…Announcing the Opening Of Our New Location "Still it is hard to know if we did make an impact," said Rabbi Aft, who would like to think he and Jason left their new friends in the Soviet Union with more than a few Judaica items, American toys and packets of aspirin. When Rabbi Aft and Jason left for the Soviet Union, they didn't know what to ex- pect, especially with grow- ing fears of anti-Semitism among Soviet Jews. "I was scared about leav-...…
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…JANUARY FUR SALE Due to the incredible response, this sale will be extended through January 31. cemetery," Rabbi Steinger said. "But there is nothing wrong with the chapel ser- vice. "If he succeeds, there's a need," Rabbi Steinger said. "I don't see how it hurts." Rabbi Alan Meyerowitz of Congregation B'nai Moshe and Rabbi Ernst Conrad of Temple Kol Ami said they prefer chapel to graveside services. Both rabbis said it shortens the grieving...…
…LOCAL NEWS HEAR Lost Heir Continued from preceding page DR. ALAN KEYES Diplomat, Middle East Scholar and Author at the Opening Event of the 1991 Allied Jewish Campaign On vacation in Cuba are John Eisen, Gertrude and David Newberger, and friends Morris and Esther Birer. Thursday, January 17 7:30 p.m. Congregation Shaarey Zedek 27375 Bell Road, Southfield No Campaign gift required No solicitation $15 includes dessert reception befor...…
…1. 1 LOCAL NEWS I MR. MECH Complete Auto Repair a Foreign & Domestic AUTO SERVICE CENTER or Former Oak Parker, Rick Green, Presi- dent of Mr. Mechanic Auto Service Centers, whose Madison Heights loca- tion is the highest volume, 4-bay auto ser- vice facility in Michigan, has just opened a second new state-of-the-art 8-bay loca- tion in Southfield: on Telegraph Road south of Ten Mile Road to serve you. TUNE-UPS from $39.90 PLUS You wil...…
…SENIOR The Federation Apartments have undergone unique growth and changes in serving the Jewish elderly. ALAN HITSKY E Associate Editor PHOTOS BY GLENN TRIEST 24 FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1991 ve Sheldon was 75 when she finally decided to move to the "Jewish neighborhood" 2 1/2 years ago. A widow living alone in northwest Detroit, Mrs. Sheldon moved to Prentis Federation Apartments in Oak Park. She joined hundreds of seniors of low or modera...…
…CLOSE U P The buildings answer a growing need in the Detroit Jewish commun- ity: low-cost, non-nursing home liv- ing space for low and moderate in- come seniors. According to the 1989 Detroit Area Jewish Population Study, there are 10,100 Jews between the ages of 60 and 69 living in the Jew- ish core —12 suburbs northwest of Detroit where 80 percent of the metropolitan area's Jews live. An additional 7,800 Jews are age 70 or older. Federation...…
…Louis Pollack and Nathan Schechter share a table at the required evening meal. 26 FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1991 Ex Plaza. She also made application to JFA. "I was a little leery about coming out here (to Hechtman)," Mrs. Freedman recalls. "I don't have transportation. But as I walked in the door they were saying the bless- ings over the Chanukah candles — I'll never forget that." That Jewish atmosphere is a critical factor for many residents, an...…
…is the youngest resident. At Prentis I, the oldest resident is 100, the youngest 38. At Prentis II, the oldest is 91 and the youngest 43; the average age for residents in the two buildings is 81. At Hechtman, the oldest is 103, the youngest 35, and the average age is 78. The average age is climbing as people — especially Jewish people — live longer. "People are aging in place," Mrs. Naimark says. "Some of our residents have been at Prentis sin...…
…CLOSE-UP Senior Oasis Continued from preceding page Executive Director Helen Naimark chats with resident Miriam Bertman. o many p away 4 For some peop or contact lens av undermines the limits their care Goodbye, Glass story of radial developed micro- permanently coif In their own wc, how this proced improved their li and hundreds o the freedom to glasses. Please send me at S14.45 each plus 0 Check or Mone Account # Expiration Date S...…
…*I OUT OF 4 CHILDREN IS OVERWEIGHT Isn't it time to help your child deal with this serious health problem? make us comfortable, to make us feel safe." Also agreeing are two HUD loan management spe- cialists in Detroit who supervise the agency's -con- tracts with JFA. Jay Burns says he can't think of any resident complaints from JFA facilities. Complaints go directly to the JFA building managers; JFA's record, Mr. Burns says, is immediate res...…
…CLOSE-UP I T YLE C A D I L L AC Senior Oasis Continued from preceding page YOU MAY NOT HAVE TO PAY... The 1991 Luxury Tax! • Most Cadillacs are priced under $30,000 • The Tax is only on the SELLING PRICE... NOT the STICKER PRICE! 1991 BROUGHAM Leather seats, anti-lock brakes, twilight sentinal, cassette, and wire wheel disc. Stock No. 1222. 18 IN STOCK N Ready for Immediate Delivery $1500 Factory Bonus M S.R.P $32,244 Discount -$4...…
…° I LOCAL NEWS Facial Salon V and Spa Rabbi Avraham Jacobovitz Machon Offers Brunch And Learn Machon ETorah, the Jewish Learning Network, and Con- gregation Ohel Moed Shom- rey Emunah of West Bloom- field will co-sponsor a brunch and learn program to be held at 11 a.m. Jan. 20 at Con- gregation Ohel Moed Shom- rey Emunah in West Bloom- field. After brunch, Rabbi Avraham Jacobovitz, director of Machon L'Torah, and Rab- bi Eli Jundef of Cong...…
…Playing For Keeps In The Middle East With Jan. 15 right around the corner, what will happen remains a mystery. The only thing clear is the plethora of opinions. UNITED STATES FOUAD AJAIVII, director, Middle Eastern Studies, Johns Hopkins Univer- sity's School of Advanced International Studies. Nov. 29 (the date the U.N. authorized force after Jan. 15) to the fifteenth is Bush's time. He bought this time. He committed himself to prove that ...…
…expert, University of California at Los Angeles. The United States' big mistake was to define the problem as Kuwait and not as Saddam Hussein's ar- mies. We need to find a way to get out of this crisis and keep our influence intact for the second crisis — an in- evitable confrontation with Saddam Hussein's armies, his threat to Israel and to his Arab neighbors. Bush can still be seen a winner at home if he avoids war — simply because peo- ple ...…
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…From GROHE • HARRINGTON BRASS • GIORGIO • CLARKE Darkness l'c) The Jewish National Fund of America announces the • cc UJ JVS Building Gets Windows Repaired • g L eaky windows should soon be a thing of the past at Jewish Voca- tional Services. For years, the building has suffered from leaking windows, said Al Ascher, JVS executive director. After trying a variety of cures without success, the builder decided only major surgery would...…
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…WINTER , ;— ( • • • Mr. Kogevinas of Time At- lantic, when asked which companies have asked to have their ads not appear in the X- Israel edition, acknowledged that most were Japanese corporations. and Newsweek Time spokesmen said many of their international editions offer advertisers the opportunity not to appear in certain coun- tries covered by the respective editions. However, no figures or names of companies were available to ascer...…
…INSIDE WASHINGTON 7XCITING Pentagon Slow To Ship Hardware To Israel JAMES D. BESSER Washington Correspondent T wo months ago, pro- Israel activists were crowing about the quiet passage of new aid for Israel, including "drawdowns" that would allow quick shipments of American military equip- ment no longer needed in Europe. But those drawdowns have been slow to materialize, ac- cording to sources here. 1990 MB Jewelry ip JEWELRY DESIGN &...…
…CELLULAR SPECIALISTS CO. CELLULAR TELEPHONE STORE • INSTALLATION CENTER Cellular Phone of the Month Boschwitz Heads Group For U.S., Israel Liaison Rudy Boschwitz may be out of a job, but at least he has a place to hang his hat in Washington. Recently, the conservative Republican, the only incum- bent senator to lose his seat in the 1990 election, was elected president of the Jew- ish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), the Was...…
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…ON CAMPUS I "Technion Israel Institute of Technology is leading Israel into the 21st century." Join us for the AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY'S 50th ANNIVERSARY MISSION "THE ROAD TO INDEPENDENCE" NATIONAL MISSION CHAIRMAN - LAWRENCE S. JACKIER The Technion is Israel's oldest university and premier technological resource - the largest center for applied research in the Middle East. Each day will be filled with excitement in Tel Aviv, Haifa an...…
…BACKGROUND HELEN DAVIS Foreign Correspondent A s the clock continues to tick inexorably toward January 15, there are growing indica- tions that Israel is being sucked into a potentially devastating war with Iraq. Both the German and Swedish governments have advised their nationals to leave Israel and five inter- national airlines have now joined trailblazer Pan Am in suspending flights to Tel Aviv, ostensibly because of a 20-fold hike in i...…
…BACKGROUND INNNE Countdown MIDRASHA-COLLEGE OF JEWISH STUDIES 0 CO-SPONSORED COURSE OFFERINGS BEGINNING JANUARY 1991 TEMPLE EMANU-EL 14450 WEST TEN MILE ROAD, OAK PARK INTRODUCTION TO JUDAISM Instructors: Rabbi David Feder, Rabbi Lane Steinger, Cantor Norman Rose and Dottie Dressler of Temple Emanu-El 11 weeks - Thursdays, January 17 - March 28 Thition: $35 per person, $45 per couple 7:30 to 9:00 P.M. Continued from preceding page nec...…
…flying low, evading Israeli radar monitors and scoring accurate hits with chemical weapons. Israel, which is acutely sensitive to loss of life, would also be at a disadvantage in a missile war with Iraq: While Iraq possesses an estimated 800 relatively cheap and inaccurate enhanced Scud missiles deployed at some 86 sites within range of Tel Aviv, Israel has a relatively small number of highly accurate but extremely expensive Jericho missiles. ...…
…•• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• • • • • • • • • • TEMPLE BETH EL presents LOREN B. FISCHER CULTURAL ARTS - SERIES FOR CHILDREN MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE'S • • • • • • • • • • • • • production of Seymour Barab's LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD Sunday, January 13th 1:00 p.m. TEMPLE BETH EL 7400 Telegraph Rd. • • • • ADMISSION FREE • RECEPTION WITH COMPOSER • •• •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ••• • My Thanks and Gratitude ...…
…Maccabi. Detroit On The Move EVENT: L. David Feder. Rabbi Emeritus: Dr. Milton Rosenbaum. Cantor Emeri- tus: Norman Rose. Services: Friday 8:15 p.m. Saturday 10:30 a.m. Friday: Bat Mitzvah of Claudia Iris Rose, daughter of Sherry and Nevin Rose. Torah Study begins at 9:30 a.m. in library. Rabbi Steinger will speak Friday; Rabbi Feder will speak Saturday. TEMPLE ISRAEL 5725 Walnut Lake Rd., West Bloomfield, 661-5700. Rabbis: M. Robert Syme,...…
…TORAH PORTION CONSIDER FOR YOUR CHILDREN, \ GRANDCHILDREN OR YOURSELF A Balance To Suffering And Redemption The New State of Israel ZERO COUPON SAVINGS BOND Infrastructure and Absorption Issue RABBI SHLOMO RISKIN Special to The Jewish News W ho won't agree with Emile Fackenheim that the 614th com- mandment exacts from every Jew not to hand Hitler a posthumous victory? But when it's in lieu of the other 613 commandments, we end up with a...…
…FEET about this exodus, and one of the more moving tales was told to me by a Karlin-Stoli- ner Chasid who, when he'd been asked to officiate as rab- bi in the city of Lvov during the High Holy Days, had no idea how many people would show up in this Ukraine city where public prayer had been forbidden for dozens of years. Wildly optimistic, he brought with him 200 prayer books with Russian translations. But to his complete amaze- ment, he found...…
…SPORTS Huntington Woods champion Hollander is pointing his skates toward the 1996 Winter Games. Left: Dan won the Eastern Great Lakes Junior title in 1988. Below: Hollander also studied mime and ballet. Ice Dreams NEAL ZIPSER Special to The Jewish News F "But when we got to the competition, the people who run the tapes were able to fix it and make a copy of it!' That's a far cry from the 18-year-old Dan Hollander of today: a three-time...…
…SHAPES OF THINGS TO COMEA week, works eight hours on Sundays at Hardee's and sometimes teaches power- skating. That's in addition to his 34 hours on the ice at Fraser Skateworld. Dan Hollander's road to ice- skating prominence began when he was 4. His mother took him roller skating with older sister Sandra and her Brownie group. Hollander fell in love with skating and began taking ice-skating lessons. His parents took him to Ice Capades shows...…
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…This Year In. ..SOUTH AMERICA! ly adjoins the museum lobby. Inside, visitors admire the marble bimah, wooden pews, striking central chandelier and the simple beauty of the design, typical of Sephardic congregations. Opened in 1976, the bicentennial year, this is the newest home of the second oldest congregation in the United States. The origins of Mikveh Israel date back to 1740 when Nathan Levy, whose ship brought the Li- berty Bell to the U...…
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…CAMPS 1 4 CAROL SORGEN Special to The Jewish News S ummer camp is a tradi- tion many children look forward to year after year. But a valuable camp experience doesn't hap- pen by chance. It's the result of months of planning and de- cision-making by the family, and it's a process that should begin now. "Too many parents wait until April or May to begin looking for a camp," says Jeff Solomon, executive director of the New York-based Nation...…
…■ W • • • • • • • THE JEWISH NEWS 1 9 9 I CAMP L DIRECTORY • • • • • • • • • •• • • • • • •' '1 …
…I CAMPS Unforgettable White water rafting for high school students is part of the Fresh Air expe- rience. Linking Judaism And The Outdoors CARLA JEAN SCHWARTZ Section Editor F What is a Tamarack summer? It's a Jewish environment where kids care about each other, and feel a part of an extended family. It's a fun experience which fosters growth through a variety of outdoor and skill building activities that increase self confidence and s...…
…CAMPS /— Campers at Camp Gan Israel of West Bloomfield enjoying the land. Judaic Camps A - \ ALICE BURDICK SCHWEIGER Special to The Jewish News I magine your child spend- ing the summer canoeing down rapid rivers in Col- orado, or hiking through lush green forests in California, or sailing in crystal clear blue lakes in Wisconsin. Now, im- agine your child enjoying any of these camping adventures while balancing Judaic studies at the ...…
…CAMPS • Judaic Camps By summer's end something has @ developed called "TANUGA MAGIC" Continued from preceding page tion, boating and horseback riding. Tuition is approximately $730 for the two-week ses- sion, and $1400 for four-week sessions. For more information write: 1580 Summit Road, Cincin- nati, Ohio 45237, or call (513) 761-7500. Camp Shalom, located in the canyons of Malibu, California, on a 135 acre campsite, offers two three- we...…
…d v En tL I Camp Gan Israel of New York, located in the Catskill Mountains, was the first Gan Israel camp, which was found- ed about 35 years ago. Open for boys only from the ages of 7-14, there are two one-month sessions. Activities include swimming, drama, all kids of land sports, boating and nature study. Tuition is $850 per session, or $1760 for the summer. For more information write: 770 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York, 11213, or cal...…
…CAMPS %V A LDE Judaic Camps Continued from preceding page CAMP FOR BOYS AND GIRLS Conservative Hebrew School curricula. All the camps keep kosher. Most all of the Ramah camps want to foster a sense of community, and on- ly accept children in their geographic region. For more information call Rabbi Sheldon Dorph, (212) 678-8881. 5607 South River Road • Cheboygan, Michigan 49721 Walden is a distinctive co-ed camp for youngsters, set on th...…
…EXPERIENCE ISRAEL for the Best Summer You'll Ever Have Tuition is $780 for the two- week sessions and $1300 for the four-week sessions. For information write: Smith Lane, Bruceville, Texas 76630, or call (817) 859-5411. Join us at our next OPEN HOUSE January 27, 1991 at 1 PM United Hebrew Schools Bldg. 21550 West 12 Mile Road, Southfield, MI Camp Henry S. Jacobs, located in Utica, Mississippi, emphasizes Jewish education and recreation ...…
…Our readers share their fondest camp memories and some summer souvenirs. My fondest memory of Camp Tanuga was when my bunk and two other bunks took a trip to Canada to swim in the rapid falls on Lake Superior. My good friend Scott Schwartz and I slid down the cold, rocky falls. Then we climbed back up them and watched them glisten in the sun. — Kevin Grant My fondest camp memory takes me back three summers to Girl Pioneer Camp Tamarack. It...…
