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…DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 411' N September 25, 1998 . Vol. CXIV No. 5 17p Front 10 Farther Afield As Jews migrate from the core, institutions ponder how to follow. 30 Generation Celebration Smiling families, high fashion and a pre-holiday Israel salute. Close Up 73 Up Front. page 30 Not Your Average Joe The morality behind Connecticut's Senator Joseph Lieberman. • Entertainment 78 80 Out & About Home With A History The former B. Sieg...…

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…For Openers... JARC PRESENTS What Our Neighbors Learned About Judaism EVITA and a tie that hung off to the side. His school on Saturday mornings. Then, hair was slicked down. again, the entire religious school consist- I was calling my wife at Somewhat shy, but definitely earnest, ed of Douggie. We held class at the desk work, just after taking my he approached me with a half-eaten in his bedroom. Once in a while, if they turn in the lotte...…

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…The University of Michigan's Clements Library holds what is thought to be the first sub- stantial book of American Judaica. hand to accept the award for her father. The story is about a family from metro Detroit, forced to move to mid- Michigan follow- ing a job change. The family is forced to hide its Jewish identity, until the 11-year-old son decides he wants a Bar Mitzvah. The ending? "You'll have to read the story," Mathis said. It will b...…

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…Going Farther Afield As Jews migrate from the core to more distant It's a blessing your children You're a have given you grand- children. But you've got big responsibilities. Here's one: Give the parents a subscription to The Detroit Jewish News. They'll find lots of useful new ideas about raising children in a Jewish or interfaith household. The Jewish News is a "Book of Why" about the holidays, our heritage and the world we live in. The...…

…4460 Orchard Lake load West Bloomfield, MI 48323 Phone: 248.683.1010 gen1 aired cfcliJesicHoomfield David Gad-Harf, executive direc- tor of the Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit, agrees. "We have a good sense that a growing proportion lives outside the core Jewish area of Oak Park, north to West Bloomfield and Farmington Hills," he said. In an effort to help these "embry- onic Jewish communities" on the outskirts of Metro Detr...…

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…Israel Ally Butzel Award winner Jane Sherman has dedicated her life to supporting the Jewish homeland. ..:400111 ane )/7 1- rrn n. of 1 the ,/ • • , Editor I n 1962, when she was 21, Jane Sherman visited Israel for the first time as part of a United Jewish Appeal (UJA) young leadership mission. She bonded with the land instantly. "I was hooked," Sherman said. "It was still a young country. A new nation was being built and I wante...…

…Jewish Agency For Israel and still on the board, serving alongside his daughter. Yes, he says, she can be brash and demanding. "She has given me more trouble than anybody else," he said. "She's not bashful about saying she doesn't agree. ,, what she's doing and that's important to us. Whenever we've needed her, 3 though, she's always been there.' Buoyed by the experience of the 1962 young leadership mission, Jane learned Hebrew and stepped ...…

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…What you want. What you Steady On need. Where to go. Tuition and enrollment increase modestly this year at area in 1997-98. Tuition, as well, is relatively stable. Akiva has not raised tuition at all and both Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit and Yeshiva Gedolah have implemented $200 increases (at Hillel, this is less than a 3 percent increase from last year; at Yeshiva Gedolah, this is slightly under a 4 percent increase). Darc...…

…SOLOMON SON COMPANY day schools, but not across the board. ow- and centrist Orthodox, is down by 9 percent from 1993-94. However, Akiva's principal, Rabbi Karmi Gross, notes that enrollment has been erratic throughout the school's history. He attributes the fluctuations to families leaving Detroit or making aliyah to Israel along with the departure of stu- dents unable to handle the demands of Akiva's dual secular and Judaic curricu- lum....…

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…Road and then forget it in a couple of years, sometimes they're just chanting and don't know what they're saying. But I'm going to remember this for a long time." At Workmen's Circle, students have been celebrating b'nai mitzvah for 20 years. The long-term research project can be on any Jewish-related topic. Workmen's Circle Education Director Jan Adler describes the project — which spans a year and is supervised by a mentor from the congrega...…

…JULIE WIENER Staff Writer IV Nether you want him impeached or think his personal life is no one's business, you have to give President Bill Clinton credit for keeping kids alert during discussions about Jewish law. No one is planning a curriculum around the president's extra-marital liaisons, but Jewish youth group advisors and high school teachers are using the sex and perjury scandal as a vehi- cle for discussing the Jewish approach towar...…

…TRUNK SHOW Centennial Picnic ROBERT A. SKLAR Editor T he Detroit Jewish commu- nity is invited to a family reunion picnic at the Kahn Jewish Community Center on Sunday, Sept. 27, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of organized Jewish philanthropy in Detroit. Hosts are the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit and its bank- ing/real estate partner, the United Jew- ish Foundation of Metropolitan Detroit. Hours are 1:30 to 4:30 p.m., rai...…

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…THE DEAL MAKER S HEADQUARTERS program to better serve youth groups. The program arranges volunteer oppor- tunities for teens; last year, it recruited teens directly and had its own teen committee, but now it will be working more closely with youth groups. "It's a pre-done program," said Lazar. "All the youth groups have to do is show up." AJE also hopes to start up a profes- sional development conference for people working with teens and to c...…

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…Fashion show producers Cindy Kahn and Linda Dremer started the show. LYNNE MEREDITH COHN Special to The Jewish News e e ration GLENN TRIEST Photographer I f Armani made kippot, you would have seen them at Congregation Shaarey Zedek on Sunday, Sept. 13. An excited buzz spread through the crowd gathered in the Rabbi Morris Adler social hall. As the lights dimmed, a spotlight illuminated a makeshift modeling runway, and psy- chedelic, Midd...…

…Above left to right: Marissa Wais was very fashionable. Elaine Miller modeled for her family and the audience. Margo and Jessica Miller were spirited models. Left to right: The Krasnicks: baby Leah, mom Jane and Rachel. Dr. Phoebe Mainster holds dolled up granddaughter Jamie Menuck. Ruth Hack was the first of four generations of her family in the show. Detroit Jewish News …

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…Editorials IN FOCUS Heeding The Code ' j ewish communal groups, just like sec- ular non-profits, typically adopt a code of conduct for good reason — so sup- potters don't take undue advantage of a group's good name. Basic as it is, the notion of such a code drew the spotlight last week when a housing corn- mittee co-chair for the 1998 JCC Maccabi Games in Detroit acknowledged she had used the host family list to solicit business by mail for...…

…COMMUNITY VIEWS • The Election Dilemma And Our Community the candidates? How should we sort any Michigan Jews are out the conflicting claims on our in a quandary. vote? My litmus test questions that Wherever I go in members of the Jewish community the Jewish community, can use in the coming weeks fall people tell me that they are in con- into four clusters: flict over the gubernatorial As we observe the candi- race this year. Those who date...…

…EDITOR'S WATCH Pray For Our Faith This Yom Kippur Greenberg said, "There's less coopera- om Kippur, which starts at tion and communal activity and will- sundown on 9 Tishrei (Sept. ingness to do things together than there 29), is the holiest of the High ever has been." No one, he said, Holy Days — a day of "should fool themselves into thinking prayer, fasting and introspection. that the big picture is a truly good one It's the day we seek di...…

…OPINION High Holy Days: The Great Link For Judaism's Various Streams The incident comes back to me as everal years ago on a mission we observe the High Holy Days, to Israel, my husband and I among the most communal of Jewish were invited with some observances. friends to the home of a The High Holy Days present a couple who extended their hospitali- unique opportunity to find that ty without having met us. common denominator that Because the...…

…N EDITOR'S WATCH Yom KIPPUR from page 35 -hardt as part of a joint $50,000 gift to Schneier's bid to build a national coali- tion of rabbinical boards. Meanwhile, in Atlanta, the newly created Congregation Shema Yisrael represents a crucible in religious toler- ance by bringing together Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and Reconstruc- tionist Jews to worship under one roof. The various streams worship simul- taneously, each in their own space...…

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…The Fears Return Russian Jews weigh emigration amid deepening economic crisis LEV KRICHEVSKY Jewish. Telegraph Agency Mosow rina Meerzon knows that she is in financial trouble. The retired accountant's pension, which had been the equivalent of $60 per month as recently as mid-August, is now worth roughly $20 as a result of the ruble's free fall. In the same time period, the prices of food staples have risen 50 to 60 percent. "I always had t...…

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…Community 'Where To Go! Seniors Luncheon Links Congregations i. O O Above: Faye Rice and Louis Dorf of Adat Shalom chat during the seniors luncheon. Right: (Back row) Jimm White, president of Temple Israel; Flo Goldman, presi- dent of Temple Israel's Temple Treasures; (Front row) Milton Rose of Temple Israel, and Max and June Weinberg of Shaarey Zedek — at the intercongrega- tional seniors luncheon. A musical program by Cantor Harold Or...…

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