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…• WPM= NEWS Contents . p, A 2001 Michigan Press Association gia Newspaper of the Year www.detroitjewishnews.com NOVEMBER 30, 2001 KISLEV 15, 5762 VOL. CXX, NO. 16 This Week Community 20 A Gift With Bite 43 Living In Style Orthodontist donates $250, 000 to the West Bloomfield schools. DEPARTMENTS Meer Apartments dedicated, 100 units ready for residents. 24 Divest In Israel? Activist to ask Ann Arbor to stop investing in compani...…

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…This The mainstreaming of Jewish mysticism spurs controversy and support in surprising places. SHARON LUCKERMA - N StaffWriter or centuries, the Kabbalah was cloaked in secrecy. Only a select few were allowed to study these mystical teachings of the Jews. And only those few, legend has it, could handle its profound insights and ecstasy. Times have changed. Some rabbis and scholars set aside the original prohibitions on who can learn it To...…

…As the Kabbalah becomes more popularized, key questions arise: What is the effect of all this atten- tion on such a complex, mystical religious study? Are these non-traditional teachers diluting its spiri- tual message? Most rabbis and scholars welcome the study because it leads to the key mitzvah of tikkun olam, "repairing the world." But they also caution against courses that promote personal gain and inadequate shortcuts to learning. Why K...…

…Cover Story KABBALAH from page 15 "The time we're in now is one of the greatest single flourishing of Jewish mysticism in our history." — Rabbi Stacie Fine, Congregation Ahavat Shalom, Traverse City Who Can Learn? Rabbi Fine agree that reading the text in Hebrew is important to get the word play and layers of mean- The Kabbalah comes with a set of instructions that ing not always conveyed in translation. have been modified over the years...…

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…KABBALAH from page 16 forth a rich history of spiritual prac- tices that were Jewish. • The effect of these ideas, the rabbi says, is found in many other synagogues in the form of medita- tive and healing services and the studying the Tanya (a popular introduction to Jewish mysticism), all manifestations of this same movement." Davis, founder and co-director of a Jewish meditation center in Berkeley, Calif, conducts the after- noon meditation...…

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…This Week Divest In Israel? Activist to ask Ann Arbor to stop investing in companies doing business in Israel. HARRY KIRSBAUM Stair Writer A 2:4.4 A 11/30 2001 24 n Ann Arbor Jewish human rights activist is hoping to persuade the Ann Arbor city council to pass a resolution to divest the city of investments it may hold in compa- nies that do business in Israel. But the city knows nothing about it. To support the resolution, Blaine Co...…

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…This Week Insight Remember When • Rules Of Engagement From the pages of the Jewish News for this week 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. Rabbi Paul Yedwab offers Judaic perspective on war and peace to Detroit Friends of Bar-Ran University. SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN Staff Writer T he invitation to speak on "Revenge and Justice: A Jewish Perspective" allowed Rabbi Paul Yedwab to evaluate the basis of anti-Semitism and the Jewish viewpoint o...…

…0 Editorials are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.corn The Wrong Lesson Mr e're perturbed as much by the after- math as by a Nov. 15 incident where basketball players from a Jewish day school became targets of anti-Semitic slurs during competition against players from a public school academy ("Technical Foul," Nov. 23, page 12). The incident, involving girls teams from Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit in Fa...…

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