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…Front Lines ROUNDUP Sen. Specter Out After 30 Years WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Veteran Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, who switched his party affili- ation to Democrat last year, was ousted in a Sen. Specter primary battle. U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak defeated Specter, D-Pa., 54 to 46 percent, in the May 18 vote. Specter, who is completing 30 years as a U.S. senator, was the victim of an anti- incumbent mood and lingering cynicism over his switch last y...…
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…Front Lines ROUNDUP JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT The Jewish Community Center annual meeting will take place Wednesday, June 23, 2010, at 7:30 p.m. at the D. Dan & Betty Kahn Building on the Eugene & Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus in West Bloomfield. Roundup from page 10 The following have been nominated: BOARD OF DIRECTORS However, the network's attempt to quietly bury the issue without even publicly addre...…
…Metro Ongoing Talks Options are discussed before Shaarey Zedek votes on closing B'nai Israel. Shelli Liebman Dorfman Senior Writer I n the weeks since Congregation Shaarey Zedek of Oakland County's (CSZ) board proposed a vote to close its B'nai Israel Center in West Bloomfield, members have been meeting, talking and e-mailing one another and members of the synagogue's clergy, board and staff. The June 15 board vote will determine if the ...…
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…Come in today to celebrate with us! Join us Saturday and Sunday, June 5 & 6, from 1-4 pm, Social Justice Thrust Jewish community offers spring break for high school seniors. I n April 2011, dozens of Jewish high school seniors from Metro Detroit will spend their spring break trip working to make the world a better place. Thanks to a grant from Federation's Stephen H. Schulman Millennium Fund, Jewish teens will participate in the inaugura...…
…Metro 'Katrina Happened In Detroit V Native Detroiter tells it like it is — and can be. Judith Doner Berne Special to the Jewish News T o writer/editor Daniel Okrent, a graduate of Detroit's Cass Technical High School, the city's future depends on turning around its schools. In both his prepared remarks and in answer to questions from among the more than 350 who turned out on a rainy May evening at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfiel...…
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…Grabbing The Middle JTS head charting new course for Conservative outreach. Gary Rosenblatt The Jewish Week New York C all it chutzpah or commitment — or a combination of both. Even as the Conservative movement is losing members left (to the Reform) and right (to the Orthodox), the chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary is setting his sights not just on survival, but also on expanding the school's focus, "carefully but boldly:' th...…
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…Opinion The Top 10 Anti-Israel Lies Los Angeles/JTA I t's no secret to anyone that rela- tions between the United States and Israel reflect a new reality and are not what they once were. The last few months have seen a worldwide frenzy of intimidation and threats directed against Israel that has backed its sup- porters into a corner. Very few have raised their voices in response. For this reason, the Simon Wiesenthal Center has produced a ...…
…OAKLAND COUNTY'S PREMIER DIVORCE From the Inquisition to the pogroms, to the 6 million Jews mur- dered by the Nazis, history proves that Jew hatred existed on a global scale before the creation of the State of Israel. It would still exist in 2010 even if Israel had never been cre- ated. For example, one poll indicates that 40 percent of Europeans blame the recent global economic crisis on "Jews having too much economic power" — a canard that...…
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…Spirituality Coming Home Newly ordained Cantor Mondrow returns to B'nai Moshe for celebratory concert. Don Cohen Special to the Jewish News M any times over the past five years, Zachary Mondrow has brought his bold baritone back home to West Bloomfield to lead High Holiday or Shabbat services, perform with the Zamir Chorale or just to visit friends and family. But this time, he's coming back from New York to be ordained as a can- tor aft...…
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…4111111111111111111111111111111111. Business & Professional DEVELOPMENT Gen Y Initiative Mourned Professional Leaders Project ends — but remains part of Davidson legacy. Don Cohen Special to the Jewish News A n innovative national project for developing young Jewish profes- sional and lay leadership closed last August with the possibility that a few of its members would be left out in the cold. But a group of funders was organized to pr...…
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