…Family Focus Never Too Late 92-year-old bar mitzvah "boy" celebrates with service at Danto. Bill Carroll Special to the Jewish News W hen Harry R. Glassman of Oak Park was 13 in 1930, he was working on an ice wagon in Los Angeles helping to support his five sisters and three brothers. He never attended Hebrew school, and was too busy to even think about a bar mitzvah. Glassman, 92, made up for it Nov. 23 by becoming a bar mitzvah at a mor...…
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…Obituaries Obituaries from page 101 PAUL SHAWN, 92, of Birmingham, died Dec. 2, 2009. He is survived by his wife, Freda Shawn; sons and daughters-in-law, David and Donna Shawn of Rochester Hills, Ronald and Nancy Shawn of West Bloomfield, Lawrence and B.J. Shawn of Petosky, Neil and Michelle Shawn of Petosky; sister- in-law, Blanche Shawn; grandchildren, Renee and Jeff Barratt, Micah and Martha Shawn, Rebecca and Bradley Kranig, Chase Shawn...…
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…JN Contents Tribute To A Hero Restaurateur Stefanos Becharas of the Gallery in Bloomfield Township spearheaded a fund to create a monument to honor a Jewish Greek hero of early World War II, Col. Mordechai Frizis. thejewishnews.corn Dec. 3-9, 2009 16-22 Kislev 5770 Vol. CXXXVI, No. 18 On The Cover: Special Report Fending Off Foreclosure 11 Jews in home-value freefall get financial aid. Metro Jewish Detroit On TV 16 Filmmakers take on...…
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…Special Report KEEP YOUR HOME AFFORDABLE / ON THE COVER Fending Off Foreclosure Middle-income Jews in home-value freefall get financial aid from the Jewish community. A husband and father of four lost his job. Not only was the family struggling to make the mortgage payment and pay other bills, but they also were trying to help an elderly parent living in a nursing care facility. There was sig- nificant distress within the family and fear ...…
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