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…JN Contents JNOnline.corn Thursday, Oct. 6, 2005 3 Tishrei 5766 Vol. CXXVIII, No. 9 Fred M. Butzel Award winner Penny Blumenstein at Shalom Street in the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield Nutritionally Speaking By Barhara Beznes, tzt), LniN Integrated Nutrition, LW • ues- ti on: On The Cover 0 Dear Bar •, at are "geneti- cally modified" foods, and should I be concerned about them? Lauren. To Life! cn SYNergizing! 18 Adat ...…
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…Letters Don't Bust Unions In 1963, my brother had one choice for college, Brooklyn College, which only cost $35 for a semester's tuition. My mother began teaching in 1964. In 1967, I had the opportunity to attend the University of Michigan because my mother's teachers' union col- lectively bargained and expanded opportunities for me and our family. I was saddened and angered when I read that the Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit boar...…
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…Something Extra NOTEBOOK Can't Complain "treated" to what seems here are several to be nine months of cited differences winter, we hear the between the opti- usual griping about the mist and the pesssimist. extreme cold, the ice, For example, the opti- the snow, the wind chill. mist sees the glass as Ah, we muse, if only it half full; the pessimist, were summer; that's the as half empty. good time. Really? So Sometimes it seems Sy M anello ...…
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…To Life! ON THE COVER Adding his own guitar to the mix is Elijah Kaye, 3, of Farmington Hills. Adat Shalom families celebrate a super Shabbat. Story by Alan Hitsky Photos by Bill Hansen vents for small children and young families were just part of the festivities and activites Sept. 16-17 as Adat Shalom Synagogue host- ed the first of its monthly SYNergy programs for Shabbat. From speakers to music, from dinners to nature walks, from tr...…
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…To Life! S SPIR fl A class for prospective parents offers a blend of medical education and Jewish spirituality. .rz 0 rkA vq t re:' Shelli Liebman Dorfman Staff Writer hen Staci and Fabio Giske of Farmington Hills learned last win- ter they were expecting a baby, one of the first people Staci called was Rabbi Lauren Berkun. "I was only at the end of my first trimester but I heard she would be teaching a class on childbirth for Jewish...…
…APPLETREE Yom Kippur At-A-Glance ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Contributing Editor • What We Observe: Yom Kippur is the day of atonement;yom in Hebrew means "day',' and kippur means "atonement." • When We Observe: This year, Yom Kippur begins the evening of Wednesday, Oct. 12.. • Why We Observe: The com- mandment to observe Yom Kippur is in the Torah in Leviticus 16:29, and Numbers 29:7. Also see Leviticus 16:30-34, 23:26 32, and Numbers 29:8-11. ...…
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…S arsilum. Temple youth celebrate kickoff weekend at Kol Ami. Enjoying the fun is Reform congregations across abbinic student and song- Michigan participated in training leader Noam Katz had a group of teens from across and networking. Also featured was the program year's first Michigan, as well as many adults, NFTY-MI general clapping and singing Above: Po sing for board meeting, cre- during a pre-Selichot the came To: Temple ative worshi...…
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…Metro The Harry Kirsbaum Staff Writer icture Penny Blumenstein strapped into a rebuilt 1967 Mercedes 280 con- vertible, tooling down the back roads of Italy's Tuscany region during a road rally last May. Her husband, Harold, is driv- ing while Penny navigates. Staring at the book in her lap — one column represents dis- tances, the other column repre- sents landmarks — she leads the car through a maze of directions that seem more like a puzz...…
…Metro Penny Blumenstein with philanthropists William Davidson of Bloomfield Hills and Doreen and David Penny Blumenstein poses with family members on the night she became Hermelin of Bingham Farms and Federation CEO Robert Aronson in 2000. David Hermelin died in November 2000. Federation president in 1998. From left: Son Randy Blumenstein, his wife, Dr. Marci Gittleman, daughter Lauren Cohen, Harold, Penny, and daughter-in-law and son, Ca...…
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…Opinion OTHER VIEWS My Father's Handwritten Machzor n 1951, my father, Rabbi Moshe Greenberg, didn't recite Kol Nidre. Instead, he was a prisoner in a labor camp in Siberia. At age 20, my father's crime was trying to escape from Russia. He dreamed of making aliyah. But he was caught and sentenced to 25 years of hard labor, leaving behind his par- ents, two sisters and a brother (a prisoner in another camp for a similar "crime"). The job of ...…
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