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…COMMENT IYNAITS ► AEL Aledwota Catie,6 TRANQUIUTY, BEAUTY AND DIGNITY ENHANCED BY PERPETUAL CARE 42400 12 MILE ROAD NOVI, MICHIGAN 48050 TWELVE OAKS MALL ACROSS FROM THE An Undivided Jerusalem: For Now And Forever SHELDON ENGELMAYER Special to The Jewish News W hat is a city? It is where people live, and work, and love, and hate, seek amusement and even escape.- In the end, however, a city boils down to its lifeless parts — bricks, ...…
…I 41/ The Family of the Late OBITUARIES I 4' HARRY KASSER (KALUZNY) Acknowledges with grateful appreciation the many kind expressions of sympathy extended by relatives and friends during the family's recent bereavement. kt 4 The Family of the Late DR. SIDNEY CHARNAS Announces the unveiling of a monument in his memory 11:30 a.m., Sunday, June 11, at Hebrew Memorial Park. Rabbi Lane Steinger will officiate. Relatives and friends are i...…
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…THE JEWISH NEWS JUNE 2, 1989 A Toast To Jewish Living Shavuot: Celebrating The Torah And Its Teachings By RABBI IRWIN GRONER Rabbi Irwin Groner, senior rabbi at Congregation Shaarey Zedek, is _ the author of this month's main L'Chayim feature. For each issue of L'Chayim, a rabbi, a Jewish educator or other notable from the community will present an overview of the month's theme. Shavuot is the second of three pilgrimage festivals designat...…
…Celebrating The Torah And Its Teachings Continued from Page L-1 prophets and writings. In its broadest connotation, the word embraces the whole of Israel's spiritual and intellectual life and creation built on scripture. The Decalogue is read on Shavuot. It is not generally known that there is no Hebrew expression for the Ten Commandments. These are described as "Aseret Ha- Devarim," the Ten Words, translated as the Ten Commandments because ...…
…Afit 44. 0 - Customs Abound For Shavuot Pit Special By RABBI BRUCE AFT You shall observe the Feast of Weeks, of the first fruits of the wheat harvest. —Exodus 34:22 On the day of the first fruits, your Feast of Weeks, when you bring an offering of new grain to the Lord, you shall observe a holy day. —Numbers 28:26 You shall count off seven weeks; start to count the seven weeks when the sickle is first put to the standing grain. Then you sha...…
…Each month in this space, L'Chayim will look back into issues of The Jewish News to see what was happening in the local Jewish community or in the Diaspora 10, 20 and 40 years ago. TEN YEARS AGO Thirty students invaded the New York offices of Ford Motor Co. demanding that the company fire a Cleveland worker, Ivan Demjanjuk, who they alleged was a Nazi camp guard at Treblinka. Detroit attorney Avern Cohn and former Genesee County Circuit Cou...…
…Asti ot,t14' Shavuot Customs Focus on Torah And Agriculture sit Each month in this space, shpeter the wheat was harvested. L'Chayim will present a Yiddish lesson entitled, "Du Redst Yiddish? (Do You Speak Yiddish?)," whose aim is to encourage further study of Yiddish. The lessons were prepared by Mary Koretz of Oak Park. She has taught both children's and adult classes in Yiddish at the Workmen's Circle. Following is this month's lesson: Comi...…
…attli sh A Fish Out Of Water: A Fable During the time of Rabbi Akiba, the Romans persecuted the Jews. One of the things that they made punishable by death was studying the Torah. Rabbi Akiba refused to obey the Romans and continued studying anyway. Many people thought that he was very foolish to take chances this way, and were unhappy with him for convincing his students to join him in his disobedience. Finally, someone asked him: "Akiba, are...…
…tic, Buchsbaum History Goes Back To 1300s By BETTY PROVIZER STARKMAN Buchsbaum is a surname of Ashkenazic origin. Buxbaum is a variation. This old Levite family was expelled from Nuremberg during the Black Death persecutions of 1349. In the 15th Century they lived in Frankfort, Germany. The brothers Hertz and Beer, sons of Meier and Gutlin, resided at the house that bore the sign of the buchsbaum (box tree). From this house sign they adopte...…
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