…ICE ON ICE Comfort And Joy A group of professional women will talk about Jewish pride in the midst of the Christmas season. LYNNE MEREDITH COHN Staff Writer speak about] how they use their Jewish pride as an opportunity instead of feeling so bombarded with gentile symbols. It's a time to re-evaluate who they are as Jews, how to maintain, enhance our Jewish world — especial- ly this time of year and especially for women who are in the non-...…
…Left: Hallie Isaacs tosses a yellow ball. Below: Denise Daskal reads a prayer. 0 n Dec. 7, the JCC and the Jewish Association for Resi- dential Care's Keshet pro- gram teamed up to put on the Maccabee Mitzvah Party. "We were so excit- ed how successful it was," said Keshet Pro- gram Coordinator Shirlee Wyman Har- ris. "We had over 100 people there." The Ke- shet Pro- gram provides sup- port for parents of special needs children. The Maccabe...…
…Above: Stesha Day helps her 5-year-old daughter Per- sia with a project. Left: 3-year-old Benjamin Goldstein tries to escape. Below: Jeff Stone sings. Above: Kaitlin and Adam Fisher get help from Amy Seidman on their edible menorahs. Left: Aislinn Wendlow gets a lift from Shifra Greenes. 12/12 1997 23 …
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…ditorials Tis The Season Tis the season for synagogues and Jewish groups to field telephone calls, provide speak- ers and meet with public school principals. It's part of the annual effort to ensure that Chanukah and Christmas aren't lumped into that amorphously bland concept of "the winter holidays." Bad news; it's all true. Chanukah and Christmas are indeed winter holidays. The fact that they have nothing to do with one another, regardless...…
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…vim!. Congregation Shir Tikvah is proud to present The `Detroit Tremier of Detroit's premier performance of RENT; Winner of The Tony Q./4),yard for Best Musical, is Wednesday, eApril 8, 1998 at 7:30 pm, at the Fisher Theatre. Call the Shir Tikvah Fundraising Line for an invitation or a certificate for use as a Hanukkah gift at (248) 706-1703. 'Proceeds from premier ticket sales to benefit Congregation Shir Tikvah's Capital Campaign. These do...…
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…CalenDaR Bob Alper L Rabbi/Stand-UP Comic (Really) What's Up? 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14 Youtheatre will host Theatrewords/USA in a perfor- mance of Charlotte's Web for the Movin' Up Club, children aged 7 and older (no one under 5 will be admitted). All shows are -at Music Hall, 350 Madison Ave. in Detroit. Tickets are $7 in advance, S8 at the door. For information, call (313) 963-2366. Bob Alper: "The world's only practicing clergyman doing...…
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…40 bifr Listen UP A 4 DETROIT JEWESS SEWS 0 A J Gift Subscription. Recommended for all ages. Call ► 248-354 -6620 Or Fax ► 248-354 -1210 Elizabeth Applebaum AppleTree Editor The Good Housekeeping Illustrated Children's Cookbook (Morrow) -Remember when you were . young and you vowed that when you had children you would never, ever make them go to bed at 9 p.m. or do dishes or pick up their boots? I certainly hope you've gotten over t...…
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…4 CeleBraTe ‹.*.`sabAknk.S. 4i."v 's s Elizabeth Applebaum AppleTree Editor ou've eaten the Iatkes, lit the menorah, spun the dreidel. Now what's to do? Yes, you could always sit down for a stimulating evening of "The Shopping Channel" (only 1 million bottles of that fabulous cleaning solu- tion left!), or you could do some great family holiday projects. The choice, my friends, is up to you. Fun Projects For Little Hands #1) Lots of Latk...…
…fledged plant and you can transplant it to your garden. Next year, you can make latkes out of the sweet potatoes your have grown yourself. Or, if this is too healthy, just eat lots of choco- late coins. #4) It's In The Cards You will need: sturdy paper scissors crayons (D Children can color in this picture, then affix to sturdy paper and mail as a Chanukah card to friends and family. Make your own messages inside, or con- sider these though...…
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…BirtHs PLEASE JOIN US FORA MAGICAL EVENING OF DINNER, CANDLELIGHTING, HANUKKAH CRAFTS, AND A MIRACULOUS MAGIC SHOW BY BAFFLING BILL C Karen (Freedland) and Jim Berger of West Bloomfield wel- come with love the birth of their daughter, Jaclyn Alesi (Yafa Aliza), born Nov. 24. Welcoming Jackie home are her big sister Hallie and her big brother, Joshua. Sharing in their by are grandparents Rona Freedland of Bloomfield Hills and Sue and Ted Ber...…
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…The Waif Is Over:... a WHEN ONLY THE BEST WILL DO... vah on Saturday, Dec. 13, at Temple Israel. He is the son of Marlene and Richard Heimlich and brother of Amy. He also is the grandson of the late Gladys and Alex Heimlich and the late Bertha and Albert Myers. Greg attends Berkshire Middle School, where he is on the football and swim teams. His interests revolve around team sports: soccer, swimming and tennis. He also enjoys skiing and gol...…
…F eminism compatible Are they Orthodoxy ? LYNNE MEREDITH COHN Staff Writer Photographer DANIEL LIPPITT • S or most of her life, Blu Greenberg has davened in Orthodox synagogues where the mechitzah (partition separating men and women) cut straight down the middle of the sanctuary. She rarely strains to hear the chazzan chanting or to see the bimah. And that, says one of the most vociferous and respected Orthodox feminists in this country, ...…
…O Shira Breuer: Teaching observant Israeli girls the same topics that boys learn. just the way it is. So it's living with tension," she said. Jewish society, from which many famous feminists emerged, "was one of the last groups to grapple with the challenges of feminism," said Greenberg, who wrote the 1981 book On Women and Judaism. Neither (Reform, which called for full equality of men and women in 1846 at the Breslau Conference, nor the Re...…
…*.c of Young Israel of Southfield who attended the Skokie conference. "Specifically, it does bother me that we have no access to the Torah. In our shul, on Simchas Torah, the women don't even bother showing up. I was one of 10 on the first night, but most say 'Why bother?' and that's sad to me because this is supposed to be a Torah that matters to us, yet we have no access to it, we have no access to kissing it as it walks by. It's a powerful...…
…feminist movement really devalued family. What used to make me uncomfortable is that they seemed to want to make women into female forms of men, and they didn't seem to understand there were differences," she said. Orthodoxy conveys the kind of spirituality and principles that many women believe, including Goldfein. "I understand that things have to change slowly and you can't throw the baby out with the bath water. Women have to be in the for...…
…Borrowing From Tradition Jewish And Otherwise Some wedding customs we take for granted actually come from other religions. 12/12 1997 70 ALLISON KAPLAN Special to the Jewish News I f you really want to get back to the roots of Judaism in planning your wedding, forget the cere- mony. As Rabbi Dannel Schwartz of Temple Shir Shalom explains, "The whole wedding ceremony is not a Jewish event." That's right — even the breaking of the glass i...…
