…LOCAL NEWS I OLDSMOBILES FOR LESS 1990 CUTLASS CALAIS SEDAN Bar-Ilan Leader Asks Detroit Jews For Support SUSAN GRANT Staff Writer B ar-Ilan University's new national exec- utive vice president, Yehudah Halevy, stopped in Detroit this week to spread the word about the Israeli school. Halevy, who rose to the rank of brigadier general after 27 years in the Israeli army and spent the last six years as the worldwide Israel Bond Organization...…
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…1UP FRONT Hungry Jews Turning To Yad Ezra For Help SUSAN GRANT Staff Writer month after opening its doors to feed the Jewish hungry, Yad Ezra, Detroit's only kosher food pantry, has helped 789 people. Gary Dembs, one of the pantry's organizers, said the figure is "higher than ex- pected. We did not anticipate such a response." According to the pantry's latest figures, Yad Ezra has aided 265 families by distributing almost 11,200 pounds of ...…
…EDITORIAL Picking Up The Pieces F inding all the pieces of the Jew- ish community puzzle may not . be easy, but the Jewish Welfare Federation seems willing to begin the task. The 96,000 figure now being trumpeted as the Jewish population of the tri-county Detroit area leads to many questions: Are we as a commun- ity adequately servicing our Jewish needs? How many of those people who identify themselves as Jews and live outside the "pale of ...…
…OPINION CONTENTS 'Rabbinical Perestroika' Needed For Soviet Olim YOSEF GOELL Special to The Jewish News T he Soviet Jewish dele- gation to the interna- tional conference of Jewish journalists which convened in Jerusalem a few weeks ago was led by Mikhail Chlenov, who is also the recently elected head of the council of Jewish com- munities and organizations in the Soviet Union. As such, he is the closest thing to an official head of Sovie...…
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…I LOCAL NEWS I YOU'RE COVERED With Our T-Shirt! Campaign Close Up: Helping Out In Israel MARILYN GRANT Special to The Jewish News Editor's note: Through a uni- que partnership with American Jewry, Project Renewal has brought hope and pride to hundreds of disadvantaged neighborhoods in Israel. First in Ramla, then in Yavne, Detroit contributors to the Jewish Welfare Federa- tion's Allied Jewish Cam- paign, through Project Renewal, have bui...…
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…Forty-two hours of anguish and compassion at the Jewish Home for Aged Please ■.■ I ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Assistant Editor GLENN TRIEST Photographs (opposite): A volunteer comforts resident Miriam Werzberger, who recently lost her brother. "He used to care for me." Editor's note: Late last month, Elizabeth Applebaum spent 42 consecutive hours at the Jewish Home for Aged's Borman Hall. The following story details her experiences there. T...…
…Please-Don't Forget Me! eat that egg . . . he needs that egg. He's so thin. "One time I sat with a woman who can't speak. I kept asking, 'Do you want to eat this?' and finally she nodded. So I fed her, and she smiled so much. That smile on her face was worth everything to me. Somebody else saw me and said, 'What do you care if she eats or not?' I care." But it's not really food or even medicine that sustains the residents, Freeman and Weinsaf...…
…Please-Don't Forget Me! She constantly walks from one floor to where they live. They stop passersby and give another to make sure everything is running their name. "Will you help me to my room?" smoothly. Borman Hall officials say they By 9:45 p.m., most residents are asleep. The couldn't function without her. collector, who finds leftover cups and places 11:45 p.m. First floor. Cliett is going over them on her wheelchair, will not sleep in h...…
…Please-Don't Forget Me! them up, get residents to a meal, clean them up, get residents to a meal, clean them up. A nurse on the second floor passes out En- sure, a liquid nutrition supplement, to the residents. "Good morning, dear," she says, handing the drink to a woman in a wheelchair. "You're going to have a great day!" "I love you. Do you love me?" a resident calls to her roommate. "I said yes!" comes the answer. 6 a.m. They're already cr...…
…Please-Don't Forget Me! the nurse's station. A woman sobs, "I have to call my daughter. Where do we go? It hurts me in my heart." The gentle caretaker of these sad souls is Mindy Soverinsky, supervisor of nursing. The second-floor residents suffer with dementia or Alzheimer's — progressive, degenerative diseases that attack their minds, she ex- plains. Some have lucid moments; many need constant, one-on-one attention. 2 p.m. Libbie Laurens fe...…
…Please-Don't Forget Me! Rachel Hertzenson prepares for physical therapy. .. 6:40 p.m. Most residents are off to see To Sir with Love, being shown on the first floor. But tiny Rose, the one who tells strangers "I love you," isn't interested. She sits alone and bewildered in the lobby. Most of Rose's life today is remembering. She often mumbles short, incomprehensible phrases about her family. This evening, she begins to cry as she thinks of h...…
…Please-Don't Forget Me! At last, she begins to walk. porarily mad and attacked the aide, whose shirt is splattered with blood. THE THIRD DAY: ettie Freeman is helping a friend to breakfast. Even at this early hour, Freeman is in a good mood. She's wearing her new pearl earrings. "This is my person," she says of the woman beside her. "I watch to make sure she drinks her water and doesn't spill it all over herself." A married couple wanders ...…
…Please-Don't Forget Me! (opposite): Anne Kramer rests in the lobby of Borman Hall. (left): Frieda Baum kisses a puppet. tas says. "We left everything. I even left my shoes, and shoes are my most beloved thing." They wanted to move to the United States, but by then World War II was in full force and the Americans weren't interested in taking in refugees. Still, Goldoftas and her husband traveled by train to Spain, where they heard they might...…
…*V 416, OW. ARO 1/1110‘. Wik A Ik , ••, • , \ , ' \\N o • • ;•.• •. „ ■ ; „ . \z„ . • • An Outsider Looks In I, • . • . . • *.• N\.\ ' • , • • " \ \* \\,„,„. • \‘*, \* S1 X‘, \ ‘ ‘' '‘ •,‘ • , • " . . \ • \ ' • • - \ \ READERS OFTEN ASK how a certain story in The Jewish News came about. Usually, articles have their beginnings in meetings, where the paper's staff mulls over ideas as we drink c...…
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…Farrakhan Blast Leaves Jewish Leaders Cold What does Louis Far- rakhan want, and where do the Jews fit into his impenetrable scheme? Those were the questions cir- culating in Washington last week in the wake of a long interview in the Washington Post, part of a major media blitz by Nation of Islam offi- cials. But in the interview, Far- rakhan blasted an alleged Jewish cabal in the media and in Hollywood, and at- tacked Israel for "using God ...…
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…Jews Dismayed At Mandela New York (JTA) — Leaders of American and South African Jewry who have been in the forefront of the anti- apartheid movement are urging Nelson Mandela to reconsider his recent remarks equating the Pales- tinian-Israeli conflict with the struggle of South African blacks. Those who only two weeks ago hailed the African Na- tional Congress leader's release after 27 years in South African prisons were taken aback by the re...…
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…I BOOKS 11 ■11 . 1=1 . 1.1111111.111111.1.1.1.111.1 KIM ZETTER Special to The Jewish News n ultra-Orthodox Jew- ish romance? Some cynics might observe that the former automatical- ly precludes the latter. Yet readers are touting author Naomi Ragen's first novel Jephte's Daughter, a best- seller, as the progenitor of a new writing genre. It tells the story of Bathsheva Ha-Levi, the beautiful, affluent, American- born daughter of Abraham Ha-...…
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…I LOCAL NEWS I Rabbi Greenfield served as president of Young Israel of Northwest and Young Israel of Greenfield. He also served as president of Merkas of the Vaad Horabonim, Mizrachi and Beth Tefilo Emanuel Tikvah. He is a member of the board of directors of Young Israel of Oak-Woods and Beth Tefilo Emanuel Tikvah. Installed with Rabbi Green- field were: Abraham Selesny, 1st vice president; Charles Snow, 2nd vice president; Merel Epstein, tr...…
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