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…Contents DETROIT JEWISH NEWS A 2000 winner of Michigan Press Association and American Jewish Press Association awards N ww-w.detroitjewishnews.com April 27, 2001 Iyar 4, 5761 Vol. CXIX, No. 11 This Week Spirituality 14 A Day To Remember 58 By Women, For Women Holocaust Memorial Center commemorates Yom HaShoah. Opinion Beth Shalom seder brings women together through music, verse. Arts & Entertainment 28 The Issue Is Us 68 Write ...…
…9%0° 9%3° 10%0° 10%3° 0%00 1-V•3° 12%0° 12%3° 1%00 1%30 2% 0° 2%3° 3%0° 3%3° 4%00 5%0° We salute the following donors for their generous support Event 5oonsor Kenwai Steel Corporation Award Underwriter Comerica Incorporated Active Aero Group • Edw. C. Levy Co. • Ford Motor Company Fund • Guardian Industries Corp. • Halo Brand Marketing • Hayes Lemmerz International • Star Trax Corporate Events • Visteon Corporation Austin Financial G...…
…EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK LETTERS Letters are posted and archived on JN Online: wvvw detro tj ewis h n ews. co m A "Never Again!" s valuable as survivors are to discrediting Hitler's madness, Jewish teenagers hold the key to spreading the story of the Shoah so its hor- ror forever remains etched in the minds of people everywhere. That became char to me this week, as we marked Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), Yom HaZikaron (Israel Memorial...…
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…hi i For Openers F Different From All Other Days first-graders at Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit celebrated the first model seder of their school career April 4. As proud parents, grandparents and siblings looked on, they chanted traditional prayers and songs. While it was the first Hillel seder for 6- year-old Bennett Magy of Birmingham, his grandmother, Rose N/Iagy of Farmington Hills, attends at least one every year. "I alwa...…
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…Staff Notebook Christian Reconciliation Spotlighted When asked to speak at a first-time HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance international conference on Christian Day, shortly before the sounding of a reconciliation in Israel, David Blewett siren of commemoration. expected to address an audience of "I had just begun to read a list of 13 100 in a large conference room. Christian sins," he says. "I included "But there were close to 1,000 peo- pogrom...…
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…A DAV TO EMEMSER Holocaust Memorial Center's annual Yom HaShoah program commemorates those who perished. HARRY KIRSBAUM Staff Writer somber mood fell over the crowd in Handleman Hall at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield on Sunday as 575 metro Detroiters paid tribute to the 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust. The commemoration, spon- sored by the Holocaust Memorial Center and Shaarit Haplaytah of Detroit, included a dan...…
…Oak Park JCC hosts Yom HaShoah program. SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN Staff Writer hen Dr. Charles Silow invited Holocaust sur- vivors to an April 23 Yom HaShoah program to light a candle in memory of loved ones, he was astounded by the number who came forward. "Eighteen people came up," says Dr. Silow, director of Detroit Medical Center Sinai-Grace Hospital's Program for Holocaust Survivors and Families. "It was the number chai, which means life,...…
…Remembering The Fallen More than 500 pay tribute to the men and women who lost their lives in defense of Israel. SHARON LUCKERMAN Editorial Assistant IT IDF soloist Maya Lahyani sang Ma Avarech ("How Can I Bless"), followed by a few words from the last Israeli soldier to be wounded in Lebanon, Sgt. Runn Israeli. Guest speaker Brig. Gen. Eival Giladi paid tribute to the 18,000 sol- diers who lost their lives since Israel's fight for indepe...…
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…This Week Washington Watch Marc Rich Fallout Holocaust Council chair beats attack; Bush at memorial; education plans; charitable choice. JAMES D. BESSER Washington Correspondent T he effort by dissident mem- bers of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council to force the resignation of the chair- man, Rabbi Irving "Yitz" Greenberg, fizzled last week as both sides in the rancorous debate pulled back from the brink. On Thursday, the council unan...…
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…Backing Israel Nationalfideration leaders plan rallies, debate monetary support for Israel. JULIE WIENER Jewish Telegraphic Agency meetings of the United Jewish Communities, the federation system's umbrella group. They come at a time when the organized Jewish community is eager New York to help Israel but is not entirely certain how to do it. ager to show they stand alongside Israel The federations decided this week not to launch a during t...…
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…OTHER VIEWS Helping Light The Way Through One Man's Eyes Krakow, Poland pon arriving in Poland on April 17, the Detroit dele- gation of the March of the Living wasted no time in beginning an extremely emo- tional trip. Among the participants were 15 Israeli teens, 35 metro Detroit high school stu- dents, a wonder- ful staff and two YAARA EFRAT Holocaust sur- RAGOWSKY vivors, who came Special along to share Commentary their stories. The trip...…
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…Believe ■ o Todd Sachse, Jonathan Brateman top Yeshivat Akiva's honorees. DIANA LIEBERMAN Staff Writer T odd Sachse, builder, real estate specialist and community benefac- tor, nearly became Todd Sachse, M.D. "I was majoring in pre-med," he said. "I took the MCAT (Medical College Admission Test) and was accepted in medical school. "Then I made that famous call to my mother: 'You know what? I'm not going to medical school. I've decided t...…
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…Here's To.... Seth Jacobson of Southfield, a 1999 graduate of Yeshivat Akiva, landed a role in Yeshiva University's spring production of Mister Roberts in New York. Parents are Hedy and Bruce Jacobson. Joshua Rubin is a seventh-grader at Abbott Middle School in West Bloomfield. His sci- ence project, "Electrical Output of Wind Turbines," was one of several selected to repre- sent his school in the 44th annual Science and Engineering Fair of ...…
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