…r Our very best wishes for a sweet New Year 2000/5761 TAAT DOD SHAAREY ZEDEK ale • A new year. What are your hopes? What will you change? What will you learn? We invite you to become part of the Shaarey Zedek family, where you will find meaning, comfort and friendship as we celebrate our traditions together. For membership information, please call Executive Director, Judith Shewach- Stevenson at 248.357.5544. Rabbi Irwin Grone...…
…The Middle East peace process took center stage in a year on page 54 of hopes and shattered anticipation. HIGHLIGHTS T HE YEAR 5760 WAS MOMENTOUS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND AT HOME. ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS NEGOTIATED TO THE BRINK OF A HISTORIC PEACE AGREEMENT, ONLY TO TURN AWAY AT THE LAST MINUTE. IN THE UNITED STATES, A JEWISH SENATOR WAS PLACED ON THE PRESIDENTIAL TICKET OF A MAJOR POLITICAL PARTY FOR THE FIRST TIME AND THE CENTRAL CO...…
…Clockwise from far left: A Lebanese youngster plays on abandoned Israeli artillery after the IDF pulled out of southern Lebanon. Israeli peace activists wave signs in support of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak in Jerusalem on July 11. Lebanese citizens carry Ahmed Obeid on their shoulders to celebrate his release from an Israeli prison Dec. 27. Five Lebanese Shiite Muslim guerrillas released by Israel in an apparent goodwill gesture arriv...…
…Year In Review of the Chabad-Lubavitch move ment launches an umbrella organization, the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia. The federation, founded by some 200 delegates from severa dozen Jewish communities across Russia, establishes as its goal the representation of Jews from "all walks of life in Russia in all matters." BRIAN SEIDMAN Jewish Telegraphic Agency SEPTEMBER 1999 Jerusalem — The Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial breaks g...…
…The Families of Hillel Day School Wish You and Yours A Year Filled With Health, Happiness and Peace. The Abramson Family Jay, Joanna, Joshua, Jacob 8 Jonathan The Diskin Family Jeffrey, Cindy, Joshua, Rachel, Michael 8 Jacob The Gross Family Amie, Judy, Jesse, Hannah, Jonathan 8 Lindsey The Margolis Family Sanford, Amy, Jonathon & Bradley The Shubiner Family Steve, Liz, Andrea 8 Julie The Acker Family Barbara, Jared, Evan 8 LeeAnn The D...…
…Year In Review policies worry many, later steps down as official leader of the party Los Angeles — Federal prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty against Buford Furrow Jr., the white supremacist accused of killing a Filipino American mail carrier after wounding five people at a Jewish community center last August. Jerusalem — Israel's interior min- ister, Natan Sharansky, says his ministry will recognize civil mar- riages performe...…
…resentatives will be barred for two years from running for positions on U.N. councils. JUNE 2000 Cairo — Syrian President Hafez Assad dies at age 69. His son, Bashar Assad, succeeds him, and vows to pursue his father's poli- cies toward Israel, including a hard line on a return of the Golan Heights . Moscow — Authorities arrest Vladimir Goussinsky, a media tycoon who also serves as the pres- ident of the Russian Jewish Congress. He is late...…
…A Spiritual Renewal Remaking The S1111 1111 N EW EFFORTS ARE UNDER WAY TO RE-ESTABLISH THE SYNAGOGUE AS THE CENTER FOR JEWISH UNITY. IN SOME CASES, THE EFFORTS CROSS DENOMINATIONAL LINES, IN OTHERS THEY FOCUS ON STRENGTHENING THE SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE FOR INDIVIDUALS AND IN OTHERS THEY LOOK AT WAYS TO MAKE THE LEARNING COMPONENT OF THE SHUL MORE MEMORABLE. SOME ARGUE FOR REINVENTION OF THE SYNAGOGUE, OTHERS FOR SIMPLY IMPROVING THE INSTI...…
…erican The Sind That Could synagogues are Manhattan synagogue is trying to change a model for to satisfy a new renewal, but can it be hunger for replicated? JULIE WIENER spirituality. Jewish Telegraphic Agency Staff photo by Krista Husa Therapy Process Rabbi Danny tion processes school classes, Hope Shepherd, Zemel, whose do spawn proj- and a cadre of Transformation and Marlene Zeitlin Washington ects and initia- members is ren...…
…THE POWER OF & A Spiritual Renewa THE FUSION OF DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY- THE 2001 DEVILLE Trial Membership San Francisco temple tries voluntary dues to get rid of shul sticker shock. New York emple Emanu-El in San Francisco had a problem. No matter how hard it tried to promote its innovative Hebrew school, dynamic clergy or range of services, prospective members always had one question: How much does it cost% "They didn't want to know who th...…
…Range Of Costs Membership dues vary widely throughout the country. They range from $100 in small congre- gations that offer few services to more than $3,000 plus building fund contributions in large syna- gogues with religious schools and other amenities. Most congrega- tions have set rates for families, singles and seniors, but a growing number are shifting to rates based on percentage of income. While most synagogues say they turn no one aw...…
…A Spiritual Renewal Happy Passover! Ay AGENCIES OP CHANGE Synagogue 2000 Celebrating with you peace, freedom, and hope. ROVIDENCE New York Founded in 1996 by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Rabbi Larry Hoffman and the University of Judaism's Dr. Ronald Wolfson, S2K, as its leaders call it, works intensively with Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist synagogues over a three-year period. The synagogue's lay leaders ...…
…1 ECE congregations form teams of lay leaders and clergy who study together and develop a vision for improving the synagogue. ECE encourages congregations to make education central to all synagogue activities rather than simply a function of the religious school. The project leaders no longer work directly with synagogues and are instead putting together a series of books about synagogue transformation as well as developing a Web site to help...…
…This Week SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN w Staff Writer hen Synagogue 2000 came to town this sum- mer, the 4-year-old proj- ect was met with open arms. Looking to join the national initia- tive for synagogue spirituality, 11 local Reform and Conservative congrega- tions and one Conservative Ann Arbor congregation volunteered to partici- pate in the cross-denominational proj- ect aimed at achieving self-assessment, facilitation and teamwork. "We'r...…
…Political Perspective Columnist/political analyst Steve Roberts focuses on the presidential election at NCJW opening meeting. Vishine our customers a cHappy an 'Prosperous New 'Year! DEBBIE WALLIS LANDAU Special to the Jewish News teve Roberts, political analyst, vet- eran journalist and broadcaster, is often recognized as the other half" of the famous Cokie and Steve Roberts' writing team for USA Today Magazine and the New York Daily New...…
…k MAY THE NEW YEAR BRING HEALTH AND HAPPINESS TO ALL OUR FRIENDS Florence Abel Kate Browner Lauren Bruss Andy Collins Sharon Collins Dennis P. Dickstein Olena Drobot Irene Eagle Rosalie Fox Linda Franklin Anu Gandhi Iris Goldstein Jackie Grewel Lillian Hoard Ruth Karm el Jeff Katzen Connie Kramer Dr. Marc Leitson Esther Liwazer Marcia Miller Melanie Mitchell Sheila R. Morganroth Barbara Siefer Ken Singer Judy Stein Marsha Trimas Betty Wein...…
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…This Week Insight Remember When • • From Father To Son Cantor Usher Adler will lead services in the former synagogue building where his father prayed as cantor. From the pages of the Jewish News for this week 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 1990 Detroit's two members of the Cantors Assembly Executive Council, Chaim Najman and Larry Vieder, voted to admit women to the professional association of Conservative cantors. SHELLI LIEBMAN DOR...…
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…COMMUNITY VIEWS Luck, Flukes And Courage Orthodox Jews, stating, in effect, that e, who are the survivors the reason one-and-a-half-million of the Holocaust, find infants and children had their lives Rabbi Ovadia Yosef's snuffed out is because they were the explanation of why so reincarnation of evil past lives. many of our fellow Jews were slaugh- According to this logic, tered both dangerous and the few of us that survived highly offensive...…
…SPECIAL COMMENTARY Boomer ReJew-Venation Los An eles "Whatever," shrugged the well- he changes in American dressed rabbi, dapper in Armani. But Jewish life over the past 20 with the growing influence of the years have been astounding. ashram, and the recent adoption of The imprint of the Baby meditation-style worship, it's only a Boomers, those middle-aged matter of time until our men and women who today clothing goes with the flow. dominat...…
…SPECIAL COMMENTARY Renewing Our Synagogues And Ourselves bers) at Yavneh after the Second Tern- ple was destroyed. It was here that Rabbi ben Zakkai began to adapt the practices of Judaism to a new reality — a social climate that lacked the cen- trality of the Temple in Jerusalem. Today, Judaism is facing a challenge as great as the destruction of the Sec- ond Temple. Assimilation and attri- tion are seriously depleting the ranks of our peop...…
…SPECIAL COMMENTARY CHANGE from page 74 a covenant — one that elevates the purpose of the institution and does ences are inclusivity, empowerment not shrink from making demands on and engagement. members. • "Inclusivity" implies a need for • Organizational Culture: When lay the synagogue to recognize that the Jews are given a chance to lead ser- two-parent family with children is vices, deliver talks, read Torah, intro- only one of many famil...…
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…May tke coming yeav be filled witk cdtk and kappiness Hillel Day School Fund Advances Shoah Education The Walter Cykiert Memorial Holocaust Education Fund has been established at Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit in Farmington Hills. The fund is in loving memory of past Hillel parent and grandparent Walter Cykiert by his wife, Shirley Cykiert of Commerce Township and her sons, Stuart of West Bloomfield, Jay of Farmington Hills and ...…
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…The Families of Temple Shir Shalom Wish You and Those You Love a Sweet and Very Peaceful New Year! • • The Abrams Family Mitchell and Dorothy The Jacobs Family Sid and Pat The Rothfeder Family Allan, Nancy, Eric and David The Bell Family Jack, Fran, Adam and Robbie The Janower Family Marty, Rena, Andy, Nikki, and Adam The Sampson Family Rochelle, Danny, Jeff and Marc The Bendersky-Kaufman Family Robert Kaufman and Carolyn Bendersky M...…
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…We wish our family crilb friends a very beoltbV, happy artb pnitperous new Year. Belt withe,t ke a hapy, healthy Wen," Weal, IRVING & BRENDA ALTUS and FAMILY MILLICENT ALLEN & GERTRUDE SHAW We wish our family '4inb frieas a very healthy, happy an prosperous new Year. 'Bell lathes jr- a happy, healthy Wen] Wear- MORTON & 'ALICE BERLIN ROSALIE BEER & JULIE GRUNWALD We wish our family anb friends a very healthy, happy ants prosperous fle...…
…We wish our family anbfrientas a very healthy, happy anb prosperous flew year. ROSITA & GEORGE FEDERMAN BOCA RAtON, FL We wish our family' anb frienbs a very healthy, happY anb proimerous new Hear. BOB & JEANNETTE FELDMAN BOYNTON BEACH, FL Learning Jervvishly A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family. May the New Year Uring To 411 Our Friends and UMIAK - 'Health, Joy, [asperity and Even/thine Good In Life. Schosta...…
…We wish our family- ono frienbs a very healtbV, baPPY anb prosperous new Year. Ukrainian Delegation Tours U-M Hillel Pasha Masko and Yulia Belilovskaya, Hillel student leaders from Ukraine, toured University of Michigan Hillel recently with Jay Rabin, right, of Hillel of Metro Detroit, and left, Ben Freed of Ann Arbor. They were in Michigan on a Partnership 2000 exchange ESTHER & HARRY DINES We wish our family anb frienbs a very bealtby, b...…
…4041 wake,' Pr a- 114011, (New (ljear all onr Nen& and relailocc. CAROL, RON, JOEY & SHELBY BERGER MARCUS & PAULA LAST 45eLt wilhei, too a kaP424, healllui , (New Wear far a (Bed hafipy, healthy ()feta (ljear 13eit wakes to-r a happy, healthy (New (ljear R. KATANICK, MARK PASMAN,TOSH & MARLEY HENIA & HENRY LEWIN & MIRIAM CIESLA EVELYN & HERSHEL MYERS 'onb frienbs a very We wish our fanii1Y—' prosperous new year. anon healthV, haPPY ...…
…A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family. IRP Lists Free Special Gifts Event Fall Programs The Institute for Retired Professionals will host its Fall Mini Series on five consecutive Fridays at the Jewish Community Center in Oak Park. There is no admission charge for the programs. The morning sessions, from 10:30 a.m. to noon, have the theme "Examining the New Economy." Topics and speakers will be: • Oct. 6, "Globaliza...…
…g3rAt wiAltei tar a. Itapipg, healthy- Wilke/ /04c a lleto- Wear happy., heatthm (New Wear BOB, DENA, MICHAEL & STEPHANIE OPPENHEIM NANCY & IRV RUBIN LAINEY and CHASE We with our family anb frienbs a very healthy, happy anb prosperous new Year. HARVEYIDAHLIA KLEIN JODIE, AMY, JOSHUA We wish our family::and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous new Year. Kippah Campaigning Support for political candidates is on the head of loca...…
…Best whites tar- a happy., healthy. ritemi Wear NAOMI TRAGER and FAMILY ficippy Itsa Volunteers of all ages join in a day of fun and good deeds. Photos by Joshua Kristal 1111itzva! SHARON LUC KERMAN Editorial Assistant Above: Ilana Dell, 9, of West Bloomfield helps Menorah House residents Fran Press, 91, and Jane Martin, 82, with the Sukkot craft project. Right: Menorah House resident Sid Riskin, 87, and Benji Dell, 12, of West Bloo...…
…12.11M1 TA11\5 ill `2 A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family. to- all o-ax frientit am/ relatives. NATHAN & SONIA NOTHMAN laTIDT1 TAIIZ 711tD`2 A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family. LEO & SUZANNE KNIGHT May the New Year !ling To All our Friends health, and Famly Joy. !Prosperity and Everything Good In Life. — to- all oar fritmcis and relatioeA- LARRY & MARILYN KATZ ANDREA FISCHER, F...…
…(Bed astilhes kr a. &wig, health,' 13eitt Epithet lor a happy., healthy. ("least (Year GAIL REICHSTEIN Project StaR Marks 10 Years More than 40 alumni will cel- ebrate the 10th anniversary of Project STaR, the Jewish com- munal certificate program at the University of Michigan at the first Alumni Institute in Ann Arbor on Oct. 29-30. The celebration includes a Sunday evening reception at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield to ho...…
…Community aber Ivritr Adat Shalom Nursery School begins Hebrew immersion program. DIANA LIEBERMAN Staff Writer eventeen big-eyed 4-year-olds twist their fin- gers in time to "Ha Eensy-Veensy Akavit" ("The Eensy-Weensy Spider"). They gather around teacher Ronit Lipsky to enjoy a Hebrew storybook, then answer questions asked completely in Hebrew about the days of the week and what the weather is like. This all takes place at Adat Shalom Nur...…
…VaTOTI Synagogue 2000 Head Named The Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit named Julie Falbaum senior associate for Synagogue 2000, a pro- jected coordinated by Federation's Alliance for Jewish Education together with local congregations. Along with her new posi- tion at Federation, Falbaum is an adjunct professor at Wayne State University, where she has taught classes in the graduate school of social work since 1993. She previously was ...…
…"HaPPY New Vecie - +1 "PPY Jul ew Ye a r - May the coming year be filled with health and happiness for cl ovir family and friends. May the coming ye.av be filled with health and kappiness fop' all OW' family and friends. SHARON & BURT SAVINE JULIUS & ROSA SCHAUMBERG - limn 'inn illt13‘2 la all on, lititndi and relatittes. ZITA & LEO WEBER iinvn nalz mu'? tt )L all otif and relatittes. "Ca AaC)".1 Yiddishkeit At Its Best ROB, JOD...…
…We with our fapti,IY anb frienbs a very healthy, happy anb prosOerous new year LEO, HEIDI & TODOSZLAMKOWICZ laTOTI 311115 111V2 to all ow anti relatives. Forum Examines Public-School Ruling A Jewish law professor at the University of Detroit Mercy will moderate a colloquium on the 75th anniversary of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down an Oregon law requiring parents to send their school-aged chil- dren to public schools. "The e...…
…c0 We wish our faznitY410) frienbs a very healthy, baPPV and prci "'emus new Year. SIMON & ESTHER TABAtHNIK and FAMILY We wish our fatnily*b frienbs a very healthy, happy and; proerous new Vear. HARRY & SHiROY TANKSLEY A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All My Friends and Family. Happy +-happy N ew N ew Year- yeas* May the coming year be filled with health and happiness foe all owe family and friends. Max the coming year be fill...…
