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…metro Chabad from page 21 institution Bais Chabad Torah Center of West Bloomfield and the members of its board in their function at the institution, in order to get a rabbinical court ruling validated, there is clearly no place here for concern about [this causing] any des- ecration of the Divine Name, G-d forbid." The defendants counter with a let- ter from the Brooklyn-based Office of the Executive Committee of the Central Committee of Cha...…
…>> around town SpringElation JARC's annual evening event at the Detroit Zoo raised $320,000. N ar d Km?, early 2,000 partygoers and 150 volunteers attended this year's 14th annual JARC SpringElation event on May 30. Guests enjoyed a private evening at the Detroit Zoo including a picnic dinner, free parking and access to many of the Zoo's popular exhibits and attractions, including rides on the new Carousel and Tauber Family Railroad. St...…
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…family focus Five Things Your Kids Will Love This Month ' ,••• Contributing Writer ANN ARBOR SUMMER FESTIVAL Juggling and tightrope-walking lessons courtesy of Cirque Amongus, tattoos (of the temporary nature), a teen music competition, free outdoor screenings of Hugo, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and more, plus headlined by Erth's 6..t4fipttt - Aperte, riur buqy Jumpairt Lynne Konstantin TH...…
…>> ... Next Generation ... Meet NEXTGen Detroit First annual meeting lays out vision for engaging young Jews in the community. N EXTGen Detroit (formerly known as YAD) launched in full force on Tuesday, June 12, as 175 NextGeners gathered for its first annual meeting at the home of Marcie and Rob Orley in Franklin. Joshua Levine, 2011-2012 YAD president, started the meeting by giving the annual report. "The landscape for young adult engage...…
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…oints of view >> Send letters to: letters@thejewishnews.com Contributing Editor Editorial David Project's Israel Model Could Endure Time To Let Pollard Go Convicted Israeli spy has more than paid societal debt. W ith Israeli President Shimon Peres stepping up the pressure for Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard's release from the U.S. prison system after almost 27 years of incarceration, much of the time in soli- darity confinement, Barack ...…
…Let Pollard Go from page 28 The clarion call for Pollard's release stands on its own merit. Israel — and that releasing Pollard could ignite Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. I remember how the 1998 Wye River Peace Accord was supposed to provide the same ignition. The cause-and-effect idea surely fans the discussion flames, but I didn't believe in it 14 years ago and I don't now. The clarion call for Pollard's release stands on its own merit....…
…, :cik ory JEwisi i 4/„. DAT/ c)frok3 oA, -v A Heartfelt Steve Stein Thursday, October 18, 2012 Berman Center for the Performing Arts West Bloomfield Jewish Community Center The Detroit Jewish News Foundation Inaugural Community Event: A Conversation with Aaron Lansky Founder, National Yiddish Book Center Best Selling Author: Outwitting History Proceeds To Benefit the Detroit Jewish News Digitization Project Lansky's brilliance and p...…
…Designation Detr@it Mission: It's Time For Us To Engage With Detroit! Revitalize Detroit Dan Gilbert talks about his plans for Downtown. Next up: retail. Dan Gilbert and his associates are not a proxy for Jewish com- munity involvement. Arthur Horwitz Sandra Svoboda I Special to the Jewish News F Publisher and Executive Editor filling Downtown Detroit with people — his employees, recent graduates of Michigan . universities and other ...…
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…Designation Detr®it Revitalize Detroit from page 1 News; Tack Yong Kim, publisher and owner of the Michigan Korean Weekly; Osama Siblani, publisher of the Arab American News; and Bankole Thompson, senior editor of the Michigan Chronicle. Gilbert was accompanied by Carolyn Artman, senior public relations manager; David Carroll, a Quicken Loans vice president; and Bruce Schwartz, Quicken Loans' Detroit relocation ambassador. Oshagan explained ...…
…Designation Detr@it Shalom, Amigos! Fienman family's longtime market adapts to ethnic changes in southwest Detroit neighborhood. Keri Guten Cohen I Story Development Editor David Fienman and his siblings are the third generation at E & L. 4 June 21 . 2012 They needed help here," he said hat's a nice Jewish fam- simply. And I wanted to be more ily doing running a well- stocked Hispanic super- hands-on instead of into books. This market ...…
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…Engage from page 1 your child's school doesn't work and you're told there's no money to fix them. Gilbert's meeting with the leaders of the Michigan Chronicle, the Latino Press, the Arab-American News, the Michigan Korean Weekly and the Jewish News, plus NMM founder Dr. Hayg Oshagan of Wayne State University, offered an opportunity for expanding the Rock Venture/ Quicken footprint in ways that can further diversify his company's workforces, c...…
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…arts & entertainment Kick Back from page 33 concentration camps of World War II, the union movement in Chicago in the 1940s and the legal battle for black civil rights in the United States of the 1950s. Comic writers Dave Barry (married to former Detroit sportswriter Michelle Kaufman) and Alan Zweibel (a close friend and collaborator with the late Detroit-born comedienne Gilda Radner) have written Lunatics (Putnam), about the comic misadven...…
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