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…Obituaries WE REMEMBER During the coming week, Yeshiva Beth Yehudah will observe the yahrtzeits of the following departed friends with the traditional memorial prayer, recitation of kaddish and studying of mishnayos. ADAR I MARCH ADAR I MARCH 10 8 Bertha Fischer 13 11 Sarah Rotfsky 10 8 Lathe Gerson 11 13 Abraham Berkowitz 8 .10 Aaron Lankin 11 13 Benjamin Bruseloff 10 8 Sophy Meisner 13 11 Rabbi Joseph Eisenman 10 8 Herman Schwartz 11 Kalma...…
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…THE JEWISH NEWS UP FRONT This Week's T o p Stories A Heimish Atmosphere Congregation T'chiyah and Reconstructionist synagogues nationwide draw in unaffiliated Jews. JULIE WIENER STAFF WRITER I t has no building and no as traditional family units. rabbi, but Congregation Judith Kerman, a dean at T'chiyah's members — who Saginaw Valley State Univer- include U.S. Sen. Carl Levin sity, comes from Saginaw to De- — call it the best-kept secre...…
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…OPINION March 28, 1997 7 Why do we seem reluctant to learn? Detroit TELL ME WHY Here Comes The Bride Two senior citizens prove again that you are never too old for love. A Polish prince with a Jewish sweetheart. 38 Russell Klavons helps his daughter Erica create her Purim mask. page 14 THE PULSE New hair pieces restore confidence. 50 Hidden Hangouts JN Entertainment The best "undiscovered" places to hang out off Woodward Ave. in...…
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…owes e Bride DARCIE LUNSFORD SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS •4-.W ftz Jewish retirees prove you're never too old for love. PHOTO BY DANIEL LIPPITT • Dorothy is the "apple" of Rubin Weiss' eye. iY ubin Weiss feels like a 19-year-old trapped in a 77-year-old body. Dorothy Apple feels like she's in the driver's seat of life again. And because of the way these two feel — about each other — there'll soon be a vacan- cy at the Hechtman Federatio...…
…PHOTO BY JO HN M. DISCHER Outside In A former longtime legislator is launching a company that will help organizations get a leg up in Lansing. JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER E very afternoon, Maxine Berman pores over a daily legislative newsletter that comes over the fax in her Southfield condo. Although her days as an elect- ed official are behind her — Ms. Berman left the state House of Representatives in January after a 14-year career as on...…
…Looking Ahead The New Leaders Project seeks to link the Jewish community with the city of Detroit. LYNNE MEREDITH COHN STAFF WRITER D etroit's New Leaders Pro- ject is about to start its second year of linking up- and-coming young Jews to the redevelopment of Detroit. The project, which began last year at the behest of the Nation- al Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council (NJCRAC), cul- minated in an event that was de- signed to benef...…
…r LOOKING page 9 ❑ '23r The next New Leaders Pro- ject will start in July. To ob- tain an application, call the Jewish Community Council, (810) 642-Z393. Jewish Secrets PHOTO BY GLENN TR IEST lished at the beginning "fizzled" by year's end, he said. "This thing has potential as long as [the organizers] redefine the goals and go about it a dif- ferent way. If [this program] is about grooming new Jewish lead- ers [or building ties with the...…
…- /- /— • • • / /— THE JEWISH NEWS Vol. CXI No. 5 Publisher Arthur M. Horwitz Editor Phil Jacobs Associate Editors Elizabeth Applebaum, Alan Hitsky Assistant Editor Gail Zimmerman Copy Editor Lynne Konstantin Senior Writer Julie Edgar Staff Writers Lynne Meredith Cohn, Jill Davidson Sklar, Julie Wiener Contributing Editors Michael Davis, Neil Rubin Washington Correspondent James D. Besser Foreign Correspondent Douglas Davis Israel Cor...…
…Faith In Diversity Religious leaders and public schools come together for a day of cross-cultural learning. JULIE WIENER STAFF WRITER wo-hundred fifty people, many of them Jews, took their shoes off and were wel- comed into the Bharatiya Temple in Bloomfield Hills on Wednesday, March 19. Mass conversion? No, these community leaders, parents and public-school personnel from over 15 districts in Oakland County had converged upon the Hindu pla...…
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…A fledgling Canton Township congregation holds its first annual Purim party. JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER PHOTOS BY JOHN M. DISCHER B et Chaverim in Canton Township is coming into its own: last Satur- day, about 50 revelers turned out for the congregation's first Purim party at a subdivision clubhouse. Bet Chaverim, to which 26 families be- long, does not yet have a building of its own but has started a building fund. Un- til the congregation...…
…Above: Jenny and Laurie Leveille make masks together. Top right: Andrew Malkowski decorates a Purim plate. Right: Sarah Jaslow constructs something really noisy. 0 my a few of the 275 revelers who showed up for a Purim ball last weekend at the Jewish Community Center donned cos- tumes. That didn't dampen the festive spirit. Every- body danced to the strains of the Israeli jazz fu- sion band Esta and local band RH Factor until well after 1 ...…
…PHOTO BY B ILL HANSEN From Assimilation To Rebirth Rabbi works to bring Jewish life back to Poland. JULIE WIENER STAFF WRITER abbi Michael Schudrich says he's always up for a challenge. So it's no sur- prise that the native New Yorker — formerly the rabbi of Tokyo — would opt to work in Poland, not exactly the hub of late-20th-century Diaspora Jew- ish life. But there are more Jews liv- ing in Poland than many people think. As executive d...…
…Rabbi Schudrich recalled a 52- year old man who came to him several years ago and is now an active member of the Jewish com- munity. "The previous day his mother had died, and after the funeral the neighbors told him it wasn't his mother," explained Rabbi Schudrich. "He was a Jewish baby given away. The woman who risked her life to save him never wanted to tell him that he wasn't really her own, so the neighbors kept a secret for 52 years." De...…
…zx nikko 41 r. Celebrating On Campus High School Yearbook '97 The Jewish News will hon- or Michigan's brightest Jewish high-school seniors in our "College Bound" sup- plement May 16. Deadline for nominations is April 17. Area high schools have been asked to distribute our nominating form to their eight Jewish students with the highest unweighted grade-point averages (min- imum 3.6 required). If you feel you qualify but have not been conta...…
…16141 kg I ktk 4•1% ht.04‘, `Meme-Nazis' As Nazi analogies proliferate on the Internet, a cyber- crusader launches a counteroffensive. ADAM KATZ STONE SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS - I n a recent Internet discussion, a disgruntled Canadian argued that the leaders of the French- speaking population in Quebec are "nothing but a bunch of Nazis in sheep's clothing." Someone who supports the use of animals in medical testing as- serted elsewhe...…
…vNti. 1,tift ib luct `IVIEME-NAZIS' page 19 ethical questions, he notes. If it is possible to combat a "viral meme" on the Web, he asks, "is there any moral imperative to do so? When we see a bad or false meme go by, should we take pains to chase it with a counter- meme?" Godwin's Law And Corollaries odwin's Law of Nazi Analogies .. As an on-line discussion grows longer, the probability of a com- parison involving Nazis or Hitler approac...…
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…After two years of pre-Purim bombings, Tel Aviv residents didn't want to slow down, but there was a nervous edge. LARRY DERFNER ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT T he mood at the Apropos restaurant in Tel Aviv at the beginning of the week was "so-so," said assistant manager Moshe Odiz. "Some- times the waiters and waitress- es are full of energy, and then one of them will just stop what they're doing and cry." On the sidewalk outside the restaurant's co...…
…The Tel Aviv mayor moved his office to the cafe. "We have to keep building on Har Homa until it's finished," he said. How had he felt about it be- fore the terror attack? "I never paid any attention." Coming out of Apropros, a rabbi in his 50s who only gave his name as Adi said, "This hasn't changed my views. I still believe that peace is inevitable." And his opinion of Yassir Arafat? "He's a puppet," Adi replied. "A puppet of this whole situ...…
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…EARTHLY DELIGHTS DIAMOND COLLECTION. the building was to be included in the sale of Sinai to the secular health-care organization. "I feel very protective of the building," she said. DMC, however, recently ap- pointed Ms. Kellman to sit on the board of the clinical women's health center, an entity that con- trols the use of the building named in her honor. In addition, she has heard so many stories of women who have received treat- ment at th...…
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