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…THE JEWET Igii NEWS UP FRONT This Week's Top Stories moiler Days 'Children : at the Jewish Community Center Day Camp enjoy the lazy days of summer. DANIEL LIPPITT STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER PHOTO STORY ON PAGE 7 Getting above it all are Ryan McGee, 8, and Jay Kenig, 9. Multimillion Settlement Welfare Squeeze A new law sends communal workers scrambling for solutions to anticipated cutbacks. JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER I wo phrases co...…

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…August 9, 1996 EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK Detroit In the aftermath of an explosion. Summer Days Children at the Jewish Community Center day camp are enjoying the lazy days of summer. \_ Th 10 TELL ME WHY A Jewish pope? Not exactly. 42 Some Surprises Tuesday's primary elections provided some surprises in local elections. WASHINGTON Welfare reform: political scapegoats. Sports 45 Highly accurate screen for cervical cancer. 77 Praying For...…

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…mer Days Above: "Ms. Lucy has a baby," sings Dina Pi!nits, 7, and Carly Kuppe, 8. Right: Ouch! Jessica Greene, 6, has her hair braided by counselor Isabel Olivito. Far right: Megan Justice, 5, twirls her hula hoop. Left: Stan Titov, 10, has his own "Dream Team." Right: Sharing a joke during lunch are, front, Anna Tsentsiper, 9, and Sheri Klein, 7. Children at the Jewish Community Center Day Camp enjoy the lazy days of summer. DANIEL LIP...…

…CAREER SEMINAR Tuesday, August 27, 1996 The Old Veteran Radisson Plaza Hotel at Town Center Conference Center 1500 Town Center Dr. - Southfield A two-sport Maccabi athlete will take his place at the head of the line. 6:00 p.m. ALAN HITSKY ASSOCIATE EDITOR Career in Financial Services W hen Louis Skeegan lines up with 17 other Detroit Maccabi ath- letes next week, he'll be the undisputed veteran of the group ... at age 15. Skeegan, a c...…

…UNIVERSAL WATCH REPAIR that level. If they stick togeth- er and come back next year, they'll be much tougher." Table tennis coach Roger Black has several veterans go- ing to New Jersey, including his son Andy, who won gold medals in singles and doubles last year. Other returnees are Marc Weiss, a bronze medalist last year, and Mike Rott, a silver medalist. In golf, coach Matt Lester has his largest team ever with 11 players, including 5-handi...…

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…•• • shortages of places to give to," says Mr. Blakely. "We appreciate everything Forgotten Harvest has done," says Walter Plummer, fOod ser- vice coordinator for the Christ- ian Guidance Center, one of the Detroit Rescue Mission Min- istries. Forgotten Harvest makes weekly drop-offs to the center to help feed the 102 people of all ages who take shelter there. Tucked awayin,a small office building _on Ten Mile Road in Southfield, Forgotten H...…

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…One Critic Has `Hiss' Complaints WILEY A. HALL III SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS 0 K, so let me set the scene: We are nearing the climax of Independence Day, the hit movie that is well on its way to breaking box-office records this summer. The aliens have come, their titanic ships casting menacing shadows over the landscape. Without preamble they incin- erate the White House. They blast New York City and flatten Los Angeles. When a bunch of in...…

…■ COLORWORKS STUDIO OF INTERIOR DESIGN C om CRITIC page 19 want to know why a black woman cannot be allowed to have a "mind." I used to find great significance in the fact that there were no black cardboard action heroes like Sylvester Stal- lone or Arnold Schwarzenegger. Now that Wesley Snipes has starred as such a hero, I com- plain that blacks aren't featured in "quality" films; that there aren't enough black quality films; that those ...…

…4:w&.;.&seNiz. The ride home was quiet, I re- member, all of us spent with emotion. I felt guilty and em- barrassed, yet enormously re- lieved. And that was it for camp for the rest of my childhood. Many years later, I found out that when my wife was 10, she had a similar experience her first summer away from home, but with a different resolution. She was miserable, too, spend- ing much of the time in the in- firmary with an undiagnosed case ...…

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…Community Views Member Affiliation Carries A Responsibility In The Aftermath Of An Explosion LAURENCE IMERMAN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS ALAN HITSKY ASSOCIATE EDITOR Al, my friend since our law school days, is a collec- tions attorney. He spends his time ex- tracting money from reluctant debtors. And due to his success rate, Al's legal services are in great demand. Al recently volunteered to col- lect his synagogue's delinquent membership...…

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…The Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit Presents Caring or our Aging Parent Thursday, August 22 at 7:30 p.m. Maple/Drake Building • Shiffman Hall • Free to the Community Rick Bloom, noted radio talk show host of Money Talk on WXYT, will be the moderator for the following distinguished panel: Joyce Hunt The Area Agency on Aging Phyllis Schwartz Jewish Family Service Dr. Sara Gelb9rd Sinai Hospital Mary Schmitt Smith Beier Howl...…

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…S hoe tor: Ben-Zion Lanxner. Sexton: Joseph Mermelstein. Rabbi Emeritus: A. Irving Schnipper. Services: Friday 7 p.m.; Sat- urday 8:45 a.m., 8:15 p.m.; Sunday and civil holidays 8:15 a.m., 5 p.m.; weekdays 7 a.m., 7 p.m. Rabbi's class 7:45 p.m. BETH ACHIM 21100 W. 12 Mile Rd., Southfield, 352- 8670. Rabbi: Herbert Yoskowitz. Cantor: Max Shimansky. Ritual director: Joseph Baras. Rabbis emeritus: Benjamin H. Gorelick, Milton Arm. Services: Fr...…

…The Temple Emanu-El Famil y wishes to invite you to our Prospective Membership Picnic & Service Our Quality Of Life Is A Matter Of Choice Let us introduce y ou to our Temple. Come meet our professional staff, board and Temple members on Shabbat Re'e: Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17; Isaiah 54:11-55:5. Frida y , August 16, 1996. RABBI IRWIN GRONER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS 6:00 p.m.Picnic • 7:30 p.m. Service Worship under the stars in our beau...…

…of turning off the TV and opening a worthwhile book is an example of choosing life. In Hebrew, the modern term for going out and having a good time is Levalot, which actually means to wear something out, to turn a usable garment into an out- worn rag. Its equivalent is the American phrase "to kill time." We should recognize the inherent de- struction arising from the failure to manage time, to discipline one's use of time. An individual can co...…

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…Singles Shabbat At Beth Achim USY Trips Attract Teens Wendy Wagenheim, legislative affairs director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Michi- gan, will speak on "The Electoral Process: How Will We Be Heard in November" at the next Sin- gles Shabbat, 8:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 23, at Congregation Beth Achim. Prior to joining the ACLU staff, Ms. Wagenheim was the state public affairs chairwoman for the National Council of Jew- ish Women and ...…

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…The Daycliance Approach A Jewish Pope? The RAYDIANCE Ap- proach is designed for individuals who want added fullness for thin- ning hair. Not exactly, though he did have a distant Jewish connection. ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR Q: My children are at that age when they actually love insects, especially worms and pillbugs and caterpillars. I was telling them that various kinds of insects are cited in the Torah, and they were curi- ou...…

…The Michigan Region of the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science requests the pleasure of your company at a Gala Dinner Celebration honoring Bernice Gershenson Humanitarian, Philanthropist & Advocate for Science Wednesday, the fourth of September, 1996 at six o'clock in the evening Hubbard Ballroom, Hyatt Regency Hotel Dearborn, Michigan Master of Ceremonies David B. Hermelin Entertainment in't roadway Grand" - ...…

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…Praying Far A he men's clubs of six synagogues have bat- tled it out on the basepa- ths this summer in the Inter-Congregational Men's Clubs Softball League. The league began its season on June 2 and has games scheduled through Aug. 25. Each team has a six-game schedule with games spread out — about every other Sunday morning — through the summer. After four years of attempts to organize a Jewish congregation- al softball league ended with j...…

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…Target Practice Welfare reform is little more than an exercise in scapegoat' ng. JAMES D. BESSER WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT New immigrants may be adversely affected. T il he great American sport of immi- grant bashing has not lost its polit- ical charm, as the recently passed welfare reform bill demonstrates and President Clinton's reluctant approval confirms. The issue, Jewish activists contend, isn't whether the old welfare system needed...…

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