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…>> ... Next Generation ... Planting A Seed Young Jewish adults unite to help Keep Growing Detroit. BECKY HURVITZ I SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS M ore than 60 young adults met at the Repair the World Workshop in Detroit on Thursday, March 12, for Seeds, Snacks & Six Packs, an event held in partnership with Federation's NEXTGen Detroit and Repair the World Detroit. The event, which was the first in a series of events planned by the new NEXTGe...…
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…Inside the Great Syangogue of Copenhagen Denmark Revisited Hatred and violence in the "righteous among the nations." By Irene Shaland D id Shakespeare get it all wrong? "Something is rot- ten in the state of Denmark," declares an officer in Hamlet, and this is where I thought the Bard was gravely mistaken. In May 2014, I visited Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Everything we encountered there looked beautiful and, in spite of the cold and rai...…
…Entrance to the Great Synagogue A view of Copenhagen as one nation stood up against evil when the rest of the world turned away. How did it happen then, that Denmark, a heroic exception in the history of the Holocaust, is becoming, as expressed by Italian journalist Giulio Meotti, a "bit of an exception once again, in Europe's post-Holocaust anti-Semitism?" I called the Great Synagogue in Copenhagen and was connected to its Chief Cantor, Ore...…
…FEATURE Denmark Revisited page 49 the word Mitzvah. As the museum's website states, the form of the build- ing becomes a commentary on the artifacts it presents, paralleling how accompanying texts often illuminate different aspects of the Talmud. THE FLAG OF ISRAEL AS A PROVOCATION I met a few young women working at the cloak room and the bookstore as the museum was closing. I felt over- whelmed by the museum experience and wanted to share...…
