…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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…Rene'e Fleming in Richard Strauss's Daphne WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne Men of the WDR Radio Chorus Cologne Semyon Bychkov chief conductor THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 8 PM ► Hill Auditorium "The most in-demand singer in the world" (Washington Post), Renee Fleming stars in Richard Strauss's rarely performed Daphne, a unique concert production touring to only three cities — New York, Washington D.C., and Ann Arbor. A Prelude Dinner preceeds t...…
…Photo by Kevin Westen berg Arts & Entertainmen Catch the folk-pop singer — looking toward the future through her cat-eye glasses at the Ark in Ann Arbor. Lisa Loeb: "I wanted to find out what it all really means, instead of just going through the motions," she says of her explo- ration of Judaism. Naomi Pfefferman Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles hen songstress Lisa Loeb is on the stage, oftentimes her thoughts wan- der to ... B...…
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…SNAPSHOTS Landlubbing gypsy Shirley and pirate Lenny Cetner of Troy struck a pose in 2003. - The brothers Zack — Blake, 7 , Joshua, 6, and Sam, 412, — of Franklin get cozy for a photo on - • 44. Halloween last We asked — and you responded, overwhelmingly! On these pages, we've collected a scrapbook of reader photographs featuring local friends and family all decked out in their Halloween finery. Grandma Dorothy Ring of Livonia h...…
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