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…Photos co urtesy o f Mort Plot nick Big new gifts bring the Jewish Community Center's campaign past the halfway mark. LONNY GOLDSMITH StaffWriter fter almost a year of fund- raising in the community, the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit has gotten a big boost from the outside. The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation in Baltimore has delivered a $2 million pledge while a meeting for Detroit snowbirds nesting in Boca Raton,...…
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…1956 Shapero School of Nursing opened Og at Sinai Hospital 44: 1959 1986 Shiffman Clinic Wing, successor to North End Clinic, opened at Sinai Sinai Hechtman Health Center opens in Bingham Farms Sinai doctors develop device for permanent dentures in 1967 1 ;i:racts with the DMC, either at Sinai- Grace or other DMC facilities. It is Grace unclear, however, how many of these contracts will be renewed once they expire, and the DMC — which...…
…LONNY GOLDSMITH Staff Writer I n 19 years of volunteering at Sinai Hospital, Bertha Fischer has missed only three Tuesdays of work. When Sinai closes this summer, Fischer isn't planning to miss any more days when she starts volunteer- ing at Sinai-Grace Hospital. "I'll keep working as long as the [Sinai] Guild is there," she said. According to Elsa Silverman, that could be a long time. "The adminis- tration has been supportive and earnestly ...…
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…Diplomatic Macher MAN IN THE MIDDLE from page 23 when Iranian Jews, caught in the tur- moil of the Islamic revolution, were fleeing for their lives. These members of the world's old- est continuous Jewish communities were arriving in Vienna or Rome only to be turned back when their requests for visas were denied by U.S. immi- gration officials; the United States had yet to declare them group refugees fleeing persecution. Eizenstat had been r...…
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…COMMUNITY VIEWS A Jewish Community On The Periphery AMY GROSS Special to The Jewish News hen was the last time religious services made you cry from the depth of your soul as a sign of discovering your voice? Students and staff from Project STaR, University of Michigan's graduate training program in Jewish communal service, were for- tunate to experience two such oppor- tunities during a recent Shabbat. On Feb. 5-7, nine students and three ...…
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