…C o m m u ni ty lw:.41M1 Anniversaries AVADENKA 50TH B everly and Edward Avadenka recently celebrat- ed their 50th wedding anniversary with a trip to Mexico. Their children, Beth, Lynne and Marc, Eve and Hardy, and grand- children, Max, Eli, Mitchell, Nathan, Andrew and Roxanne, enjoyed the trip with them. Drop Off Rug Care Centers Birmingham Oak Park 8 Mile W / Coolidge Old Woodward & Lincoln Novi Ann Arbor 12 Mile & Novi Rd The Courty...…
…, D Synago Listings Torah Portion Prayers For Peace Interfaith service brings Jews and non Jews together for common hope. SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN StairWriter A s the Rev. Rodney Reinhart plans this year's World Sabbath of Religious Reconciliation, which will include participation by Rabbi Daniel Syme, he does so with the thought of ever-impending troubled times. "We live today with the knowledge that war can break out in so many differ...…
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…ualit Torah Portion EIGHT Y L as t Calls TODAY'S REAL HEROES Freedom Is Something That Has No Ending faith and the need to keep their faith and their freedom alive. All people have basic needs: food, shelter, safety. As these basic needs are met, we then fulfill the need for edu- cation and spirituality. So it was with the Children of Israel and so it must continue to be with us today. The strength of our faith provides us with the knowl...…
…Legacy Yearlong Torah study by 350 Detroiters honors the memory of beloved Rabbi Avrohom Abba Freedman. H SHELLI LIEBM N DORFMAN Staff Writer ow do you honor a person Whose entire adult life was spent inspiring others to study Torah? "By studying Torah," said Rabbi Avi Cohen, director of Partners in Torah at Yeshiva Beth Yehudah in Southfield. And that is what 350 members of the Detroit Jewish community did to show the respect and admirati...…
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…TRIBUTE TO THE REBBE "In the old days, there was a person in every town who would light street lamps with a flame he carries at the end of a long pole. On the street corner the lamps waited to be lit. Sometimes, however, the lamps were not easily accessible; there were lamps in forsaken places. Someone had to light even those lamps so that they would fulfill their purpose and light the paths of others. Today too, someone must be willing...…
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…SHARON LUCKERMAN Staff Writer oar might have to sweep a bit of the dust aside or bring a folding chair. but the congregants of the Shul.Chabad Lubuitch are determined to open their new building in West Bloomfield for Rosh Hashanah services. For the first stage of a Lubavitch campus project, the new Shul opens for Rosh Hashanah services. Lae last week construction crews still were working to com- plete the building's interior. Regardless o...…
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…FRIDAY NIGHT @ THE SHIA The Shul is famous for its outstanding SHABBATON PROGRAM. It attracts a diverse variety of people, including locals and visitors. Friday night dinners allow people to share the beauty and pageantry of Shabbat with singing, discussions, ceremonial foods and general warm ambiance. Through these Shabbatons participants are able to incorporate the beautiful and significant Mitzvah of Shabbat into their lives and learn ...…
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…LEGACY from page 58 merit of meeting Rabbi Freedman," said Michael Eizelman of Oak Park. "Even though I only knew him for the last three or four years, and even with- out the connection many others had, I felt how much of a powerhouse he was in this community. - It was an honor to be able to participate in the learning in memory of Rabbi Freedman." Eizelman chose a tractate of Talmud and then asked Rabbi Alon Tolwin of Aish HaTorah Detroit to...…
…Rabbi Freedman is remembered as going door-to-door convincing pdr- ents in a largely non-Orthodox Detroit community to send their children to the Yeshiva. The rabbi, who was a major influence in the establishment of both the school and Detroit's thriving Orthodox commu- nity, also was known to drive the Yeshiva's school bus in the early days. As a teacher, he often added recre- ational trips to the school day to make it more fun. The Siyum HaT...…
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…grow The Trees Of Life At-A-Glance: The story of Tu b'Shevat. ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM AppleTree Editor • What the words mean: Shevat is the name of a month on the Jewish calendar. In the Hebrew alphabet, each letter also repre- sents a numerical value, so the number 15 is written as tet vav, which forms the acronym "tu." The second part, b'Shevat, means "in Shevat." Thus, Tu b'Shevat means "15th of Shevat." • When it occurs this year: Tomorro...…
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