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…I OBITUARIES Frances Norris, 72 Frances Norris, 72, of West Bloomfield, died Dec. 4. Mrs. Norris was a former administrative assistant for the Labor and Industrial Relations Department at Wayne State University. She also had worked at the Wayne State University School of Medicine and was a research assistant to Dr. A. Martin Lerner. She was also a former staff stenographer for the Detroit Board of Education. She was an administrative assista...…
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…THE JEWISH NEWS DECEMBER 7, 1990 A Toast To Jewish Living ft Holiday's Meaning On The Move By DR. RON WOLFSON Dr. Ron Wolfson is director of the Whizin Center and Institute for Jewish Family Life at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles and the author of this month's To Our Readers. For each issue of L'Chayim, a rabbi, a Jewish educator or other notable will present an overview of the month's theme. What is Chanukah? This simple ques...…
…Kislev Connection: Family Chanukah Celebrations By HARLENE WINNICK APPELMAN Many families are troubled by the commercialism that has become the centerpiece of Chanukah. We are aware why this has happened, but are hard put to change its course. Below is a list of family activities that attempt to focus Chanukah evenings on something other than who gets the biggest gift. These evenings can be even more wonderful if you find several other famil...…
…never seem to get it done. Chanukah is a perfect time to do it. Chanukiah Collection In many families each person lights his own chanukiah (Chanukah menorah). Start a chanukiah collection. Choose a new or unusual Chanukiah every once in awhile. It's really nice to be on the lookout for a chanukiah all year long, and purchasing one is a wonderful decision for an entire family. This tradition also makes it natural to send a particular chanukia...…
…ttie° Menorah Sparks Conviction Growth By LEAH ANN KLEINFELDT The mitzvah of lighting the Chanukah menorah is very precious. It is a two-fold mitzvah. One is to publicize the miracle and the other, to re-kindle hope in the heart of every Jew. The Chanukah menorah (Chanukiah) is one of the most distinctive ceremonial objects. Originally only oil lamps were used for Chanukah. However, in the 18th and 19th centuries, the growing use of candles ...…
…Playa Nedeber Writ: Chanukah A Religious, National Holiday By NIRA LEV Nira Lev is associate professor of Hebrew language and literature at the Midrasha College of Jewish Studies and teaches Hebrew language and literature at the Community Jewish High School. Chag Ha-Chanukah which is celebrated on the 25th day of chodesh Kislev, is different from other chagim Yehudiyim. This chag is not mentioned in the Torah. All we know about the Chashmon...…
…Each month in this space, L'Chayim will look back into issues of The Jewish News to see what was happening in the local Jewish community or in the Diaspora 10, 20 and 40 years ago. Detroiters planning a winter vacation in Florida could expect to pay $69.50 for two persons for a special seven-day stay at the Patrician Hotel. Paint No•Cholesterol Chanukah Cookies By LESLYE MICHLIN BORDEN If you are looking for an educational and entertaining...…
…e ci0 vt. r 0 / 0 My Most Memorable Chanukah s i° 0 By MARY KORETZ The most memorable Chanukah I hob a mol farbracht was in 1968. We went to Israrel that year to fulfill drei objectives. One was to see our son, who hawt gemacht aliyah. Then Baruch, his friend who had made aliyah shortly noch demi was to be married at Chanukah. Also, we were to trefn my mother's sister and tochter as well as my father's brother, the ayntsike Holocaust surviv...…
…4" Lit Battle At Emmaus: sk Characters: Narrator 1st Maccabee 2nd Maccabee 3rd Maccabee 4th Maccabee 5th Maccabee Judah Gorgias NARRATOR: The Maccabees, led by their courageous leader Judah, have gathered together in Mitzpah, a city outside of Jerusalem. They are preparing for battle with the Syrian Greek army, and the Maccabees are frightened! 1st Maccabee: We are in for a hard battle. Have you heard how many Syrian Greeks are gathered aga...…
…out to Heaven to see whether God will favor us and remember His covenant with our ancestors and crush this army before us today. Then all the Syrian Greeks will know that there is One who redeems and saves Israel. Narrator: Gorgias is also encouraging his troops as they go out to. battle. Gorgias: Charge! and be victorious over the Jews! Judah: (Shouting over the sound of the trumpets.) "Men, let us go out and meet the enemy." (Sounds of battl...…
…Special Chanukah Songs I HAVE A LITTLE DREIDLE I have a little dreidle, I made it out of clay. And when it's dry and ready, Then dreidle I shall play. (Chorus) 0 dreidle, dreidle, dreidle, I made it out of clay; And when it's dry and ready, Then dreidle I shall play. It has a lovely body, With legs so short and thin. And when it gets all tired, It drops and then I win. OH CHANUKAH Oh Chanukah, Oh Chanukah, Come light the menorah. Let's ...…
…J _ksi5L itteS lev:ali%V Soviets Provide Archive Access v By MIRIAM WEINER For thousands of family history "buffs" with Russian roots, a great frustration has been the lack of access of Soviet archives for the birth, marriage and death records of our ancestors. In a gesture of cooperation unprecedented in the 45 years since World War II, the Soviet Union opened its archives and shared with the Red Cross material recoverd by the Soviet Army...…
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…THE JEWISH NEWS SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS SEPTEMBER 7, 1990 / 17 ELUL 5750 SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY JCC Breaks Ground For Charach Art Wing KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer T he Jewish Community Center this week broke ground for an $850,000 art wing to be built at the Maple-Drake JCC in the name of the late artist, Janice Charach Epstein. Expected to open this spr- ing, the 7,200-square-foot, three-story art wing will be funded by a $1 m...…
…I PURELY COMMENTARY I PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor Emeritus Elie Wiesel 0 f the many debts of gratitude we owe the University of Michigan, the presently add- ed one is extraordinarily im- portant. On Sept. 25 com- mences the series of annual lectures in honor of the hero in the rescue of tens of thousands from the Nazi ovens, Raoul Wallenberg. It is the 45th anniversary of his incarceration by the Russians upon their entrance into Budapest. T...…
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…UP FRONT Israeli Museum Helping Computerize Ellis List HUGH ORGEL Special to The Jewish News T here's an old joke they tell of the weary im- migrant who has just arrived at Ellis Island. When asked his name by an English-speaking immigra- tion official, the exhausted new arrival replied, "Shoyn fergessen" ("I've forgotten" in Yiddish). "Shawn Ferguson," the overworked officer repeated, mistakenly inscribing the newcomer's name in his regi...…
…EDITORIAL Neighborhood Test Within the city limits of the city of Southfield, 29 buildings are for sale or lease that would accommodate the space needs of the Jewish Welfare Federation of Metropolitan Detroit. The lease prices range, according to a re- cent survey by Burland, Reiss, Murphy and Rembiesa, Inc., from $9 a square foot to $25 a square foot. If someone were interested in constructing a new building, Robert Burland believes, "with ...…
…OPINION CONTENTS Americans' Support For Israel Is Constant MITCHELL G. BARD 0 ne of the constant re- frains of the last two years has been that American support for Israel is eroding. Every time a public opinion poll contains a result that represents a decline from a prior survey, the Chicken Littles begin to shout that the sky has indeed fallen. The truth is, however, that American sympathy toward Israel today is at about the same level ...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS ROSH HASHANAH GREETINGS PICK ... THE GREETING OF YOUR CHOICE Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year. May the coming year be filled — NAME — '16,00 #1 with health and •tariDn rvalz rian happiness for to all our friends and relatives. all our family ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER: Arthur M. Horwitz EDITOR EMERITUS: Philip Slomovitz ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Alan Hitsky ASSISTANT EDITORS: Elizabeth Applebaum Phil Jacobs STAFF WRITER...…
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…tators took years to build up their arsenals and to li- quidate all opposition. Then, like Hitler, Saddam Hussein tried out his war machine on Iran in an unprovoked eight- year war, resulting in enor- mous casualties and with the use of chemical gas. were leaders Both adherents of National Socialism — "Nazism" and "Bathism" — thus all appeal- ing to all segments of society. Both dictators advocated national unity under their sovereignty. "One ...…
…OPINION 1 YOU'RE C t VERED With Our T-Shirt! Support . Continued from Page 7 - homeland (whatever that means). Americans believe in dialogue, so they have approv- ed of the U.S.-PLO dialogue. At the same time, polls have consistently shown that Yassir Arafat is among the most disliked foreign leaders, and the the PLO is still view- ed as a terrorist organization intent on destroying Israel. But polls are not the only objective evidence o...…
…The Friends of Bar-Ilan University salute our Detroit Jewish community on the occasion of Bar-Ilan's 35th Anniversary and proudly honor its past Detroit Chairmen and Honorees on Tuesday, October 2, 1990 Mat Shalom Synagogue Doreen Hermelin General Chairman Cocktail reception: 6:00 p.m. / Dinner: 7:00 p.m. / Dessert reception: 9:15 p.m. Bernard H. Stollman General Chairman HONOREES Abraham Borman* Honorable Avern Cohn Irwin I. Cohn* Dr...…
…OPINION I Disturbing. Defeat Continued from Page 12 groups like the skinheads and black supremacist groups like Farrakhan's Nation of Islam to start clubs of their own in the schools. One despairing school board in Long Island, faced with an overwhelming de- mand by a variety of cults and other groups for classroom space, has recommended the elimination of all extra- curricular activities, lest it be accused of discrimination if it accepte...…
…DETROIT Jewish Army Reservists Wait For Their Orders SUSAN GRANT Staff Writer I f it weren't for a quirk of fate, Bruce Plisner would be on his way to Fort McCoy in Wisconsin with the rest of the 5064th Army Garrison. A member of the United States Army Reserve for 22 years in New Jersey, Illinois and Michigan, Major Plisner ended his service Aug. 22, a few days before his ad- ministrative unit based in Detroit was called up for ac- tive d...…
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…AT ■ THE TOP Bob Aronson, representing a new breed of Federation leader, takes the Detroit Jewish community through critical times and into the 1990s. F fifteen years ago, Bob Aronson broke into federation work in a blaze of glory.. He was hired as a secretarial assistant, which in more common terms is spelled g-o-f-e-r. And his employer, the Jew- ish Federation of Milwaukee, paid him the princely annual salary of $4,000. In retrospect, ...…
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…the executive directorship of the CJF. Detroit, Mr. Aronson says, was an overwhelming experience early on. What he doesn't say is that corn- ing here was like being called up to the major leagues. His predecessors, Mr. Kraar and Wayne Feinstein (now the Los Angeles Federation exec- utive director), were highly regarded both nationally and internationally. Many applicants as qualified as Mr. Aronson received strong consideration for the post. B...…
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