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…August 7, 1998 Vol. CXIII No. 24 Up Front Up Front. page 22 14 All In The Family "Children" conduct parents' wedding ceremonies. 22 Mission Accomplished Despite phone calls, families were eager for teens' return. The Scene 63 66 After The Wedding Side-by-side with another person has its surprising moments. Zionist Giant Hadassah honors the doyenne of the American Zionist world. AppleTree 08 AppleTree. page 71 The Mysterious Key ...…

…In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the State of Israel... The ,IVe-vr 4eadership Division of State of Israel Bonds Development Corporation for Israel cordially invites you to attend its King David Society Summer Gala honoring Cheryl and Steven &banes Recipients of the State of Israel 50th Anniversary Independence Issue Award Thursday, August 27, 1998 7:00 p.m. Kingsley Inn Hotel and Suites 1475 N. Woodward, Bloomfield Hills Di...…

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…Names Remembered The Cemetery Index Project aims to record the names of 100,000 Jews buried in the Detroit area. HARRY KIRS BAUM Staff Writer IV Further checking showed syna- gogue records of deaths in various stages of completeness. She took on the task of entering the name, date of death and date of birth or age at death of all Jews buried, and maintaining the database into the future. "My thought was, 'that couldn't be such a big job.' ...…

…4460 Orchard Lake Road West Bloomfield, MI 48323 Phone: 248.683.1010 gent oired A ssis. ted livincj, Judicial Race Top Circuit Court vote getters O'Brien and Kaplan will face off in November. JULIE WIENER Staff Writer his performance as a "close second." "All elections are difficult in terms of time and effort, but what is inter- esting about the primary is the very low voter turnout," he said. "For every 13 people you meet, only one w...…

…SHARE ftA IN A CELEBRATION Races Narrowed Down Primaries close the field to two in five local County Commissioner showdowns. 100 Years of Zionist. Vision and Fulfillment at the beautiful Detroit Orchestra Hall starring * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ROBERT KLEIN A talented Broadway, stage, film and TV star. A comedian of note earning a Grammy Award for best comedy album of the year. Starred in the "Sisters Rosenzweig"...…

…FATHERS OF THE SILVER SCREEN - II Michelle Friedman Appel Terry Sever Thomas A. Law endorsements, but that's how the cards fell." Sever will face Democrat Deborah J. Goldberg in November. County commissioners serve two- year terms and are paid $25,111 a year. Issues in the primaries centered on road repairs, on the plans and costs for improving the emergency 911 telephone system and on how the county should manage mental health services. ...…

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…I NFINITI of Farmington Hills Your Infiniti President's Award Circle Dealer 1998 INFINITI 130 the mother, shuttling her from the son's hospital bed to the husband's bed in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit. All were eventually discharged and they called later to thank her. "I get the thank you's right awaT. I feel very appreciated, and that's the best part," she said. Sometimes, the patients think of her as a mother or a daughter. To the sta...…

…ant Rabbi Debrah Cohen: Michigan's only Reconstructionist rabbi. FALL MERCHANDISE ARRIVING DAILY. LOOK FOR US IN OCTOBER AT THE BOARDWALK. Hands-On Reconstructionist THE ORCHARD MALL (248) 855-8818 Rabbi Debrah Cohen was drawn to religious study by an interest in women's ritual and history. JULIE WIENER Staff Writer the yachtsman Outdoor Apparel 1105 S. Adams • Birmingham, MI • 248 • 723 • 9838 YOUR LARGEST SOURCE OF PATAGONIA JUST...…

…LOCATED IN THE ORCHARD MALL 6385 ORCHARD LAKE ROAD AT MAPLE WEST BLOOMFIELD 48322 248.855.4488 /-) At JARC, Cohen teaches classes, consults on programs and performs some chaplaincy work. Among the pro- grams she has helped plan are a month- ly Rosh Chodesh group and a dance midrash program that combines Torah study with modern dance improvisa- tional techniques. Currently, Cohen is in the midst of writing a grant proposal to expand Judaic tra...…

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…,..7.046.40Fabovit. • ort Plotnick prepares to meet with donors, he does his homework on potential donors and creating relation- ships with them. Plotnick met Dan Kahn at the dedi- cation of the Rosenberg Recreation Complex nine years ago. "We struck up a conversation and met a couple dozen times over the years," Plotnick said. In February, Kahn and his wife etty, gave a $3.6 million for capital improvements and an endowment for the West Bloo...…

…Did You Miss Us? Teen Mission parents were eager for their children's homecoming last week. JULIE WIENER Staff Writer GLENN TRIEST Photographer Above: Elissa Lindow hugs her mom, Susan Lindow, for the first time in five weeks. Left: Parents cheer as the first teens emerge from customs and passport control. 8/7 1998 22 Detroit Jewish News …

…Left: Rob and Ilene Klegon are reunited with their son, Doug. Below: Merrick Goodman gets the big hug from his mom, Denise Goodman. ith an hour to kill before the El Al flight from Israel brought their sons and daughters home, the parents at Detroit Metropolitan Airport fell to speculating about what their children would want to do. Karen and Rick Fink guessed that daughter, Lindsey, of North Farmington High, would be going out for dinner wi...…

…fission • with thoughts of returntng to Israel. down. Shopping was corn- was - _pleted, but amore important than that, the • .a rneinorial to was. finally done. • • PUT group rn.Out4ling at Yitzhak Rabin' bonding of When ialuries occurred while biking down celebration at Israel's Independence see Eilat, liall. Israel's the Burma Road, everyone cared aria tried In hindsight, I The ,youth. ty, as not only a tourist's par- \ BY-DAN FREEMAN , c...…

…\Th Emily Halberg, Brooke Fellows, Nicole Kahrnoff Lindsey Fink and Erica Grushoff outside their hotel in Jerusalem. Even in Israel, there's nothing like a Big Mac with fries: Noam Einav, Michelle Hutton, (standing) Achishalom Almog, John Redmond, David Brown, Zachary Landau, Tom Kabalik and Ben Gerber. • a traveler understands why it was all so worthwhile. here is perhaps this worldmore boring _ than a 13-hour ,plane ride. Sitting ih a s...…

…• Learning that "Remebrance is the secret of redemption." We walked to the southern area, facing a canyon. We screamed in unison to .Special to The Jewish News hear the echo bounce far away and return: just like the faith of the Jews. , or most Of the Americans, Two very upbeat people, one a New Israel, was hoine for five Yorker soldier, the other a rabbi, told weeks; For the Israelis with us their, stories of aliyah. Interestingly, us,Israe...…

…e Rabbi a Then Alis-sion rticipa pa Obercoming fear and indecision, n t d iscovers wisd JENNIFER NATHAN om in -Israel and at her temple. S ecial to the Jewish News o put it simply, I didn't want to go to Israel, this summer. I Wanted to'get a job. I wanted to go to summer school. I wanted to spend a weekend in N ev, York. Sure, I would eventual) y.get to Israel, but it was no - where in m y plans for the summer suther of '98. Af ter all, I ...…

…Maccabi hosts increasing; a sign of something. Eric Stark is returning to his hometown to serve as a rabbinic intern over the next year at Temple Israel in West Bloom- field. Stark, the son of Sandy and Jay Stark, graduated from Temple Israel's religious school and celebrated his bar mitzvah there. At the synagogue, he'll assist the rabbis in educa- tional programming, in youth activities and in bar and bat mitzvah programs. Stark is a gradua...…

…Editorials Teen Correspondents Came Through We hope you've enjoyed our personalized weekly reports about Teen Mission 2 Israel. If so, our student correspondents deserve much of the credit. Their work has deftly captured the won- der of the spiritually uplifting sojourn. The stories have proven richly informative and insightful. And that has permitted us to explore the history and heritage of nal Yisrael through the unique perspective of tee...…

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…4 : Ot New York (}TA) -- Polish Catholics erected more than 50 crosses near the Auschwitz death camp. The crosses, which were report- edly put up by a Catholic workers group as part of a campaign, are standing near a 22-foot crucifix set up years ago to commemorate a visit by Pope John Paul II. Jewish groups have been seeking to remove all Christian symbols from areas surrounding the camp. German Company Refuses To Pay New York (JTA) ---- ...…

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…GREAT NEWS FOR COUPLES EXPERIENCING INFERTILITY! Mr. Barak Comes To Washington JAMES D. BESSER Washington Correspondent hud Barak; the general- turned-politician who hopes to lead Israel's Labor party out of the wilderness, tried out some of the themes that will drive his campaign for the post of prime minister during his first high-profile visit to Washington this week. The battered peace process and Barak's view that the government of Pri...…

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…ized th growing political and reli- gious conflicts that threaten the fab- ric of Israeli society. "People here talk about the techni- calities of the peace process, but they do not see the deeper problem — that this is a society in an advanced state of fragmentation," said Ben- Ami, a top Sephardi leader. "The eadership of Netanyahu is a leader- ship that manipulates differences among the Israel people instead of healing them." BAUME & MERCI...…

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…\ I-that these two politically scarred veter- ans enjoy. No guarantees exist, of course, that the next Syrian leader will ingratiate himself with Israel. That successor or collective leadership may be worse than what Assad portrays and offers. In his superb book, "The Brink of Peace-The Israeli-Syrian Negotiations," (Princeton, 1998), for \''Iner Israeli Ambassador to the United ,- States Itamar Rabinovich, substanti- ates the claim that Assad...…

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…Community Parr Excellence We only need 50 more families to reach our goal... To sign up to become a host family and/or volunteer for the 1998 KC Maccabi Games, please call (248) 661-7722. Jewish Community Center Maccabi Games Detroh • August '98 8/7 1998 48 Detroit Jewish News Margot J. Parr, executive director of Jewish Home and Aging Services (JHAS), has been named to receive the 11th annual Berman Award for Outstanding Professional S...…

…559-5424 TATE FLOWERS (248) F. ; (-) Israel Bonds Names Honorees /- The Metropolitan Detroit State of Israel Bonds New Leadership Division will honor Cheryl and Steven Schanes at its inaugural "King David Society Summer Gala" 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 27, at the Kingsley Inn Hotel and Suites in Bloomfield Hills. Cheryl is a Cheryl and Steven Schanes member of the UJA Young Leadership Cabinet where she sup- ports and develops programs and acti...…

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