…Taking The Bench Talented litigator accepts Oakland County Circuit Court judgeship. Peter Alter, president-elect of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, called. Judge Goldsmith "a fantastic addition to the Oakland ttorney Mark A. County bench. He is extremely Goldsmith was sworn in patient, extremely bright, extremely March 19 as a judge of personable and extremely courteous Oakland County Circuit — a real mentsh. Court, filling th...…
…jnonline ) Helping AU Victims The Jewish Community Council Of Metropolitan Detroit The Emek Medical Center in Detroit's partnership region in Israel handles Arab and Jewish victims of terror. See story on detroitjewishnews.com is pleased to announce the ) Up Close In Israel Read an account of teaching and learning in Israel by a•Project Otzma participant representing the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan.Detroit.. Log on to 2004 Activist...…
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…News Watch The Big Picture Ann Arbor conference focuses on Israel's attention to human rights. KAREN SCHWARTZ Special to the Jewish News Ann Arbor D oris Miller attended the University of Michigan's 3rd Annual Conference on Israel to hear Ann Arbor's own Amos Guiora — now Lt. Col. Amos Guiora, commandant of the Israel - Defense Forces School of Military Law. Miller, a longtime Ann Arbor resident who remembers watching Guiora grow up, sai...…
…Editorials are posted and archived on JN Online: www.d.etroitjewisknews.com Never Say 'Never' Dry Bones M t.? GRANDPA ASKED me WHAT "XUJIS1-1 CONIINUrrte" MEANS ny sign of weakness or retreat simply validates terrorist violence and invites more violence for all nations," President George W. Bush said last week on the first anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. `The only certain way to protect our people is by early, united and decisive acti...…
…OTHER VIEWS Facing Facts, Dispelling Myths Boston E very now and then, the world turns its attention to the ivory towers of academia for any number of reasons. At this particular moment, attention has been thrust upon one of my fields of research: Biblical literature. In part, I have Mel Gibson to thank for that. I also have the polemics and concerns (some legiti- mate, some unfounded) of various religious and civil leaders respond- ing to...…
…Mortgage Loans RUBIN from page 35 Fifth Third Mortgage infrastructure and lost an opportunity to establish a Palestinian state. Was Yassin merely the "spiritual guide" to Hamas and did he lead merely a "political wing" as opposed to a "military wing"? Certainly, the group was not organized along rigidly hierarchical lines. Obviously, Yassin did not plan specific terrorist attacks - in detail. But he did set the policy, sanction the killing...…
….5? t ,tt' , • , RUBIN from page 37 them? There is no alternative to direct In Israel, Sara and. Miriam have lived, the Negev desert all their liv But without water, their children may not be so lucky, For Sara and Miriam, Israel is home. Their parents settled in the Negev over 30 years ago. Sara and Miriam know everything there is about this region. Except for one thing. How can they continue living here without water? A 12-year droug...…
…wish famili rOw' Love And Death Three children's books explore serious issues. ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM AppleTree Editor rikas Story by Ruth Vander Zee, with illustrations by Roberto Innocenti. Published by Creative Editions (Mankato, MN.), copyright 2003. Hardback. 26 pages. $15.95. While traveling in Germany in 1995, author Ruth Vander Zee had a chance encounter. She was stand- ing outside a store that had been devastated by a recent tornad...…
…4 WISH CADE, Y of Met-o °titan Detroit Food For Thought My name is Daniel Kohn. Young writers invited to make submissions to new "soup" collection. I am a freshman at the Jewish Academy. I am really lucky to have the kind of teachers I have at JAMD. During class, I get plenty of close, personal attention. The teachers spend a lot of time getting to know our individual strengths and improving areas of weakness. Their support has given me ...…
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…`Children Of Abraham' Teen drama presents a common basis for living in peace. DIANA LIEBERMAN StaffWriter T recruiting, writing and training Christian, Muslim and Jewish teens to present both the play and post-production discussions. After the initial performance, Rosenberg hopes Children ofAbraham will move on to high schools, museums, cultural centers and religious institutions. Most recently, she gave a presentation on the project at th...…
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…THE LION Jewish director/designer Julie Taymor's signature piece, "The Lion Kin,,," takes the stage in Detroit. "The live of Life" rom "The Lion King" national tour BILL CARROLL Special to the Jewish News he seeds of The Lion King, one of the most popular musical shows to sweep across the worldwide theater scene in recent years, may have been planted in the back yard of a Reform Jewish home in Newton, Mass., where 7- year-old Julie Taymor ...…
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…News & Reviews Tenor Tribute Jan Peerce and Jeffrey PicOn share the same initials, strong tenor voices and a love for a variety of musical styles. Soon, they will share repertoire in a concert: Picon will sing the late Peerce's best- known songs. The New York- based vocalist will be part of a Peerce tribute Sunday, March 28, at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield. Cantor Lori Corrsin, cantorial soloist Neil Michaels and instrumentalists Jeff Pi...…
…BEGINS NEXT WEEK! On The Bookshelf `Still Life With Bombers' Author David Horovitz depicts the anguished state of life in the Middle East SANDEE BRAWARSKY Special to the Jewish News F PRESENTS THE LION KING BROADWAY'S AWARD-WINNING BEST MUSICAL Sponsored in 6etrott by Aedieds'iVit BEST SEATS AVAILABLE for Tuesday & Wednesday Evenings CALL ticketmaster (248) 645-6666 ONLINE ticketmaster corn CO to all Ticketmaster Outlets locat...…
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…Festival at ot'a'"G a Glance NVDII ARES Film # Advice and Dissent Followed by... Sid At 90 and... Funny Old Guys 0 Thunder in Guyana Followed by... Born in Buenos Aires 0 0 Shanghai Ghetto : Paper Clips (Main Attraction) , :NOTE Start time is after Federation's Yom HaZikaron service at the JCC. Hitler's Hat Followed by... Berga: Soldiers of Another War Amen Secret Lives: Hidden Children & Their Rescuers Shalom, Y'All Preceded by... ...…
…Festival at tor'G a Glance t'Cidg Paper Clips Different Drummers Relentless Followed by... James' Journey to Jerusalem The Collector of Bedford Street Followed by... Molly: The Goldbergs Dummy Thunder in Guyana All I've Got Followed by... My Architect e Italians Are Coming 603 E. Liberty Street FILM # DATE 0 Sunday, May 2 0 0 Monday, May 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Geburtig Michigan Theatre Festival at f or alm R'G a Glance NE FILM...…
…Sunday April 25 2002 • 21 min • English • Color • USA Co-Sponsored by Barbara & D. Michael Kratchman 12:30 p.m. A pointed, magical, pixyish morality tale that's funny. L'chaim! A frustrated businessman, Jeffery Goldman (John Pankow, Mad About You) tries to end his hopeless marriage by asking the local rabbi (Eli Wallach) to place a curse on his wife, Ellen (Rebecca Pidgeon, Heist). The rabbi refuses, but he gives peculiar advice on how t...…
…Old 2003 • 40 min. • English • Color • USA The third of these three remarkable films is simul- taneously funny, warm and heartbreakingly sad. Impossible? Take a look. Co-Sponsored by Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network/Ira Kaufman Chapel and Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute Filmmaker David Zeiger is invited to the lunch table to experience the banter of "the funny old guys," Jewish television veterans and pals for decades who, after s...…
…Baal in Buenos Ai 2003 • 40 min. Spanish with English Subtitles • Color • USA Filmmaker Beth Toni Kruvant has made another film that deals with the many lives of Jews in other lands. Just fascinating. A special direc- tor's selection award film. Co-Sponsored by Rose and David Handleman This documentary provides insight into the diffi- cult situation faced by the Jews of Argentina during recent economic and political crises. See them strugg...…
…vslOtAG Paper UNITED ARTISTS 2003 • 110 min. • English • Color • Great Britain/USA 8 p.m. Sponsored by Harold and Sarah Gottlieb Festival Introduction by Terry Lawson This is a very special screening in many ways. First, it is the Festival's main attraction; the film we most want you to see, and we are showing it in two theatres simultaneously at the United Artists Theatre. Second, it is the 2004 winner of the Harold and Sarah Gottlieb P...…
…Monday H itler's Hat 2001 • 50 min. • English • Color/BW • USA 5 p.m. Director Jeff Krulik explores a momentous brush with infamy in this offbeat winner of the Best Documentary award at the recent New York Underground Film Festival. April 26 Sponsored by the Ray & Atara Zimmerman Fund Richard Marowitz, a Jewish G.I., present at the search of Hitler's Munich apartment in April 1945, finds a black top hat in the back of an empty closet. M...…
…Amen 2002 130 min. • English • Color • France 8 p.m. As we know, many did not escape Hitler's "Final Solution." How, exactly did religious leaders in Germany and the Vatican ignore the plight of Europe's Jews during W.W. II? Costa-Gavras unravels it for us in this major motion picture. Co-Sponsored by The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL) This story of unspeakable horror by the world's pre- eminent creator of political suspense ...…
…2002 . 60 min. • English • Color • USA 5 p.m. The Festival fast-forwards to the USA, the South and—what else—the Jews there. Enjoy Brian Bain's delightful, personal piece. Co-Sponsored by Bluma and Robert Schechter & Sophie Pearlstein Filmmaker Brian Bain takes a 4200-mile Southern road trip that turns into a rite of passage. Through his humorous and affec- tionate encounters with Jewish Southerners of all types, he examines the character ...…
…Asp ha 2002 • 87 min. • Hebrew, German & Arabic with English subtitles • Color • Israel 8 p.m. Let's be honest—really, how different are cul- tures one from another? Aren't human beings really all the same, deep down? Take a look. Sponsored by Cindy & Bill Faber Danny Verete's gorgeously shot film shows us what the New York Post calls a modern Israel with "the Judean Desert caught in a time warp." We see three dramatic encounters between ...…
…• 2002 . 63 min.. Hebrew & English with English subtitles • Color • Israel Can one speak respectfully and modestly to the rigidity and confines of Orthodox rituals while looking for one's own place? If you see this, you'll never doubt it again. ... - Anat Zuria examines the Taharat Hamishpacha that shape women's lives and sexuality within Jewish Orthodoxy through her own experiences and those of three friends. At the heart of their stories...…
…lone 2002 • 75 min. • Color/BW • USA English with subtitles as necessary 2 p.m. Director/Screenwriter Helene Klodawsky wanted to know about the power of romance and the unfail- ing power of love. Well, she found it and we are glad to share it with you. Thursday April 29 Co-Sponsored by Harriet & L William Sherr Family A lovely, surprising psychological, emotional, and spiri- tual look at survival and the many perspectives of love in the...…
…Denma rk 2003 58 min.. English & Danish with English subtitles • Color • USA/Denmark A special director's selection award film. Karen Cantor's amazing documentary, narrated by Garrison Keillor, tells the true story of how the citizens of Denmark secured the safety of 95% of their Jewish population during Nazi occupation.: What happened is widely known but little under- stood in its details. This film provides a historically accurate account...…
…2002 • 103 min. • German & English with English subtitles • Color • Austria 8 p.m. Sponsored by Charles & Rita Gelman Education Foundation How do our pasts affect our present and future? And what if it's a past you can't forget no matter how hard you try? Austria's official submission in the Foreign Language Film category at the recent Academy Awards tries to tell us. Set in Vienna and New York in the 1980s, this remarkable film revolves a...…
…vo ,„,,AG Dummy 2002 . 93 min.. English •Color .USA This not-yet-seen-in-theatres film has a dream cast: Adrien Brody, Illeana Douglas, Milla Jovovich, Ron Liebman, and more! And it is simultaneously funny and touching. SIN NAB 8 1111PALACE bosol NEM MICHIGAN THEATRE B RMING Co-Sponsored by Susan & Brand MarwiL In Birmingham co-sponsored by Hillel of Metropolitan Detroit Adrien Brody (The Pianist) plays soft-spoken Steven, who turns to v...…
…Mel ly. LThe 1951 • 104 min. • English • BW • USA 3 p.m. Honoring the memory of Aaron Ginsberg. Sponsored by his family and friends. This is an encore showing. So many people missed it in the fall that we've brought it back. It's fabulous! Molly, Molly, Molly. Oy vey! This warm, funny movie is the only full-length Goldbergs story ever made. It has all the folks from the TV and radio, plus. And it has a great story about hope, love, helpin...…
…op osoto 2003 • 87 min. • English, Hebrew, Zulu with English subtitles Color • Israel tt51111 UNITED ARTISTS 8 p.m. Co-Sponsored by Roberta & Wil Viviano NewsindiaTimescom, "Depicting the paradoxical loss of values in a consumerist society." elsbro.diaryland.com , "A modern day comedy with ancient origins." Le Monde, "A joyous expressiveness makes this small film a happy sur- prise." L'Humanite, "Serious themes are treated here with feroc...…
