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…INSIDE: Community Calendar 37 Mazel Toy! 39 OPEN-HEARTED HEROES Senior adult volunteers win "Eight Over 80" hall offame honors. 33 BILL CARROLL Special to the Jewish News fight men and women with diverse back- grounds and interests, but who are all devot- ed to charity work and volunteerism are this year's honorees in the Jewish Apartments & Services Eight Over 80 program. They will be inducted into the Senior Adult Hall of Fame Sund...…
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…THE PUBLIC Is INVITED To HEAR Israel's Leading Activist Attorney Walter M Stark Viewers of WDIV-TV in Detroit might have seen Stark, 83, deliver the Pledge of Allegiance to the American flag recently — a proud moment for a man who fled Nazi Germany as a youngster with his family, then became a successful busi- nessman while devoting much of his time to charity and community service. "My dad could have spent much more time devoted to his ...…
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…Upcoming Events in Metro Detroit Rabbi Sherwin Wine, Congregations; Neil Michaels, Women's Groups; Morton Klein, Clubs & Affiliates; Rabbi Daniel Nevins, Lunch and Learn. YOM HAZIKARON Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit — Monday, May 5, 7:30 p.m. An officer from the Israel Defense Forces will represent the military in a memorial ceremony. Adat Shalom Synagogue. (248) 642-4260. YOM HAATZMAUT Flint Jewish Community — Sunday, May 4, ...…
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…Community Event Planning Ttatle Show 0 lo ot Mazel Toy! Sund ay, August 17, 2003 100 4: a :0 0 am pm At the DoubleTree Hotel, Novi path DOUR LETREE: - 11°1 HOTEL Noel Bar / Bat Mitzvahs 0 Social 0 Corporate Events Planners© Decorators o Entertainers° Photographers 0 Gifts o Foodo More... New Arrivals April 8 Jill (Kofender) and Anthony Schram are delighted to announce the birth of their daughter, Chloe Alexa. She is welcomed by pro...…
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…will be her parents, Sharon and Bob Resnick, sister Carolyn, grandparents Edie and Donn Resnick of Bloomfield Township and Joan and Norman Gurevich of Kensington, Md. Meme is an honor student at Warner Middle School in Farmington Hills. She enjoys reading, dancing, skiing and play- ing the saxophone. Her mitzvah projects included making dolls at Hadassah House in West Bloomfield, working at Yad Fgra in Berkley, and volunteering at the Eagle El...…
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…GACH-MINTZ G ail and Sidney Mintz of West Bloomfield are delight- ed to announce the engage- ment of their daughter Amy Lauren to David Herman Gach, son of Shelley Gach of Huntington Woods and the late Harold Gach. Amy earned her bachelor of fine arts degree in art education from Michigan State University and is completing her master's degree in art education at Wayne State University. She is employed as an art teacher in the South Lyon Scho...…
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…INSIDE Synagogue List 50 Torah Portion 52 Pops concert introduces Temple Israel's newest cantorial soloist and his future wife — to the community. DIANA LIEBERMAN A New Direction StaffWriter/Copy Editor Life has been a whirlwind for the Toronto-born Michaels ever since he first met with Rabbi Loss last year. At the time, he was seeking a rabbi to officiate at his wedding to Garza, a Troy native. A new career was not even on his radar...…
…Weituality Temple Israel Sisterhood Presents ART FAIR 2003 LOVE AND HARMONY from page 45 Outstanding works of Art and Merchandise from the USA & Israel Sunday & Monday, May 4th & 5th 10 a.m. to 4p.m. at Temple Israel, 5725 Walnut Lake Rd. W. Bloomfield • 248.661.5700 Lunch available at our Temple Avenue Café LEGACY JEWELRY is a proud to Support Temple Israel Sisterhood by donating 10% of every purchase made at LEGACY JEWELRY from May ...…
…in advertisers online www.detroitjewishnews.com/advertisers Women's Series Plans Last Session Eilu v' Eilu's Rosh Hodesh-oriented study series for women, Kedushat Hahodesh (Sanctifying the New Month), will hold its last davening session with Rabbi Amy Ruth Bolton Sunday, May 4, at 10 a.m., at Congregation Shaarey Zedek West Bloomfield, B'nai Israel Center. Rabbi Bolton, who helped to develop the current learning format, has been alternatin...…
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…//494/494 B'nai Moshe Offers Hebrew Conversation Congregation B'nai Moshe will offer a 16-week beginner Hebrew conver- sation class on Thursdays from noon to 2 p.m., starting May 1. The instructor will be community educator Ahuva Newman. All are welcome. Tuition is $320 plus $20 for textbook and study materials. There are tuition discounts for mem- bers of B'nai Moshe and for Jewish educators and Jewish communal agency staffers. Students are...…
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…COVER S TORY A E L Detroiters joined Israelis in the fight for statehood through deed and spirit. he making of a nation was not accomplished with a single United Nations vote. In Israel's case, it took prayers, hope, sweat and money. And it didn't matter where you lived — every Jew could contribute to the establishment of the Jewish homeland. Detroit Zionists claimed an unflagging loyalty to Israel, which turns 55 on May 7, Yom HaAtzmaut. S...…
…SRAEL AT 5 5 Israel's Greatest Generation 1948 veterans fight a final battle 55 years later AYELET BECHAR Jewish Renaissance Media Jerusalem 0 relative military strength of the two sides in the war — was it really David vs. Goliath? — and the origins of the Palestinian refugee problem. In doing so, they are challenging the basic premises surrounding not just the war but also the moral ground on which Israel stands. No wonder that Zahik ...…
…Later, in the kitchen, Sara says, memory. After the seminar, she invit- "We have been married for more ed a reporter to her home in than 50 years, and he is still court- Jerusalem to talk "properly." ing me like its the first day." The first thing a visitor to Sara's In their small and tidy apart- home hears is Marlene Dietrich's ment, the couple keeps an orderly voice, along with the typical scratchy archive of pictures from the war, n sounds...…
…ISRAEL AT 5 5 DEAN OF AMERICAN JEWRY Max Fisher subscribes to the notion that "Israel exists so Jews may exist." PETER GOLDEN Jewish Renaissance Media M were struggling to build a Jewish homeland, but also about the moral requirement of charity, a lesson that was not lost on her son. - Yet in 1954, as Fisher toured Israel, he was horrified by the living conditions. Across the arid hills, he saw 200,000 Jewish immigrants huddled under mak...…
…wield with a president, he now had his declared that he was nationalizing the answer, and from an unimpeachable Suez Canal. The French devised a source: The influence exerted could be covert plan to attack Egypt, convinc- decisive. It was exactly the role Fisher ing the British and Israelis to join hoped to play. them. The plan unfolded in October, and Eisenhower was livid. He had been tricked by his allies, and he thought their strategy would...…
…ISRAEL AT 5 5 HARD TO FORGET Local Zionists recall jubilation at statehood. Tova and Sy Salinger or Tova and Sy Salinger of Southfield, questions about the first Yom HaAtzmaut bring stories of family, friends and love. Students at the University of Michigan, they were on their first date the night the United Nations voted for partition. They were going on a hayride sponsored by the Intercollegiate Zionist Federation of America, a group the...…
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…stages .e Cf.tosPn' . . In reaction to the latest intifada, retro pop and community singing are undergoing renewed popularity in Israel. BARRY DAVIS Special to the Jewish News Jerusalem t is no secret that war is an l ugly business. But, somehow, when the confrontational going gets tough, musicians have a habit of rallying round to produce materi- al tailor-made to enhance the national mood. The songs they put out are often steeped in h...…
…Art s Entertai CLASSICAL NarEs Birmingham Temple's Vivace Series hosts the Merling Trio, performing works by Joseph Haydn, Argentinean composer Astor Piazzolla and a newly commissioned jazz piece by American composer Frank Proto, 8 p.m. Saturday, May 3, at the temple in Farmington Hills. $15-$18. (248) 788-9338 . or (248) 661-1348. Birmingham-Bloomfield Symphony Orchestra concludes its season with A Salute to the Musicians of the BBSO, feat...…
…A Detroit Institution Since 1952 We Are Open On Saturdays For Dinner! WINE TRIBUTE A • s original musicals make for a 20- year tradition at the Birmingham Temple, this season's production pays tribute to Rabbi Sherwin Wine. The Days of Wine and Moses, written by retired attorney Milton Landau and Dr. Arthur Rose, celebrates the rabbi's 75th birthday and marks his retirement after 40 years of service. Landau and -Rose, the creative team th...…
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…A Heart For Art Metro Detroiters support the work of struggling Israeli artists as congregational sisterhoods sponsor shows. SUZANNE CHESSLER Special to the Jewish News T he war in Iraq has special meaning for Israeli brothers David and Dan Saidan. They trace their family his- tory to Baghdad, where ancestors lived some 150 years ago before migrating to Ispahan in Persia (now Iran). Their forebears traveled on foot, donkey and camel while...…
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