…Happy Birihday, erica! A look at 50 fun, important and curious contributions Jews have made to the United States. ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR ILLUSTRATIONS BY CHARLIE BEYL BUSINESS Raymond Firestone was a man who re- ally knew how to get things rolling in America. When he took over the family business in the 1960s, the company wasn't exactly struggling (bringing in about $1 billion a year). But in less than 10 years, he nearly q...…
…meals sure to please You-Know- Who. Katherine Graham, how- ever, was running her own mag- azine and newspaper — and they had nothing to do with fashion or food. Graham, the daughter of fi- nancier Eugene Meyer, was for many years publisher of Newsweek, The Washington Post and head of several TV stations. Under Graham's leadership, two Post reporters named Carl Bern- stein and Bob Woodward began investigating rumors of a break- in at Democratic...…
…ular composition, "Appalachian Spring." (Other well-known works include "El Sa- lon Mexico," "The Red Pony," "Rodeo" and "Billy the Kid.") In an interview, he said, "I think of my music as Jewish because it's dramatic, it's intense, it has a certain passionate lyricism in it. I can't imagine it be- ing written by a goy." Al Jolson was more than just the man who sang about his dear old Mammy. This Amer- ican-born entertainer was a politician a...…
…Straus was the youngest son of Lazarus Straus, founder of the R.H. Macy depart- ment store chain. While his brothers were active in the business, Oscar preferred pol- itics. After working on Grover Cleveland's successful bid for the presidency, he was named minister (later ambassador) to Turkey. Oscar Straus was a devoted pacifist who worked tirelessly for the establish- ment of a political body that would me- diate international disputes. A f...…
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…emouin ■ A Southfield firm has completed the jump from an Oak Park basement to a leader in the world of insurance. Af T H E D E T R O I T J E W I S H N E WS ALAN ABRAMS SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS 58 hen the Meadowbrook Insurance Agency was founded in 1955, no one had ever heard of a concept called "alternative risk manage- ment." Forty years later, it led the Southfield-based Meadowbrook Insurance Group to the top spot on the Crain's Li...…
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…The Michigan Friends of the Therapeutic Riding Club of Israel, The Michigan Friends of Alyn Hospital & The Michigan Friends of the IDF GOOD AND BAD page 65 ANITA SHKEDI CO-FOUNDER OF THE THERAPEUTIC RIDING CLUB OF ISRAEL SUNDAY, JULY 20th, 1997 • 7:30 P.M. The Max Fisher Federation Building, Bu - tzel Conference Center 6735 Telegraph Road • Bloomfield Hills "Miraculous stuff is happening there. It's astonishing. People who were floppy c...…
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…ainmen ilichad Hat.Paz, of Hunti it .on Woods. is only Ant" 11 Ca 11 Michael HarPaz looks very different now from the way he is remembered by former neighbors in Huntington Woods, where his parents and girlfriend still live. op music fans around Israel are lic) holding on to postcards pictur- ing a chart-topping, new record- ing group — I{Five (pronounced HiFive). Each performer's autograph is on the memento, but only one is written in Engl...…
…summer performances at Camp Tamarack, he de- "We support each other," cided to try his luck before the passing of time Jackier said about their being would have rendered his chances impossible. apart. "There's a lot of e-mail A friendship with an Israeli entertainer stop- and phone calls. When I was ping in New York gave him the cue to return to there last summer, I stayed the country where he had spent one year of his in the recording studio ...…
…PH O I 0 BY DAN IEL L IPPI TT Homegrown musicologist uncovers music by Mozart. JULIE WIENER STAFF WRITER D avid Buch describes him- self as an "obscure histo- rian working out in the cornfields." But after accidentally uncovering new work by legendary composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Buch — a musicologist at the University of Northern Iowa and native Detroiter — has suddenly found himself bask- ing in Mozart's glow. While in a German arch...…
…Tnterlochen Interlude Heading to Traverse City? A visit to the nearby Interlochen Arts Camp provides a summertime treat. SUZANNE CHESSLER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS T he Interlochen Center for the she is between university teaching po- discussing the Holocaust," Gordon said. Arts near Traverse City is a sitions, leaving Syracuse University for "There also will be research to prepare summertime destination for the University of South Florid...…
…PH OTO BY DANNA DOWSETT SEGREST 'Out To Sea' 0 Kate Peckham and Suzi Regan appear as the same character, as a child and as an adult, in Off the Map. 'Off The Map' n Joan Ackermann's Off the Map, at Chelsea's Purple Rose, John Lepard as Charlie walks across the stage, stops, slips off his shoe and dumps out a pebble. He starts, then stops, picks up the pebble, removes the other shoe, drops the pebble in, and lumbers off. This is a man's de...…
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