…HEALER page 1 High Holydays 5756/1995 Teshuva — Repentance; Tzedakah — Justice (7\ As we observe our High Holydays, teshuva is uppermost in our minds and hearts. Tzedakah is in our hearts and hands throughout the year. At this season, the two are closely linked: our repentance depends largely on our actions toward those in need. a kippah, was saving the child be- cause "you're a Muslim, like me." When Dr. Hodes used the word "Yehudi" (Jew)...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS Vol. CVIII No. 3 Publisher Arthur M. Horwitz Editor Phil Jacobs Associate Editors Elizabeth Applebaum, Alan Hitsky Staff Writers Julie Edgar, Jennifer Finer, Ruth Littmann, Jill Davidson Sklar Contributing Editors Michael Davis, Howard Lalli, Neil Rubin Washington Correspondent James D. Besser Foreign Correspondent Douglas Davis Israel Correspondents Ina Friedman, Larry Dertner Photographer Glenn Triest Local Column...…
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…PH OTOS BY BI LL HANSEN RUTH LITTMANN STAFF WRITER Tik-ee-aw! Baruch Shalom Davidson, 11, welcomes the New Year. Hundreds take part in a New Year extravaganza. Eorsh Eva Weiss, 11, gets her face painted by Peter Cooper of Oak Park. 14 hat's green and cold and smells like apple pie? Answer: The slime at life's dead ends. At a New Year party, tossed Sunday by Jewish Experiences For Families, hundreds of children entered a maze designed to ...…
…Carly Schiff, 8, and Jesse Einstein (behind) roll beeswax candles. make kreplach from dough and fruit fillings. At the flower booth, Jayme Jackson, 7, made a colorful bouquet of carnations for her living-room table. Twisty the Clown and Howard Faber, also a clown, regaled the children with magic, antics and balloons. Performer Julie Austin led a sing-along, and the Jewish Community Center's intergener- ational choir added to the gala with mor...…
…WHERE ELSE CAN YOU PICK UP THE PHONE, MAKE AN APPOINTMENT WITH A FURNITURE DESIGNER TO COME TO YOUR HOME AT NO CHARGE, CUSTOM DESIGN YOUR NEW FURNITURE TO FIT YOUR ROOM AND THEN FINANCE IT FOR YOU? Physician's Book Becomes His Legacy ALAN HITSKY ASSOCIATE EDITOR A BUY DIRECT from t Ile NIANUFACTURER at WHOLESALE PRICES! MONTH Interest-Free FINANCING -Limited- offer dam Goldstein achieved his dream of becoming a doctor. But in death...…
…WE WISH ALL OUR FRIENDS, CUSTOMERS & RELATIVES A HEALTHY AND HAPPY NEW YEAR programming for single Jewish fathers. It did, however, recent- ly establish the Institute for Sin- gle Jewish Mothers, providing support services and social pro- grams. Men have their own set of needs. "We know single dads bring their children to our programs and they are included in our general outreach, but we don't have anything specifically for them," said Sue ...…
…FROM GRADE SCHOOL Meet The New Boss, Same As The Old Boss TO GRAD SCHOOL Israeli rock 'n' roll rebels against those who stopped rebelling. Except, of course, for the veterans still putting out hits. LARRY DERFNER ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT I 115. 2 . 411 5 4 Chenille Sweater with Black Snow Flakes $142 WERE ALL GROWN UP NOW BLOOMFIELD PLAZA, MAPLE & TELEGRAPH HOURS: Monday thru Saturday 10-6, except Thursday til 8 DESIGNS IN DECORATOR LAM...…
…THE M (- THE MAGIC OF THET MAI GIN C OFt Jerusalem (JTA) — Israel's cost of living index rose by only two- tenths of a percent in July, with inflation rising by 2.8 percent since the beginning of the year, the Central Bureau of Statistics announced. Finance Minister Avraham Shohat welcomed the surpris- ingly low index and estimated that annual inflation could be the lowest in years, amounting to less than 10 percent. The government has set a ...…
…Our Best Wishes For A Happy And Healthy New Year! Catching More Zzzz's BOAZ DVIR STAFF WRITER T QUALITY CONSTRUCTION RESIDENTIAL-COMMERCIAL DESIGN INRECON BUILD his school year, Israeli ele- mentary and junior high students will have more op- portunity to sleep — before they get to class. Adopting a recommendation by the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology), which researched the issue last year, the Ministry of Education recently...…
…The Darakjian Family and employees join in wishing you blessings of good health, happiness and peace throughout the year. nzrizri rime inur,5 John and Bergy Darakjian and sons Ara and Armen Darakjian DAR4KJIAll ihi devefAr dAgovole/n4 29333 NorLhweAern Highway, (BouLl -ifield, MI 48034, (810) 356-7140 …
…Coronation Day "May the New Year bring to all our Family, Friends, and Patients — Health, Happiness, Prosperity and everything good in life!" Your handy-dandy guide to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur at a glance. Read it while standing in line at the supermarket, plopped in your living chair or in services themselves. DAVID HOLZEL SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS Hold that date Rosh Hashanah generally is celebrated as a two-day festival. It begins...…
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…The Families of Hillel Day School Wish You and Yours A Year Filled With Health, Happiness, and Peace. The Ackerman Family Sharyl, Alan, Elana, Matthew & Daniel The Farber Family Miriam, Shirah & Alaina The Kleiman Family Michelle, Bobby, Erica & Jordan The Rosen Family Steven, Evelyn, Jason, Marcy & Emily The Apsel Family Ken, Ellen, Carrie & Dayna The Feldman Family Joel, Daphna, Donni, Gil & David The Koenig Family Helene, Earl, Mich...…
…p M 0 :, -,,v, • - "' ' 3 , 4 , - tk: ,e,, ' - An \ COMPILED BY ELIZABETH APPLEB: Pennies For Heaven If you have a collection of What's Cooking?For Faces And Places Tidbits from Jewish history. I mmanuel Jakobovits of Eng- I f you're sick, try some chicken soup. If you're depressed, try some chicken soup. If you're tired, try some chicken soup. But what kind? With dill or without? With beef bones or not? With a lot of carrots o...…
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…iday services begin Sunday evening at 7:15 p.m. SEPHARDIC: KEHILA SEPHARDIC COMMUNI- TY OF GREATER DETROIT 21100 W. 12 Mile, Southfield, in the chapel, 788-1006 or 557-8551. Hazan: Sasson Natan. Services: Friday 7 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m.; Sunday, 9 a.m. Kiddush follows services. TRADITIONAL: CONGREGATION B'NAI DAVID 5642 West Maple Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48322, 855-5007. Rabbi: Milton Arm. Saturday 8:45 am. RECONSTRUCTIONIST: CONGREG...…
…The Truly Repentant Make A Return RABBI ELIZER COHEN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS A We had this amazing Purim festival at school, and I made the mask for Haman! I like learning about our holidays, our history and about Israel too. I really want to go there! We never s we find ourselves on the and voluntarily give his wife a eve of Rosh Hashanah— properly drafted bill of divorce— "The day of Judgement" a get. In the tragic circumstance and...…
…Attention: Karen Ann Knight Memorial Award Winners Society Appoints New Directors The Society for Humanistic Ju- daism has appointed Bonnie Cousens executive director, suc- ceeding Miriam Jerris, the Soci- ety's founding executive director, who has resigned to continue her graduate education. Ms. Cousens, 49, left her home in New York to come to Michi- -, gan 27 years ago to pursue a ca- / — reer in social work. She joined the Birmingham Tem...…
…TARK AY Beth El Hosts Daniel Syme Daniel Syme ,.(st SPECIAL EXHIBITION AND SALE Held at The Plaza Hotel, 16400 J.L.Hudson Drive, Southfield, MI 48075 on Sunday, October 1st, 1995, 12 NOON — 4 PM Dr. Perry, who discovered Tarkay eleven years ago and became his exclusive worldwide dealer and publisher, is offering for sale seventy-two original paintings, watercolors, drawings, serigraphs and sculptures from his private collection at a speci...…
…MIMI lila 'law YESHIVA Slot C/Aviutalc,CNvite/ie BETH YEHUDAH Sunday October 22, 1995 Golden Torah Awardee The Honorable Avern Cohn Honorary Chairperson Max Fisher General Chairperson David Hermelin General Co Chairpersons Paul Borman Selwyn Isakow Ann Newman Alan E. Schwartz Honorary Dinner Chairpersons Paul Magy Norman Allan Thomas Cohn Spencer Partrich Mayor Dennis Archer Henry Dorfman Alex Saltsman Marvin Berlin Louis Glazier Mark Sc...…
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…ALAN NITSKY ASSOCIATE EDITOR School buildings and school programs dominated events in the Detroit Jewish community. orman Hall ceased to exist as a Jewish nursing home. Sara's kosher deli closed its doors. Camp Tamarack in Brighton was sold to private in- vestors. Rabbi Daniel Polish was given a perma- nent leave of absence by Temple Beth El. These were all major events during the year 5755 in Jewish Detroit. They will have a con- tinuin...…
…Opposite Page Hillel Day School had to decide where to build or rebuild. This Page Top: Jack Schon carried a Borman Hall Torah into Menorah House. Left: Jacob Hartman ponders the nursing home move. Above: Rose Crane sits in her wheelchair in a Menorah House hallway. …
…SEPTEMBER 1994 The Noah Webster Academy, a home- based private school connected via com- puter, seeks state funding as a charter school. A number of Lubavitch students enroll. The Jewish Federation and Jewish Home for Aged announce that Borman Hall in Detroit will cease being an exclu- sively Jewish home and many residents will relocate to Menorah House in South- field. Sara's kosher deli in Southfield is ex- periencing financial difficulties...…
…The Allied Jewish Campaign is pledged pansion at its Detroit campus. Dani Brenner, age 16, is killed in an au- $15 million at the annual meeting hosted tomobile accident and her heart is donat- by Max Fisher, $900,000 more than the ed to a 15-year-old. At the same time, Erik previous year. Federation announces Detroit will pair Morganroth, 25, suffers from myocarditis with the central Galilee region in the Part- and awaits a suitable heart don...…
…!SS'svs:: problems at Menorah House. Temple Is- rael unveils its high-tech media center. UJ = cc) APRIL Sandi Kline is hired as the JCC mar- - keting director. With Days of Decision, the AJCampaign hopes to reach $27 million. Dunkin' Donuts ends kashruth supervision — at its Northwestern Highway store. Tray- cc elers begin packing for Miracle Mission II. Hillel Day School parents, especially , those in Huntington Woods, Oak Park and = Sou...…
…vies the re-zoning request. State inspectors pass Menorah House, saying it has made "substantial improve- ments." The Allied Jewish Campaign closes with $26.85 million, an $850,000 increase over last year. JULY mnantha on Rolen Federation announces its Campaign al- locations, with the day schools receiving the largest increase. Shaarey Zedek plans a major expansion, and permanent class- rooms, for its Shaarey Zedek B'nai Israel Center in We...…
…Year Of NEIL RUBIN ■ SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS n fu ro re s s 1111 ore handshakes, a string of bus bombings, the functional end of a Jewish Diaspora community and the political march of the Christian right. These were some of the sweeping themes of the Jewish year of 5755, which ends at sundown Sunday. To help reflect on these events, we present a sketch of the year's top Jewish stories. No doubt many of the following topics will co...…
…Fifty Years Later Last spring, a torrent of glorious and horrifying memories flooded the me- dia to mark the 50th anniversary of the surrender of Nazi Germany, whose twisted ideology included the destruc- tion of the Jewish peo- March and ple. Veterans of that remember: global conflict again parachuted from air- Jewish women at the death camp planes, marched past world leaders and rev- Ravensbruck. eled in the fact that they lived to see the ...…
…A Year Of Painful Progress Passings Rabbi Shlomo Zczintcut Auerbach, 84: One of the world's leading au- thorities on Jewish law. Born in Jerusalem, he never . stepped foot outside Israel. He once helped design an electric wheelchair that circumvented the technical prohibitions against using electricity on Shabbat. Alexander Bielski, 83: Leg- endary head of Bielski Brigade. During World War II, his group of 300 fighters carried out behind-th...…
…5755 Joyful Grips Mordecai Gur, 65: Deputy defense minister, of a self-in- flicted gun- shot wound after suffer- ing from ter- minal cancer. In the 1967 Six-Day War, he headed paratroopers who first reached the Western Wall. His stunning words on Israeli radio at the time: "The Temple Mount is in our hands; The Temple Mount is in our hands. And now the en- tire Old City is in our hands, and we are very, very happy." Israel's most dramatic d...…
…A Year Of Painful Progress Bosnia's Drag For Jews, the war in Bosnia con- tinued to raise Holocaust appari- tions, although with qualified differences. After initial reluctance, American Jewish groups began to speak out. At one point, 16 rabbis and rabbinical students, affiliated Bosnia: with an ad hoc group called "Jews Evokes recollections Against Genocide in Bosnia," joined another 50 protesters in of the Holocaust. Washington, D.C., and ...…
…5755 ,E3arbrcz Streisa on calling NBC during its airing of The Prince' of Tides to complain about the loud volume of comm,er dials. (2117) 661 It threw off the defensive line of the opposition by them hearing Hebrew, in- stead of 'hut-hut' " — San Francisco 49er offensive tackle Harris Bar- ton, who is Jewish, on why he taught quarterback Joe Montana to count in He- brew. (2117) " U After The Rebbe For the Brooklyn, N.Y. - based Chabad-L...…
…A Year Of Painful Progress "From the moment Abra- ham heeded God's call, the land of Israel was destined to become Broadway, while the Diaspora became off- Broadway." — Rabbi Richard Hirsch of the World Union of Progressive Judaism. (4/21) If some- one were to call me up, I would tell them they have to send their kids to Israel, oth- erwise the terrorists win." — Stephen Flatow, whose daughter Alisa was killed by a terrorist bomb in Gaza....…
…5755 wring my trips to the su- permarket, I occasional]: read the tabloids. My fa ..vori-te headline. `Preac.her Explodes In The Pulpit.' 7 —Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie, Pitg ident-elect of the Union of Anierican Ilet)rew Congrega- tions, speaking to a group of Jewish jour,,. nalist4 (6130) I I get up every day and say, 'What can I do today that's good?' And I do something good and I feel better." --- Singer-actress Bette Mi- dler, on losing friend...…
…Super Sunday Volunteers Volunteers from local congrega- tions will join others in the com- munity to participate in the Super Sunday phonathon from 9:30 a.m.-9 p.m., Oct. 1, at the Max M. Fisher Building. The kickoff event for the Jew- ish Federation's Allied Jewish Campaign has volunteer shifts available from 9:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m., 11:45 a.m.-2:30 p.m., 2-945 p.m. for agency leadership and 6-9 p.m. for young adults. Congregations participatin...…
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…Remembering Rosh Hashanah during the Roaring '20s, World War II and when beehive hairdos were as hip as you could get. TH …
…Winds OF Despair A Novi man recalls surviving tough times, and feelings of good fortune, during the holidays. JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER This Page Above: Jack Pearlman at age 16. Opposite page: Jack Pearlman today: He felt fortunate, knowing he had a job. ne scene from Jack Pearlman's youth haunts him the most. It was 1917, and the 17- year-old self-described ruffi- an was asked to help march the soldiers off to war. As a bugler f...…
…Close Up Those JENNIFER FINER THE DETRO IT J EWISH NEWS STAFF WRITER ylvia Helfer will forever re- member the sight and smell of the freshly cut flowers that filled her synagogue on Rosh Hashanah. It was customary for all the children in her congregation, 'k the Holbrook Shul in Detroit, to give their mothers flowers on the Jewish new year. Sylvia's mother and the oth- er women who sat upstairs at the synagogue, separate from the men, wou...…
…PHOTO BY JULIE EDGAR The men Con VW) re annullies A high holiday was celebrated on the Hill. Hil Larry Horwitz: Congressional assistant and shammes. JULIE EDGAR STAFF WRITER e believes the year was 1965. A Congress buzzing with fresh-faced Democ- rats grappled with legis- lation that would have a profound impact on soci- ety: voting rights, Medicare, minimum wage, and the war in Vietnam. Herbert Tenzer was among the newly elected who hel...…
…Close Op Left: Benno Levi with his wife, Ruth, today: Still in Oak Park, still a liberal. Those Fabulous, ■ ■ Fearful ASSOCIATE EDITOR ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Below: The Levis and their four children in the late 1950s, with Sputnik overhead somewhere. I 'fi t I eS THE DETRO IT JEWISH NEWS When hairspray was king, Oak Park was it, and black-and-white TV brought the terrible news of Sputnik. t was a name no American wanted to hear: Sputnik....…
…PHOTO BY BILL HANSEN Bugles For A Jewish war vets recall High Holidays in the war zone. RUTH LITTMANN STAFF WRITER am's Horn hey were gentile farm boys from Haystack, U.S.A. Jack Schwartz, then in his early 20s, was a city-bred Jew from Brook- lyn. It was 1942. Wartime. Mr. Schwartz found him- self in Buffalo, N.Y., at the Curtis-Wright Air Force Base. He and his newfound buddies were assigned to top-secret mechanical work on bombers. "T...…
…PHOTOS BY GLE NN TRIEST mess Left: Theater director Jeff Nahan has the ticket. DETROIT JEWISH N EWS Above: The Millenium Theatre in Southfield. LLI hen Jeff Nahan stands on the •• stage of Southfield's Millenium Theatre, he looks as if he owns the world. At 41, Mr. Nahan has ar- rived, although he repeats (with a glitter in his eye) that show business is not at all glamorous. It's about meeting promoters' demands, measuring seat-to-produ...…
…TAKE AN EXTRA off 10% ALREADY DISCOUNTED PRICES September llth through September 24th A New Art Store Brings Color To Ferndale Y E AR 'S JULIE EDGAR STAFF WRITER I PHOTO BY GLEN N TR IEST n its former life, the space now occupied by Millers Artist Supplies in Ferndale was the hippest record store around. From obscure rhythm and blues to hip hop to the most cutting- edge jazz, Sam's Jams carried it all. David Miller is carrying on the...…
