…JN Contents JNOnline.us April 20-26, 2006 22-28 Nissan, 5766, Vol. CXXIX, No. 11 Nutritionally Speaking By Barbara Bezims, RD, integrated Nutrition, ELC Metro Technion Advances 15 Pioneering medical researcher to discuss stem cells. Yom HaShoah community programs will honor the victims. World/Israel The Darfur Genocide 21 nswer: Dear Laura, Ac- cording to the recent ANati onal Health and Nutri- tion Examination Survey, roughly one-...…
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…Publisher's Letter Parting The Sea With Matzah A 11 right, admit it. When it comes to Jews and food, there is no better example of the unbreakable link between our culture, heritage, religion and stom- achs than Passover. We don't need fancy demographic studies to tell us that listening to the story of our Exodus from Egypt at a seder (that is, when our mouths aren't full or we haven't collapsed on the sofa from eating exhaustion) is the mo...…
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…Menthe Front Lines This Week F RCP Springtime Spruce-Up Young Activist Sarah Lerman-Sinkoff, 15, of West Bloomfield is planning on joining the April 30 rally in Washington, D.C., against the genocide in Darfur. A member of Habonim Dror, a socialist Zionist youth move- ment, Sarah is an experienced social activist who also attended ° the Washington rally in support of Israel in 2002. She says her parents, Drs. Ruth Lerman and Mark Sinkoff...…
…Front Lines SNAPSHOTS Meet one of the faces of success Yakir Muszkat, M.D., is a board-certified gastroenterologist at Henry Ford Medical Center—West Bloomfield, and a member of the Henry Ford Medical Group. "Growing up, I always envisioned myself using medicine and technology to help people," says Dr. Muszkat. "I've gotten a lot of satisfaction in my practice from seeing people get better, especially if they're cured." After his residenc...…
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…Metro Technion Advances Pioneering medical researcher to discuss stem cells. Don Cohen Special to the Jewish News I srael is widely recog- nized for its leading and pioneering role in human stem-cell research, and Technion–Israel Institute of Technology's Dr. Karl Skorecki is one of the reasons. Skorecki has made headlines around the world with his groundbreaking stem cell and genetic research. He led a team that developed a novel experi-...…
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…ART Sale 2 Days Only! JTS To Honor Couples Leaders of area Conservative con- gregations will be honored at this year's Jewish Theological Seminary Gala, Monday, May 8, at Congregation B'nai Moshe. Shin Award recipients are Mitchell and Michele Bleznak, Michael and Rosalind Grand, Howard and Lilly Jacobson, Richard and Karen Minkin and Ralph and Beverly Woronoff. The Shin award is presented to outstand- ing individuals who embody a com- mitme...…
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…DIGEST Prayer Breakfast An interfaith prayer breakfast is set for 8:30-11a.m. Monday, May 1, at Cobo Center, room W-154. The speakers will be the Rev. Dr. Eileen W. Lindner, deputy general secretary, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA; Dr. Kimberlydawn Wisdom, Michigan surgeon general; and Carl Levin, U.S. senator. The Call to Action Prayer Breakfast, which is the inaugural event for Cover the Uninsured Week 2006, is design...…
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…World Save The Date Detroit coalition raises awareness for Darfur rally in Washington. Harry Kirsbaum Staff Writer B efore he took the stage Sunday at the Jewish Community Center in Oak Park to rouse a Detroit audience to action, Matthew Emry of the New York City- based American Jewish World Service (AJWS), sat down with the Jewish News to talk about the dire situation in the Darfur region of the Sudan. In the last year, more than 400,000...…
…World / Israel Featuring Israeli bomb disposal experts look for evidence where a Palestinian suicide BORN TO KVETCH bomber blew himself up near Tel Aviv's old Central Bus Station on April 17. After The Bombing Israel looks at options after nine are killed in Tel Aviv. A hilarious and enlightening performance by MICHAEL WEX p Tel Aviv JTA and Jerusalem Post Author of the NY Times, LA Times, Amazon Bestseller BORN TO KVETCH Recently h...…
…• at a metal shop in the Gaza Strip. IDF spokesmen said the shop is used to fabricate rockets fired at Israeli settlements. President Bush called Monday's suicide bombing "a despicable act of terrorism, for which no excuse or justification is possible He said the burden for preventing terrorist acts rests with the Palestinian Authority, and noted that Hamas leaders defended the attack. The British foreign secretary, Jack Straw, called the att...…
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…Opinion OTHER VIEWS An Ecumenical Seder T he Passover seder is not only the retelling of the past. It is a cel- ebration of the birthing of free- doms. The Hagaddah teaches us that we, not only our forebears, are liberated from Mitzrayim and not only from Egypt, but every narrow place. We are taught to go beyond telling about the departure from Mitzrayim for "all these are wor- thy of praise." It is with this in mind that the American Jewi...…
…to repent and change their unjust ways in order to avoid destruction. Today, in a sense, the whole world is Nineveh, in danger of annihilation and in need of repen- tance and redemption, and each one of us must be a Jonah, with a mission to warn the world that it must turn from waste, materialism, greed and injustice in order to shift the world from its present perilous path. Making Earth Day 2006 an envi- ronmental Shabbat, with sermons, clas...…
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…To Life! ON THE COVER Eli Scherr leads the seder for Cynthia S., Mary K., Maxine L., JARC Grand home manager Lisa Green and Ruben D. A Seat For Everyone On Passover, JARC assures clients a place at the seder table. She'll Liebman Dorfman Staff writer Armando Riot Staff photographer T his year I read Mah nishtana halayla hazeh? in the Haggadah," said Ruben D. "I used to go to seders at my cousin's house in Oak Park. Now we have one at m...…
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…DIG C Illuminate your life... at the Temple Israel Leader Robert J. Gordon of Huntington Woods, a partner with the law firm of Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss, has been named president of Temple Israel in West Bloomfield. He has been. a member for . two decades and has served as an officer for 12 years. Together Gordon with the officers, board of trustees, clergy and staff, he will oversee the temple's opera- tions and lay leadership. Response...…
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…The soldiers I worked with and met at Quitziot are the soldiers who defend Israel's borders daily and maintain her weaponry. They are some of the most courageous people I have ever met — not because they will be deco- rated soldiers one day, because they will not be. Not because they are bril- liant people, because many of them were not, but because they do what they are required to do in the name of Israel and the Jewish people. These soldier...…
…1 To Life! SPORTS Baseball Trivia Holocaust Center docent once played in the big leagues. Hollywood. Gable was at the top of his game at the age of 57 and was starring in two movies that day. playing around the major and minor league circuit..Besides Gable, Run Silent, Run Deep featured Burt • Lancaster and Teacher's Pet co-starred Doris Day. On Foreman's great day, music maker Irving Berlin celebrated his 70th birthday. Former Detroit Ti...…
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…TORAH PORTION David Klein Gallery presents Burning. Bush Brothers Inc. Shabbat Mevarechim, Parshat Shemini: Leviticus 9:1-11:47; II Samuel 6:1-7:17. H and asks why they haven't ow do family eaten their portion. This businesses sur- is a tense moment. Moses vive and even rebukes Aaron's remaining thrive? No matter how lov- sons just hours after their ing the relationship, there brothers are killed. Perhaps, are bound to be times of as the...…
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…Arts & Entertainment A scene from The Beauty Academy of • Kabul Jewish filmmaker's documentary on Afghani beauty school screens at Detroit Film Theatre. oks Naomi Pfefferman Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles W hen Liz Mermin flew to Afghanistan to shoot her docu- mentary The Beauty Academy of Kabul in 2003, she was con- sumed by dread. Never mind that she had previously trailed abortion doctors dodging mur- derous pro-lifers for...…
…I Arts & hntertainment Detroit Revolutionary During the McCarthy-era witch-hunts, he was jailed for six months before his conviction was overturned. Later, after learning of Stalin's crimes, Wellman left the Communist Party and focused on pro- Saul Wellman, born in Brooklyn to labor, anti-war and other causes, becoming Russian Jewish immigrant parents, came a•mentor to a new generation to radicalism early. Expelled of activists. from high sc...…
…orchestra, with ily-friendly concert featuring Israeli Spanish guitar- musician Avraham Meir on Sunday, . ist Sir Angel April 23, beginning at 3 p.m. Romero as Meir, now 27, was born and raised soloist; Claude in England and began his musical Debussy's education at an early age. He earned a "Iberia" from bachelor's degree in English language Images; and the and literature from the University of DSO premieres Manchester. While studying there, h...…
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…55 & counting Kitty Dubin's new play confronts issues faced by aging baby boomers. boomers suddenly having to adjust to a have spent a week together, vacationing whole different stage in their lives:' Orbach - with their spouses at a cottage on Lake Diana Lieberman said. Michigan. At the start of the play, Holly, a Special to the Jewish News "She uses a truly legitimate premise recent widow, arrives alone and inconsol- — as she has in her ea...…
…Arts & Entertainment Noble Instrument Clarinetist Eli Eban, son of the late Israeli ambassador Abba Eban, performs with nn Arbor Symphony Orchestra. Suzanne Chessler Special to the Jewish News larinetist Eli Eban, about to have his debut per- fOrmance with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, arrives with many connections. Eban has worked with maestro Arie Lipsky, taught clarinet to Lipsky's wife and appeared in Ann Arbor with the Israel Phi...…
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…Er Arts & Entertainment Never To Forget ooks, film, music explore Holocaust themes. • UST KNO V ■ 401/4CiltiliST AS Tilt Eric ItiSICPY OF filf. vN t1 t$ Suzanne. Chessler Special to the Jewish News ,,AtI5," MENN5A,Al SSA,ES talt.D0 H ST.tf'S ”010CAOST MFAACIS+Pa, MUSEUM AFTER D YBREAK TNE LIBERATION OF EN tiE olocaust Remembrance Day, observed April 25 this year, recalls those who were lost and honors those who survived — some...…
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