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…WE REMEMBER During the coming week, Yeshiva Beth Yehudah will observe the yahrtzeits of the following departed friends with the traditional memorial prayer, recitation of kaddish and studying of mishnayos. APRIL IYAR Cella Brody Samuel Fine Rose Gendelmon Samuel Lederman David Abraham Levine Steve Horde Lewkowicz Hermon Moerman Bella Stein Solomon Cohen Samuel Kaluzny Benjaminl<leinfeld Phineos Perlman Isadore Weingarden Benjamin Zone Ros...…
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…AKIVA HEBREW DAY SCHOOL Deeply Mourns the Passing of our Founder and Patriarch PHILLIP STOLLMAN ""t The learning of the thousands of students educated through his foresight and efforts will ensure him everlasting life. May his family find comfort among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem. C.3"1111 111Sn- trIVIS 1; 9 /8 8 178 N1111 …
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…FINE ARTS ALAN HITSKY Conservative congregations are battling for survival. AMY J. MEHLER Rodney King, the riots and the lessons. A German soldier's visit to Warsaw Ghetto. DETROIT 24 68 A J.E.F.F. theater group meshes teens. Erosion Of Faith? Birthday Trip In Hell 6 7 11 EDITORIAL OPINION UP FRONT CLOSE-UP 14 33 BACKGROUND Will multi-lateral talks move the peace process? 36 POLITICS The faces keep changing in some local ra...…
…I EDITORIAL 4 Strength From Differences While the world seemed to be coming apart at the seams last week, it created an environment in which the good was overlooked in favor of the sensational. In this case, the sensational was more often sinister. In West Bloomfield on Sunday night, however, the facts of the world for four short hours did not count in much the same way. This was the meeting of the American Arabic and Jewish Friends of Met...…
…OPINION A Civics Lesson From Simi Valley ALAN HITSKY Associate Editor H oward Falls unwit- tingly gave a civics lesson to his classmates last Thursday. One of the few black students at Birmingham Seaholm High School, Mr. Falls told fellow tenors at a high school concert, "I guess you can beat me up tonight. Nobody will care." That's the lesson one black student learned from a jury in Simi Valley, Calif. April 30 was erev Yom Hashoah — Hol...…
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…DETROIT Soviet, American Teens Perform Original Play AMY J. MEHLER Staff Writer C orinne Stavish re- members exactly when the American and Russian teens in her Jewish theater group became as one. "It happened the day I came for rehearsal and saw only one Russian teen," Ms. Stavish said. "I made the mistake of asking him if he was the only one there. I meant among the Russian performers, but he didn't see it that way. He saw himself as par...…
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…The new home of B'nai Moshe, on Drake Road in West Bloomfield, is scheduled to open next month. onservative Judaism calls itself evolu- tionary Judaism — changing within the confines of Halachah (Jewish law). In the Detroit area, the face of Conservative Jewry is changing —fighting to re- tain its base of committed, observant Jews while battl- ing the inroads of Reform and Orthodoxy. The move- ment here is also fighting the costs of maintaini...…
…do we have? I didn't become Conservative to build up Or- thodox and Reform." t Beth Achim, Rabbi Martin Berman is facing a more im- mediate issue — sur- vival. The congregation has dropped from 600 families to 470 in the last four years. Merger discussions with B'nai Moshe, B'nai David, Shaarey Zedek and others have led to two votes by the congregation in the last two years to go it alone, in Southfield. "Now," the rabbi says, "the people with...…
…the last few years, lost mena- /-bers. From a peak of 750 families in the 1960s, it hit a low of 300 families last year. But President Michael Grand believes the tran- sition period, and the absence of a rabbi for the last 18 months, has made the congregation stronger: members stepped forward to lead services, fund-raise for the new building and reac- tivate synagogue affiliates. The proposed merger with / `-Beth Achim, which was overwhelmingl...…
…Rabbi Spectre points to programming and education as the denominator for Adat Shalom. Its United Hebrew Schools branch is the largest in the_ system with nearly 600 students, and its nurs- ery school has been a magnet for young Jewish families seeking synagogue affiliation. The rabbi admits that "location has not hurt us, but some people go great distances — passing other synagogues — to bring their children here . . . We have some three-times...…
…B'nai David Continued from Page 27 its affiliates to have a mechitza (separation of men and women during services). Children and Hebrew school may be the key to the future for B'nai David and the Conservative syn- agogues. "We expected to be part of the United Hebrew Schools system," Mr. Blumenberg said. "Now we'll have to get together with the Conser- vative congregations and reinvent UHS. We can't do it alone." "We are very concerned about...…
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…H LOCAL NEWS I U.S. economy down? American workers suffering? F 4 Haar Memorial Program Set The Sholem Aleichem Insti- t ute will present the 25th An- 'nual Moishe Haar Memorial Program 3:30 p.m. May 17 in the LaMed Auditorium of the \-,United Hebrew School build- / ing at 21550 West 12 Mile ' Road in Southfield. There will be no admission charge. 3 C Moishe Haar was the direc- tor and principal of Sholem Aleichem Institute and its \ sch...…
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…BACKGROUND The Side Show Moves To Center Stage Mideast observers are hopeful that the non-political multilateral talks make kick-start the peace process. DOUGLAS DAVIS Foreign Correspondent W hile the six-month- old Arab-Israeli bilateral talks are still stuck at first base, there is hope that the new round of non-political multilateral talks which open in no fewer than five capital cities this month, starting in Washing- ton and Ottawa ...…
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…POLITICALLY SPEAKING 1-•-• HILLEL DAY SCHOOL is honored to pay tribute to Rosalyn & Rudolph 5"1 Shulman at the Annual Dinner on May 27, 1992 at Adat Shalom Synagogue and to announce the establishment of the: RUDOLPH SHULMAN 51 MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP TRIDUTE FUND Wolpe Continued from preceding page his idea, but he hasn't said no to a gubernatorial race. "I intend to remain in- volved in public life," he said. "I intend to stay in Michigan. ...…
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…COMMUNITY AJCommittee To Honor Saul and Marjorie Saulson The American Jewish Com- mittee, Detroit Chapter will present its Cyrus Adler Dis- tinguished Jewish Communi- ty Service Award to Saul and Marjorie Saulson 7 p.m. May 17 at Congregation Shaarey Zedek. The Saulsons will be recognized for their contribu- tions to the Jewish communi- ty, to interfaith relations and to the civic community. Doug Ross, former Michigan state senator and dire...…
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