…LETTERS N /_ 2 Most public schools would almost kill to have an overwhelming majority of parents who are not only sophisti- cated in matters of education but who are intimately involved in their chil- dren's educational activities. Other schools have parents who are equally involved, but what makes Akiva's parents unique is their com- mitment to a Torah-based lifestyle, while also insisting on participation in the mainstream of general acade...…
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…TAGHeuer SWISS MADE SINCE 1860 Jewish Fund Provides Grant For Camp The Jewish Community Center and Jewish Family Services has received a grant from the Jewish Fund to pro- vide an inclusive day camp experience for children with special needs in the JCC's existing day camp. An open house is scheduled for noon to 3 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 7. Space is limited. For information, contact Amy Seidman, (248) 661- 6748. INTRODUCING 1-c1FRILJN/1 NCJW S...…
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…• • Thursday, Jan. 21 Cantorial concert by Cantor Stephen Dubov of Temple Beth El, with pianist Marty. Mandelbau m, 1 p.m., _Jaffe Hall. Free. Noon lunch, $2.25. Tickets for lunch by' Jan. I 5. YOUTH Sunday, Jan. 10 Loren B. Fischer Cultural Arts series presents a retelling of "Little Red N_ -) Riding Hood" for children, 12:45 p.m., Temple Beth El. Free. (248) 851-1100, ext. 3149. • Monday, Jan. 18 Adat Shalom Synagogue's Men's Club and Y...…
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…Torah Portion Some Unsung Heroes Of Jewish History this ultimate test of choice enabled Moses to be born and survive. Whether these heroic women were from the Jewish people is not clear from the Torah — although the Midrash quoted by Rashi (Exodus 1:15) identifies them as Yocheved and Miriam, Moses' moth- er and sister — but the identity of the n this week's Torah portion, we third heroine of this saga is clear. have the development of the A...…
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…When We Were Very Young Elizabeth Applebaum AppleTree Editor family spent a great deal of time at the race tracks, and the boys' mother enjoyed poker. They had George and Ira Gershwin little interest in religion, providing George was born Jacob Gershvin a bar-mitzvah celebration for only at his home at 242 one son, Ira. Snedicker Avenue in New Ira Gershwin, who wrote Fi rst York City on Sept. 26, the lyrics for his brother's In a 1898. His b...…
…The BiG Story Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany, on March 14, 1879. A great deal has been written about his extraordinary infancy and youth. It all sounds amazing — and most of it is actually true. When he was born, Albert did indeed have an oddly shaped head and he was terribly overweight. And he was slow to talk — but exactly how slow remains a mys- tery. In later years, Einstein himself insisted that he was 3 before he said anything...…
…she was only 4 her grandfather noticed a spark. He called her far- brent, on fire. And indeed Barbra was burning with a desire: for fame. "From the age of 7 she wanted to be in films," her mother said in Streisand: A Biography by Anne Edwards (Little, Brown and Co.). As she grew, Barbra found herself more in love with films (especially with her favorite actor, Marlon Brando) than ever. But it wasn't until she was in high school that she dis- c...…
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…End Of An Era Thirty years of discount clothing boutiques seem to be coming to a close. who sighs that she needs a dress for a granddaughter's wedding, there is a sense of loss. "I miss the bou- tiques," she admits. "I shopped Ray hen Rosalie Gold and Ida, Fancy This, Giacca Knits, turned out the lights the Clothes Pin . . . all of them." for the last time in The earliest boutiques, December like Bea Stillman and at Rosalie's in West Ilene B...…
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…Kosher Soaps? Concerto No. 5, "Emperor." "Also, it gives me an opportunity "I think the two facets of to constantly try out different inter- my career help and enrich each pretive and pianistic ideas, to see if other," says Berman, who was what I think is right works and born in the for- maybe apply some mer Soviet Boris Berman's w eekend program new approaches to Union and relo- with the De tr oit Symphony my playing. I Orchestra will fi atu...…
…Tatraordinary Stitches' Fiber artists represent many directions in a new exhibit at the Janice Charach Epstein Museum/Gallery. SUZANNE CHESSLER Special to The Jewish News reations of one-of-a-kind fiber art, finished either for display or wear, make up the "Extraordinary Stitches" show opening Jan. 14 at the Janice Charach Epstein Museum/Gallery. The museum/gallery scouted local and distant talent for its fourth pre- sentation of quilts an...…
…turing the Jerusalem skyline, her smaller works suggest well- known classical paintings. The wall hangings of Barbara Altwerger give a sense of depth, texture and trans- Below: "Byzantium" parency and reveal a new direc- is byquitter tion for the artist, whose past Marilyn Henrion. efforts have been in clothing. "I'm always aware of color, design, balance and harmony," says Altwerger, now working out of a Pontiac studio. "I used to do applique...…
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…DIRECT FROM BROADWAY AWARD ° /—' JN: Can you remember any insults that brought especially big laughs? DR: The most prominent one was to Frank Sinatra, rest his soul. When I first met him, I said, "Stand up, Frank, and be yourself; hit somebody!" After that, we became close friends. JN: Are there any hot topics in your act this season? DR: I don't really have hot topics. My performance is mainly about people. Five or 10 percent of my act ch...…
….3411111111111111111W ■■■••■■•ir - Awagranwix :m? The Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit's Encore Series Presents... Wrote The Grammy Award Winning Song From Hit Movie Flashdance Mixed Media Singer/Song Wri Doug Cotler A Family Program Sunday, January 10,1999 • 4:00 p.m. D. Dan & Betty Kahn Building Members: $5 / Non-Members: $8 Cotler tours the country performing 100 concerts each year. He will perform insightful and h...…
…ence was skeptical. A frum guy, with a funky, colorful kippah, on electric guitar? But he won them over. Mention his name to a frum family in Oak Park and you'll see a wild, bobbing nod and a reply somewhat like this: "Oh yeah! He's great. Played my cousin's wedding." In fact, he made special trips to Detroit to perform at the weddings of the children of Dr. Arnold Zuroff, a local dentist. "He's my man in Detroit, my favorite person in Ameri- ...…
…Soap opera writer Leah Laiman faces a daytime dilemma. ALICE BURDICK SCHWEIGER Special to The Jewish News hen Leah Tolman began writing for soap operas, she wanted to introduce Jewish characters. And she did. In the early 1980s, she created Jake, a Jewish lawyer on "General Hospital," with an uncle who kept kosher. A few years later, Laiman introduced Robin, a prominent Jewish doctor who was female and Orthodox, to "Days of Our Lives." Robi...…
…I to introduce Jewish traditions to soaps 1 viewers. On `Days,' we were able to air Shabbat candle-lightings, and we had the first sukkah on daytime TV Asked why there aren't more Jewish characters on soaps, Laiman replies, We are a minority in this country. Living in New York and in big-city Jewish communities, we lose sight of that. But in truth, your basic soap opera writer and viewer is not Jewish. Soaps want simple romances that cover the...…
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…\ which he translated as a 'born sales- man,' an accolade that stuck in his head and occasionally lit up like a storefront sign," she writes. At 16, Aaron sailed for America, but found living with relatives in the East Bronx and working as a coal deliverer not the life he had imagined for himself. He got work on a boat headed for Savannah and there talked his way into working for a Jewish merchant. Although he loved the South, he returned to ...…
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…Starring Yiddish actor Venyamin Zuskin. Cain 6' Artem (1929) — Based on a story by Maxim Gorky, in its first New York appearance in 65 years. The Twelve Chairs (1970) — A Hollywood film adapted from a 1928 Soviet source, Mel Brooks' comedy suggests the meeting of Karl and Groucho Marx. WORLD PREMIERES: Delta Jews (1998) — Following this screening, director Mike DeWitt will discuss his tracing of the history of the Jews of the Mississippi Del...…
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…From Our Families To Yours .. . It's seldom that we have the opportunity to say thanks for the past year. WHILE VISITING in North Scottsdale, Arizona, Buddy Disner got his first hole-in-one ... on the three- par, 172-yard second hole at Troon Country Club ... playing with David Rosenman, also vacationing from hereabouts. THE KOSHER restaurant still on Matt Prentice's drawing board will not be open until he finds the right place. Besides bei...…
…... Give her a call at (248) 681-8787. CONGRATS... to brother Marvin Raskin on his birthday. "WHO SAYS LAWYERS can't laugh at themselves?" asks Margaret Hill Auditorium Jacobs in the Wall Street Journal. "Many of them have been circulat- Renee Fleming is the latest critics' darling, with her ing an e-mail list of memorable ques- ravishing soprano regularly inviting superlatives for the tions their learned colleagues have vibrancy of her engage...…
