…Preserving Democracy IDF general speaks of terrorism's challenge. Don Cohen Special to the Jewish News W Lisette Benjamin of Farmington Hills holds an Israeli flag. r :5 Geoff Rottman, Frankel Jewish Academy Dovid Morris, 5, of Southfield and Buttercup the Clown of Ecorse at the Hadassah junior; Zev Neuman, Frankel freshman; Fun Fair Ami Tzur Nachshoni, Yeshivat Akiva; and Ben Luger, Frankel freshman The importance of a strong Israel f...…
…Staff photos by Armando Rios Panelists at the press conference: parent Mary Beldon, school board president Steve Weiss, Carrie Waggoner of the ADL, Rabbi Joshua Bennett of Temple Israel, Victor Begg of the Muslim Unity Center, the Rev. Lauren Krish-Carr of St. Andrew Lutheran Church in Bloomfield Township and David Blewett, executive director of the Dove Institute of Southfield. Seeing Stars Flap over "wizard" ignites school board campaign,...…
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…ery school families and an early childhood machzor (High Holiday prayer book). Involved in interfaith efforts, Rabbi Berkun is a founding mem- ber of the Jewish and African American Clergy Alliance of Metropolitan Detroit, with whom he participated in a 2002 10-day interfaith mission of rabbis and African American ministers to Senegal, West Africa, and Israel. The Gospel-Klezmer concerts and Black-Jewish Passover seders he spearheaded were awa...…
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…World Politics As Usual ma KADIIIIV nio at' i RIGHTS LEFT JAADIEM AGREE + LED Israelis carry signs calling for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's resignation during a May 3 protest in Tel Aviv. Oimert beats back political coup, for now, in the wake of harsh Winograd Commission criticsm. Leslie Susser Jewish Telegraphic Agency Jerusalem B y all accounts, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert should have been history. The Winograd Commission's inter...…
…World SNAPSHOTS Politics As Usual from page 23 Tribute Reaps Capital Drs. Lynda and Conrad Giles were presented with the State of Israel Declaration of Independence Award at a recent Shaarey Zedek State of Israel Bonds tribute dinner in Southfield. The event generated $3.4 mil- lion dollars in new investment capital for the economic development of the State of Israel. Shown are Mandell L. Berman, dinner co-chair; Doreen N. Hermelin, dinner ...…
…Dry Bones Opinion Editorials are posted and archived on JNonline.us . r 'mg EUROPE HAS JUST WARNED THE TURKISH ARMY NOT TO PREVENT Editorial The Greater Good I t was an insightful thought: To be recognized for the work you do in the general community by those whose faith calls for making the world a better place is a really special honor. Bill Ford Jr. was talking about how honored he was to receive the Jewish Community Center of Metr...…
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…10 Life! AROUND TOWN Staff photos b An ie Baan Amy Zonder and Wendy Bakst both of Huntington Woods Author liana Blumberg Shdring Insights Inter-congregational gathering looks at the role of lewich women. W restling with a woman's place — among the traditions of Orthodox Judaism and in the intellectual world of higher education — has been a lifelong pursuit for author liana Blumberg of Ann Arbor. The assistant professor of human- ities,...…
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…To L DIGF Zit he, 611/44 to/ Natiasviat" ithwe4 Cl/eel Treat For Tiger Fans Baseball will be the theme at Temple Beth El on Sunday, May 20, when the Leo M. Franklin Archives presents a baseball double header: a display of baseball artifacts plus a trip to Comerica Park for a World Series rematch, the Detroit Tigers vs. St. Louis Cardinals. The Loewenstein Family Uniform Exhibit tells the tale of a small Tigers uniform that came into the po...…
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…C (0 C C O O 0. Tu Tot's Israel 'Trip' Imaginary journey sends preschoolers tG Jewish homeland for its 59th birthday. T he Gan Shalom Bilingual Preschool at Congregation Beth Shalom in Oak Park gathered April 24 to celebrate Israel's birthday with a make-believe journey to the land of milk and honey. Wearing their blue tie-dyed shirts, the children flew with El Al to Jerusalem. Before leaving, teacher Leslie Fishman of Bloomfield Hill...…
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…talists of the 20th century and an outspoken champion of artistic free- dom in the Soviet Union during the last decades of the cold war — with the 2007 UMS Distinguished Artist Award at the 12th annual Ford Honors Program 6 p.m. Saturday, May 12, at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor. Rostropovich made his UMS debut in 1965 with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and appeared seven more times as a cellist, most recently in January 1993. As a con- duc...…
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