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…May 29, 1998 Vol. CXIII No. 14 Up Front 9 Up Front. page 26 Dynamic Duo Two men lend their enthusiasm for Judaism to a nursing home. AppleTree 71 Great Ideas Creating an historical family album is a great keepsake gift. Close Ilp 79 Out 6- About. page 84 In The Middle How did this Orthodox rabbi become Christian right's darling? Entertainment 84 86 97 98 Out & About Heart And Soul A day-long festival in Chicago celebrates Jewish...…

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…Retooling The Agency for Jewish Education hires an interim director amid staff vacancies and uncertainty about its future. 0 sion to hire an interim rather than permanent director, said Giles. But an equally important factor was the fluid nature of the 6-year-old agency, which is undergoing an evaluation of its services and goals that has been commissioned by the Federation. The evaluation is expected to be complet- ed by late June. "We'd l...…

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…Front Notice of ANNUAL MEETING OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT The Jewish Community Center Annual Meeting will take place on Thursday, June 18, 1998, 7:00 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building, West Bloomfield. The following business will be conducted at the meeting: In accordance with the by laws of the Jewish Community Center, the Nominating Committee has met and designated the following...…

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…of the European Jews who emigrated to Palestine in the early part of the century to form kibbutzim, are suffer- ing from an aging membership. Naimark said each time she and her husband Norman have attended an LZA convention, there are fewer and fewer numbers. She expects between 80 and 100 people at next week's con- vention. The LZA supports Israel's Labor Party, the Oslo accords and religious pluralism. But its funds support pro- gramming an...…

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…Front In The Beginning... Congregation ffnai Moshe kicks off the scribing of a refer Torah. JULIE EDGAR News Editor BILL HANSEN Photographer ongregation B'nai Moshe launched the scribing of a new Torah this month with a celebration. The "Torahtaynu" ("Our Torah") brought chil- dren and adults up close to an existing scroll, to understand the painstaking process of scribing, and put in their hands historic Torah artifacts owned by the West...…

…Opposite page: Hope She herd, 7, scroll. shows oft This page, clockwise from left: Using the traditional turkey quill, Rabbi Zvi Chaim Pincus inscribes the first letter of the sefer Torah. Gary Zucker, 6, creates his own scroll. Brandon Rottman and his dad, Michael, read from Leviticus. A 400-year-old syna- gogue artifact. / …

…This & That Photo by Glenn Triest History sought; local teen chosen as a fellow. Yad Ezra stockpiles food for the hungry. The family of Jaime Deitsch, who became bat mitzvah last weekend at Temple Kol Ami, donated table cen- terpieces from the party to Yad Ezra, the Oak Park-based kosher food bank. Janet Deitsch said the kids' tables InteaktAigr" WIMP kept to the bat mitzvah's Wizard of Oz theme, but the adult tables featured groupings o...…

…Shavuot Birthday Of The Jews Shavuot is the story of spring turning into summer and freedom ripening through law. We call Shavuot Hag ha-Katzir, Festival of the Grain Harvest, and Hag ha-Bikkurim, Fes- tival of the First Fruits. For on Shavuot, which this year starts at sundown Saturday, the sixth of Sivan, Jews and others who yearn for rain to water their crops may celebrate fulfillment of the promise of spring. On a more spiritual plane, Sh...…

…C011111111ITY VIEWS Seeing More: The Ties That Bind jr RANIA SABA AND JENNY STRAUS Z Special to The Jewish News envy and I each have friends and relatives living in the Mid- dle East. One of Jenny's best friends, Chen, lives in Timrat, Israel. I have seen pictures of Chen, read some of her letters and even lis- tened to a tape that she made for Jenny's birthday last year. I feel like I know the girl. Jenny has also seen lots of pictures a...…

…EDITOR'S WATCH Planned Educational Partnership Between Federation And Synagogues Holds Promise tion settles on, the supplemental schools es, Federation should fund should be held accountable. Federation synagogue schools, just as should require them to document how they do day schools. their allocation strengthens Jewish iden- It's a prudent idea whose tity and unity among their students. time has come. To allay fears of favoritism, Federa- ...…

…OPINION During Search For A Director, We Must Stand Behind The Ecumenical Institute book. And from Avot 2:21, "You are he Rev. Dr. James R. Lyons not required to complete the work, ("Jim" to most of us) is a but neither are you free to desist from name probably known to it," was the heading of his goodbye, most Jewish News readers. A which told us that while he had frequent contributor to Community "walked in the valley of the shadow of View...…

…Bruce® hardwood floors their fulfill- ment as Christians, but who need teach- ers and guides and sign- painters. And surely we all know that a "one- person The Rev. James Lyons show" is a cop-out whereby we let "him" do "our" work and we get off easy. And in that sense, Jim's death is as big a challenge as it is a loss. It is the opportunity for us — Jews and Chris- tians — to make the mission of the institute our mission, not just us sup- po...…

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…will be sufficient to satisfy the Arabs. First, Arabs in Israel demand 13 per- cent more land be given to Yassir Arafat and the PLO. This is in addition to the 35 percent of the Judea-Samarian hills that the Palestinian Authority holds for their homeland. Seven Jewish towns have been given back to the Arabs and the Arabs want linkages to make Pales- tine. Second, how much more will be at risk? The Likud Party will give only nine percent more o...…

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…ra- heran is e leading sponsor of inter- national terrorism. Even President Khatemi, a self-described moder- ate, has endorsed'theers of Death to America!' and referred to Israel as a 'racist, terrorist regime," Baer wrote. He said the project is in viola- tion of the 1996 Iran-Libya Sanc tions Act. The U.S. waiver "sends the wrong signal to Teheran and even to our allies," Baer wrote. In his letter, Baer pointed out that the Argentine governm...…

…Jewry's Role in Human Health ON THE FRONTIERS OF MEDICAL RESEARCH The late, great humorist, Sam Levinson, once addressed these remarks to anti-semites: "It's a free world; you don't have to like Jews, but if you don't, I suggest you boycott certain Jewish products like the Wassermann test ; digitalis discovered by Dr. Nuslin; insulin discovered by Dr. Minofsky; chloral hydrate discovered by Dr. Lifreich; the Schick test; vitamins discovered ...…

…H some of those delivery systems will end up on the world market to help defray development costs. On the diplomatic front, the inten- sifying crisis on the Indian subconti- nent will distract administration atten- tion from the sputtering effort to revive Middle East peace talks before Israeli- Palestinian tensions explode into wholesale violence. For more than a year, the adminis- tration has expended a disproportion- ate amount of energy o...…

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…ash Secr ei4j, ow Habonim Dror Ends Season ow Habonim Dror will thank this year's tzevet (counselors) Roey Phillips, Max Sussman and Natalie Ram (all teenagers in high school) at a picnic 2- 5 p.m. Sunday, May 31, at Inglenuk Park, 12 Mile across from Beth Achim. Desserts and pop will be served. Par- ents and siblings are included. For information, call Roey Phillips, (248) 399-1650, or Sara Canning, (248) 353-4228. HMC Trains New Docents...…

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