…HMC To Host Yom HaShoah Remembrance The Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills will host its annual communitywide Yom HaShoah com- memoration 2 p.m. Sunday, April 23. Yom Hashoah officially falls on April 24. The formal program, beginning with Posting of the Colors by members of the Jewish War Veterans, Department of Michigan, will be led by Rabbi Jennifer Kaluzny and Cantor Michael Smolash of West Bloomfield-based Temple Israel. Vario...…
…jews d PHOTOS BY ROBIN SCHWARTZ in the Passover Packs A Punch Hillel students bring multicultural seder to the Downtown Boxing Gym. ROBIN SCHWARTZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER T ABOVE: Rabbi Harold Loss led the seder at the gym. TOP LEFT: Detroit Boxing Gym and Hillel Day School friends enjoy a Passover seder together at the gym. TOP RIGHT: Kenedi Cain shows off her personal- ized seder plate. hey had everything prepared from the matzah to the ...…
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…jews d in the Tuesday, May 9, 2017 Passion For Politics The allure of city hall brought Lauren Mondry home to Detroit. ROBIN SCHWARTZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER S he’s getting set to move into her Midtown Detroit apartment, with a view down Woodward Avenue, in a few short weeks. Lauren Mondry, 26, of Bloomfield Hills is excited about her city digs and lov- ing her fast-paced job as a staffer with Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan’s re-election campaig...…
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…NOW PLAYING PHOTOS BY ROBERT SKLAR Scholarships for kids were the big winners at the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit’s annual golf outing in South Florida. About $75,000, a near record, was generated from registration fees, donations and a silent auction in conjunction with the 11th annual JCC Michigan-Florida Reunion Dinner, Golf Classic and Games event held March 14 at Indian Spring Country Club in Boynton Beach. Proceeds b...…
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…moments Andrew Pierce Bell will read from the Torah on the occasion of his bar mitzvah at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield on Saturday, April 22. Andrew Bell He is the loving son of Kenny Bell, and Barbi and Ben Kasoff and brother of Brooke. Andrew is the grandchild of Marcia and Sam Bell, Harvey and the late Diana Stalburg, and Barbara and Marvin Kasoff. He is a student at Derby Middle School in Birmingham. For his most meaningful mitzvah pr...…
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…spirit temple and synagogue listings LACTOSE & LEARN May 30th r 7 pm CONSERVATIVE Adat Shalom Synagogue (248) 851-5100. Ahavas Israel (Grand Rapids) (616) 949-2840. B’nai Israel Synagogue (248) 432-2729. Congregation Beth Ahm (248) 851-6880. Beth Israel (Flint) (810) 732-6310. Congregation Beth Shalom (248) 547-7970. Beth Tephilath Moses (Mt. Clemens) (586) 468-2573. Join us at Temple Israel as we deliciously celebrate Shavuot, w...…
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…music COURTESY OF THE DEFIANT REQUIEM FOUNDATION/DESIGNED BY GUT INSTINCT CREATIVE arts&life Hope From Horror SUZANNE CHESSLER CONTRIBUTING WRITER Maestro Murry Sidlin brings his multimedia Defi ant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin — a true story of art and courage during the Holocaust — to Detroit. 44 April 20 • 2017 M urry Sidlin happened by a sidewalk used- book sale and noticed Music in Terezin, 1941-1945 by Joza Karas. The title ...…
…“There they were — starving, mostly sick and living in horror — and yet the arts and humanities were looked upon as nutrition and elements of survival.” — Murry Sidlin TO EDUCATE AND UPLIFT The Michigan showings of the concert-drama Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin will be supplemented with a number of programs supported by an honorary committee headed by Joanne Danto and Arnold Weingarden. “There has been a year of planning to bring this ...…
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…on the go continued from page 51 CAREGIVER SUPPORT 1:30-3:30 pm April 25. Dorothy & Peter Brown Jewish Community Adult Day Care Program offers several caregiver sup- port groups each month. This Alzheimer’s Association daytime group is for family caregivers of older adults with memory loss; respite care may be available. At JVS, 29699 Southfield Road, Southfield. Free. RSVP: Dorothy Moon, dmoon@jvsdet.org or 248- 233-4392. Free; bring own c...…
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…soul of blessed memory A Proud Humanist With A Social Conscience ESTHER ALLWEISS INGBER CONTRIBUTING WRITER F or National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) in December 1974, Beatrice “Bea” Rowe coor- dinated a dinner to commemorate the anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1948. “We really have to take this document and put it to work,” Bea said prior to the event. A proud h...…
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…Erwin Deutsch’s young life came to an end during the shoah. But his memory lives on, thanks to a family from farmington hills. More than a million children perished in the Nazi death camps. Since children guarantee the future of the Jewish WLVWSL[OL`^LYLHTVUN[OLÄYZ[[VMHSS prey to the Nazi killing machine. It’s up to us to keep the memory of these children alive so that they are more than mere statistics of a long ago atrocity. Join the Adop...…
…We humbly applaud the following participants for accepting the caring mitzvah of saying Kaddish for children murdered during the Shoah. Name Of Participant Adopted Child’s Name Name Of Participant Adopted Child’s Name Ellen Abramson ADAT SHALOM SYNAGOGUE Rachel Adler Elaine Aidem Gladys Allen Susan Alterman Philip Arbit Arm Family Elissa Berg Maxine Berman Anne & David Berris CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM Janice Biederman Shari Bills Thalia Bi...…
…soul of blessed memory continued from page 61 Pruchno SAMUEL PRUCHNO, 90, of Southfield, died April 10, 2017. He was vice president of Normac, a tool and die company, and retired at age 75 after a very successful career. Mr. Pruchno fulfilled his dream of becoming an artist and depicted the hor- rors of the Holocaust in seven works of art that are on loan at the Holocaust Museum in Farmington Hills. His paintings bear witness to his exper...…
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…looking back Rabbi Richard Hertz of Temple Beth El, Rabbi Irwin Groner of Congregation Shaarey Zedek and Rabbi James Gordon of Young Israel of Oak Woods (now known as Young Israel of Oak Park) visit the West Bank of the Suez Canal in Israel after the Six-Day War, circa 1969. • Courtesy Professor Samuel and Lillian Levin Archives of Congregation Shaarey Zedek From the DJN Davidson Digital Archive T he April 24, 1942, issue of the JN is a ...…
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…views guest column AJC Opens Central Europe Office In Warsaw A JC, the global Jewish advo- cacy organization, opened its newest international office in Warsaw in March. Named AJC Central Europe, it covers seven countries — Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Slovakia. David Harris Why such an office? There are several timely and press- ing reasons for intensified engage- ment. These nations form one-fourth of th...…
