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…Mission's Moment At The Wall Hammering Home Philanthropy To New Level 0 M Two major league players identify themselves as Jewish. onstoisatosoosswitiosiostu • Gc1,he Kap[ is ready to be the third. - L • …

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…DET&OF JEWISH NEWS -:- www.detroitjewishnews.com s Week :WM Matto M. tt. April 30, 1999 Iyar 14, 5759 Vol. CXV, No. 10 26 Empathy And Aid Top immigration aide explains why Israelis help Kosovo refugees. 28 Spiritual Shabbat Miracle Mission goers spiritually moved by holy city. 29 Party For Partners Kibbutz shows tourists everyday, informal facts of Israeli life. 30 Educational Opportunity Detroit Jews interact with a new college for...…

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…Everything Aggravates Him Who Waits so that she could carry them better. The line at the discount food club was not much better. There was only one man ahead of me who then decid- atience is a virtue." ed to get advice from the "Everything comes clerk on a battery-powered to him who waits." flashlight that he had picked Baloney! up. They spent some time These days, it is not deciphering the instructions unusual to have to wait in to decide wh...…

…‘.4.\ aa. se A Lesson In New video offers parents and children a Jewish understanding of death. G Y 2 .) *-11 U z O U 0 N 0 O Rachel Roof 16, a sophomore at Littleton High, Rhianna Cheek, 15, a sophomore at Douglas County High, and Mandi Annivel, 16, a sophomore at Heritage High, during a community vigil at Civic Center Park in Denver on April 21. KERI GUTEN COHEN Special to the Jewish News s the nation struggles to understand...…

…Kaddish when mourners may be doubting their faith the most, and the mitzvah of shoveling dirt into the grave, as a physical sign of closure. When death strikes, "kids don't feel safe or secure," Techner says. "These ritu- als provide struc- ture that makes them feel safer." Some of the children's insights in the video are poignant. For example, 2 one boy explains that his family was such a good family that God chose them to care for his baby d...…

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…THE FAMILY FRANKS: A COLONIAL DYNASTY committee. Buckman, like the board, is committed to creating an institution that is "serious and halachically based, but appeals to the wider Jewish com- munity," explained Roth. Roth added that Buckman has "an ability to connect" with adolescents and that "heartfelt" praise for Buckman came not just from the fam- ilies in his own Congregation Beth Israel, but also from the Milwaukee Jewish community at l...…

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…Sephardic co `'mui iry starts a new some in West Bloom el d. Moshe Schwab listens to speakers near a waiting shovel. SHELL' DORFMAN Editorial Assistant S Rabbi Hanoch Gez breaks ground for the new building. 4/30 1999 14 Detroit Jewish News Judith Chicorel, who emigrated to Detroit from Turkey in 1917. Finding American synagogue melodies and service formats foreign, her father organized other new Sephardic immigrants into a congre- gati...…

…place where we can point with pride and say this is where we belong." With a model of the projected build- ing behind him, the synagogue's leader, Rabbi Hanoch Gez of the Sephardic Community of Greater Detroit, noted, "We don't build the synagogue for show, but for significance." Even so, he did concede, the building \Nil' look "very nice." Michael H. Wolk, AIA, of Michael Wolk and Associates Architecture, the architect responsible for the des...…

…Running On History • • For Poles, these infamous sites are on their jogging routes. TALI ZECHORY Special to the Jewish News I like to jog. I jog through my neighborhood, the perfect suburban setting, complete with minivans, golden retrievers and children behind lemonade stands. I saw a jogger last week. She looked just like every jogger I know and she was probably on her everyday route. But this route had no golden retrievers. Hers was a...…

…"Today's Poles should be educated about the Holocaust," says Daniel Greenbaum, a March participant and sophomore at Akiva Hebrew day School in Lathrup Village. "It is a part of their history; and the Poles should be regularly confronted with it now, so that nothing like the Shoah will ever happen again." Karin Weinstein, another March participant and .a junior at West Bloomfield High School, feels that consistent, intense remembrance could be ...…

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…Rabbinic Smorgasbord NEIL RUBIN Senior Editor Baltimore ary Robuck, peeking up from a Jewish history book he was considering buying, candidly described the impression his Rabbinical Assembly convention left with him. "I've had a chance to reflect on the degree to which spirituality and the search for God will inform my work as a rabbi, and a husband, and a father," said the spiritual leader of Congregation Shaarey Tikvah in Beachwood, Ohio....…

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…4 .0 41% honored Saperstein, with President Bill Clinton seizing the opportunity to joke about Saperstein's loquacity. "When I first met him, I thought, this guy is some talker," said Clinton. "Even by the high standards of rabbis, he can talk." Others hailed Saperstein's 25-year tenure, remarkable in a city where anything more than two years is counted as a long-term job commit- ment. But his true achievement isn't sheer endurance; it's the...…

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…GS CELEB No Palestine a.. Yet Yasser Arafat backs down temporarily from a unilateral declaration of a state. JAMES D. BESSER Washington Correspondent Washington or months, officials in Washington had feared a diplomatic earthquake on May 4, when Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, terming it a "sacred date," threatened to unilateral- ly declare a Palestinian state. Instead, next week's long-feared deadline may pass with barely a rum- ble, t...…

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…ROBERT A. SKLAR Editor O CS' Jerusalem 0 "God is within us. We've just got to take the time to listen," said Sally Ginn of Temple Shir Shalom, waiting eagerly for start of Kabbalat Shabbat on the Haas Promenade overlooking the Old City. < Jerusalem provided the holiest of back drops for an outpouring of spirituality among members of Michigan Miracle Mission III. After welcoming in Shabbat April 23, the blue-and white, T-shirted tourists ...…

…Greetings From Oslo Jerusalem U.S Ambassador to Norway David Hermelin, back in Oslo following brain cancer surgery in January, sent Kabbalat Shabbat greet- ings to Michigan Miracle Mission III participants. In a moving message read by Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit President Penny Blumenstein at Kabbalat Shabbat services, Hermelin, who helped conceive the notion of a communitywide trip to Israel in 1993, said: "Nothing but the impo...…

…Educational Opportunity Detroit Jews interact with a new college for Central Galilee. ROBERT A. SKLAR Editor Tiberias, Israel s partners with Central Galileans, Jewish Detroiters have lots of options to enrich the only college in this growing region of Israel, the president of Emek Yezreel College said last week. The burden is on the Partnership 2000 development committee to educate Detroit Jews so they're more comfortable sup- porting join...…

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…Without You, The Suruiuors' Stories Might Never Get Told She comes from Przemysl, Poland. She is among the 10% of Polish Jews who survived Nazi Occupation. Now she is in her 80's. Her family's graves are overgrown and crumbling. Her experiences have gone untold. Remembrance and Reconciliation, Inc., an Ann Arbor non-profit, is working to restore Przemysl's Jewish cemetery and to publish the stories of survivors like her— in Poland, where they...…

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…A permanent place in education; golfing for dollars; Kol Ami thinks ahead. No longer floating in "interim" limbo, Judah Isaacs is now the official execu- tive director of the Agency for Jewish Education. Isaacs, a former planner for the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, joined the AJE last summer, shortly after a Jewish Education Service of North America evaluation reported widespread dissatisfaction with most of AJE's programs and a...…

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…itorials Editorials and Letters to the Editor are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.corn Jews, Guns And Violence Photo by B i ll Hansen A 9 2 :73 Battling AIDS Rabbi Marc Blumenthal, left, a former Detroiter, led the pro- gram "The Community Responds to a Rabbi Living With AIDS" on April 18 at Temple Kol Ami. He shared his story while discussing the Jewish response to AIDS, what it's like los- ing a friend to AID...…

…OPINION Kosovo Holds Meaning For Jews and military leadership if such atroci- n his recent book Kaddish, Leon ties are to be prevented. Wieseltier writes: The reason The moral imperative to act on that one must hate certain facts behalf of hundreds of thousands of is that one must prepare oneself innocent civilians is overwhelming. for the possibility of their return. If One does not have to the past were really past, then conclude that what...…

…OPINION- Holocaust because I knew — but did not understand how — the past had shaped my family and, therefore, had shaped me too. Somehow, the past was about who I am now. "I have learned that I am a member of a people with a long and great his- tory, a history that had been closed to me before and now is open." I was taken aback because I had heard those words before, in every European language and from every comer of the continent of Europe...…

…Cleaning & Storage Special The Administration, Board of Directors, Faculty, Staff and Students of Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit extends a hearty OPINION slop pre-paimiehk: , $3.00 Savings on Storage Only Yasher Koach to Rabbi Lee Buckman on his appointment as Headmaster of The Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit 181 S. Old Woodward Ave. Birmingham, MI 48009 (248) 642-1690 Monday-Saturday 9:30-5:30 Steven N. Margolin...…

…Community Calendar page 50 Kr The Hillel family observes ho ys in Israel and at home. SHELLI DORFMAN Editorial Assistant ast week, Hille. tan School of Metr„ Detroit was represented Israel on two i ''' ant days. Parents traveling Michigan Miracle Missio: alumni studying in grams joined with Israeli ing Yom HaZikaron, Isr Memorial Day, and Yord Israeli Independence Da On Tuesday, April 20.", HaZikaron commemo tyrs and heroes of Israel, d...…

…The Jewish News and Style Magazine Congratulate Kathy Johnson, Account Executive on her selection as a 1999 Sales and Marketing Executive Fab Five. 10, 20, 30, 49! Children learn that counting the days of the omer can be fun. SHELLI DORFMAN Editorial Assistant T To reach Kathy, call 248-354-7123, ext.217 STYLE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS magazine Marvin L. Kofender, MD specializing in Endocrinology and Internal Medicine takes great pleasur...…

…NC NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN GREATER DETROIT Hillel Hosts Patron Party Hillel Day School will honor their donors of $613 or more at the annual patron parry 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 5, at the Irving and Beverly Laker Education and " Youth Complex in West Bloomfield. Rabbi Ed Feinstein of Valley Beth Shalom in Encino, Calif, will be the speaker. Hors d'oeu- vres and dessert will be served. Rabbi Feinstein Rabbi Feinstein was the founding...…

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…The Trowbridge 24111 Civic Center Drive, Southfield, MI 48034 (248)-352-0208 presents its 1999 Lecture Series `fA. Salute to Detroit" ORT Salutes Golden Members The Parkwood Chapter of Women's American ORT Michigan Region will salute their golden members of 50 years at a spring luncheon at noon Wednesday, May 19, at Adat Shalom Synagogue. The 50-year women are: Dorothy Aaron, Roslyn Aronow, Sylvia Barr, Helen Baskin, Paulette Borin, Mary ...…

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…Here's Tom Rabbi Allan Kensky spiritual leader of Beth Israel Congregation in Ann Arbor for 17 years follow- ing his ordina- tion at the Jewish Theological Seminary, has Rabbi Kensky been appointed dean of the JTS Rabbinical School in New York. Daniel I. Feldman, an eighth grade student at Abbott Middle School in West Bloomfield has recently been named the win- ner in the regional Optimist Daniel Oratorical Feldman Competition for the second...…

…Calendar Calendar Listings are updated regularly on JN Online www.detroitjewishnews.com SHABBAT SHALOM! SHIR SHALOM FAMILY DINNER Temple Shir Shalom's final family din- ner of the season will be 6:30 Friday, April 30 followed by services at 7:30 featuring the youth and children's choir. Dinner: $5.67 children, $8.24 adults. RSVP: (248) 737-8700. s SZ VOLUNTEER SHABBAT Congregation Shaarey Zedek, Southfield, will honor volunteers at Volunt...…