…PHOTO BY BILL HANSEN Introducing The ALL NEW 1997 , --1,00,11 1 ASYSMIORS, by Oldsmobile. West Bloomfield school board candidates Beth Danto Borson, Robert Lieberman and Sharon Bader Lipton. Across The Board In the West Bloomfield schools race, all the candidates are Jewish. JULIE WIENER STAFF WRITER F or years, many Jews have held positions on local school boards. But in this year's election in West Bloomfield, all three school boar...…
…Lag B'Omer is considered by some to be the central day of the Kabbalistic calendar. LYNNE MEREDITH COHN STAFF WRITER of preparation to Shavuot." He says each com- munity has the op- tion to determine during which 33 days of the Omer marriages cannot be performed. "Everybody agrees, however, that on Lag B'Omer you are permitted to Many Orthodox Jews bring their 3-year-old sons to have weddings," Rabbi Mount Meron on Lag B'Omer for a first hai...…
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…Bar/Bat Mitzvah Brian Finstad, brother of Lahna and Evon and grandchild of Ros- alyn and Seymour Pearlman and Mildred Finstad and the late Bjarne Finstad. Planting trees in Israel was a special mitzvah project. Zack at- tends Warner Middle School and his interests include rollerblad- ing, floor hockey, video and com- puter games. Lauren Nest Lauren Elissa Nest will celebrate her bat mitzvah at Temple Israel on Friday, May 23. She is the dau...…
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…saes Judaism celebrates coupling, especially at the soul level. LYNNE MEREDITH COHN STAFF WRITER f you asked the couples you know, they'd probably all say that they are each other's soul mates. But chances are, some of them are not. What is a soul mate? And what does Judaism say about the concept of two souls destined throughout time to be together? A lot. Rabbi Shmuel Irons, a revered scholar and head of the Kollel Institute in Oak Park, ...…
…/- not soul mates," Rabbi Irons says. What is a soul mate? Some people say it is where the line be- tween two people blurs; when you look at your partner and literal- ly see yourself; when, the mo- ment you meet, you're hit with the sense that you must be with that person. Rabbi Irons describes it is "a tremendous spiritual attraction" combined with compatible per- sonalities and common life goals — "not just physical attraction." A person wi...…
…Dates That Rate The best dates you've had (or hope to .,.) JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER Ax< Rowboating on the moonlit lake underneath a starry sky is Rick Goren's idea of a great date. As a staffer at Camp Tama- rack, Goren has access to a glassy lake or two, along with a pretty view and a gazebo at what is known in Tamarack circles as the Overlook. Con- versation into the wee hours would complete the picture, says the Farmington }Ells res- ...…
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…Only an American can help elect the largest Diaspora delegation to the World Zionist Organization's Centennial Congress. LIFE page 63 Send for your ballot today. You don't have to be Israeli to vote on issues affecting Israel. In selecting the delegates that America will send to the 33rd World Zionist Congress, we go straight to you. Each and every qualified American Jew is offered an opportunity to vote. From the concept of a homeland to t...…
…reen scenes Greetings and salutations, fellow J News readers! In an at- tempt to keep y'all updated with a hip-hop roundup of peo- ple, places and events, welcome to Green Scenes. Once a month, look here for a lively, fun and at times crazy overview of what's going on in and around the Detroit area's young adult Jewish community. I'll try to have the good, the bad, the gossip, the questions you want answered — everything you've been dying to ...…
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…e Lan Detroit teens on the March of the Living learn a lesson in unity. STORY AND PHOTOS BY JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR 0 utside the gates of Majdanek, a kicked in. Money was committed by pri- forsythia bush blooms. vate individuals as well as from co-spon- With each branch dotted by sors the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan vibrant yellow flowers, the for- Detroit, the Agency for Jewish Education, sythia stands in sharp contrast to the grey The...…
…Non lin , v; 14% tqlkk katub May 2, 1997 "Right now I am in a field between the rows of barracks and I observed out of this field of slaughter a flower growing from the cen- ter of it. I guess the flower shows that at one time this wasn't a field where people were killed. It was a field where children played and people sat and were happy." — Adam Globerson "I just walked through an entire barrack of shoes ... There was a certain red high h...…
…"With Israeli flags blowing in the breeze and our heads held high, we marched for life, we marched as Jews, we marched as one ... Despite our different backgrounds and beliefs, we all joined together for the same purpose and that is to always remember and never forget what happened to the Jews in this century. It is also to celebrate --- Hitler may have succeeded in mur- dering six million Jews, but he failed in his ultimate attempt to ex- ter...…
…'We had an hour and a half to fight the crowds in the hustle for shabbat. The colors, sounds and smells created a rainbow-like atmosphere. A mood of joyous festiveness filled the marketplace. It's fun to know that this happens every Friday afternoon." — Amanda Warner May 10, 1997 "After dinner, we had a Yam Hazikaron cer- emony. At 10 p.m. a siren rang across the country and everyone stopped, stood, silent. The siren startled me at first. ...…
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