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…THE BIG BANK ACCOUNT OFFICER REPLACEMENT MACHINE R emember when banking in your home town meant familiar faces andpeople who knew your name? If your bank has been gobbled up in a series of mergers and acquisitions, the account officer who served you last month could be helping someone somewhere else today. Assembly line personnel may be acceptable to the big banks, but at Franklin Bank, we prefer a different approach. You can always count on...…

…THE JEWISH NEWS UP FRONT This Week's Top Stories Closure Young Israel of Oak Woods reaches an agreement with DeRor School. PHIL JACOBS EDITOR y Aug. 31, the first Or- thodox synagogue ever built in the suburbs will become a Montessori school. That is when the DeRor Montessori School Center, for six years tenants in the upstairs of the Young Israel of Oak Woods building, purchases the facility for $750,000. The sale is a major step for Yo...…

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…A play at Camp-Get-A-Way. page 16 Detroit Campers Away! Bidding a fond farewell to Mom and Dad, and looking forward to a wonderful summer. Living in a culture of killing. 25 TELL ME WHY Increasing The Numbers Ho, ho, ho, it's magic! 32 Jewish groups make an unprecedented effort to get out the vote. HEALTH Israel 8 EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK Shimon Peres Is he still at Labor's helm, or is it time to resign? RuPaul is coming to Fash Bash. ...…

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…O igb DETROIT THE JEWISH NEWS Vol. CIX No. 22 Publisher Arthur M. Horwitz Editor Phil Jacobs Associate Editors Elizabeth Applebaum, Alan Hitsky Assistant Editor Gail Zimmerman Staff Writers Julie Edgar, Jennifer Finer, Jill Davidson Sklar, David Zeman Arts and Entertainment Editor Julie Yolles Contributing Editors Michael Davis, Howard Lalli, Neil Rubin MIRACLE !I/ON Washington Correspondent James D. Besser Foreign Correspondent Doug...…

…tion in the November general election. Each synagogue and temple will be asked to make voter registration forms avail- able to congregants. Rabbis will be asked to incorporate a civic responsibility and voting theme in their sermons. "The statistics on Jewish vot- ing participation are staggering," said Jan Helper, a Jewish Com- munity Council Get-Out-the-Vote co-chair. `The Jewish vote was not only important, but it was sought af- ter. High v...…

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…Judicial College. Judge Gage serves on the Michigan Supreme Court's Sentencing Guidelines Ad- visory Committee, the ABA's Task Force on Reduction of Litigant Cost and Delay and is a member of the Coordinating Council on Life-Sustaining Treatment Deci- sion-Making for the National Cen- ter for State Courts. She is the recipient of myriad awards, including the State Bar of Michigan's Roberts P. Hudson Award for outstanding contribu- tions to the...…

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…An End Marks A Beginning The sale of Young Israel of Oak Woods to a a move that would ultimately save the Jewish Montessori school symbolically marks the end Oak Park community. History will show that the of an era in south Oak Park. How many of us merger of Young Israel of Oak Woods with Young now living in ZIP codes from Greenfield Road all Israel of Greenfield into Young Israel of Oak Park the way out to Orchard Lake or Walnut Lake is also...…

…Editor's Notebook Community Views Sometimes It's Hard Not To Cry Jewish Italy Is A Paradox PHIL JACOBS EDITOR JEANNIE WEINER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS / As I sat in the Italy. The ghetto was established missed what they thought was massive and bea- on the outskirts of Venice the proper melody in the trope. utiful Moorish in 1541. This is where Jews were When my eyes surreptitiously Synagogue in Flo- locked in at night, with the diverte...…

…ADVANCE Peame YOUNG ISRAEL page 3 eeezte:(49, Scefrfriey ea. Woods residents, they changed the name to the Oak-Woods Jew- ish Center. Initially, the shul organizers eyed the southwest corner of Sco- tia and Dartmouth for their syn- agogue. They changed their mind, feeling the heart of the Orthodox community would be the current Allan and Coolidge location. In 1954, the congregation af- filiated with the Young Israel movement, changing the ...…

…JAGUAR OF TROY Hey, Baptists: Go Ahead And Try SELECT EDITION Pre-Owned Automobiles ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS > 0 hen the Southern Bap- fist convention recent- ly adopted a resolution calling for a major campaign to convert the Jews, the frightened reaction of some Jews made me think I was in Spain at the time of the Inqui- sition. As a committed Jew, my response to the Baptist an- nouncement was "go ahead and try." I...…

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…What's in your box is your business. Keeping it safe is ours. 8670. Rabbi: Herbert Yoskowitz. Cantor: Max Shimansky. Ritual director: Joseph Baras. Rabbi emeritus: Benjamin H. Gorelick. Services: Friday 7:15 a.m., 6 p.m.; Saturday 8:45 a.m., 8:40 p.m.; weekdays 7:15 a.m., 6 p.m.; Class 8:10 p.m. The Haftorah will be chanted by Sheldon Kaplan. > a BETH ISRAEL CONGREGATION 2000 Washtenaw Ave., Ann Arbor, (313) 665-9897. Rabbi: Robert Dobrusi...…

…The Cultural Commission Of Congregation Beth Abraham Hillel Moses Proudly Presents Just For The Fun Of It! AN EVENING OF DINNER, DANCING AND LIVE ENTERTAINMENT To Maintain Judaism Is To Maintain Tradition Shabbat Vaetchanan: Deuteronomy 3:23-7:1 1 ; Isaiah 40:1-26. RABBI ELIEZER COHEN Henny Youngman he blh' ey er • Pelle 1 AND FEATURING Cantor Ben-Zion Lanxner WITH THE 4 1 SILL MEYER ORCHESTRA ALSO APPEARING: THE HORA AVIV DANC...…

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…We Pray. We Play. H ere at Temple Beth El we celebrate life. We pray, we play; we care tion to come together in fun, sharing in a real 'sense of spiritualit y, of and we share. Our new Rabbis are leaders of the Reform Movement community and finding meaning in our daily lives. We are growing and and have challenging new ideas. The y want to be part of your spiritual want y ou to grow with us. Nothing compares to the feeling of lives an...…

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…Engagements Peleg-Gutov Cheryl and Richard Gutov of West Bloomfield proudly an- nounce the engagement of their daughter, Lori Renee, to Dr. Lee or Peleg, son of Danielle and Samuel Peleg of West Bloom- field. Miss Gutov earned a bachelor of science degree in elementary education at Wayne State Uni- versity. She is employed at Adat Shalom Nursery School and is substitute teaching. Leeor re- cently finished his internship at Botsford General ...…

…Engagements Your Child Deser Enrolling in August! The Area's M ast Special Guest asses Taught By HoII Programs ranging from "Pre-School Rhythm" classes for boys & girls to adult classes Manela-Miller Mrs. Geraldine J. Miller of Oak Park is pleased to announce the engagement of her daughter, Melissa Faith, to Harley David Manela, son of Mrs. Eunice Manela of Farmington Hills. Melissa is the daughter of the late Jack A. Miller and Harley ...…

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…Summer Sale Births ing in their happiness are grand- (Adelman) Barnett of Bloomfield parents Ted and Fran Sokel of Hills joyfully announce the birth Oak Park and Joan Simmons of of their daughters, Sasha Sara Mt. Carmel, Pa. Great-grand- and Ariana Sloan. Sharing their mothers are Esther Kunin and happiness are brother Zachary, Ann Sokel of Southfield and grandparents Marjorie Gutter- Theresa Petroski of Mt. Carmel. man of West Bloomfield; H...…

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…Life Is A Celebration. Singles Cruise In February In February 1997, the St. Louis Jewish Community Centers As- sociation, in conjunction with Brentwood Travel, will sponsor the 13th Annual Nationwide Original Jewish Singles Cruise to the Caribbean on Royal Caribbean Cruise Line's Majesty of the Seas. Live It Jewishly. Find that special gift for: Bar/Bat Mitzvah, wed- ding, birthday, anniversary, a new baby, etc. Available at: I I I I T...…

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…Judge Thomas Brookover Jewish Sports Hall of Fame (MJSHOF) President Michael Applebaum. Broadcaster JoJo MacGregor will be featured at the closing. The games are sponsored by the MJSHOF and the JCC. Ath- letes and volunteers are being sought. For information, call Amy Seidman-Acciaioli at the JCC, (810) 661-7679. Speedy Outfielder Keeps On Hitting Robert Roth of Farmington Hills hit .667 in a Battle Creek base- ball tournament July 11-14 w...…

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…Familiar Tune Israeli and Palestinian security methods are disturbingly similar for Arab human- rights campaigner. assem Eid says he used to be a human rights ac- tivist. Now he's going to be a hu- man rights fight- er. After seven years as field co- ordinator for the Israeli human rights group, B'tselem, he is leaving to found his own Palestinian Human Rights Information Committee. B'tse- lem, the scourge of errant Is- raeli soldiers, settl...…

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…UNIVERSAL WATCH REPAIR He has led his party to four electoral defeats (1977, '81, '88 and '96) and one effective tie (1984, when a Labor-Likud na- tional unity government was formed and Mr. Peres rotated the prime ministership with Yitzhak Shamir). Harold Stassen may have lost more national elections, but at least the Republican Par- ty had the sense not to go down with him. During most of Mr. Peres' long tenure at Labor's helm, Yitzhak Rabin...…

…STATE REPRESENTATIVE REPUBLICAN Endorsed By The People Who Live, Work & Vote Here VOTE AUGUST 6 1 1996 Partial List of Supporters Jan Dolan Nancy & Charlie Bates John Anhut Harold & Judy Etkin Jack & Pam Lowry Gerson Cooper Margaret Schaeffer Bill Hartsock Arnold & Betsie Campbell JoAnn McShane Mary Bush Gerson & Carol Cooper Laura Myers Jack & Lois Cotton Debbie & Jon Grant Sue & Dale Dolesh Rev. Mark Sommers Raymond Zweig Jim Abernethy...…