…O Right: Teacher Debra Schindler pins a flower on her former student, Nicholas Edwin. Below: Amanda Warner and Phillip Rubin read one of their favorite stories. High school grads revisit their first graduation. JULIE WIENER STAFF WRITER BILL HANSEN PHOTOGRAPHER , nce they receive their diplomas _most high school students can think only of college and the future looming ahead. But last week, seven new high school graduates briefly steppe...…
…Putting n The Beth Greenapple works to enrich the Judaic content of the JCC. PHOTO BY DANIEL LIPPITT JULIE WIENER STAFF WRITER II n encouraging people to learn about Ju- daism, Beth Greenapple likes to think of chocolate cake. "You don't have to have a big piece or eat it with a fork, but it's there for you," she says. As director of Judaic enrichment, a brand-new position at the Jewish Com- munity Center, she's dishing up a lot of metaph...…
…A year after he was brutally attacked, Dr. Mark Diem is on the way to a new career. JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER lmost exactly a year ago, Dr. Mark Diem was flat on his back in a hospital bed trying to make sense of his position: There he was, cracked up and bruised, the victim of an enraged patient. He hated the tubes protruding from his arms and mouth, the bandages around his face and head, the fussing over him by other doctors. The ordeal le...…
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…Polishing The Brass Jewish Federation Apartments is ensuring a healthy future by getting into the fund-raising business. JULIE EDGAR STAFF WRITER ewish Federation Apart- ments relies very little on the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit for its funding, even though it serves 30 percent of the older Jewish pop- ulation that is in need of services. Only 2.5 percent of its budget comes from Federation, and that pays for food and Russian...…
…V I 63® THE JEWISH NEWS C_) Vol. CXI No. 17 Publisher Arthur M. Horwitz Editor Phil Jacobs Associate Editors Elizabeth Applebaum, Alan Hitsky Assistant Editor Gail Zimmerman Copy Editor Lynne Konstantin Senior Writer > C Julie Edgar Staff Writers Lynne Meredith Cohn, Jill Davidson Sklar, Julie Wiener Contributing Editors Michael Davis, Neil Rubin Washington Correspondent James D. Besser Foreign Correspondent Douglas Davis Israel Correspon...…
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…Left: Teacher Lisa Kaufman hugs Lani Levy. Below: Ben Luger and Justin Rostker look nervous. Bottom: The eager graduates. fter years of hard work (er, make that play), they were ready to move on. In what has become an annual tradition, the gradu- ating nursery school students at Beth Abraham Hil- lel Moses in West Bloomfield donned caps and gowns in the synagogue social ha _ ll for a grown-up style cer- emony last week. With the graduation ...…
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…/-- Neo-Nazis At Opera Patrons at the Detroit Opera House were greeted with German pro-Hitler literature in their programs. JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER M /-- ost likely, it was an opera fan who tucked pro-Hitler fliers, print- ed in German, into the programs of the June 4 produc- tion of The Flying Dutchman at the Detroit Opera House. A stack of loose programs in the theater lobby was targeted by the group that calls itself New Order, said...…
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…We're All Going To Miss Jeff Kaye We first met Jeff Kaye at a rather significant time, the initial Miracle Mission in 1993. It was interesting to hear our new shaliach's Scottish accent in an interview at a Jerusalem hotel. What else would you expect, though, from a young man from Glasgow? A shaliach's stay in any city is for a very short _time, maybe three years. Jeff Kaye remained in Detroit an extra year. He became so much more than a man ...…
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