…Editorials are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.com Dry Bones Scaling The Mountain w ithout fanfare or endowed programs, the Michigan Conservative movement's adult learning project has been a cham- pion for lifelong Jewish learning. Bloomfield Township-based Eilu v'Eilu is now at a funding crossroads as it marks the close of its sixth year of programming, designed to build Jewish identity and instill pride in our her...…
…OTHER VIEWS Time To End The Soft Talk n approaching any strategy for Israeli security, there is a critical need to understand the histori- cal mindset of the Muslim Arab world, especially as it resides in the Middle East. The mindset is centered in power ... the desire for it and the respect of it. Power is gained in many ways, but no way is unacceptable if it serves as a means to the end and tragi- cally, tyranny knows no bounds. But, even ...…
…The Real Conflict gists, helping the West to its holiest shrines, the Church relinquishing or surrender, on the engage in its own brand of of the Nativity, which was part of Rome and the Vatican ... ike most people in the moral suicide, preparing itself defiled by Palestinian gun- Europe and all Christendom were world, I assumed for years for the day when the norms men, plundered of precious gloatingly shown to have caved in to that the confl...…
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…INSIDE: Community Calendar 45 Mazel Toy! ) O n Th e Ca e L r 1 r JCC, Neighborhood Project and partners host community party to celebrate more than 300 years of service. RONELLE GRIER Special to the Jewish News I t was .the ultimate birthday party, corn- . plete with live music, pony rides, a miniature train, clowns, moon bouncer, carnival games and an amazingly large cake. But when you've invited several hundred guests to cele...…
…pity spend the day with other people," said Hechtman resident Helen Stebbins from West Bloomfield. "I came to hear the music, and I'm really enjoying watching the children. They seem to be having a wonderful time." Andrew M. Israel, a JCC board member volun- teering at the event, said, "The seniors seem to be enjoying the day as much as the kids. It's good to see three, even four, generations enjoying the Jewish Center. Now, if all of these p...…
…Meisner Makes A Run For State House Seat director of corporate communications Former aide to U.S. Rep. Sander M. for the Farbman Group, a Southfield Levin and a longtime resident of the real estate firm active in the rebuilding 27th State House District, Andy of downtown Detroit. Meisner is a candidate for state repre- Meisner grew up in Huntington sentative. The district includes the com- Woods with his parents, Anthony and munities of Berkl...…
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…aseictialk 1,444.111•11101111......-.,41.4.4.110.1a. AN OPEN LETTER TO THE JEWISH COMMUNITY TAKING THE "J" OUT OF THE JCC ■•■ JHAS Slates Annual Forum Jewish Home & Aging Services will hold its annual meeting 8 a.m. Tuesday, June 18, at the agency's Fleischman Residence/Blumberg Plaza in West Bloomfield. Douglas Bloom will deliver greetings from the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit. Rabbi Lee Buckman, head of the Jewish Academy ...…
…Community HMC Hosts Fall Conference The West Bloomfield-based Holocaust Memorial Center will hold its first International Conference on Altruism this fall. A group of scholars, making up the HMC Academic Advisory Committee, has been meeting to plan the Oct. 12 13' event. It will be open to the public at no charge. Papers on Dr. Guy Stern altruism will be presented. The main speakers will include Professor Sander Gilman of the University of C...…
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…JWV Annual Forum To Be In Southfield Susan Nelson, national ladies auxil- iary president of the Jewish War Veterans USA, will be the speaker at the Michigan JWV and ladies auxil- iary annual convention at the Southfield Westin Hotel, 1500 Town Center, June 21-23. Highlighting the 7:30 p.m. Friday opening service, on June 21 will be the presenta- tion of 15 col- lege scholar- ships to descen- dants of veter- ans, awarded without regard to- rac...…
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…J 'env e Bar/Bat Mitzvah Alana Rey Balbes will read from the Torah on the occasion of her bat mitzvah Friday, June 14, at Temple Israel. Her parents are Pamela and Barry Balbes and her brother is Jake. She is the grandchild of Henry Balbes, the late Selma Balbes, Marilyn and Paul Silverstein and the late A. Richard Silverman. Proud great-grandmoth- er is Rose Goldstein. Alana attends Berkshire Middle School in Birmingham, where she is an hon...…
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…Torah Portion .. . BILL CARROLL Special to the Jewish News aarey Rabbi Irwin Groner's career spans 43 years filled with adversity, *Nsvw,v -k I t was a bright winter morning, and a seem- ingly uneventful Shabbat service was going on at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield. But before it was over, it would become the darkest day in the history of the syna- gogue and the Detroit Jewish community. The fateful day also would create o...…
…Cover Story TekT 6/14 2002 58 had to heal the wounds of our members and move forward." Rabbi Groner reflected on the mur- der and its aftermath as he sat in his syn- agogue office and reviewed his life and a career that has spanned almost a half- century. A year after Rabbi Adler's death, Rabbi Groner was appointed senior rabbi, filling the first chair on the bimah, which had been left vacant for a year out of respect for Rabbi Adler. In ...…
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