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…Sweets and Sympathy from American Heart Association. Cookies Eta. Park Cemetery. Contributions may be made to a charity of • one's choice. Arrangements by • the Ira Kaufman Chapel. West 12 Mile Road, Farmington Hills, MI 48334. Arrangements by the Ira Kaufman Chapel. BENJAMIN FRISHMAN, 78, AVRUM FEINSTEIN, 86, of Delray Beach, Fla., died April 10. Mr. Feinstein was a furni- ture executive and owner of Brent Furniture Stores in High- lan...…
…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. NISSAN 13 13 13 13 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 16 16 16 17 17 Charles Finer Abraham Lusky Esther Molomud Arlene Shapiro Helen Cieck Jacob Goodman Yoakov Hoffman Sam Kogan Harry Laker Louis Levin Morris Markowitz...…
…Graveside and Cemetery Chapel Services With Substantial Savings / Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to a cancer orga- 1) nization of one's choice; Ameri- can Diabetes Association, 30600 Telegraph Road, Suite 2255, Bingham Farms, MI 48025; or JARC, 28366 Franklin Road, Southfield, MI 48034. Arrangements by the Ira Kaufman Chapel. BENJAMIN SCHAFFER, 83, \ former Detroiter of Los Ange- 2 les, died April 9. He is survived by his wife, Ro...…
…1 IRA KAUFMAN ( 1 896-1986) Ira Kaufman established a legacy of service, compassion and trust with the Detroit Jewish community which remains unsurpassed. Sondra Berlin, Disability Activist Sondra Berlin 59, of West Bloomfield, died April 9. Ms. Berlin was co-owner and corporate secretary-treasurer of the Weight Watchers Group Inc. She was afflicted with polio at the age of 9 and attended the Oakman School for Crippled Children and Cass T...…
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…THE JE\Vigi NEWS UP FRONT This Week's T o p Stories Labor Intensive Jewish Vocational Service wins a $2.4 million contract to service the unemployed in the city of Detroit. JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER Detroit's Employment and Training Department is the state's Jobs Commission contractor for the Work Place program and the agency that awarded the contract to JVS. The state is financing sim- ilar centers all over the state. Detroit's centers...…
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…April 11, 1997 10 18 OPINION Detroit Meeting the enemy that is us. 29 Stogie Sessions Jokes, drinks and lots of cigars make for an interesting "drash" at Midtown Cafe. TELL ME WHY How a family bought Monticello. Hearts Of Gold 38 THE PULSE Three local Jews are among six recipients of United Way Community Services' volunteer awards. Years of experience with chronic illness. 75 ISRAEL Netanyahu maybe, Madeleine no. 80 2 Ready T...…
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…Kathleen Straus takes on Gov. Engler in her efforts to promote public education. aybe it's because she is a grandmother of four, but Kathleen Straus, a crusader for social jus- tice and authority on public education, seems to exude bubbie-like warmth. Of course, Gov. John Engler might not agree. As president of the state board of education and an active Democrat, Ms. Straus doesn't always see eye to eye with the Republican gov- JULIE WIENER S...…
…Come summer, the Oak Park eruv will include Huntington Woods. LYNNE MEREDITH COHN STAFF WRITER 0 bservant Jewish residents of Hunt- ington Woods will soon be able to carry on Shabbat, thanks to an eruv that should be up within the next couple of months. "It's going to encompass virtually all of Huntington Woods," said Rabbi Yerach- miel Rabin, rabbi of the Huntington Woods Minyan and the man in charge of the new eruv. Rabbi Yehuda Kaplan, a...…
…Adoption Conference Tips for raising adopted children will be the focus of an April 28 meeting. JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER inda Yellin knows quite a bit about adoption. As a therapist in private prac- tice, her specialty is help- ing adoptive parents and adopted children with their challenges. As a consultant, she works with organizations. that aid such families in times of crisis. And as an adult adoptee, she has a lifetime of experi...…
…PHOTO S BY DAN IEL LIPPITT Stogie Sessions Jokes, drinks and lots of cigars make for an interesting "drash" at Midtown Cafe. LYNNE MEREDITH COHN STAFF WRITER T hey started in a private, glass-en- closed room at the Radisson Hotel but had to move to Midtown Cafe after they almost burned the place down. Well, actually, Rabbi Steven Weil's now two-year-old cigar smokers' schiur mere- ly set off the fire alarms and forced the hotel to evacua...…
…DETROIT I THE JEWISH NEWS Vol. CXI No. 7 /— /— /—' /—' 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 ...…
…a i& kv, Uj STOGIE page 10 Dr. Gastman, a yeshiva stu- dent all his life, says he learns more from the monthly stogie sessions. "It's excellent, mind- opening. It gives us the idea we're not alone" — learning or smoking. Between 10 and 20 attend the monthly classes, but more turn out for twice-yearly dinners, says Rabbi Weil. Last fall, the group gathered in the sukkah of Steve and Chaya Levitz. "Everyone brought his favorite kosher wine...…
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…Seventy hockey players tear up the "ice" each week in the JCC's in-line hockey league. ALAN HITSKY ASSOCIATE EDITOR JOHN M. DISCHER PHOTOGRAPHER here's no checking into the boards, be- cause the walls are solid concrete block. But that doesn't keep 70 youngsters in the Sunday afternoon in-line hockey league at the Jimmy Prentis Morris Jew- ish Community Center from trying to emulate all the fancy moves of Detroit hockey heroes Steve Yze...…
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…`I'm Just The Messenger' The Baltimore Sun's Lisa Pollak, who won a Pulitzer Prize this week, started her career at The Detroit Jewish News. LOUIS BERNEY SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS T he biggest story that jour- nalist Lisn Pollak ever wrote was a compelling account in the Baltimore Sun last De- cember of the family of Major League umpire John Hirschbeck, the man the Baltimore Orioles' second baseman Roberto Alomar so ignominiously spat upo...…
…*.A • • 4 kt 0 Saying Thank You Shaarey Zedek devotes a Shabbat to all the volunteers who make the shul go. LYNNE MEREDITH COHN STAFF WRITER W ithout volunteers, Con- gregation Shaarey Zedek would be severe- ly shorthanded. And the synagogue, which boasts a mem- bership of 2,000 families, wants to make sure such help is noticed. In an effort to recognize the shul's volunteers — which num- ber close to 700 this year alone — April 12 ...…
…Three area Jews are among six local residents to receive United Way Community Services awards for their volunteer activities. PHOTO BY DANIEL LIPPITT Hearts Of Gold Ron Elkus will receive the United Way Community Services' Heart of Gold award at a luncheon this week. JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER T hree area Jews are among six people named to receive the United Way Communi- ty Services' Heart of Gold award, the charity organization's ...…
…A MESSAGE TO THE JEWISH COMMUNITY T he Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, also known as the "Orthodox Union," rep- resenting hundreds of thousands of Orthodox Jews, and the Rabbinical Council of America, representing over 1,000 Orthodox rabbis serving world Jewry, are highly critical of the statement recently released by a Jewish orga- nization whose name is easily confused with that of the Orthodox Union. While we acknowledg...…
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…J Celeb rate With Us! FA's 30th year of providing quality senior housing and services as we recognize eight of The Fourth Annual Installation into the metropolitan Detroit's most distinguished senior adults. Senior Adult Jewish Hall Of Fame To our 1997 honorees and the more than 30 nominees, congratulations on being among metropolitan Detroit's most distinguished seniors, 80 years or older, whose on-going contribu- tions make a ...…
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…Community Views Editor's Notebook We Have Met The Enemy, And They Are Us A Personal Experience In Network Marketing BERL FALBAUM SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS PHIL JACOBS EDITOR At times it seems, sults from the fact they're per- as a people, we verts, and they just have to accept have no limits for that fact — and create dialogues. enduring humili- We are probably the only mi- nority group which has never un- ation. Throughout derstood tha...…
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…APRIL 11, 1997 Bleefeld Leads Remembrance Pesach Plans For Community I he agencies of the Jewish Federation are preparing for Passover. Jewish Home for Aged's Fleischman Residence/ Blumberg Plaza has already be- gun the cleaning process. Some vacancies are available for the two sedarim which will be held 7:10 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, April 21 and 22. For seder reservations, call Rabbi Sha- piro, (810) 661-2999. Jewish Vocational Service Ad...…
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…ORTHODOX AGUDAS YISROEL- MOGEN ABRAHAM 15751 W. Lincoln, Southfield, 552-1971. Rabbis: Dov Loketch, Asher Eisen- berger. BIRMINGHAM BLOOMFIELD SYNAGOGUE-CHABAD 357 N. Woodward, the Masonic Tem- ple, Bloomfield Hills, (810) 258-2741. Rabbi: Yechiel Polter. Services: Satur- day 10 a.m. Kiddush follows services. Congregation 112.7 BAIS CHABAD OF FARMINGTON HILLS 32000 Middlebelt Road, Farmington Hills, 855-2910. Rabbi: Chaim Bergstein. Se...…
…The Ecumenical Institute for Jewish-Christian Studies BETH ACHIM 21100 W. 12 Mile Road, Southfield, (810) 352-8670. Rabbi: Herbert Yoskowitz. Cantor: Max Shimansky. Rit- ual director: Joseph Baras. Rabbis emer- itus: Benjamin H. Gorrelick, Milton Arm. Services: Friday 7:15 a.m., 6 p.m.; Sat- urday 8:45 a.m., 7:55 p.m.; weekdays 7:15 a.m., 6 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m., 6 p.m. Shabbat class 7:25 p.m. BETH ISRAEL G-5240 Calkins Road, Flint, (810) 73...…
…Tonov -076:6 MoIA? Vet 6t"toa4 to 61/-6- *rtatig 064 g T)tvg! Celebrate the Opening of The B'nai Moshe School Wing Sunday,April 13,1997 I I00-2:00 Shabbat Tazria: Leviticus 12:1-13:59; II Kings 4:42-5:19. I Adult Learning Featuring Aviva Silverman Jim Carmody Magician Living Energy DJ/Music 1230 pm Plus Art Projects,Tours, Food.. Irr A IV Congregation B'nai Moshe 6800 Drake Road West Bloomfield 810 788-0600 Congregation B'nai Mos...…
…"(With B'nai Moshe April Events Families with school-age children are invited to an array of events at Congregation B'nai Moshe dur- ing April. There will be an informal, par- ticipatory Shabbat service for fourth-graders and their families 10:30-11:15 a.m. Saturday, April • • 12. The synagogue will host its "Spring Wing Fling" 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday, April 13, to celebrate the opening of its new building. There will be music, arts and crafts...…
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