…Contents N) DETROIT JEWISH NEWS lc] . A 2000 winner of Michigan Press Association and American Jewish Press Association awards www.detroitjewishnews.com May 4, 2001 Ivar 11, 5761 Vol. CXIX, No. 12 This Week Spirituality 20 In Limbo 63 To Russia With Love B'nai 13'rith wrestles with funding youth group amid budget hurdles. Detroit native on mission to awaken "the dormant Jew." 24 Seeking Remedy Israelis confounded by Palestinians...…
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…EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK LETTERS Letters are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.corn The Circle Of Life Do not seek greatness for yourself; and do not crave honor; let your performance exceed your learning. — Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi, Pirkei Avot/Chapter 6 T he ideal of tikkun olam — of repairing the world — is pursued daily in the Detroit Jewish community. People of all ages get involved in this pursuit through volunteer su...…
…LETTERS and Young Israel of Southfield LETTERS from page 5 Invite you to hear... Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Riskin • Chief Rabbi of Efrat Israel • Author of "Women and Jewish Divorce" and "The New Passover Haggadah" • Founder of the Lincoln Square Synagogue in Lincoln Center, Manhattan • Past chairman of the Center for Russian Jewry • Established Ohr Torah High Schools (now Ohr Torah Stone network of schools in Israel) Friday, May 18 - Family Seu...…
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…For Openers We'll help you get all your ducks in a row... •hamps First he memory of the Orchard's Children's Services energetic president/CEO Jerry Levin was the focus of 220 people at a celebra- tion April 28 in Detroit. Two years to the day after Levin died, the inaugural Champions for c hildren dinner was held at the Atheneum Suite Hotel in Greektown to honor e Southfield-based Orchard's longtime leader. The Gerald L. Levin Champion for ...…
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…Cover Story S NON-JEWISH WORKERS KEEP THE JEWISH COMMUNITY RUNNING WITH THEIR DEDICATION AND HARD WORK. JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR Special to the Jewish News Above from left: Hazel Shackelford of the Alliance for Jewish Education takes a call. Margot Parr, executive director of Jewish Home and Aging Services. Lorna Carlone at her desk at the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit. Heidi Christein, archivist at the Leonard N. Simons Jewish Comm...…
…ancy Kister remembers the first Christmas she spent with her husband-to-be and his fam- ily. As they prepared to say a prayer before a celebratory meal, her husband's mother paused in horror and looked at Kister. "Oh, I hope this doesn't offend you," she said. "You are Jewish, aren't you? "My husband told her I worked for the Jewish Home and Aging Services, but he hadn't bothered to tell her I wasn't Jewish," explained Kister, a Lutheran. Her...…
…Cover Story e special. Join us as we celebrate the Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit's first year. Special Guest Speaker Bruce J. Powell, Ph.D. An instrumental force in founding college preparatory high schools. 1,Aav 15, 2001 7:30 p ,, s us Tues a Marion and David Handleman Hall, D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building of the Jewish Community Center on the Eugene and Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus West Bloomfield Dessert Recep...…
…Its storage time light. Although these workers are not fewish, at times they have been called ipon to defend the Jewish community )utside of work. Riley, like some of the others, has ad to face down anti-Semitic arti- udes at times when people learn of is employer. Upon returning home to Ackerman, a., Riley said some of his former eighbors or friends will make derisive omments about Jews. "Where I grew p, there weren't any Jews around there o...…
…Week Bridging The Divide Nate Shapiro is an easy choice for JCCouncil's first Activist of the Year Award. HARRY KIRSBAUM Staff Writer ate Shapiro once asked a homeless man at a feeding station he set up in front of the Greyhound bus station what the man would do if he didn't get enough money to eat. "I'll walk around the neighborhood for a while, and ring a bell. If no one answers, I'll break in and take what's there," the h meless man sai...…
…You and a friend are cordially invited to be our guest for a alC9441) 6 ;1 rvat Shapiro receives the Humanitarian of the Year Award of the Federal Martin Luther King Jr Commission Coretta Scott King and William. Sessions, FBI director; 1992. 2aitate Saturday, May 12th 11:00 am - 1:30 pm Volunteers stepped up to staff 61 fferent sires in Detroit. New D. troit c., a non-profit organization, pro- ed two sandwiches and a boxed nch bought fr...…
…In Limbo ifnai Irrith wrestles with finding youth group amid severe budget hurdles. JULIE WIENER Jewish Telegraphic Agency New York 0 ne of American Jewry's oldest — and most financially beleaguered — institutions is expected to slash funding for a program repeatedly described as its "jewel in the crown." B'nai B'rith, which has seen its membership and financial resources plummet in recent years, may stop subsidizing regional programming...…
…Optimistic Speaking with B'nai grith's John Rofel, new regional _president... SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN Stair Writer 33 yen with the memory of extensive hours given to his first tenure in 1992-94, John Rofel of West Bloomfield accepted his current appointment as Great Lakes regional president of B'nai B'rith with excitement. He took over the position vacated by Senior Assistant Prosecuting Attorney of Macomb County Steven Kaplan, who resigned...…
…Does Love Conquer Faith? CC • Intermarriage survey has ominous news for Jewish continuity, AJCommittee says. JULIE WIENER Jewish Telegraphic Agency New York ewish women who are intermarried create much more Jewishly identified households than do Jewish men married to non-Jews. But regardless of whether the mother is Jewish, most interfaith families — even those rais- ing their children as Jews — incorporate substan- tial Christian celebr...…
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…Seeking A REMEDY Israelis confounded by Palestinians as intiMa shows no sign of abating. Ducking TheBUTALLTS JAMES D. BESSER Washington Correspondent or months, the Israeli government, backed by American Jewish groups across the political spec- trum, have blamed Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority (PA) as violence against Israelis surged. This week, the State Department officially acknowledged those charges in its annual Patterns of Gl...…
…might cease when Arafat reportedly issued an order last week for an end to Palestinian mortar attacks on Israel. Within days, however, the attacks resumed — and Palestinian militia members denied ever having received the order from Arafat in the first place. Applauding Suicide Even if Israel can reach agreement with Arafat on a cease-fire, many wonder whether he would be l able to deliver on the deal. Arafat often tries to shirk responsibil...…
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…News Digest B'nai B'rith Seeks Release Camp Helps Cope With Cancer Washington — Admitted spy Jonathan Jay Pollard should be freed from feder- al prison now on humanitarian grounds, B'nai B'rith International President Richard D. Heideman and Exective Vice President Daniel S. Mariaschin said in a letter sent to pres- ident George W. Bush. "Mr. Pollard served 16 and a half years of a life sentence for one charge of conveying classified inform...…
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…Insight t A Remember When .11. • . ".4:$ Open For Business From the pages of the Jewish News for this week 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. Golan Fund sends two economic emissaries to the Detroit area. 1991 DIANA LIEBERMAN Staff Writer R onnie Lotan has lived in Israel's Golan Heights since 1968, running both a kib- butz and one of Israel's most successful tourist attractions. Although he has never been involved in local or national...…
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…Editorials are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.com Expanding Repentance IF, or nearly 2,000 years, Chris- tians have, with varying degrees of animosity, held Jews liable for the death of Jesus of Nazareth. For much of that time, the condemnation was a rallying cry for overt anti-Semitic action, including, pogroms and vicious social and economic discrimination. In recent decades, however, church leaders have urged an...…
…OTHER VIEWS HaShem And A Search God's Gift To Us Jerusalem A s Jews, we have a connec- tion to the State of Israel; the only question is how connected are we? As the 35 metro Detroit high school students on the March of the Living were about to depart Israel on Sunday, Shira Stoorman, 16, of Hunt- ington Woods posed a very intriguing question: "Are we going home or are we leaving home?" I feel, though, that the answer is quite simple. Isr...…
…They Still Don't Get It 0 ne wonders if it is ever pos- sible to change anyone's mind about politically entrenched positions fre- quently the result of a lifetime of indoctrination. What will it take for some people ro admit that more than 100 years of attempting to come to genuiri,.' terms of peace with Palestinian Arabs, and particularly the last 7 1 /2 years of fruit- less land concessions, has attained vir- tually nothing? In fact, relin...…
…MONDAY ONLY! CATERA LEASES FOR EVERYONE COMMUNITY VIEWS REVITALIZING JEWISH DETROIT from page 31 AT GM EMPLOYEE DISCOUNT 2001 CATERA Downtown Synagogue while others find their way to our sanctuary as a result of company relocations to Detroit. The big question is whether the Jewish community cares to be present during the rebirth of Detroit? Lightly Represented Currently, the Jewish community is only sparsely represented in the city. ...…
…Mazel • Toy! r. Da -r 0 0 State hosts Holocaust commemoration. HARRY KIRSBAUM Staff Writer A gi Rubin didn't mind that Gov. John Engler did not attend the annual State of Michigan Holocaust Commemoration at the Capitol building in Lansing. To her, every remembrance ceremony is personal. "It's remembering our loved ones who cannot speak for themselves," said Rubin, a Holocaust survivor from Farmington Hills. "By doing this, we keep the...…
…Nate Garfinkel BILL CARROLL Special to the Jewish News E ight Over Eighty is for youngsters," exclaimed 94-year-old Irvin Forman, who lives alone and stills drives a car. "I'm ready for 'Nine Over Ninety'." That's the attitude permeating this year's group of Eight Over Eighty honorees, who will be inducted into the Jewish Apartments & Services (JAS) Senior Adult Hall of Fame Sunday, May 6, at the Hechtman Jewish Apartments on the Applebaum...…
…book chairperson, helping to raise more than a quarter of a million dollars for the religious school. She used her "cookie lady" fame as a sales tool. "Anyone who sold at least $1,000 worth of ads got a jar of my cookies," she says. Goldenberg also handled an ad book for a Jewish National Fund auction, selling $32,000 worth of advertising. She's still a JNF board member, and has received a Citation of Honor on Esther Goldenberg behalf of the J...…
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…Com mu n i ty Writ o ur re Three schools cooperate to bring an award-winning children's author to town. teacher at Yeshivat Akiva and the local library association's vice president of pro- gramming, and Linda Grekin, media spe- cialist at Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit, to invite Rosen to their schools. DIANA LIEBERMAN The author was in town April 23-24. Staff Writer "The big thing about this, in addition to the great opportunity...…
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…David Klein Gallery presents ICONIC IMAGES New Paintings by Dana Bell May 5 — May 26, 2001 Opening Reception to meet the artist Saturday, May 5, 2001 1:0 0-4:0 0 p.m. See Dana Bell's Iconic Images at dkgallery.com 163 TOWNSEND BIRMINGHAM MI 48009 TELEPHONE 248.433.3700 FAX 248.433.3702 HOURS: MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY 1 I - 5:30 The Brandeis Hebrew Language Summer Institute July 9 - August 3 Brandeis University presents its 5th annu...…
…84 Years And Still Delivering "The Fuslon of Design and Technology" ICC Cultural Arts Week Is Planned The Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit will hold a cul- tural arts week May 13-20 at both its West Bloomfield and Oak Park loca- tions. Running through the week at JET in West Bloomfield is Horowitz and Mrs. Washington. The Jeff Johnson Reverse Kinetic Art Show will be showing all week in Oak Park. On Monday, May 14, at 4 p.m....…
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