…Insight Remember When • • Flash Point From the pages of the Jewish News from this week 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60 years ago. Farmington Schools adopts international affairs course, despite community objections. DIANA LIEBERMAN StaffWriter la semester. Also voting against the half- credit course were trustees Linda Enberg and Jack Inch. Voting for adoption of the course for fall 2003 were trustees Priscilla Brouillette, Gary Sharp, Frank...…
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…inion Editorials are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.com Still In The Dark Dry Bones sosH 91 r TN ARE 11ROGNI ADMIN1IS- he U.S. Supreme Court last week pro- vided a terribly disappointing decision on affirmative action, one that ratifies the status quo, but does almost nothing to resolve the larger question of how America is to deal with the persistent educational inequality plaguing blacks in our society. Writing ...…
…OTHER VIEWS Documents Of Life ur friend from Congregation Shaarey Zedek, Jack Ginsberg, was in the process of opening a non-profit, all-encompassing resale shop on Eight Mile Road called Knightsbridge Charities. People brought in all kinds of stuff. Someone evidently left, in error, a thick brown folder with old documents. Jack decided to seek help in finding the rightful owner and called me. I was intrigued, both as a Zionist and as a minor...…
…Hitler On America New York City generally unknown sequel to Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf will soon be published in English, according to a recent article in the New York Times. Written in 1928, Hitler's Second Book as it is known, includes revela- tions about Hitler's global strategy, including his determination to wage war against the United States. Yet the book also reveals that there was something about the United States that Hitler liked — A...…
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…Together. One Community. Going to Israel. Here's To .. . Mary Fisher, a 1966 Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood gradu- ate, and a writer and founder of the Family AIDS Network, and Dr. Joel Cohen, a 1961 Cranbrook graduate, and a professor of popu- lations at Rockefeller University and Columbia University in New York City, have been named Cranbrook Community Schools' 2003 Distinguished Alumni Award recipients. Rabbi Marci Rayna Bloch, for...…
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…u01111111111itg Mazel Toy! TRADITION! TRADITION! New Arrivals June 21 Julie (Lesser) and Patrick Smyk of Farmington Hills announce with much love the birth of their first child, Hannah Morgan. Sharing in their excitement are grandparents Dr. James and Joani Lesser of West Bloomfield and Dr. Tony and Joan Smyk of Troy. Proud great-grand- mother is Elaine Lesser of Bloomfield Hills. Hannah is named in loving memory of her maternal great-gran...…
…Mazel Toy! NEW ARRIVALS from page 31 New Arrivals .s4k. April 8 Cheryl (Megdall) and Dr. Mark Silverman of Farmington Hills are delighted to announce the birth of their son, Benjamin David (Zovel Berel). Welcoming Benjamin home are proud big sisters Samantha Marleigh, 4, and Laya Rachel, 22 months. Sharing in he excitement are grandparents Dr. Stuart and Adele Megdall of Birmingham and Allan and Mary Silverman of Southfield and great-grand...…
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…Ask The Orthodontist Community Save That Smile One out of three boys and one out of four girls will experience a dental injury by the time they finish high school. An Illinois hospital study says that almost 10% of all dental injuries are sports related. In collision sports, such as football, hockey and boxing, the risk of injury is obvious. Athletes who participate in these sports are required to wear protective gear. However, in contact s...…
…INSIDE: Synagogue List 44 Torah Portion 45 Rabbi Wine, with students at the Birmingham Temple. TEE POWER OF MAN Retiring Rabbi Sherwin Wine, founder of Humanistic Judaism, weathers controversy to leave a worldwide legacy. SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN Staff Writer fter a congregational career highlighted by the founding of a Jewish movement, Rabbi Sherwin Wine retires from the Birmingham emple confident its new leaders are well- prepared to...…
…Cover Story THE POWER OF MAN from page 37 Celebrations • Holidays: Holidays were not created by God, but arose out of Jewish folk culture and are a response to Jewish events. While some traditional holidays are not celebrated, others are followed with variances. For example, some Humanistic Jews fast on Yom Kippur — not to atone for sins before judg- ment is sealed, but rather as a form of discipline. The words of Kol Nidre (All Vows) were ...…
…THE POWER OF MAN from page 38 because we were in the neighborhood, but because they believed in what we were creating," he said. "It solidified us with the result of the battle proving what Humanistic Jews believe — in solving the problems of life through people." Though they met in various cities, the congrega- tion retained the name Birmingham Temple, even through their final move in 1971. It was to a seven- acre campus in Farmington Hills,...…
…Spirituality Cover Story THE POWER OF MAN from page 39 Susan Citrin Deborah Rose with Rabbi Wine at the retirement celebration. Temple involves a presentation on an admired figure from Jewish history. "Why should they be reading some- thing that they don't understand that is chosen because it coincides with their birthday?" Rabbi Wine said. "This way, they choose someone who inspires them." Perhaps the most powerful lesson stemming from a...…
…( maintain his position as dean of the movement's rabbinical school. He also will continue to lead and expand public discussions at the Center for New Thinking in Birmingham, which he founded in 1976 as a com- munity forum for new ideas in the arts, science and philosophy. He will, no doubt, continue to be a fixture in his Birmingham community, where he begins most days early, with a three- to four-mile walk, followed by hours at a table in t...…
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…Aging Gracefully Modern lifestyles are changing the definition of old age. RUTHAN BRODSKY Special to the Jewish News B aby boomers are creating a demographic shift so enor- mous that people in their 50s or even in their 60s are no longer defined as old. Born between 1946 and 1964, boomers are breaking all sorts of myths about aging. For instance, the feverish demand for Viagra by men age 55 and older should dispel the myth that the lights ...…
…VA Red, White And Jewish In honor of Independence Day: surprising, fun and downright weird information about Jews and the United States. 7 411/111116C%. "1111kNk. ove over, Clint Eastwood. Eat your heart out, John Wayne. -! America's first really big Western star came around long before anyone had even heard of those two. His stage name was Gilbert Anderson, and he was Jewish. (More on this in a minute ...) If you've had enough of the sa...…
…AppleTree RED, WHITE & JEWS from page 47 in the middle. Eastern-European Jewish immi- grants brought the bagel to the United States. An American Jew brought them to Israel. Gary Heller, a native of New York, began his bagel business in Jerusalem by importing frozen dough from Manhattan's H&H Bagels, founded in 1972 by brothers Helmer Toro and Hector Hernanadez. He then cooked up the bagels in Jerusalem and soon had plenty more cus- tomers t...…
…INSIDE A Look At Colonial American Jews . • 0 • 5 Arts & Entertainm Heroes Of Jewish Comedy .. . 58 Mel Gibson's 0, Controversial Film . . Passion For Pewabic Metro Detroit Jews maintain a love affair with a 100-year-old Detroit institution. CINDY FRENKEL Special to the Jewish News I rene Walt had no idea when she emigrated from South Africa in 1961 that she would help rescue a Detroit institution. Pewabic Pottery, the Midwest's only...…
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…CHARMING, Attractive educated, modest restaurateur seeks customer with a taste for good food. Jews In The News NATE BLOOM Special to the Jewish News Dylanesque Notes In a funny coincidence, Bob's oldest son, JESSE DYLAN, 36, directed Levy in the third installment of the smash American Pie films — American Wedding, opening Aug.•1. Bob's youngest son, JAKOB DYLAN, 33, the leader of the big-sell- ing band The Wallflowers, contributed a song ...…
…Arts Entertainment PASSION from page 49 University District, Sherwood Forest and Palmer Woods all have such homes. Several apartments on East Jefferson also are filled with Pewabic tiles, as are older homes in Indian Village, Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills and Huntington Woods. The eminent Jewish architect Albert Kahn worked closely with Pewabic's founder, Mary Chase Stratton, and incorporated the pottery's work in many build- ings he designed...…
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…Left to right: and New Yo r Dr. John de Sequeyra was appointed doctor in charge of the first public hospital in America. o f t he Ame rica n Jew is h His t Reverend Gershom Mendes Seixas led the first Jewish congregation in America, Shearith Israel in New York, for 46 years, and served as clergyman at the inauguration of President George Washington. r. Founding Fathers/Mothers Moses Myers, who developed a lucrative import- export busine...…
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