…GEORGE LAKSBERGER, 77, of West Bloomfield, died May 5, 2005. He is survived by his beloved wife, Sonia Laksberger; sons, Michael David Laksberger of Pontiac, Gerald Wayne Laksberger of Alameda, Calif.; granddaughter, Symone Laksberger. He was the dear father of the late Raymond Miles Laksberger. Interment at Adat Shalom Memorial Park Cemetery. Contributions may be made to the Holocaust Memorial Center, 28123 Orchard Lake Road, Farmington Hills...…
…Obituaries YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH School for Boys • Beth Jacob School for Girls • Early Childhood Development Center 15751 W. Lincoln Drive • Southfield, MI 48076 • (248) 557-6750 "The entire world is sustained by the Torah study of young children" During the coming week, the students of Yeshiva Beth Yehudah will study in memory of the following departed friends. In addition, Kaddish will be said during the daily minyan. Iyar 6 / May 15 Edi...…
…A Letter from Evan To my dearest family. some things I'd like to say But first of all. to It you know, I arrived okay. I'm writing this from Heaven. Here I dwell with God above. Here there's no more tears of sadness: Here is just eternal love. Please do not be unhappy just because I'm out of sight. Remember that I am with you every morning, noon and night That day I had to leave you. when my life on earth was through. God picked me up and ...…
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…EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK Why Inclusion Matters 1 ewish parents who are part of interfaith or secular fami- it tells a story that the communal and synagogue world may lies might welcome a Jewish education for their kids if not want to hear but must for the good of our sustenance as a less rigid parameters were in place. But that's a big "if" people of one heritage with many lenses. These parents believe that formal learning isn't appropriate This ma...…
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…h- Lc Dove Dinner Set The Rev. William Harter, a minister leading the fight inside the Presbyterian Church against divest- ment from Israel, will receive the James R. Lyons Award in Christian- Jewish Relations at the annual Dove Dinner of the Ecumenical Institute for Jewish-Christian Studies. The Rev. Harter of Falling Spring Presbyterian Church in Chambersbur. Pa., was a close friend of the Rev. Lyons and a founder of both the National Coop...…
…SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2005 - 2 PM TO 5 PM Detroit Country Day School Gymnasiums (13 Mile at Lahser Road) FEATURING.. SANCTIONED BOXING EXHIBITION coordinated by Michael Grable from 2:30 to 4:30 PARTICIPATE 1N... SELF-DEFENSE AND KICKBOXING CLINICS with renowned instructor, Julian Loredo 2:15 2:45 Males, 3 years thru 105 2:50 — 3:20 Females, 3 years thru 105 3:25 — 3:55 Kick boxing, 12 years thru 105 CALL FOR RESERVATIONS 248.548.FOOD, Pre-r...…
…" skAk"4- awe NOTEBOOK from page 11 2005 Residents Enjoy Seder More than 130 residents and staff of Fox Run, a Novi residence for seniors, held a kosher-style Passover seder led by Jewish residents. Residents Helen Weingarden and Fran Finsilver worked with the kitchen staff to teach them how to prepare the traditional fare. Residents participated by reading passages and a guest vocalist sang Hebrew blessings and prayers as well. An inte...…
…Thursday, May 5 Yom HaShoah Services - Holocaust survivor Sam Offen speaks at remem- brance, including cantorial music and can- dlelight ceremony with participation by high school students. Temple Beth El. 7 p.m. (248) 851-1100. neuromuscular disease or cancer. Temple Shir Shalom. First meeting 10 a.m.-noon. RSVP: Shelly Newman (248) 737-0266. Mamele - Staring Molly Picon. Shavuot: Standing at Sinai (so what's for lunch?) - Ohr Somayach D...…
…Concert Supportive Communities spon- sors Joseph O' Kelly on saxophone and piano. 1 p.m. Oak Park JCC. (248) 967-4030. - Image Before My Eyes Sponsored by Holocaust Survivors and Families. Teitel Apts., Oak Park. 2 p.m. (248) 661-2999. Yom HaZikaron - Mincha followed by multi- media commemoration, celebratory Yom HaAtzmaut tefilla of Maariv and festive meal; babysitting for ages 2-4 and special program for ages 5-9. Young Israel of Oak P...…
…4‘ i 0SM P it, t e RONELLE GRIER Special to the Jewish News T he healing power of friend- ship is never more apparent than inside the walls of the Friendship Circle's new home on the Meer Family Friendship Center cam- pus in West Bloomfield. After 10 years of providing pro- grams and support for children with disabilities and people whose lives are touched by addiction, the organization finally has a campus to call its own. Components are...…
…Friendship Circle volunteer Jenna Krinsky, 17, gives style to Emily Klein, 10, both ofWest Bloomfield. The 6,500-square-foot lower level, called Weinberg Village, is a real work- ing city, with a pet shop, a beauty shop staffed by volunteer stylists and manicurists, a Say-on drugstore, a coin-operated laundry, a 22-seat movie theater, a Henry Ford Medical -Center office, a library-museum, a Huntington Bank, a garage-body shop for the battery-...…
…Metro FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE Cover Story from page 17 weather, would make more sense. Dina Shifman of Farmington Hills remembers a meeting held at the West Bloomfield home of Shari and Alon Kaufman, attended by a group of par- ents, most of whom had children with special needs. "They asked us to make a wish list, to forget about money for the moment and just dream," said Shifman, a hair stylist who will be volunteering her- services in the Life...…
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…Metro Starting Young Kol Ami students teach non-Jewish friends about Passover. SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN StaffWriter I found the learning experience much more comfortable and inviting than it otherwise could have been, according to Gross. "Everybody had a good time and, hopefully, these young people will grow up with a greater understanding of their respective religions," he said. Inspired by the seder, Gross suggests a way to share what he...…
…Digest Three good reasons to support The Jewish Theological Seminary... Israel Celebration Slated Yeshivat Akiva, Young Israel Council of Metropolitan Detroit and the Kollel Torah MiTzion will host a community-wide celebration of Yom Hazikaron and Yom HaAtzmaut. Yom HaZikaron will be observed Wednesday, May 11, at Young Israel of Oak Park, 15140 W. 10 Mile, Oak Park. The program will begin at 6:30 p.m. with Minchah, followed by a multimedi...…
…Metro Digest To thank you for your 2005 gift, Federation's Women's Campaign Young Adults Evening invites you to come, live a laugh a lot, and enjoy Temple Israel's Imagine Arts and Culture group invites all young adults in their 20s, 30s and 40s to an evening at the Habatat Glass Gallery in Royal Oak 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 7. The evening includes a tour of the exhibit with a museum curator and dessert. Cost is $15 per person; for reserva...…
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…Historic Samir Mashni, Sen. Levin and Eugene Driker at the April 25 press conference. Jewish and SHARON LUCKERMAN Palestinian arly last month, U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., with four local Jewish American and Palestinian American leaders, headed to Israel to share their Mideast peace and investment plan with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Deputy Prime Ministers Shimon Peres and Ehud Olmert. With the Israeli leadership as well as...…
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…World Divesting Faith Protestant drive to divest from Israel threatens interfaith ties. RACHEL POMERANCE Jewish Telegraphic Agency New York City s a growing number of Protestant churches consider imposing economic sanctions against Israel, the American Jewish community is threatening to abandon interfaith dialogue with mainstream Protestant groups. "Any Protestant denomination that would consider the weapon of econom- ic sanctions to be u...…
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…Survivors' Legacy Donation to Berkley High School to fund Holocaust education. HARRY KIRS BAUM StaffWriter A Riva Baker and friend Steven Gershman More Yom HaShoah stories can be found in Arts & Life — pages 54-58. Holocaust survivor's estate will fund a program that will teach Berkley High School students about World War II and the Holocaust beginning next year. The $10,000 donation will fund an elective course offered to 68 upper- gra...…
…Making Connections through Music & the Arts ft , Alternative Therapies for Dementia Care Three presenters show how caregivers can use alternative therapies to benefit their loved ones. A Caregiver Workshop Presented by County Remembers Shoah ' ' Harriet Berg & the Festival Dancers Movement and Dance • Law Day and Holocaust Remem- brance Day will be celebrated at a program scheduled for 11:30 a.m.- 12:45 p.m. Thursday, May 5, in the Boa...…
…Tom Moab Ready to ride are Bob Vanness of Royal Oak, Don Borkin ofWest Bloomfield, Larry Steiner ofWest Bloomfield, Dennis Chatlin of Farmington Hills, Sy Freilich of White Lake, Jess Elson of Farmington Hills and Stuart Daniels of Farmington Hills. Jewish motorcycle clubs to meet in D. C. to mark Yom HaShoah. HARRY MRS BAUM StaffWiiter T hey ride with a message. Recalling the annual pilgrim- age thousands of Vietnam vet- erans make duri...…
…si LID Editorials are posted and archived on JNOnline.com Greenberg's View AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND A Possible Tension Easer he newly announced plan to encourage a joint Jewish-Arab investment flow from Michigan into Gaza and the West Bank is a promising start to rebuilding a devastated Palestinian economy. The Michigan Fund for Peace and Economic Development has the support of several important element...…
…OTHER, VIEWS Germany Is No Ally II aving recently returned from a two-month trip though var- ious parts of Europe, I would like to offer the following thoughts under the heading of "Let's Talk About Germany." Recently, a German acquaintance explained to me that Germany is a strongly pacifist, anti-war nation. I replied that this is quite understand- able in view of Germany's history of starting two world wars and losing them both at a horre...…
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…To Jewish Hungarian Victims of Nazi Persecution and their Heirs A Class Action Settlement Could Affect You PROPOSED SETTLEMENT A class action lawsuit, Rosner, et al. v United States of America. involving personal property looted from Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust is pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida ("Court"). A settlement of the lawsuit could affect you if you or your relative might have h...…
…Staff photo by Angie Baan goo 625 L I BILL CARROLL Special to the Jewish News A lfred Taubman's lawyers had to provide infor- - mation about him to the court for a probation report. It was before a judge sentenced him in the Sotheby's-Christie's international auction house rate-fixing trial in 2001. The attorneys listed Taubman's philanthropic donations. The total was astonishing: $100 million given to charities, most of them Jewish orga...…
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…Speaking The Unspeakable How to talk with children about the Holocaust. Dr. Silow says. The first problem this poses is the sheer terror of it. "It's the worst thing to expose children to [graphic] photos ate one night when Charley and films," he says. "It can be very Silow was 8 years old, he upsetting if they're exposed to this too entered the living room where soon." It will almost certainly give his parents were watching television. them...…
