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…Photos by Krista Husa Interior motives: When the home is your own, you're free to self-express. LINDA BACHRACK Special to The Jewish News Call it "Friends" phobia or "Seinfeld" angst: Young adults in the Detroit area are scrambling to own a little place they can call home. 1/30 1998 80 hose "Friends" seem to • have very little privacy. With their openTcloor policy and occasional .neighbors from hell, Monica and the gang often appear to ...…
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…LYNNE MEREDITH COHN Sta ffWriter sk Barbra Tunick, 28, if there's anything she won't do, and she'll shake her head. No way. There's just too much to try. Barb is either running around the Fleischman Residence comforting, cajoling and kidding with seniors who live there, or she's driving through the rural South with friends, headed for the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. "It's really important for me to have fun every day," she says. "I ...…
…The Ready-Made Husband Marrying a divorced guy can be the solution to all your romance worries. BETH LEE SEGAL Special to The Jewish News I f your current boyfriend won't take you home for Rosh Hashanah, much less propose, I have a suggestion. Find a guy who was married before. As my thera- pist friend Loretta says, "Men replace." It worked for me. I lived alone from the time I was 21 until I was 38, watching commitment- shy boyfriends bal...…
…a Hebrew school, 1955 Photo by Krista Husa Photo by Benyas-Kaufman, courtesy of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit. children in full-time Jewish day schools. But conversations with parents, educa- tors and even a few students indicate that today's Hebrew schools bear little here's an old joke in which a resemblance to those of yesteryear. synagogue, after failing to rid There is a sense that — while chil- itself of mice through ...…
…being struck by the intensely negative feelings harbored by many of the par- ents she dealt with. "The first comment I used to hear from parents was, 'I hated Hebrew school. What's yours like?'" she says. She speculates that many have been pleasantly surprised. One Kol Ami par- ent, Howard Dembs, is reluctant to talk about his own Hebrew school experi- ence, but is convinced his son, Brad, has it better. "There seems to be more com- munity inv...…
…e Tales From The Annals Of Hebrew School Readers dust off the cobwebs from their memories of religious school. Beverly Apel, a former Hillel Day School teacher: "During the 1950s, my younger broth- er and I attended Ahavas Israel Hebrew School in Grand Rapids. My family lived in Lowell, a 30-minute drive to Hebrew school, and carpooled with a family in the neighboring town. "We made the trip twice a week for two hours and on Sundays for fou...…
…Dora Mandelbaum Kaner, who attended Windsor's Talmud Torah, remembers a particularly painful episode. "After two days of fooling around, I was pushed against a radia- tor and burnt my tush. That was the end of my Hebrew school memories." After leaving Hebrew school, she studied with a tutor who hit her with a cane every time she made a mistake. Despite her education- al woes, she grew up observant and sent her children to Yeshiva Beth Yehudah....…
…Photo by Krista Husa Harvey L. Katchan: "Somehow, I didn't go to the regular Hebrew school with my brothers and sis- ter. It fell to me to learn' and prepare for my bar mitzvah three times a Week with Rabbi Kosins in his home above Grant's Appetizer store on 12th Street. I shall never forget learning the Hebrew alphabet and learning to prepare a letter in Yiddish to my mother. "When I read from the holy books, the rabbi listened and often nod...…
…Make-Up Class mother, who came to the United States alone at the age of 16, became StaffWriter an atheist the moment she stepped off the boat. have a confession to make: Perhaps I had spiritual Although I am The yearnings, or perhaps it's Jewish News education The author takes just that we always want writer and am a Jew by notes in Sheila what we don't have, but as birth, I never attended Mertz's third-grade a child I always secretly Hebrew ...…
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