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…WARNING: For Openers • Toronto's Jews Think Big Yiddish Limericks Toronto The judge said, "Please give me some credit. T Your alibi's false, and I'd bet it. Es iz nit geshtaigen. Es iz nit geflai gen.* he UJA Federation of Greater Toronto is trying to keep pace with the city's growing Jewish population through a massive building and revitalization project. The most recent is a $150-million Jewish campus in the York region, the area ju...…
…This Week View From The North A B ord er W a i t s An eerie quiet descends on northern Israeli towns. A Palestinian man on the Lebanese side of the border tries to reach his relatives through the barbed wire at the Lebanon-Israel border in the southern Lebanese village of Doheira on May 30. GIL SEDAN Jewish Telegraphic Agency lir Metulla, Israel hen Israel ordered its troop with- drawal from Lebanon, government officials did not take i...…
…- 1 4/ One Mom's March A movement to get the troops out of Lebanon was born almost by accident. LARRY DERFNER Israel Correspondent Rosh Pina, Israel n the night of Feb. 4, 1997, two Israeli Army helicopters on their way to the fighting in the south Lebanese "security zone" crashed in northern Israel. Seventy-three soldiers were killed — the worst military accident in Israel's history. It. was a turning point in the 22-year war with Lebano...…
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…This Week MARCH from page 7 All along it was the soldiers who'd given her and the other protesters their greatest encouragement. "We'd be demonstrating at a highway inter- section in the north, and there'd be a jeep of soldiers on their way in from Lebanon for a weekend furlough, and they'd honk their horns and shout, `Get us out of there!'" she said. In the past, she, too, had gone along with the national consensus that Israel had to remain...…
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…We Learn Accepting The Torah Daily Study sessions re-enact feeling of being at Mt. Sinai. SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN StaffWriter T he holiday of Passover is signified by matza, maror, a seder and four cups of wine; Sukkot by the lulav, etrog and sukka. "Why does Shavuot, which marks an event as momen- tous as the giving of the Torah, lack a substantive symbol and corresponding ritual?" asks Rabbi Jerome M. Epstein, executive .vice president ...…
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…Editorials Editorials and Letters to the Editor are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.com Judaism's Birthday Message I n the aftermath of Israel's hasty retreat from Lebanon, a nation that would savor seeing the Jewish state dissolve, the Jewish people, fittingly, are preparing to celebrate Shavuot. Shavuot is the birthday of our people. It marks the time, 3,300 years ago, when God gave the Jews of Moses' time the To...…
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…SPECIAL COMMENTARY Tradition Should Rule At Wall s the "Women of the Wall" — filed suit New York to allow it to conduct its own public ince its liberation from Jordan prayer session at the Kotel, in pointed in 1967, Jerusalem's Kotel contrast to how women have prayed Ma'aravi, or "Western Wall," there for thousands of years. Recently, has been a spiritual magnet for Israel's High Court of Justice ruled Jews of all denominations and beliefs....…
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…INSIDE Neighborhood St SSS fet: g: saa E: B at Community volunteer Harold Kulish creates the park of his dreams., SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN Staff Writer Students wait in line for flowers to plant. Lessenger teacher Brad Wilson gets some help from students while planting a sunburst locust tree. like your shirts!" shouted Marion Freedman in the gym of Lessenger Elementary School in Oak Park. Freedman, director of the Jewish Federation...…
…action," he said. "They have different religions and cultures and some don't speak much English." After completion of the park, he sees a first step to improving relations would be to hold a spe- cial dinner with ethnic foods. Later, he would like to establish a neighborhood association. Besides Kulish, the park-plan- ning committee includes school liaisons from the Chaldean and Vietnamese communities, the president of the Lessenger PTA and st...…
…Beth Shalom Women Choose Goldsmith Gladys Goldsmith will be installed as president of the Congregation Beth Shalom Sisterhood at a lun- cheon 11:45 a.m. Monday, June 12, at the synagogue. Goldsmith was the 1999 Honored Volunteer of Women's League for Conservative Judaism. A member of the synagogue choir and the Bel Canto Choir, Goldsmith has served sisterhood as education vice president, was gift shop and membership chair. Carol Tarica, Michi...…
…Community w y. Mte.$ WOW U`sW.>. DIANA LIEBERMAN Staff Writer T he sun broke though the clouds on May 10 just in time for the annual Israel Independence Day Festival at Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit. "The consensus was this is the best year we've had yet," said event co-chair Phyllis Pilcowitz of West Bloomfield. "We do it as a 'fun-raiser' — our goal is to have fun." The kids gave a thumbs-up to several new features, includin...…
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…Community Detroit Physician Honored For Tumor Research a bachelor of science degree in molec- ular biology at Yale University and his to stem the growth of deadly brain medical degree at Harvard Medical tumors has earned a local physician School. He completed top honors at the nation's training in neurosurgery gathering of clinical can- at UCLA and a fellow- cer specialists. ship in neurosurgical Dr. Andrew E. Sloan, oncology at MD chief of ...…
…1MVM . • *Mk& 7 3AF„ t:-2, Adat Shalom Women Elect Leader Carol Weintraub Fogel has been elected to serve her second term as president of the Adat Shalom Sisterhood. Fogel has held offices in numerous community organi- zations, sits on sever- al boards, including the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit Board of Governors. She is a former chair- person of the JFMD Carol Weintraub Women's Choices Fogel program. Also serving are Linda Wa...…
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…NCJW Installs New Leadership The National Council of Jewish Women, Greater Detroit Section installed a new slate of officers. Past presidents Marta Rosenthal and Carol Sue Coden and imme- diate past president Myrna Edgar offi- ciated in the instal- lation of Linda Bloom, president; Deane Safir, Julie Linda Bloom Zussman, Joyce Rubenstein, Bedonna Perish, Florence Herrmann, Joyce Siegel, vice presidents; Joyce Sherman, Marian Littman, Libby Sh...…
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