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…Arts & Entertainment CookinF With Hadassah! Rock the boat and your family's taste buds with these 160 easy-to-prepare recipes. Suzanne Chessler Special to the Jewish News D on't look for traditional brisket and kugel recipes in The Hadassah Everyday Cookbook: Daily Meals for the Contemporary Jewish Kitchen (Rizzoli; $34.95), which debuts this month. The 160 offerings speak more to mod- em-day families and their busy lives. Author Leah Koe...…
…Arts & Entertainment Statue of Spinoza in Amsterdam: Spinoza, a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Jewish origin, is considered one Spinoza Takes On God of the great rationalists of 17th-century philosophy, laying Will the 17th-century Jewish philosopher be expelled as a heretic, or will Amsterdam expel its Jews? See the next show at JET. the groundwork for the Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, and one of Western philoso...…
…LIVE! ON STAGE! EXCLUSIVE! From here to Modernity... movie Mania It's screen time at the Uptown and the Detroit Independent film festivals. Suzanne Chessler Special to the Jewish News effrey Spilman, long expe- rienced in feature film and television production, and Marlee Goldman, new to film acting, will cross paths as two festivals cele- brate recent production achievements in Michigan. Spilman, co-executive director of the Uptown Fil...…
…Arts & Enteitamment ES L YTHINiu Fat Free! Taking off the weight and keeping it off. p OTPOURRI A recent article on Beaumont Hospitals' website pressroom page reminded me of when Bob Silverman, owner of Silverman's Deli in Farmington Hills, was so proud of losing weight that he always carried a picture in his wallet of when he weighed 450 pounds instead of the svelte 200 that Bob was down to. This is about localite events planner Ida Ne...…
…To Do! CALENDAR E-mail items to calendar@thejewishnews.com Mail items to Calendar, the Jewish News, 29200 Northwestern Highway, Suite 110, Southfield, MI 48034 Fax items to (248) 304-8885 Deadline: noon Tuesday, nine days prior to publication. includes dessert. RSVP by March 18 to Barbara: (248) 481-9580. 1 JCheck It Out! ARTS 46- CULTURE Shop "Spring into Summer Used Book Sale" March 13-24, at Meyers Library at West Bloomfield JCC. Sal...…
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…1 Dec. 11 Stacey (Young) Soffa and Jason Soffa of West Bloomfield are delighted to announce the arrival of their daughter, Ava Brooke. Sharing in their joy are grand- Soffa parents Esther Soffa of Farmington Hills, Jeffrey Soffa of Royal Oak and Chuck Young of Farmington Hills. Proud are great-grandmother Ellen Ziff of Walled Lake and great-grandfather Joseph Soffa of Las Vegas, Nev. Ava is named in loving memory of her maternal grandmother Av...…
…Fam ocus MAZ'L TOV! Zeldes-Seago D r. and Mrs. Jeffrey Zeldes of Farmington Hills have announced the engagement of their son Daniel Zeldes to Meghan Seago, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. John Seago of Grosse Pointe Shores. A June wedding is planned at the Grosse Pointe Yacht Club. Mr. Zeldes is a 2006 graduate of the University of Michigan. He is a fourth-year medical student at Wayne State University and plans to pursue a career in anesthesiol...…
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…Community HIAS Scholarship Deadline Is March 15 HIAS, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, is accepting applications for its 2011 scholarships. HIAS-assisted refugees who immigrated to the United States are eli- gible to apply. This year, the HIAS scholarship pro- gram, first introduced in 1974, has become HIAS Scholars, a program devoted to advancing participants' higher educa- tion goals while engaging them in com- munity building. HIAS Schola...…
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…Obituaries FRED LAX Family and friends please join us for a memorial gathering in honor of our father, Fred Lax, who passed on February 4, 2011. His burial took place in Jerusalem, Israel accompanied by his daughter Nancy Lax and his , son Michael Lax. Mr. Lax was a decorated WW II veteran and was founder and former owner of F. Lax Construction Co. The memorial will be held on Sunday, March 13, 2011 at Fleischman Senior Residence, 6710 W. M...…
…MARILYN DAVIES LIEBERMAN SCHWARTZ, 82, of Boca Raton, Fla., died March 1, 2011. She graduated from Highland Park High School and attended the University of Michigan. While in Detroit, she was active at Temple Emanu-El and its sisterhood, ORT and Hadassah. Mrs. Schwartz retired to Sarasota with her husband, Harry, where she continued her Hadassah work becoming president of the Sarasota Chapter. Following her divorce, she met and married Michael...…
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…Obituaries Obituaries from page 60 Seinfeld's 'Uncle Leo' Jewish Telegraphic Agency D espite a vast acting resume, Len Lesser had a career as a char- acter actor that probably didn't prepare him for his late-career fame as Jerry Seinfeld's annoying but lovable Uncle Leo on the 1990s sitcom Seinfeld. Lesser died Feb. 16, 2011, at 88. Lesser's "hawklike profile and Noo Yawk accent" saw him through 15 epi- sodes of Seinfeld and won him lasti...…
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…Front Lines Ask Financial Crisis Attorney Ken Gross about... Part Of The Family Melitz provides Israeli and diaspora Jews with tools to make Judaism their own. Don Cohen Special to the Jewish News A sk an Israeli who the central figure of Jewish history is and most likely the response will be King David, the warrior/poet who established Jerusalem as the capital of a Jewish nation. Ask an American Jew the same ques- tion and the answer wi...…
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…Special Report MEDIC CONNECTIONS / ON HE COVE Michigan's newest medical school and a hospital in Israel's Central Galilee make plans to grow together. Don Cohen Special to the Jewish News srael and Metro Detroit drew just a lit- tle bit closer on Feb. 15 as representa- tives from the new Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine (OUWB) and Israel's Emek Medical Center announced that a Memorandum of Understanding had been sign...…
…i Sp Jciait ME D C 5,4 kt. A Heartbeat Away from page 11 Because one of Folberg's specialties is ophthalmology, Rich asked if he knew Dr. Daniel Briscoe, who had become chair- man and head of Emek's ophthalmology department in June 2009. While Folberg didn't know him, it turned out a close friend at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem had been one of Briscoe's mentors and spoke highly of him and Emek. Another close friend, Ido Perlman, then de...…
…researchers to plan projects and line up funding in advance so visiting Israelis can use Beaumont's advanced facilities to "potentially bring some- thing to fruition in the relatively short time they are here." The Memorandum of Understanding, signed by Folberg and Emek CEO Dr. Orna Blondheim spells out seven areas of mutual benefit: collaborative faculty research; sharing of scientific knowl- edge, leveraging clinical and surgical expertise t...…
…Metro Defense Tools TribeFest Israel on Campus Coalition provides ways for students to counter anti-Israel action. Young Jews aim to connect to Jewish roots amid glitz of Vegas. Don Cohen Special to the Jewish News forum, along with conferences and other physical gatherings, are designed to share new resources and educate tephen Kuperberg, execu- staff in best practices for proactively tive director of the Israel on building relationship...…
…Scharoun Ens le Berlin Featuring Musicians from the Berlin Philharmonic Wed, Mar 9 I 8 PM RACKHAM AUDITORIUM • ANN ARBOR In 1983, members of the Berlin Philharmonic founded the Scharoun Ensemble Berlin, named after the architect who designed the marvelous concert hall where the Berlin Philharmonic performs at home. The ensemble comprises the standard octet instrumentation — clarinet, horn, bassoon, two violins, viola, cello, and double b...…
…Metro Michigan World Trade Center, 2001 Miracle • Jewish News offices burn, 2002 Mission Ill, 1998 I'm moving from JN editor to contributor, but my passion for Jewish Detroit remains. M ness. In part, he wrote: "The Jewish News y destiny as editor of the Jewish pledges itself to serve as the organ for the News was chiseled into the good of the Jewish communities of Detroit bedrock of the Detroit Jewish and Michigan, and for our siste...…
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