touched in some ti...…
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…Kosher Dried New York Salami A real deli salami with old world flavor. The New Leaders Project (NLP) of the Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit held a grad- uation reception May 28 for the 15 young Jewish adults who participat- ed in the yearlong leadership pro gram. The event was held at the home of Elaine and Eugene Driker in Detroit. Funds raised honoring Elaine as the 2002 Activist of the Year were used to support the NLP p...…
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…Mazel Toy! BAR/BAT MITZVAH from page 43 Bar/Bat Mitzvah studies piano as well. Some of her favorite activities are reading, music, computers and spending time with friends. Her mitzvah projects included working at Yad Ezra in Berkley, vol- unteering for Cat Connection and baking hamentashen for Temple Shir Shalom's Purim carnival. Bradley Robert Malach, son of Suzi and Steve Malach, will become a bar mitzvah Saturday, June 7, at Temple Isr...…
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…TAYLOR-FRIEDLAND 1 ennifer Taylor and Eric Friedland were recently mar- ried at the Ritz Carlton in Dearborn. Rabbi Harold Loss and Cantor Lori Corrsin of Temple Israel officiated. Jennifer is the daughter of Anita and Ronald Taylor of Bloomfield Hills and Eric is the son of Pauline Friedland of Tenafly, N.J., and Melvin Friedland of New York City. Stacey Wittenberg, sister of the bride, was the matron of honor. Bridesmaids were Merilyn Geisb...…
…Exacting Standards Local Torah scribe follows directives given by Moses. BERL FALBAUM Special to the Jewish News S o you think your computer is too slow? You're impatient waiting a few seconds for it to respond? Well, consider having to write a new Torah that consists of more than 300,000 individual letters, all done by hand with a feather and ink What's more, each letter must be very exact, some- times with tiny sharp edges or rounded cor...…
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