…YoU TeLL Tell Us What You THINK! c/ \ r- \_\ Are the Rugrats Jewish? Is Barbra Streisand great or overrated? Would you rather eatchopped liver or gefilte fish? Elizabeth Applebaum AppleTree Editor _-our vote counts. No, we're not interested in hearing your views on po itical candidates or contempo- rary issues. This is much more important than that. The AppleTree is conducting an international survey, the outcome of which is certain to ...…
…EciltoR's NoTe mother's home and have Chicken A -, bout once a year I go Marbella. home, to Kansas City. I've The older I get, the more I realize got to confess that I get the profound value of ritual, which sentimental about it. I love Detroit is probably why I like Judaism s and wouldn't live anywhere else, much. There's such a wealth of tra- but there's so much that's familiar, in dition there. I feel comforted by a nostalgic kind of way, ...…
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…Listen UP Elizabeth Applebaum AppleTree Editor Chanukah with Rebbe Alter OK, so it's a little late for this year. Just about every child (in the younger set) who hears him loves Rebbe Alter, so you could, conceiv- ably, if you could stand it, play this tape day and night, any time of the year. Rebbe Alter is among the better (and certainly the more enthusias- tic) Orthodox Jewish children's singers around. His songs are punctuated at every ...…
…Let's Go y A (Jewish) Kite Elizabeth Applebaum AppleTree Editor J anuary is just about behind us and that means spring cannot be far away. Well, maybe. This is, after all, Michigan. Meanwhile, you can get ready for a wonderful after- noon of flying a kite that's bound to come along one of these days. Here's a fun, easy kite to make -- then deco- rate it with Jewish stick ers or by covering it with tiny Stars of David. 1/23 1998 98 . You...…
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…Close Up 111 th 116116Plague Spousal abuse is emerging from the veil of denial in the Jewish community. KERI GUTEN COHEN Special to The Jewish News IV hen he hit her on Rosh Hashanah, she took it as a sign from God to leave her abusive marriage. She started calling attorneys the next day. But that bold step had taken several years. "It was very embarrassing. I was raised in Detroit and I knew everybody in the Jewish community," says- Jud...…
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…divorce; you hear rabbis speak about it from pulpits. Rabbi Aaron Bergman of Beth Abraham Hillel Moses, for instance, gave a Rosh Hashanah sermon a few years ago on domestic violence. "People were a little squirmy in the beginning," Bergman says, "but I want- ed them to think about it. I wanted people to know they were not alone." All the attention gives the appearance of an epidemic in the Jewish communi- ty. Experts don't seem to see numbers...…
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…x r . O Dad, Dr. Nathan. Bloch, holds baby Rosalyn in full view of Aunt Marci and Uncle Alan. DEBBIE FEIT Special to The Jewish News When sisters become aunts and brothers become uncles, bonds strengthen and babies reap the benefits. D espite the fact that my sis- ter, Stacy, has a husband, a career and a mortgage, I've always thought of her as 14 years old. I can't help it. I have a hard enough time thinking of myself as an adult, let ...…
…er," says 31-year-old Sheri Benkoff. "We now have more in common, and I think it has a lot to do with my rela- tionship with my nieces." Doug Cohen, 27, says that the birth of his nephew gave him and his broth- er "an additional bond that wasn't there before. Our relationship is that much cooler because he had a baby." It wasn't until the birth of his nephew that 27-year-old Kevin Adelson and his sister made more of a conscious effort to see e...…
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…VI hp \ 1 ,.." \\' ,t9 Fever Photo courtesy of Julie Wiener €11 In a matter of seconds, this columnist became a doting aunt. Aunt Julie, Batia and (soon-to-be her uncle) Joe. JULIE WIENER Sta Writer My own gift, a teddy bear and sun hat, was a little more modest but gave me an excuse to spend hours of dreamy browsing among the aisles of miniature outfits in Baby Gap. A few weeks after that shopping trip, I was gazing into the eyes o...…
…Eye View DAVID KUSHNER Special to The Jewish News inner/songwriter Peter Himmelman wrote a song called "Love is a Fight," but he only got it half right. Fighting implies a schoolyard free-for-all. Love is more of a war, a momen- - tous battle for a common desire: to be the one who is right. Always right! Never wrong! Of course, these wars are fought not with chain mail, nuclear warheads or photon torpedoes; they're fought with words. And not...…
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…Fast Eddie From his high school days as a columnist for "The Jewish News" to winning an Emmy for "Law and Order, Ed Zuckermans career has taken the fast track. vania and then worked on a little newspaper in the state," Zuckerman - recalled. "From there, I moved to Boston, where I worked on weekly mmy Award winner and newspapers for several years. Golden Globe nominee Ed "After I began submitting work to Zuckerman traces his writ- national ma...…
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…Ann Arbor hosts the area largest annual folk festival. MEGAN SWOYER Special to The Jewish News he Ark, long known as one of metro Detroit's b est venues to showcase local and national talent — and focusing on everything from chil- dren's storytelling events to blues and folk concerts — is now in its 33rd year. For two decades, the Ann Arbor institution has held its annual Ann Arbor Folk Festival to help fund its operational costs. "Without t...…
…One Of Us Folks Despite relocating to Seattle, singer Karen Pernick hasn't left her Oak Park/Southfieid/ Ann Arbor roots behind. finger/songwriter Karen Pernick can S . relate to the Beatles' line, "You get by with a little help from your friends." She got by, alright, thanks to a friend from college who encouraged her to pick up the guitar again. Pernick, who will perform Jan. 31 at the Ann Arbor Folk Festival, took her first guitar lesson ...…
…to Stage Struck Local Jewish actors light up community theater stages in two romantic comedies. SUZANNE CHESSLER Special to The Jewish News D •a.KinSM,V.WOM* Served Mon.-Sat. from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm Sandwiches $250 or your choice of: • Soup and Salad • Sandwich and Cup of Soup • Sandwich and Salad for $395 Banquet Facilities Available Saturday Afternoons, Nights and Sundays. Whether a wedding, shower, Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Anniversary or ...…
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…AND D e# ROSE GUTTMAN Former Owner of Irving's Delicatessen ' HANGING AROUND Modern Jewish sights in Vienna — a rabbi meeting with a cardinal, the kosher butcher on Singerstrasse and the lighting of Sabbath candles — make up the current exhibit at the Spertus Museum in Chicago. The traveling display, "Vienna Today," showcases 60 photographs taken in 1994 by Harry Weber, a Al Vienna native. The works, originally shown at the Jewish Museum,...…
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…orts Changing Of The Guard Mat Ishbia has grown into the role of Seaholm's floor leader. MIKE ROSENBAUM Special to The Jewish News L ike the main character of the classic Charles Dickens novel, Mat Ishbia was given Great Expectations for this basketball season. Lifted from his job as a working-class role player, the Birmingham Seaholm senior received the high-class position of scorer. But unlike Dickens' character Pip, Ishbia is thriving...…
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…Die Old , Stay Pretty Hawking Stay Young Tea and meatless meat, Marvin Goldberg finds new purpose in the health profession. JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR Special to The Jewish News ressed in a standard white lab coat, its pockets jammed with pens, Dr. Marvin Goldberg stands in the middle of Royal Oak's Nutri- Foods hawking the benefits of Stay Young Tea. "Sure its eight bucks a box of 40 tea bags, but each bag makes a half a gallon. So that's four cu...…
…Preserving the Traditions of the Jewish Heritage /-/ 1 /- pain came back." However, the tea was difficult to find in Michigan. Dr. Goldberg became a distributor, leaving active medical practice to sell the tea he credited for relieving his pain. The tea hardly completed his mis- sion to save Americans from the clutches of a fast-food, meat-craving society. Now, working from an office in his Southfield home, the physician is cre- ating his ...…
