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…$1.00 OCTOBER 9, 1998/TISHREI 19, 5759 Inside: 11 A 50-Year Political Kaffee Klatsch The Fall Tradition At 14 And Franklin High Holiday food donations stock the Yad Ezra pantry to feed the hungry. • …
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…'YR October 9, 1998 Vol. CXIV No. 7 This Week This Week. page 16 9 Still Politicizing The Social Legislation Group has been politicking 55 years. 16 Hands Of Hope High Holiday food donations help Yad Ezra feed the hungry. Entertainment www.detroitjewishnews.com DEPARTMENTS 68 Births 70 B'sai Mitzvah 53 Community Editorials ..... 35 73 Engagements . Marketplace . ...136 Hazel Tod 67 Obituaries .. ... .162 Synagogues ......78 Torah Por...…
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…'InTA 'gliTr V W F, Think Since 1943, the Social Legislation Group has been discussing world issues and supporting Democratic causes and candidates. HARRY KIRSBAUM Staff Writer ith pots of coffee brew- ing, a kitchen table filled with homemade food fuels a lively political dis- cussion on a recent Saturday in the liv- ing room of a two-story Huntington Woods home. Dorothy Rood, 81, a retired Detroit schoolteacher and social worker, tries ...…
…T o help celebrate Israel's 50th Anniversary and Promote Teen Travel to Eretz Yisrael, the Detroit Jewish News would like to share your teen's special memories with our readers in our new Israel Album feature. The Social Legislation Group began as an offshoot of a National Council of Jewish Women committee in 1943. About 25 Wayne State graduates, teach- ers and social workers met to discuss issues and support Democratic causes and candidates...…
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…High Holiday food donations stock the Yad Ezra pantry to feed the hungry. • GLENN TRIEST AND KRISTA HUSA Photographers .I t started 10 days ago, as congregants from 21 synagogues and other institutions in the metropolitan Detroit area came to Yom - Kippur services toting bags of food. Over the next several days the gifts were brought by truck to the Oak Park-based central warehouse run by Yad Ezra. When the tally was made, the annual food ...…
…cD Op osite page: Le . Carol Cohen and A Byer packed bo'..es for delivery. Right: Jerry Eizen and Roz Greenberg lift bags of food. This page: Above: Rick Lepsetz does - some sorting. Far left: Eugene Sherizerr runs the forklift as well as the volunteers. • Left: Jane Shayne has been a Yad Ezra volunteer for nine 'years. 10/9 1998 Detroit Jewish News 17 • …
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…• Getting Set To Jet What To Do! • 'Whom To See! I ( Months in advance, prepartions for the next Miracle Mission are advancing. HARRY KIRSBAUM they could handle. No mission was scheduled in 1997. Robert and Carolann Goode of Temple Israel have traveled to da Rogovein had hoped to take her husband to Israel, as travel- London, Paris and throughout the ers in Michigan Miracle Mission United States, Now they'll tour Israel II, in 1995. But ...…
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…, OPINION Shall We Dance, Even If We Don't Feel Like It? RABBI JEROME M. EPSTEIN Special to The Jewish News Id ost years, thinking about the holiday of Simchat Torah conjures up wonderful images of celebration. We picture crowds of Jews of all ages singing rousing songs, danc- ing joyously with the Torah, eating special holiday foods and generally offering exuberant thanks for the giv- ing of the Law. Some years, however, We don't feel li...…
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…Please join us as we celebrate the Eighth Anniversary of YAD EZRA feedhrg the Jewish thihgry Yad Ezra the kosher food pantry feeding hungry Jewish families ,tirw , &t , • -- • " s'VA''..v.a6"AttVe' Wednesday, November 4, 1998 at Adat Shalom Synagogue Hors d'oeuvres 6:00 p.m. • Program 6:45 p.m. Gina & Arthur Horwitz Michelle & Robert Kleiman Dinner Chairpersons Paul Magy Ellen Labes Parlor Event Chairpersons Ed Hersch Dinner Pr...…
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