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…Names Remembered The Cemetery Index Project aims to record the names of 100,000 Jews buried in the Detroit area. HARRY KIRS BAUM Staff Writer IV Further checking showed syna- gogue records of deaths in various stages of completeness. She took on the task of entering the name, date of death and date of birth or age at death of all Jews buried, and maintaining the database into the future. "My thought was, 'that couldn't be such a big job.' ...…
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…Did You Miss Us? Teen Mission parents were eager for their children's homecoming last week. JULIE WIENER Staff Writer GLENN TRIEST Photographer Above: Elissa Lindow hugs her mom, Susan Lindow, for the first time in five weeks. Left: Parents cheer as the first teens emerge from customs and passport control. 8/7 1998 22 Detroit Jewish News …
…Left: Rob and Ilene Klegon are reunited with their son, Doug. Below: Merrick Goodman gets the big hug from his mom, Denise Goodman. ith an hour to kill before the El Al flight from Israel brought their sons and daughters home, the parents at Detroit Metropolitan Airport fell to speculating about what their children would want to do. Karen and Rick Fink guessed that daughter, Lindsey, of North Farmington High, would be going out for dinner wi...…
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…• Learning that "Remebrance is the secret of redemption." We walked to the southern area, facing a canyon. We screamed in unison to .Special to The Jewish News hear the echo bounce far away and return: just like the faith of the Jews. , or most Of the Americans, Two very upbeat people, one a New Israel, was hoine for five Yorker soldier, the other a rabbi, told weeks; For the Israelis with us their, stories of aliyah. Interestingly, us,Israe...…
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…Editorials Teen Correspondents Came Through We hope you've enjoyed our personalized weekly reports about Teen Mission 2 Israel. If so, our student correspondents deserve much of the credit. Their work has deftly captured the won- der of the spiritually uplifting sojourn. The stories have proven richly informative and insightful. And that has permitted us to explore the history and heritage of nal Yisrael through the unique perspective of tee...…
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