…Purim Spoof Me? Not The News Kosher Meat From Mars? How far do you have to go to get really kosher meat? ELIZABETH ("I AM AN EXPERT ON EVERYTHING IN THE ENTIRE WORLD, INCLUDING THOSE THINGS OF WHICH I KNOW ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, LIKE WATER POLO, MOUSTACHE WAXING AND TOFU.") APPLEBAUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR Jim-Bob and Brunhilde after their recent victory in Israel. Q: Wow! First all these issues with who will be allowed to marry in Is- rael. But...…
…Purim Spoof Hey, You Boobs! Of lust, latkes and late nights... ear, oh, dear readers. I'm being squeezed for space this week, and it has noth- ing to do with Apollo 13 (not the movie, which is up for an Oscar). More on that later! So, here goes a brief look at a few events that have kept you tit- illated as of late: YAD, that funky division of the Jewish Federation (for those of you who've been asleep for the past 10 years, that's Young Adu...…
…Purim Spoof B 'Myst 01 Everything Not The lews Stomach Cramps, Botulism Impart A Mild Aftertaste T he quickest ... route to a man's ... heart ... is through ... his stomach. And the quickest way to honor ... both vital organs ... is a meal at Schmaltzies, metro De- troit's answer to fine kosher din- ing. Making the rounds of local delis many years ago, I recog- nized the need for a classy kosher joint like Schmaltzies. A place to bring bu...…
…'6ta,N4kz, You're invited to "A Sligilhit act it he Oscars" Grasping For Survival In Jewish Communities I JOYCE WOLPERT SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS BBYO ADVISOR RECOGNITION & YOUTH TALENT SHOWCASE Join Michigan Region BBYO in a night showcasing AZA & BBG talent and honoring those volunteers that help keep our chapters flourishing. March 3, 1996 - 7:00pm Shiffman Hall JCC Maple/Drake 4( "" 0 'trefltvi‘e the passion, the energy, the st...…
…Ferndale furniture designers are poised at the brink of success, but there's still the chill of winter to contend with. FRANK PROVENZANO SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS arving Artists n the midst of a sub-zero spell in early February, the entrepreneurs behind 34D have settled on a modest goal for their business: gen- erating heat. That's not meant metaphorically, as in "raking in the profits," al- ' though after 18 months of business, that's a...…
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…Israel Aircraft Signs Deals Jerusalem (JPFS) — Israel Air- craft Industries has signed con- tracts to develop communications for two Eastern European coun- tries, executives said. In one deal, lAl's electronics di- vision won a contract to develop a modern communications system in the Pila region of northwest Poland. Executives said the con- tract is with a European consor- tium for which IAI will plan for optical cables, as well as data re- ...…
…Seeking Trust and Estate Planning Guidance? An Israeli Rebel With A Cause ALLISON KAPLAN SOMMER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS Announcing the opening of Merrill Lynch Trust Bank of Michigan. Merrill Lynch, one of the world's leading experts in trust and estate planning services, is proud to announce the opening of Merrill Lynch Trust Bank of Michigan, conveniently located in your neighborhood. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Merrill Lynch ...…
…"For things to be renewed, one needs a new area." To promote the periphery's development, he supports pro- jects like the Trans-Israel High- way: "All communications and infrastructure should be the best possible; the north and the south should be as accessible as any other area." But linking Israel to its neigh- bors is more tricky. In the past, Mr. Wertheimer scoffed at Shimon Peres' visions of Mideastern integration, sug- gesting instead th...…
…12 MONTH CERTIFICATE 5,25% 5,35%, INTEREST RATE A.P.Y./* Joanie Berger has joined the staff of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit as a senior staff associ- ate in the community outreach and involve- ment department. Ms. Berger, who recently received master's de- grees in business ad- Joanie ministration and social Berger work from the Univer- sity of Michigan and Project STaR, will coordinate volunteer and management development...…
…PHOTO BY DANIEL LIPPITT .00X2.r...,WARVAreikWarrfelarMaiMe&M.V1424.3gratrAMANWArefeWOMXMI loot! l o ts Striking back at strokes, local doctor helped lead a landmark study. RUTH LITTMANN STAFF WRITER eurologist Steve Levine talks like a plumber. Strokes, he says, are sim- ply a matter of leaks and plugs. The hemorrhagic type are caused by leaks, or bleeding in the brain. More common are ischemic strokes, resulting from plugs or blood clots...…
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…(Discover (Rare Beauty at BLOOD CLOTS page 61 Dr. Levine explains it like this. If absolutely nothing were done for ischemic stroke victims, 20 percent would bounce back with few or no disabilities. The t-PA increased these positive outcomes to 31 percent. In other words, patients who received t-PA did 1.7 times bet- ter than those who got the place- bo, he says. A t Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Dr. Levine super- vised one of eight tr...…
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…right way. And the people here really try to help each other," she says. Ken Morris is 73 and comes to work out every day. "What else do I have to do with my life?" says the retired Mr. Morris. "This is my home away from home." CMI isn't the only club that of- fers programs for seniors in the area. The Maple-Drake Jew- ish Community Center has been offering classes for several years now, and their "Life Weights" classes for older people or tho...…
…I s rae In Sh oc k, Again The bombings in Israel create tricky ground for the Likud and Labor leaders. INA FRIEDMAN ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT sue terrorists as if there were no peace process," he is essentially continuing the policy laid down by the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. But unlike his predecessor, Mr. Peres lacks the image of the tough- minded "Mr. Security" that enabled Rabin to take bold political decisions. Instead, he must me...…
…Israel's Military Option The question is when and how Israel will respond, not if. F LARRY DERFNER ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT Above: An Israeli soldier carries bags from the wreckage of the bus bomb explosion. Below: Soldiers attend to a man wounded in the bomb explosion in Jerusalem. fifty days before Hamas suicide bombers blew up the buses in Jerusalen and Ashkelon this week, Shin Bet agents rigged and detonated the cellular telephone that k...…
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…t Aish HaTorah tinians, but with the Israeli peo- ple. The fact that there are talks is not contested. Only their na- ture is disputed." The Likud mayor of Jerusalem, Ehud Olmert, alleged that two such sessions had tak- en place in Arab east Jerusalem last November and December. Mr. Olmert claimed the Israeli academics told their Arab part- ners they had received a green light from Yossi Beilin, an insti- gator of the 1992-93 Oslo dia- logue...…
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…'VOLVO Drive Safely For Less. Live Imports 49lia 19 k1".4 workers legal and illegal — are New '96 850 GLT SEDAN Foreign increasingly becoming common in Israel.A jafi ;" NECHEMIA MEYERS SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS ;Iliad yfirrA ur neighbors, the Segals, are grateful that there is unemployment in the Philippines. For it brought Linda to Rehovot, where she takes care of Ilan Segal's 86-year- old, severely crippled grand- mother. This permits ...…
…Lawyer Hailed For His Response 11111 London (JTA) — A Jewish lawyer was hailed as a hero for a courageous act after an Irish Republican Army bomb ripped apart a London bus. For Raymond Levy, who helped to turn off the engine of the shattered bus, being caught up in a bomb blast was not a new experience. When the IRA bombed the Baltic Exchange in April 1992, Mr. Levy was badly cut by flying glass as he ate dinner near the Bevis Marks Synagogu...…
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…Itzhak Perlman appears in a special PBS "Great Pe ormances." MICHAEL ELKIN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS "Itzhak Perlman: In the Fiddler's House" features footage from Perlman's performance at the Lincoln Center All-Star Klezmer concert. fiddler on the roof, sounds crazy, no? Then how about a fiddler, a clarinetist, guitarist and two actors/comedians? Sound crazy? Sounds like fun, says Itzhak Perlman. The violinist virtuoso should know. Perlma...…
…THE RUSSIAN BALLET: OAKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE CLASSIC AND CONTEMPORARY ENTERTAINMENT SERIES SATURDAY, MARCH 9th, 8 p.m. MARCH 8 BLACKTHORN West Bloomfield High School Royal Oak Campus Lila Jones - Johnson Theatre 8:00 p.m. Irish Entertainment out of "The Twilight Zone," but the food was straight from the Jewish tradition. "It tasted like my mother made," laughs Perl- man. That taste for the past is no accident. Somehow, says Perl- man,...…
…4411011011111111111110010111114111111011.11111MII6 For this Purim tradition, the gettings as good as the giving. ANNABEL COHEN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS THE DETROIT JEW ISH NEWS PHOTOS BY DANIEL LIPPITT 78 Etna Ackerman, bee, 9; Danielle Platt, Cleopatra, 9; Matthew Ackerman, doctor, 4; and Hallie Platt, cat, 6; sport the latest in this year's Purim fashions. Annabel Cohen is a chef, cooking instructor and writer. urim means many thin...…
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…'Before And After' 'Up Close & Personal' The performances are uni- Rated PG-13 cameraperson and on-air talent shots from the control room to an formly good, although Neeson's when she fabricates her own demo anchor on air; be at an off-site lo- n Before and After, Carolyn stubborn bluster and bluff right- ichelle Pfeiffer and reel, which she sends to 37 TV sta- cation, instructing the crew; or ac- Ryan (Meryl Streep) is a small- eousness is ...…
…SIN Entertainment 'French Twist' 'Unforgettable' Lolis jumps back and forth, three days in Laurent's bed, three days o the casual film goer, in Marijo's, resting on Sundays. French cinema is typically When this situation proves to be perceived as being either unworkable, Marijo agrees to artsy or sexy, with the art leave the family forever if Laurent films relying on heavy symbolism will agree to father a child for her, or surrealism, and t...…
…Barnes & Noble in March. BLOOMFIELD HILLS EVENTS WEST BLOOMFIELD EVENTS Story Time with "Wild Thing" Meet Dr. Russell A. Barkley, Ph.D. Saturday • March 9th • 11:00 AM Roar into spring with the - Wild Friday • March 8th • 2:00-3:00 PM Parents—learn til(ire about ADI-11) Thing - from \I:tut-ice Sendak's It her e the U i/cl lbiligs:liv! This lovahle giant creature \\;iI be on hand to , hare some childrens stories—and some milk and cookies...…
…Please join us for a moving exhibition "FRAGMENTS OF MEMORIES" Reflections of the Holocaust DAVID ROBERTSON Artist Reception Friday, March 1, 7:00 - 10:00 p.m. Mardi 1 through March 27 Rild Schaffer 4 The Finest One - of - a - kind Doll Artists co cs, GALLERY CC 2 Oakland Arts Building 7 North Saginaw Pontiac (810) 745-9494 85 …
…Get Thee To The DFT E Kenneth Branagh, right, stays completely behind the scenes as writer/director in the black and white release of A Midwinter's Tale. veryone's seen a bad pro- duction of Hamlet. But Kenneth Branagh's film version might just top them all. Ironic? Branagh, who's known for his lush, scrupulous interpretations of the bard's work, tosses artistic rec- titude out the window in his 1995 directorial endeavor, A Midwinter's Tal...…
…PH OTOS BY DANIEL LI PPITT eIN Entertainment TRAPPED DUBBER IN THE , j ric the librarian isn't real- ly a librarian; he just thinks he is. Basically, he spends his day ignoring people who need to check out books and makes Xeroxes of his face on the copy machine. His parole offi- cer got him the job. As pathetically true-to-life as that sounds, it's fiction. Eric is the cre- ation of Timothy Campos, the ac- tor/writer whose one-man show Trap...…
…AUDITIONS The Stephen Sondheim mu- sical Merrily We Roll Along will be presented by Stage- crafters. Auditions will be held Monday-Tuesday, March 11-12 at 7:30 p.m. Performance dates are May 31-June 15. Baldwin Theatre, 415 S. Lafayette, Royal Oak. (810) 541-6430. Painting Churches by Tina Howe will be presented by SRO Productions. Auditions will be held 7 p.m. Monday, March 4. Show dates are May 3-19. Berg Road at Civic Center Drive. (810...…
…Vaudeville With a Purpose: A Purim party with O.J. Anderson, Purim craft projects. 2 p.m. Sun- day, March 3. $5 nonmembers/$4 Voices of Institutionalized members. JCC West Bloomfield. Women, a one-woman show by (810) 661-7649. Leah Ankeny exploring women's issues. 8 p.m. Friday, March 8. Purim Ball: For young adults Free. OCC Orchard Ridge Cam- 18-30., sponsored by Hillel of pus, Farmington Hills. (810) 471- Metro Detroit. 8:30-midnight Saturd...…
…MUSEUMS AND ART CENTERS Community Center. (810) 661- 7641. Birmingham-Bloomfield Art Association. Student Show, an- nual juried show featuring paint- ing, drawing, printmaking, pottery, sculpture, jewelry and fiber. Opens Saturday, March 2. Through March 23. 9:30 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. Monday-Saturday. 1516 S. Cranbrook Road, Birm- ingham. (810) 644-0866. Janice Charach Epstein Mu- seum/Gallery. Emerging Artists Pewabic Pottery: Mary Barringer, ...…
…JN Fine Arts Sites: A Visual Essay by George Tysh. Works on paper chosen from the museum's collections by Tysh, a Detroit poet and WSU professor. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday-Sunday; 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Thursday. $4 adults/$2 stu- dents, children, seniors. 1221 N. Woodward. (810) 645-3312. University of Michigan Mu- seum of Art. Bold Strokes: The Inventiveness of Rembrandt's Late Prints. Through April 28. Trio: Masterpieces of Contempo- rary Japanese...…
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…JET "Not Great Jewish Theatre . . .Great Theatre" presents Harvey Fierstein's Jewish Women Exhibit May Arrive in Detroit CARLA JEAN SCHWARTZ LOCAL COLUMNIST hen Mary Lou Zieve of Bloomfield Hills saw the exhibit "Becom- ing American Women: Clothing and the Jewish Immi- grant Experience, 1880-1920" at the Chicago Historical Society, she envisioned this program in De- troit. The Detroit Historical Mu- seum was a natural choice for the exhi...…
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…Over 1,000 people jammed Mac & Ray's for the Mardi Gras motif that brought more than $90,000 into the culinary coffers for both the Michigan team and local college food programs. If the Michigan team comes home with some gold, don't think I won't pat myself on the back for helping them get there ... And I know most of the other 1,000 or so attendees will, too ... plus peo- ple like Reid Ashton, Joe Beato, Karen Day, Judy Dunn, Norm LePage, Rog...…
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