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…DER S 1NJ ER STEPS I ITT'S I AD OF THE REF RM MOVEMENT. JCC CONTINUES TO HOLD BACK ON FUTURE STRATEGIES. 1J} After 22 years, innovator Alexander Schindler steps down. …

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…DETROIT THE JEWISH NEWS 11 ONIT This Week's Top Stories The Center Of Attention After a year of turbulence, the JCC continues to hold back on future strategies. JENNIFER FINER STAFF WRITER here is no doubt in any- one's mind. The Jewish Commu- nity Center needs to change the way it op- erates if it is to survive in 1996 and beyond. This past year was not one Center officials, the Jewish Fed- eration of Metropolitan Detroit or the lay le...…

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…December 29, 1995 Detroit May All Your Drywall Be White Isn't that how the tune goes? Hundreds of Detroit Jews "sang" their own "song" of volunteerism on Christmas Day. Calendar Girl Amanda Mostyn is more than just another "Beautiful Face." She's an example of how perceptions can and should change toward Down Syndrome children. Ever-Rolling Federation is getting its priorities set as it heads into the new year. What's that buzzword of t...…

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…A Recurring Question At The Jewish Center The Jewish Community Center's slogan, "I Be- long" probably would be more appropriate if it were changed to "Why Belong?" With 1996 at the doorstep, serious questions re- mainfor the Jewish Center. Yes, there are issues of renovations, strategies to lease space to outside organizations, replacement of key personnel, in- cluding an executive director. The bottom line though: membership is showing a tri...…

…Community Views Editor's Notebook When Is A Problem A 'Jewish' Issue? Seeing The World Through A Child's Eyes DAVID GAD HARE SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS ALAN HITSKY ASSOCIATE EDITOR - Among the roles priority level? I suggest that or- played by the Jew- ganizations like the Jewish Com- ish Community munity Council and individuals Council is to exam- should apply the following ques- ine public policy is- tions: sues and to * Does the issu...…

…To celebrate Jewish news, TIMELINE page 3 ident/director of the JCC. Leah Ann Kleinfeldt, formerly assistant executive director, assumes responsibility for the JCC's day-to- day operations and is given the title of associate executive direc- tor. Center hours are changed. Doors open at 5:30 a.m. weekdays in- stead of 6 a.m. Subcommittees form to examine what revenue producing services can be added, how to make better use of volunteers, custo...…

…DETROIT THE JEWISH NEWS Vol. CVIII 211400 i‘V 65 No. 17 Publisher Arthur M. Horwitz Editor Phil Jacobs Associate Editors Elizabeth Applebaum, Alan Hitsky Staff Writers Julie Edgar, Jennifer Finer, Ruth Littmann, Jill Davidson Sklar, David Zeman We Sell Quality Brand Name Closeouts at "AMAZING" Prices! New Closeouts Arriving Daily. One Time Deals! YOUR BELOW WHOLESALE DEPARTMENT STORE. Arts and Entertainment Editor Julie Smith Yolles...…

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…PHIL JACOBS EDITOR All Your PHOTOS BY GLENN TR IEST The Hyke family helps out at the animal shelter. 1 Laura Hirschorn and Avery Goldstein paint the Christmas white. hile most Detroiters were busy Monday tearing open wrapping paper and unraveling ribbon, more than 1,000 Jewish volun- teers were breaking the seals on paint-can lids, mopping floors, w: leading groups in song and ladling out hot meals. The Jewish Federation sponsored a Volu...…

…Dr ywall Be White 1,000 Jewish volunteers painted, doled out food and entertained to give gentile workers Christmas day off. Above: Rebecca Hyke gives a dog the best volunteer contribution of all, love and affection. Above right: Brenda Arbit, a frequent animal rescue volunteer, gives a cat a scratch. Right: Tami Rubin, Ken Zendel, Marlene Zendel and Jessica Geftic worked on the PATH two-family home. Stuart Hyke and Susan Tauber of Roches...…

…IF YOU SAID THIS WAS A GREAT TIME TO SAVE ON A SEIKO, YOU'D BE AS ACCURATE AS WE ARE. Calendar Girl Amanda Mostyn, another "Beautiful Face." PHIL JACOBS EDITOR ach day as he drove through his South- field neighborhood on his way to school, Michael Mostyn passed a group home for the devel- opmentally disabled. He wondered what the neighbors thought about it, and if it affected property values. Mr. Mostyn wasn't sure himself if he wanted tho...…

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…12 Months Same As Cash* Can the diverse factions of Is- rael restore a spirit of toleration and civility to one another and achieve a sense of national soli- darity, or will zealotry and radi- cal messianism and fraternal hatred tear apart Israel's social fabric? When we consider our situa- tion in America, we recognize the universal concern about Jewish survival and continuity that has been increasingly voiced through- Out the length and bre...…

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…• C./) LU CC) LU H- cD CC H- LLJ LU H- 24 After 22 years, innovator Alexander Schindler steps down as head of the Reform movement. NEIL RUBIN CONTRIBUTING EDITOR e. e 1 4 …

…abbi Alexander M. Schindler may not be president of Jewish America — a throne to which there is no dearth of self-proclaimed occu- pants. But for the past 22 years he has been at ground zero in modern Jewish life's most controversial • debates. In June, Rabbi Schindler will formal- ly retire as executive director of the Union of American Hewbrew Congre- gations (UAHC) after a highly visible and often controversial career. The na- ' tive of Ger...…

…sentially an internal problem" for the Re- form movement, she said. "From the per- spective of 1995, I think any solution that was not a unity solution was a disaster for the Jewish community. But that can't take away from anything that he's done in the learning and teaching." Seemingly everyone acknowledges Rabbi Schindler's role as a driving and driven architect of the liberal flank in the often chaotic and bruising arena of Jewish life. "Wh...…

…I "I define myself as an °hey Yisrael, a lover of the people Israel," he said. "I don't hate anybody and nothing I did was to offend someone, but for Ameri- can Jewish life and for the security of Jews and in the pursuit of these goals and, frankly, I didn't care what people [who disagreed] thought." Early Outreach abbi Schindler traces his passion to spreading Judaism's good word to a childhood story that he had heard from his Russian immi...…

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…Rabbi's Remarks Start Controversy Prague (JTA) - The chief rabbi of the Czech Republic ignited a controversy recently with re- ported remarks about the slay- ing of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. "We buried an old man who was murdered by a plumber over money," Rabbi Karol Sidon was quoted saying in the English- language weekly the Prague Post. "The student who killed Ra- bin had a better reason," he said, referring to Yigal Amir, Mr. Ra- bin's...…

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