…TISItanah It's a new year, and Ira Boykansky will usher it in with a new Torah. SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN StaffWriter F to someone, they ask if I'm related to Ira. Everyone knows Ira." Rabbi Rabin says Ira Boykansky attends all the Jewish programming at Danto. "He has a very strong Jewish identity," the rabbi says. "He likes to put on tefillin and loves to speak Yiddish, which he spoke as a child. He used to attend the Yiddish theater." Boyka...…
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…Other Voices verybody puts their own mark on their presidency, - but he kind of established the groundwork for all the educa- tional initiatives that I was able to institute, and gave me something to work with. "You don't start fresh as the president of any organization. You take with you what came before you, and he gave me some wonderful tools to move forward in really enhancing our community life in that way." ( C --- Penny Blumenstein, ...…
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…Remembering 9-11 Dealing With Disaster Bringing comfort to families of Sept. 11 victims alters the lives of Jewish Detroiters. closure; in many cases, there is no body. It's very difficult to reconcile the pain and the destruction and the `pub- ; avid Techner remembers licness' of it," he said. "I hope we speaking to a group of never have to deal with this again ; but families in a condominium we're really on new ground here and complex nea...…
…2 rooms of carpet cleaned only $49 95 5 rooms of carpet cleaned only Far From Some Israel mission goers on 9-11 felt stranded but won understanding and support of Israelis. HARRY KIRSBAUM StafieWriter T dles and lay flowers at the site. Not more than 24 hours later, mis- sion-goers arrived in the Central Galilee. "When we got off the bus, they had flowers for us," she said. "They understood and supported us." Sirlin spoke of a sense of u...…
…This Week Remembering 9-11 Balancing Act At the High Holidays, local synagogues weigh security concerns against need to be welcoming. DON COHEN Special to the Jewish News T's a lot to cops Vrith. it's oven hardot to cope' with oleo . Call Kadima to volunteer or find out how you can support people with mental illness-so they are not alone. Please se Howard Mem= Development nirecter,mesa-eass. r or many, High Holiday services provide a ...…
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…This Week Remembering 9-11 Sharing 'Our Common Humanity' Planners of interfaith service for 9-11 find bonus in working together. SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN StaffWriter earthing to find a thread of meaning in the S events of 9-11, Rabbi Joseph Krakoff of Congregation Shaarey Zedek discovered something positive as he planned for a community-wide, interfaith prayer service on the first anniversary of the fateful day. "It made many of us recogniz...…
…COMA ANDIEET THOSE DAM% FEET WINNER! BEST MUSICAL REVIVAL 2001 TONY AWARD S Father Garabed Kochakian of St. John's Armenian Orthodox Church, Southfield songs of inspiration will be featured. A moment of silence, a candle-light- ing ceremony for victims as well as responsive readings and an honoring of heroes and service personnel will take place. A blast of the shofar will end the service. "It will be a long blast — the teki- ah gedolah," ...…
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…News Digest NEWS DIGEST from page 27 the Associated Press reported. .It was not clear whether the court would hear the case brought by the eight, who refuse to serve in the West Bank and Gaza. The soldiers argued that during the past two years of Israeli-Palestinian fighting, Israel refused to see to the needs of Palestinians living under occupation, as the petitioners maintain is stipulat- ed under international law. ready for a possible U...…
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…Pro And Con open, said Mark Pelavin, associate director of the Reform movement's Religious Action Center in Washington. "We are not doing as good a job as we need to in creating an atmosphere where discussion can be as expansive as possible," he said. - Esther Lederman, project director of UAHC's "Seeking Peace, Pursuing Justice" project, which is organizing the teach-in, said the goal is to provoke about the conflict. But Reform leaders insi...…
…he said. "But the right was not correct in believing there can be a military solution to the conflict. "People are obviously outraged at the continued terrorism; but they're uncomfortable with some of Israel's responses — though there's no moral equiva- lency between" them, he added. At the Reform m ovement's highest levels, that debate has been shifting for some time. The movement strong- backed the Oslo peace process, but by 2001 Rabbi Yoffi...…
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…CHANGES from page 40 compensation. Applicants must still meet the eligibility requirements of hav- ing spent six months in a concentration camp, or 18 months in a ghetto or in hiding under cruel conditions. "No matter when they have filed under the Hardship Fund, no one is closing these cases," emphasizes Wildstrom. "If the new guidelines help or their financial situation has changed since they filed, we can help by helping them show current ...…
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…Year In Review — 5762 Clockwise from top left: President Bush welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Sharon to the White House on June 10. A fire and rescue special operation unit member, right, is checked outside the American Media Inc. building in Boca Raton, Fla. on Oct. 18. About 100,000 people demonstrate in front of the U.S. Capitol in support of Israel on April 15. A demonstrator holds a sign that reads, "no cease-fire, no pullout," at a ...…
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…MINIONIMIRSOMIP Terror And Turmoil In Israel, it was a year of terror, but also stronger ties with the U.S. LESLIE SUSSER Jewish Telegraphic Agency Jerusalem aunched in the shadow of Sept. 11, the Jewish year 5762 was marked for Israel by two developments direct- ly related to those terror attacks: a tightening of ties between Israel and the United States and growing American disaffection with Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat. S...…
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…Editorials are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.com An Especially Challenging Year I t was a year that tested our faith, values, opti- mism and hopes fora peaceful future. The carnage on buses in Jerusalem, at a Passover seder in Netanya and within the World Trade Center towers in New York City was executed in the name of Allah against Jews, other infidels and Western civilization. Our collective shock and outrage, as ...…
…OTHER VIEWS Ripples Of Hope ime magazine labeled it "The Summer of Mistrust." The plummeting stock market, accounting scandals, child abductions, corporate corrup- tion, terrorist attacks, suicide murder- ers, church scandals, growing anti- Semitism in Europe and a faltering peace process have all tested our courage and our confidence. And so, for many, the year 5763 begins with both trepidation and fear. As we approach the High Holidays, th...…
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