…WE REMEMBER During the coming week, Yeshiva Beth Yehudah will observe the yahrtzeits of the following departed friends with the traditional memorial prayer, recitation of kaddish and studying of mishnayos. NISSAN Jack Barck Paul Alan Berent Moshe Bordoley Jacob Fleishman Albert H. Friedman Doris Hollo Fern Kunick Eva Leach Isadore E. Lichtenstein Joseph Under Sadie Moehlman Robert Benjamin Novitz Sadie Rosenthal Dr. Harold Rowe Imre Weiss L...…
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…DETROIT JEWISH NEWS "TN March 20, 1998 Vol. CXIII No. 4 Up Front 10 Back To The Garden A new program at Fleischman has residents seeing birds and bees. The World • Entertainment. page 84 31 Faint Praise, Condemnation Reaction to the Vatican's "apology" on the Holocaust is mostly negative. Maze!, Toy 45 Half-Century Of Love The key to a good marriage is great teamwork. AppleTree 57 Up Front. page 22 Mann On The Mountain How a J...…
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…Goodman's Goodbye LONNY GOLDSMITH Staff Writer Iff ay 1 would have marked Alan Goodman's ninth anniversary as executive director of Jewish Family Service. He will leave just one day short of that milestone to become executive director of the Educational Alliance in New York City. The ENs board rati- fied Goodman's hiring two weeks ago. "This was a fantastic offer that I just couldn't turn down," Goodman said. "New York was the only place tha...…
…Up Front Back To The Garden JULIE EDGAR News Editor T hey wanted to create a mini Eden, a place • where animals and plants could flourish amid the loving care of happy humans. Bloomfield Township residents Robert and Marge Alpern are fervent believers in the power of nature to heal, par- ticularly for older adults who often suffer from isolation and loneliness. So, they put their money where their hearts are and initiated the Alpern Life ...…
…Making A Difference - A local teacher revives an Anti-Defamation League program that aims to prevent bigotry. LONNY GOLDSMITH St4fTWriter n 1985, the Boston office of the Anti-Defamation League began the World of Difference Insti- tute. Two years later, Detroit followed as the second city to start the project. But grants ran out in 1993, forcing the ADL to charge schools for the program. And even though it's been up and running since then,...…
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…H ome Congregation Shir Tikvah members march the Torahs two miles to their first synagogue building. LYNNE MEREDITH COHN Staff Writer JOSHUA KRISTAL Photographer I t took 15 years for a small but vibrant Reform congregation to go home. Perhaps that is why the two-mile walk from their temporary home of 11 years, Northminster Presbyterian Church in Troy, to their brand new synagogue building a mile north of the Somerset Collection, was so exh...…
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…Jewry's Role in Human Advancement NOTEBOOK CROSSROADS from page 27 THE WORLD'S GREAT CONDUCTORS ;=) /- > ing on to the commitment to Halachah and to the values and teach- ings of our sages, and yet to some extent adapting to the times in which we live. Blu Greenberg, one of the foremost leaders in the feminist Orthodox movement, says, "Where there is a will, there is a halachic way." Certainly, there isn't room in Halachah for solu- • t...…
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