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…A Jewish Renaissance Media Publication DETROIT EWISII NEWS Local Physician Aids r 15 years, Project Otzma has quietly built lasting involvement in Jewish life for young adults. …

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…Con'tents A 2001 winner of American Jewish Press Association LI and Society of Professional Journalists awards July 6, 2001 Tammuz 15, 5761 Vol. CXIX, No. 21 Arts & Entertainment This Week 57 Summer Sounds 21 Housewarming Six happy residents appreciate their rand new JARC home. Opinion DSO offers spectacular season at Meadow Brook Music Festival. Living Well 29 Meaningful Missions Summer's travelers to Israel should spread word to...…

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…EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK LETTERS Letters are posted and archived on JN Online: WWw detr oitj ewishnews.corn A Place For All Jews "Once, JCCs were places where Jews could gather to rehearse how to be Americans. Now, however, with America so accommodating ... and with a renewed American appreciation of ethnicity, JCCs in the early 21st century are places where Jews come to associate with, and learn how to be, Jews." — Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin C onst...…

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…4 4101111,1011iimmoosimmiTst*PROMINO, LETTERS YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO OUR COMPLIMENTARY: LETTERS from page 6 I applaud the existence of the HMC, both as a memorial and as an education center, and I do not argue the need for some expansion, but I do ask how many times the memorial and education value will be enhanced to go from 12,000 square feet to five times as many square feet? Will the value be five times what it is now? In any en...…

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…Staff Notebook Slave Labor Compensation Arrives T he checks began rolling in last week. Some 10,000 Jews from around the world began receiving the first of two payments from the German government for working as slave or forced laborers in World War II. Harry Praw of Oak Park was a slave laborer for six years in six different concentration camps. He's yet to receive a slave labor check, but is not shy about his opinion of the settlement. "Th...…

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…'Phis We k Cover Story iiimersed In Israel For 15 years, Project Otzma has quietly built lasting involvement in Jewish life for young adults. ERIC L. ROZENMAN Jewish Renaissance Media Washington Iff ichael Rabkin graduated from the University of Colorado in only three years, but rather than immediately pursuing a "dot corn" job in Silicon Valley, he wanted to spend meaningful time in Israel. That desire led him to Project Otzma. Rabkin ...…

…Participants in the Otzma program sit near a stone scultpure of the Star of David on Mt. Herzl in Jerusalem on April 23. From left to right: Melissa Ellstein, 22, East Lansing; Arie Paller, 21, Los Angeles; Sharone Blue, 23, Atlanta; Jennie Allan, 24, Ann Arbor; and Michael Telpner, 24, Toronto. women in Israeli life for 10 months. This up-to-the-elbows participation takes many forms. For Melissa Ellstein, 22, of East Lansing, it meant living...…

…417071§92 111 11 ,4111 :1 11 1 1:0, other Home recalls. "She cooked for us, talked to us, opened our hearts. And we taught English in the old age home; tried to stimulate the older people. "I would also rollerblade from this poor, ethnic neighborhood across town to tutor kids in upscale north- ern Tel Aviv," he says. were about their parents' fears. ROCHELLE FURSTENBERG Paller's only disappointment was "I would call my mom before she Jewish ...…

…'411101101001. 1110100011111 1 1101.000 0100100 Now 1010.MMIIMMIIIMINIPIMMOMINIPM11190110 1 . - 4 Maccabiah Gaines will Bean July 16 SHARON SAMB ER Jewish Telegraphic Agency with adoptive fami- less," Cherner says. Otzma particpants, from lies — the partici- To Caryn Jennie Allan andMelissa Ellstein pant's home away Rosen-Adelman, lay stones on the grave of Golda from home, another co-chair of Project Meir on Mt. Herd as, from left, way i...…

…Washington Watch TENDER Charitable Choice revived; one aid measure advances, another stalls; law of the letter. JAMES D. BESSER Washington Correspondent SALE 50% - 75% OFF WOMEN'S EUROPEAN & AMERICAN DESIGNER CLOTHING COLLECTIONS ACCESSORIES & SHOES SIZES 0-14 resident George W. Bush's plan to make it easier for religious groups to get gov- ernment money to provide services, proclaimed dead only a few weeks ago, was resurrected last ...…

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…This Week Small Enough To Save A new program helps declining Jewish communities in the South preserve a precious subculture. ANDREW MUCHIN Jewish Renaissance Media •." Jackson, Miss. 111 ost Friday evenings, Jerry Krouse stands with an open prayer book before the carved Italian marble ark of Temple B'nai Israel in Natchez, Miss., a Mississippi River town of about 20,000 souls roughly 75 miles southwest of Jackson. He checks the majestic...…

…- His handful of professional staffers includes new program director Lynette Allen. An experienced Jewish communal programmer, she is planning the annual Southern States Jewish Film Festival to bring Jewish-themed movies to small- and medium-sized Jewish communities in November. Seven communi- ties — Augusta, Ga.; Little Rock, Ark.; Meridian, Miss.; Montgomery, Ala.; Monroe, La.; Nashville, Tenn.; and Tulsa, Okla. — are on board. Allen also i...…

…What's The Next Move? Israel and United States seem at a loss for effective peace plans. NY • MATTHEW E. BERGER Jewish Telegraphic Agency Washington ne year after a Camp David summit pro- duced the greatest hope yet that a far- reaching peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians was attainable, it now appears that peace is as elusive as ever. Both the Israelis and the Bush administration are at a loss for what to do next to quel...…

…44111.110110.11 1Mliill Introducing... stop the violence. And the agreed- upon standard for moving forward — seven days of complete quiet — is seen as nearly impossible to achieve. With Bush reluctant to get into the diplomatic arena personally, Powell was the biggest arsenal in the adminis- tration's hands. Now the State Department will need to look for a new approach. "The problem now is that the State Department has no second act," said T...…

…Tr Week News Digest Reform OKs Convert Guidelines New York/JTA — The U.S. Reform movement approved guidelines June 27 that embrace traditional conversion rituals, welcome potential converts and call for prospective Jews to adopt certain Jewish practices, such as join- ing a synagogue, celebrating Jewish holidays and observing certain rituals. Court Won't Override Religious Law Adam had a diving accident on August 1, 1999 that has left him...…

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…This Week Insight En`rich'ing Young Jewish Lives U-Al Hitters Rabbi Rich Kirschen accepts directorship in Rhode Island. SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN Stair Writer I asked Rich Kirschen to come to work with us at University of Michigan Hillel three minutes after I met him five years ago," recalls Michael Brooks, executive director of the Hillel Foundation at U-M. As Rabbi Richard Kirschen readies to leave his position as U-M's associate Hillel d...…

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…4 111110011.111111111101111WOMMINNINO. Oainion Editorials are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.corn Meaningful Missions Dry Bones T he American Jewish community is gear- ing up for a summer of solidarity with the Jewish state, most visibly expressed by sending regular "missions" for weeklong visits in Israel. The goal of showing Israelis — and the rest of the world — that American Jews care is laudable. But the met...…

…OTHER VIEWS FINGER POINTING from page 29 Missing in Action Philadelphia ecently, while. listening to the news on National Public Radio, listeners heard the announcer read- ing the headlines inadvertently sum up the contradic- tions and misper- ceptions inherent in the conven- tional wisdom of the day about the Middle East. Listeners were JONATHAN S. told that a Palestinian sui- " TOBIN cide-bomber had Special managed to mur- Commentary der ...…

…'se courage in the face of Arab terrorism. He replies that he can't take responsi- bility for sending other people's chil- dren into danger. Although his own previous public criticisms, both of the Orthodox and of the Israeli government, have painfully increased our people's dis- unity though the years and have, more recently, caused immeasurable harm to this country during its pres- ent crisis, it seems to me unfair to fault him on this occa...…

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…Community Calendar page 39 Mazel Toy! page 41 MEDICAL MERCY EACH YEAR, LOCAL DOCTOR DONATES HIS SERVICES TO COLOMBIAN CHILDREN. ALAN ABRAMS Special to the Jewish News T wice a year, Dr. Ira Zaltz, a 36-year-old pediatric orthopedic surgeon at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, proves that compassion knows no boundaries. For the last four years, Zaltz, at his own expense, has given up a week from his busy schedule twice yearly to operate o...…

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…Zuckerman Joins Federation Sta fF Ettie Handelman passes the family history book to the younger generation. Representing four generations of the Caplan family, from left: Bertha Feinstein, 90, of Southfield; Mandy Kent, 18, of Farmington Hills; Rainy Legault, 7, of White Lake; Handelman, 80, of Farmington - Hills, and Reka Goldstein, 92, of Southfield. Families Unite! Scores of relatives from across the globe hold reunion in Novi. But the ...…

…Shiva Asar b'Tammuz is Sunday, July 8 On the UM of Tammuz, we remember the attacks on our bilk our land Brandeis Award To Nosanchuks Harry and Sally Nosanchuk, communi- ty leaders and philanthropists, will be recipients of the Justice Louis D. Brandeis Award from the Zionist Organization of America at the Balfour Celebration Concert, Sunday, Oct, 21, at the Millennium Theater Center in Southfield. Harry and Sally Nosanchuk are mem- bers of ...…

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…New Arrivals June 7 Susan (Cutler) and Barry Kronen of Boca Raton, Fla., welcome with love the birth of their son, Jordan Lawrence (Yaakov Lev). Delighted first-time grandparents are Arlene and Bernie Cutler of Boca Raton and Irene Kronen of Delray Beach, Fla. Proud great-grandmother is Rebecca Frank of Southfield. Jordan is named in loving memory of his maternal great-grandfather Jacob Frank.and his paternal grandfather Lawrence (Larry) Kron...…

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…Engagements SCHULER-PACKARD la erbert and Rita Packard of Southfield announce the engage- ment of their daughter Dian Packard to Seth Schuler, son of Ronald and Adrienne Schuler of Woodmere, N.Y. Dian earned a bachelor of science degree in statistics, a master of arts in statistics and a master of business administra- tion degree at the University of Michigan. She is vice president corporate treasury at Morgan Stanley in Manhattan. Seth ear...…

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…COMMUnitY Spirituality Sharing Carl EXPERIENCES Michigan clergy join in meaningful exchange on how to help heal suffering Jews. SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN Staff Writer I n a Jewish community where respect between the streams is the rule, a June 28 gathering of Orthodox, Conservative and Reform clergy was in itself not all that unusual. A first-time Introduction to Jewish Spiritual Assessment program, a workshop for those involved in spiritua...…

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