…WM= NEWS JEWISH 1171117 www.detroitj ewish news .c o m November 6, 1998 Vol. CXIV, No. 11 This Week 14 Expansion Plans On Hold 200 seniors will have to wait as apartments plan hits a snag. 22 A Different Class Hillel Day School brings in special persons" for a day. " An eye on working with parents. page 76 Entertaining the kids. page 81 The Scene 76 All In The Family Young adults, working with parents, dilligently try hard to ple...…
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…Pot Openers... What Wisdom Comes Out Of The Mouths Of Babes hands, except for one little boy sitting wife's mother passed away. Benjamin ob! Tell me a joke!" in the front. "Aren't you free?" I and his parents drove up from Man- "OK. Why couldn't the inquired. And he proudly replied, hattan to attend the funeral. pony talk?" "Nol. I'm 4." Somewhere along the New York "I don't know. Why?" Young Benjamin is a sophis- Thruway, the following conv...…
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…• Ak; A Study In Traditio Shaarey Zedek's adult classes emphasize cooperative learning. Rabbi Stephen Weiss' "Kabbala and Mysticism" class attracted more than 40 people. Top: Debbie Balkin:practices trope (cantilla- tions) in the "Torah Tunes" class. JULIE WIENER Staff Writer f opening night IIC of its new adult education series was any indica- tion, Congregation Shaarey Zedek's Laker Complex is going to be a hot Wednesday evening han...…
…m Pho to by the Associated Press/Susan Ragan ‘ k. Holding 0. ;)'s O Their Own 0 O 0 Clockwise, from top left: U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, right, celebrates her re-election with Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Cali f, at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. Democratic Rep. Charles Schumer, flanked by his daughter Jessica, left, and his wife Iris, right, claims victory in his race against incumbent Sen. Alfonse D'Amato (R-N. }9. Democratic Sen....…
…Sandy, Handily Levin easily bests Touma as Oakland incumbents win most of their races. C ailing it "the sweetest victo- ry of my career," Sander Levin celebrated his re-elec- tion Tuesday to a ninth term as Michigan's representative of the 12th Congressional District. He beat Republican challenger Leslie Touma by almost 17 percentage points in what many political veter- ans had anticipated would be a very tight race. Standing before a gleefu...…
…How Southeast Oakland Voted Congressional Representative County Commissioner 11th District Knollen.berg (R)* Travis M. Reeds (D) Dick Gach (Lib) Joe V113,400 61,259 4,155 63% 34% 2% 12th District Leslie A. Touma (R) 41,373 Sander Levin (D)* V 58,142 'Albert J. Titran (Lib) 1,609 Fred D. Rosenberg (NLP) 662 41% 57% 2% 1% State Senator 13th District Michael J. Bouchard (R)* V 57,749 Jeffrey Jenks (D) 29,411 Gary Atkinson (Lib) 2,551 ...…
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…ansion Plans On Hold 200 senior adults will have to wait longer as Jewish Apartments and Services plans hit a snag. 1. Proposed road and wetlands areas at issue a. First new housing unit 3. Second new housing unit 4. Proposed wellness center 5. Proposed adult day-care center 6. Hechtman Apartments I Z. Hechtman Apartments II 8. Fleischman Residence 9. Danto Nursing Center 10. Kahn JCC U. Holocaust Memorial Center LONNY GOLDSMITH Staff W...…
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…4* ) AW11403® Little Coincidences "Small Miracles" will be the topic for author Yitta Halberstam. SUZANNE CHESSLER Special to The Jewish News IV hen Yitta Halberstam's brother-in-law was dat- ing Judith Leventhal, the two women met and saw each other often. After the couple stopped dating, the women stopped seeing each other, too. Some time later, the ladies hap- pened to be on the same New York elevator. They decided to have lunch and ge...…
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…Favorite friends spend a day with Hillel elementary students. JULIE WIENER Staff Writer KRISTA HUSA Photographer Top of page: Aunts, uncles, grandparents and friends mingled in the lobby beforf. going to class. Middle of page, left to right: First wader Emily Hersch and aunt, Marianne Pesick, draw pictures of each other. First grader Victor Kaufman and his aunt, Alla Katz, color together. Frances Fine's kindergarten class sits in a circl...…
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…i • The Michigan Chapter American Friends of The Hebrew University Is honored to participate in the 47th Annual Jewish Book Fair and to sponsor a discussion with Jeffrey Weiss co-author with his brother Craig of I AM MY BROTHER'S KEEPER The story of the Jewish and non-Jewish volunteers who fought in Israel's War for Independence Sunday, November 8, 1998 6:30 p.m. Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit D. Dan & Betty Kahn Buil...…
…Joining Forces U-M Arab and Jewish students organize a panel on the prospects for peace. Michigan Daily. "I approached the groups who had written and said this was not our inten- tion, it was a total mistake to have it on Rosh Hashanah," said Deana Rabiah, an Arab senior involved with both Palestine Catastrophe Committee and the ADC. "Then we decided to have a panel discussion to talk on civil terms rather than bash each other in The Daily....…
…A mixed bag of candidate forums; a conference on intermarriage; a statue in the rain. With two candidate forums under his direction this election season, Jewish Community Council of Met- ropolitan Detroit governmental affairs liaison Allan Gale has mixed feelings about their success. "On the one hand, these kinds of events are difficult. You never know how many candidates will show up or how big the audience will be," he said. "On the other h...…
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…COMMUNITY VIEWS A Singing Tribute To A Great Cantor ON. 0.6 Louis Klein was born on Shemini ow appropriate that, as Atzeret in Romania, the son of a chaz- part of the installation of zan. He began his study of the officers of the Cantors melodies of prayer as a young boy. He Council of Detroit, we was greatly influenced by the sweet take the opportunity to honor a - voice and singing style of his father. founding member and past president ...…
…EDITOR'S WATCH New Guide For Conservative Rabbis Embraces More Life-Cycle Moments deviation from the past, but a confir- hat began as a slight revi- mation of Jewish theology, which has sion of the Conservative always regarded God as beyond gen- movement's Rabbinical der," said Rank, spiritual leader of Assembly manual for rab- Temple Beth Ahm in Springfield, N.J. bis 10 years ago, evolved into a massive Rabbi David Nelson of Congrega- rewri...…
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…Tffig,4 ment improves Israeli security "Israel didn't allow Arafat to enter Palestine until he promised to satisfy all their demands," she says, echoing a popular Palestinian gripe about the peace process. A provision of the Wye agreement calling on Israel to release 750 impris- oned Palestinians offers her little hope. "Arafat might then agree to arrest those who were released," she says cynically. Immediately after the Wye agree- ment was s...…
…Three years after Yitzhak Rabin's murder, Israel remains on edge about security for its prime minister. Top: Bodyguards were out in force for a Netanyahu speech last week to Likud. LARRY DERFNER Israel Correspondent Jerusalem n the days leading up to the third anniversary of the Rabin assassination on Wednesday, Nov. 4, right-wing extremists were again screaming "traitor" at a prime minister who dared to trade land for peace. The funeral of...…
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