…August 15, 1997 7 14 Up Front OPINION Back To Work Jewish talking sticks: Power of the yad. 27 Pola Friedman dons a new hat at the state's second-largest adoption agency. TELL ME WHY Sneak Preview A Jewish pirate, and bad at that. 37 The Jewish News put on the Ritz last month in previewing a new look to advertisers and staff. Ready for a new look. page 14 THE PULSE DHEA therapy: Myth and reality. 73 SPORTS 48 Making history a...…
…HELPING page 3 Helping Hands Workshop members stuff en- velopes with registration pack- ets and letters that go to prospective students. Weight Watchers and Sinai Hospital, Lear and the Michigan Silver Exchange also provide work for JVS. "The job from Lear allows the company to re-use the tool that fills headrests of seats," said Remington. "For the Michigan Silver Exchange, the partici- pants remove film so that the sil- ver nitrate can be ...…
…Pole Friedman's philosophy is simple: Help others if you can. Back To Work Pola Friedman dons a new hat at the state's second largest adoption agency. JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER ola Friedman needed a break. For 15 years she had served in various capacities at Sinai Hospital, starting out as a vol- unteer and winding up at the helm of the Sinai Health Care Foundation. With the merger of Sinai and Detroit Medical Center in Feb- I ruary and th...…
…Fighting Against The Religious Right After 23 years as Michigan ACLU's director, Howard Simon transfers to Florida. JULIE WIENER STAFF WRITER I n the 1988 presidential cam- paign, George Bush attacked Michael Dukakis by calling him a "card-carrying member of the ACLU [American Civil Lib- erties Union]." As a leader of this much-ma- ligned and misunderstood orga- nization, Howard Simon is not fazed by such attacks. For 23 years, Simon has s...…
…"I could understand the out- rage, I could understand the emo- tionalism, I could understand wanting to grab at the throat of anybody who would dress up in a Nazi uniform and say the kind of things that [Nazis] say." Fortunately for Simon, most of the ACLU causes he champions are less "schizophrenic" for him and are consistent with his own values. "I'm very lucky to be able to work for an organization that advances and defends my own values," ...…
…PHOTO BY KRISTA HU SA TEEN TURNAROUND page 9 Felicia Goodman: Thesis on "post b'nai mitzvah dropout syndrome." Rabbi David Nelson of Beth Shalom is hoping the sharing of ideas and resources with other synagogues will enhance what each is able to provide. "What we do in each of our schools and temples is okay, maybe even good, but not excel- lent," he said. Rabbi Nelson hopes the ex- citement of the project will send a new message to student...…
…ETROIT THE JEWISH NEWS Vol. CXI No. 25 Publisher Arthur M. Horwitz Editor Phil Jacobs General Manager Marianne B. Taylor Associate Editors Elizabeth Applebaum, Alan Hitsky Arts and Entertainment Editor Gail Zimmerman Copy Editor Lynne Konstantin Senior Writer Julie Edgar Staff Writers Lynne Meredith Cohn, Lonny Goldsmith, Julie Wiener Contributing Editors Michael Davis, Neil Rubin Washington Correspondent James D. Besser Foreign Corresponde...…
…4 r ,%41 I pin WSZ OWN SAKE page 10 That revelation inspired Jewish exploration. A student at the University of California- Santa Barbara, Stone "wan- dered down to Los Angeles, hooked up to the University of Judaism, and the next thing I knew, I was a rabbi." He gradu- ated from the Jewish Theologi- cal Seminary and was ordained in 1979. "My real reason for becoming a rabbi was to become a Jew. There were not that many ways and places [...…
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…Sn eak -13 The Jewish News put on the Ritz last month for advertisers and staff. JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER DANIEL LIPPITT PHOTOGRAPHER he glamor and glitz of old Hollywood provided the backdrop for The Jew- ish News to herald in a new look for the 21st cen- tury. Hundreds of advertis- ers, staffers and friends mingled at the Star Southfield Theatre to munch on kosher delica- cies from Jeffrey Rosenberg's kitchen, catch a flick, and get a ...…
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…Yiddish With Yiddishkeit Local writer publishes book in his mama loshen. JULIE WIENER STAFF WRITER aim Rozental's Oak Park apartment doubles as a Yiddish archive. The 78-year-old immi- grant from Ukraine has been writ- ing for more than 50 years, and he has the papers to prove it. The shelves and cabinets overflow with his newspaper and magazine clips from Yiddish publications all over the world. Plus, as a writer who has never touched a co...…
…Michigan Friends of the Israel Defense Forces Presents... A Golden years, Hava, worked as book- keepers at a printing company. When they came to Michigan in 1991, the transition was speedy. "On Rosh Hashanah, I was cantor in Chernovitz [a town in Ukraine], and on Yom Kippur I was in Detroit," he said. Rozental quickly joined the Yid- dish Culture Club. "The average age was 85," said Rozental, who took over as chair- man in 1992 with the mis...…
…Advocacy Reaps Many Rewards The Michigan Jewish Conference and other community groups worked hard this year for legal immigrants. It paid off. JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER I t's been the best year in decades for Jewish advocacy in Lansing. With the help of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan De- troit, the Jewish Community Council, the Lansing lobbying firm of Muchmore, Harrington, Smalley and Associates, the Michigan Jewish Conference scor...…
…Security First Ross' subtle allusion to a controversial Israeli settlement policy marks a two-pronged U.S. approach. AVI MACHLIS SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS U nited States Middle East peace envoy Dennis Ross made good on Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's promise to put security at the top of the agenda this week. But although Israeli officials were pleased at the "security first" approach when Ross began his latest mission to restart ...…
…SECURITY page 19 PHOTO BY AP Travel Tips From The Seminary JON KALISH SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS I Envoy Dennis Ross is greeted by Binyamin Netanyahu. military officers told him the bombers came from abroad and were sent by Hezbollah, the pro- Iranian guerrilla group fighting against Israel in south Lebanon. Hezbollah rejected Arafat's "false accusations" in a statement. If the two sides tone down ver- bal hostilities, and Ross succeeds ...…
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…Half-Empty, Half-Full Over the last decade, we have seen the newspa- per articles many times: There has been a resurgence of Yiddish class- es on college campuses; there has been a resur- gence of baalei teshuvah, returnees to formal Judaism, across the United States. More in keeping with reality are two stories that appeared in the Aug. 8 and today's Jewish News: A Yiddish-speaking group is celebrating 13 years of happy friendships and spin-...…
…Community Views Editor's Notebook Jewish Talking Sticks: The Power Of The Yad A U.S. Welfare Fix: Unfinished Business STACIE FINE SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS ALAN HITSKY ASSOCIATE EDITOR I recently had cus on deep listening with re- the opportunity spect and open ears. I decided that we would use to lead a Shabbat celebration on an object from our culture that the topic of Jew- also represented the power of the ish healing and word, an ob...…
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