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…April 25 • 2019 57 jn continued on page 58 OBITUARY CHARGES The processing fee for obituaries is: $100 for up to 150 words; $200 for 151-300 words, etc. A photo counts as 30 words. There is no charge for a Holocaust survivor icon. The JN reserves the right to edit wording to conform to its style considerations. For information, have your funeral director call the JN or you may call Sy Manello, editorial assistant, at (248) 351- 514...…
…58 April 25 • 2019 jn continued from page 57 continued on page 60 soul of blessed memory DR. ERIKA HERCZEG, 82, of West Bloomfield, died April 15, 2019. She taught technical writing and compo- sition at Wayne State. She loved linguistics and spoke three languages. Above all, she loved being a grandmother. Dr. Herczeg is sur- vived by her son and daughter-in-law, Chuck and Sandy Herczeg of Farmington Hills; grandchildren, Sop...…
…April 25 • 2019 59 jn S am Taub, longtime coach at Mumford High School and inductee into the Michigan Jewish Sorts Hall of Fame, died April 13, 2019. Sam Taub was a unique individual in a number of ways. Great athlete, teacher, coach, athletic director, but, most of all, a great human being. For those of us who were fortunate enough to play for him at Mumford High, his death was a great loss. Most of us would agree that one of the ...…
…60 April 25 • 2019 jn continued from page 58 soul of blessed memory Hebrew Memorial Park. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel. MRS. SHTERNA S. KALMANSON, 69, an emissary of the Lubavitcher Rebbe to Southern Ohio, passed away April 16, 2019. She suffered from an illness. Mrs. Kalmanson was born in Paris and grew up in Montreal. Her father, Rabbi Heshel Ceitlin, was the spiritu- al leader of the Chabad community there, as well a...…
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…April 18 • 2019 5 jn T he number four plays an import- ant part in our sedarim. There are four questions, four sons, four cups of wine, etc. Here is some Passover humor that I found four-midable. (Now you know what’ s coming.) Children often hear things differently; take, for example, the young- ster who came home talking about unleaded bread. Then there was the angry uncle who fit right in at the table: He was a bitter Herb. Did...…
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…8 April 18 • 2019 jn views A fter the smoke clears from this contentious Israeli election, which amounted to a refer- endum on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’ s tenure, it appears that Netanyahu will again be asked by Israeli President Rivlin to form the next government. How did he win again? As Israel’ s former U.S. Ambassador Michael Oren said, “Our econ- omy is excellent, our foreign relations were never better and we’ re ...…
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…10 April 18 • 2019 jn views accepting Putin’ s statement that Russia didn’ t interfere in the 2016 election, after having just been told by 17 American intelligence agencies that Russia did interfere … Dayenu — surely this should have been enough to show Trump’ s allegiance! His immigration numbers obsession and his despicable policy of separating children from their parents, many of whom will never be reunited...…
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…12 April 18 • 2019 jn SARA BERKOWITZ EAKER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS Robots Are Coming Israeli teams will come to Detroit for an international competition. T he future is technology and that future will be well represented at the 2019 FIRST Championship April 24-27 at Cobo Center in Detroit, featuring a celebration of space, inno- vation and STEM — science, technolo- gy, engineering and math. This is the world’ s largest STEM jubile...…
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…14 April 18 • 2019 jn P arents are breathing a sigh of relief in Ann Arbor. On April 9, Washtenaw County reported one confirmed case of the measles, a child at the Early Childhood Center at the Jewish Community Center of Ann Arbor, one of the first centers in Washtenaw County to not allow unvaccinated children in with religious or philo- sophical waivers. Peretz Hirshbein, director of child and family services at the JCC, told abo...…
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…36 April 18 • 2019 jn Tradition varies about Pesach rules. Strict or Not Strict? A dialogue overheard in more than one Jewish household goes like this: Husband: “I can’ t find my pen (or reading glasses or whatever). Have you seen it?” Wife: “Don’ t worry, it will show up before Passover.” “It will show up before Passover,” of course, because the family will clean every inch of the house before the holiday, making sure the ho...…
