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…www.cletroitjewishnews.co m February 19,1999 Adar 3, 5759 Vol. CXIV, No. 26 DEPARTMENTS 6 • HMC To Expand Torah True. This Week page 14 New wings will examine pre-war European Jewry and the "Righteous." 26 Sinai Closing Nears Planning body tells DMC Sinai should merge into Grace. Business 64 Pain Relief Will remedies, regulations and strategies mean big business? its tertainment Appian() 57 Anniversaries 51 Bar/Bat Mitzvah ... 45 B...…
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…How The Jewish People Left The Wilderness Zoning had been achieved in actual he Torah tells us that our practice during the past 39 years. As a ancestors wandered in the result of this study, the Commission wilderness for 40 years after finds the Mishkan to be in violation on the Exodus before entering the following counts. the land of Canaan. 1. Unscheduled re-siting of the According to ancient documents, Mishkan has disrupted established ca...…
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…Taking The Tour History Of The Center HARRY KIRSBAUM Staff Writer DI elissa Johnson of New Baltimore enters the dark hallway of the Holocaust Memorial Center on a beautiful sunlit Sunday for the standard 90-minute tour. She and two dozen classmates in a comparative religion class at Macomb Community College, are led down a narrow descending hallway, stopping briefly at maps and pictures as a docent speaks of thousands of years of persecuti...…
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…Rabbi Avraham Cohen, Rabbi Steven Weil and donor Morris Flatt prepare for completion of the Torah. Prentis Apartments resident Shulamith Filler shows a 50-year-old, family-owned megillah. Celebrants and Torahs pack the Young Israel sanctuary. Cantor Emmanual Mittleman chants while Morris Flatt holds the Torah. Rabbi Avraham Cohen fills in one of the Torah's final letters. 2/19 199c: 1 5 …
…Pho to by !3i11 Hansen JULIE WIENER Staff'Writer E illel Day School, which has become the elementary school of choice for many of Detroit's most influen- tial Jews, has unveiled an ambi- tious five-year plan. The plan touches virtually every aspect of the 41-year-old Conservative day school, which has experienced a decade of solid enrollment growth. With 718 students in grades kindergarten through eight, it is second in size, among Detroit ...…
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…COMMUNITY VIEWS Remembering Detroit's Dean Of American Jewish Social Workers JUDY, DEBBIE AND SUSAN SOBELOFF Special To The Jewish. News 0 ur grandfather, Isidore Sobeloff, known to many affectionately as Soby, died this past year on Thanksgiv- ing Day at the age of 99. Though Soby finished his career in Los Angeles, he had special ties to Detroit, where he was executive direc- tor of the Jewish Welfare Federation from 1937 to 1964. We wan...…
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