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…$1.00 NOVEMBER 27, 1998 / KISLEV 8, 5759 www.detroitjewishnews.com Ma• ca Memor Tour An exhibit of photos and artifacts chronicles 100 years of Detroit Jewish life. …

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…DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Beth El's hands-on Torah. page 29 www.detroitjewishnews.com November 27, 1998 Vol. CXIV, No. 14 DEPARTMENTS 6 Beyond Academics Boston's New Jewish High School mixes pluralism, intellectual rigor. Business 74 Civic Gesture Novi enjoys new recreational facility with the help of a Jewish developer. -J \ • - i. • r 1- ' —J 1 ,J • I . r l• r r 1 —J —1—J —1-1-1 Candlelighting r 1-1 89 Out & About 94 CO...…

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…For Openers... DISABILITY CAN TOUCH ANY FAMILY. A Little Knowledge Is A Humorous Thing because the machine that makes them hen in doubt, look it up. looks like it's kissing the conveyor According to the dictio- belt. nary (well, that's better The phrase "rule of thumb" is than starting "They say derived from an old English that ..."), the suffix "-old" law that stated you couldn't means "like or resembling as beat your wife with any- in cry...…

…Beyond Accede Leah Solomon, an assistant to the headmaster, in prayer: Boston's New Jewish High School mixes pluralism with intellectual rigor. Story by JULIE WIENER Photos by MICHAEL QUAN Waltham, Mass. onday morning at eight o'clock, the Bank Boston on Prospect Street here seems to be catering to an especially youthful clientele as a stream of adolescents in baggy jeans and khakis, clunky shoes and hefty bookbags progresses noisily t...…

…Headmaster as dreamer At services this November Monday morning, the headmaster, Rabbi Daniel Lehmann, wearing tefillin and following along in his Siddur, circu- lates among the students. A Yeshiva University-trained rabbi who used to head Beth Tfiloh, an Orthodox day school in Baltimore, Lehmann is an approachable man who lunches regularly with students, stops in the halls to chat and gets excited trying to locate specific passages in the Bib...…

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…ACADEMICS from page 7 However, NJHS has been operating with a deficit since its beginning, con- cedes Lehmann. Outside of tuition, revenues come primarily from individ- ual donors in the Boston area and a few modest grants from national foun- dations. New Jew's finances may be further stretched this year as the school embarks on a major capital campaign so it can move from the top four floors of a bank into a permanent home. A load on teach...…

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…The Jewish Coniniunity Center of Metropolitan Detroit 1998 Jewish book Fair Would Like To Thank You For Supporting This Wonderful Event Anti-Semitism Waning Survey finds anti-Semitic views on decline but still high among blacks. education more likely to harbor anti- Jewish feeling. Special to The Jewish News But African Americans at all educa- tional levels were found more likely to mericans' attitudes toward hold such views. Jews are impr...…

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…girt& ffrome VarehOttNe "But if that doesn't work, then my values lead me to ask Jewish people to consider other ways to consider build- ing a national and peoplehood-building enterprise," Cohen said. Shoshana Cardin, a longtime nation- al Jewish leader in the United States said, "It is wrong to focus on percent- ages by geographical boundaries. It is best to focus on the challenges and how to address them together," citing educa- tion and i...…

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…Prepared To Be Kosher Boy Scout Troop 1579 practices first aid, CPR and ritual. Clockwise, from top left: Registered nurse Debra Luria shows how to use a CPR mouth protector on Avi Levine. Aron Sandler and Tzvi Feldman demonstrate how to help an injured person walk. Story by JULIE WIENER Photos by KRISTA HUSA The scouts clamor to be t's rare for a Boy Scout troop to cancel a camping trip for lack of a minyan. But it occasionally happen...…

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…The Ethnic Shift Jewish vote loses some of its clout as other groups gain. JAMES D. BESSER Washington Correspondent If they're old enough to get married, they're old enough to get their own Jewish News If you have family or friends who are marrying, consider giving them a subscription to The Detroit Jewish News. It's the community's "book of why." With it, they'll keep in touch with Jewish life. Interesting articles about their heritage,...…

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…Characters Of Prayer A master scribe helps Temple Beth El pen a new Torah scroll. Story by CATHY SHAFRAN Photos by DANIEL LIPPITT he chuppah was extended across the bimah at Temple Beth El Sunday as the rabbis gathered to consecrate a new union. But the marriage witnessed by hundreds of congregants in the main sanctuary at the Bloomfield Township synagogue was not one of man and woman. It was a marriage between the Torah and the People of ...…

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…This at Ex-Nazi talks on tolerance; giving thanks, in English; faithful youth; Congressional clout. With American History X and Apt Pupil out, Nazis and ex-Nazis are grabbing the nation's movie screens. In keeping with the trend, an ex- Nazi will deliver a lecture at the Dec. 11-13 Kornwise Weekend, a commu- nity-wide retreat for Jewish teenagers. Tom Martinez, a former activist in such hate groups as the Ku Klux Klan, The National Alliance...…

…\*. itorials Letters to the Editor are updated daily and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.com Moving Beyond Good Intentions E opes are high for the newly formed Alliance for Jewish Education. But dies truly going to succeed, it n-lust be more than just another well-intentioned communal corn mittee. It not only must take advantage of the breadth of knowledge, experience and insight of its array of members, but also be willing t...…

…COMMUNITY VIEWS Where Have All The Young Folks Gone? when it comes to a hospitable envi- ronment, communities don't come any better. It's that Midwestern cache. The Jewish community feels our pain. For every young adult of Chicago promise who leaves Detroit for a bet- He s 26, a promising intern at a ter job or a more exciting (so they major hospital in the east and consid- think) social life, our community loses ering offers from Detroit, P...…

…EDITOR'S WATCH New Temple Israel Siddur A Celebration Of Jewish Life' Where is God? Wherever you let God in. — Kotzker Rebbe on those prayer themes. Unobtrusively placed prayer notes explain the origins, meaning and vital- ity of prayers in lay terms. "Prayers emple Israel's new prayer have a dynamic. They're not just a book, Shema Yisrael: Hear, string of words. Once you 0 Israel," is visually striking understand that dynamic, and spiritua...…

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…OPINION Another View Of Biblical Revisionism JEFFREY D. BALL Special to The Jewish News The Jewish News ran an article by Neil Altman on Oct. 9 titled "Revisionist Scholars Alter Bible Texts." The author's premise is that a group of scholars is operating with the inten- don to destroy the long-established traditions of Judaism and Christianity. They seem to want to destroy our long-intact scriptural heritage. Biblical revisionism does exis...…

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…Unsettling Agreement In West Bank villages, settlers worry about being isolated. ERIC SILVER Israel Correspondent Jerusalem T he 51 Jewish families of Ganim are unassuming folk. Men wear neither beards nor skullcaps, they raise no messianic banners. Until Israel began implementing the Wye agreement last weekend, their only worries were whether their soldier sons would come back safely from Lebanon and how they would pay the mortgage on t...…

…Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon, who will press for the new aid in meet- ings here next week. Details of the American aid pack- age haven't been finalized; officials here are waiting for a chance to sound out the new congressional leadership. A final plan, sources say, may be forth- coming by the end of the year. "It's a process; it won't just happen overnight," said Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major...…

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