…Left: Shir Tikvah members reach out to touch the challah, as the congregation breaks bread for the first time at their new home. Below: Rabbi Arnie Sleutelberg and Rick May blow shofarot to begin the farewell ceremony at Northminster Presbyterian Church. Below: Rabbi Arnie Sleutelberg holds a mezuzah, picked out by Shir Tikvah teenagers in Israel two years ago. Right, middle: Nearly 200 Shir Tikvah members trekked two miles to the congregat...…
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…Editorials Allied Jewish Campaign: Part Of Our Community Fabric It's about people helping people. The most widely recognized annual event in the Detroit Jewish community, the Allied Jew- ish Campaign is a pivotal source of funding on behalf of Jews locally and around the world. Starting with Super Sunday last fall and closing with the Days of Decision, March 22 to April 6, the 1998 Campaign will prove a godsend for human-service agencies. It...…
…COMMUNITY VIEWS The Jewish Ketubah: Art Vs. Document moment when the groom smashes lyiE y younger brother is the glass or lightbulb or whatever? getting married this There are plenty of options, ranging fall to a very nice from re-assembly in a sort of explod- attorney from a very ed pattern suspended in Lucite, to nice family, and may I say how very melting the pieces down and creat- happy we all are! ing a kiddush cup. Actually, I think I ...…
…EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK Femininity And Orthodoxy At A Key Crossroads A munal life. If it was primarily the men s a young girl, when I would who taught and modeled the observance awaken at my grandparents' of Jewish ritual and law, it was mainly house, I would love to lie in the women who taught the spirit. bed, listening to the deep, If it was my father who put on tefillin soothing voice of my grandfather, of every morning and went to shul regula...…
…or High School Students and Parents eet with College Representatives (over 32 colleges and universities COMMUNITY VIEWS KETUBAH from page 26 from around the county) Jewish College Fair Monday, March 23, 1998 7PM Jewish Community Center 6600 West Maple Road, West Bloomfield *For more information, please call 248-355-3300 O An open forum discussion O Learn about scholarships and financial aid • Visit information booths and meet with c...…
…Jewry's Role in Human Advancement NOTEBOOK CROSSROADS from page 27 THE WORLD'S GREAT CONDUCTORS ;=) /- > ing on to the commitment to Halachah and to the values and teach- ings of our sages, and yet to some extent adapting to the times in which we live. Blu Greenberg, one of the foremost leaders in the feminist Orthodox movement, says, "Where there is a will, there is a halachic way." Certainly, there isn't room in Halachah for solu- • t...…
…Now they have a whole other reason to visit. LETTERS DETROIT JEWISH NEWS tiPTEWE R Inside: The Year 5757 In Review — Locally, internationally. Neighborhood Shifts To Improvement Loans. amount of land to be handed over to the PA is Israel's decision to make and is to be made on the basis of a reci- procity agreement that validates steps taken to change Arab attitudes vis-a- vis the destruction of Israel. It is no secret that these so-calle...…
…Faint Praise, Outright Condemnation Reaction to the Vatican's "apology" to Jews is mostly negative. JULIE EDGAR News Editor orally and nationally, Jewish reaction to a long-awaited statement by the Vatican on its role during the Holocaust ranged from scorn to faint praise. The 14-page statement, issued Mon- day by the Vatican Commission on Religious Relations With The Jews, addresses the horror of the Holocaust and calls for repentance by ...…
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…Torah Portion Eugene & Marcia Applebaum Jewish Parenting Center Our God-Given Talents Are There To Be Shared Congregation Shaarey Zedek Presents FAMILY CONCERT Sunday April 5, 1998 3:00 p.m. Shabbat Vayakhel/PekudelParah: Exodus 35:1-40:38; Numbers 19:1-22; Ezekiel 36:16-38. from New York Young Peoples Klezmer Workshop at Applebaum Jewish Parenting Center 4200 Walnut Lake Road Refreshments will be served. Reservations are available ...…
…HELPING JEWISH FAMILIES GROWTM THE APPLE TREE Mrs. Applebaum: The Miracle Of Birth The Big Story: When Jews Came To Walton's Mountain Celebrate: Guess Which Jewish Holiday Children Love Best? FYI: Plane And Simple: The "G" In The MIG On our cover: Photo by Kristo Huso The Wrotslaysky family of Southfield begin a great adventure. Develop your child's imagination/page 60 …
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…YoU BeAUTiFuL BaBY Bringing Up a able to see, learn and enjoy: o A physicians' panel, including Dr. Janet Snider, will speak on baby and child care. The panel will be moderated by Channel 4 "Good Medicine" reporter Lila Lazarus. o A gym class led by Jewish Center staff. n A cooking demonstration by chef Annabel Cohen, a staff writer for The AppleTree. o Booths exhibiting fun and inter- esting items for and information about babies and child...…
…TELL Me A StOrY The Magic Stone • Elizabeth Applebaum AppleTree Editor nce upon a time a long, long time ago in a place far, far from here there lived a poor Jewish family. Their house was small, covered with vines, and often it was cold inside. Meals consisted of potatoes, a carrot or two, bread and eggs. Only on Shabbat did the family eat chicken, and even then there was only enough for each person to have one piece. The family included t...…
…\/=:--CeleBraTe Chanukah, Oh Chanukah . Students in Temple Emanu-El's kinderGarten, with kindergarten enrichment teacher Janet Sigmon and assistant Lois Greenberc, have a definite favorite when it comes to Jewish holidays. Elizabeth Applebaum AppleTree Editor Dylan Rittman, 5-1/12, of Huntington Woods "I like Chanukah because you get lots of presents. Last Chanukah I got a dart board, a pool set, a foosball table, a game book of Star Wars...…
…The BiG Story The Waltons after another delicious meal prepared by Olivia. Photo courtesy Blue Ridge Publications Mann On The Mountain How a Jewish professor found his way to the home of the Waltons. Elizabeth Applebaum AppleTree Editor 3/20 1998 62 define lives: what to say to a "I got the part, though he [Hamn- arl Hamner always wanted to salesman who absconds with er] had nothing to do with it," Keen be a writer. some of the family's...…
…er in which one of the boys serves in the military with a Jewish soldier, and a third where the Mann family, escaping Nazi Germany, comes to live nearby. The latter episode was called "The Ceremony," and it first aired Nov. 9, 1972. It was the story of Professor Mann, his wife Eva and their son, Paul. Fearful they will face the kind of hatred they left behind in Nazi-occupied Europe, the Manns at first try to hide their Jew- ishness. Then it b...…
…FYI The BiG Story "I was always on and off horse- 1 with The Deputy, which ran for •i . back," he says. "I was the stalwart, : some time in Detroit.) Keen started his career working at I dependable fellow." When he auditioned for "The NBC, with plans of becoming a I Waltons," Keen was pleased to director. Then a friend, who was find director Vincent Sherman on putting together a musical theater the set. "He was a real gentleman, troupe, invi...…
…7:SuRveY You Told Us! Elizabeth Applebaum AppleTree Editor ast month in The AppleTree we asked your views on a number of issues, ranging from Jewish holidays to the ever-fascinating Tori Spelling. Thank you to our readers 1 who responded, and especially to I those who understood that the survey ! was all in fun. Some selected com- , ents: I 1) Does Michael Bolton look better with his new haircut? An overwhelming number of read- ers said ye...…
…"Mommy, where will we sleep tonight?" What words can be more painful to a mother's ear? Anyone who thinks the economic boom has brought prosperity to everyone should know that the Jewish Family Service received 39 emergency requests for help with housing the first three months of this year. That's a jump of 300% over the same three months last year. The Jewish Federation's human service agencies know the people behind those numbers—real...…
…Breaking With Ritua SomeJews believe circumcision causes lingering physical and emotion / JILL DAVIDSON - SKLAR Special to The Jewish News IV hen Cheryl Resnick Ettinger married, she wanted to cram as much Jewish tradition into her wedding ceremony as possible. There were the seven brachot, a chuppah and a kosher ketubah. Not bad for a girl raised in a relatively non-traditional home. "At the time of my marriage, I was experiencing a rel...…
…Clo g are not aware of their pain — pain that she had TI religious beliefs?" gone to such great lengths While Jews have con- to avoid. Istinued through the ages "By circumcising, I felt .2 to honor this command- I was negating everything ment, other groups have I had gone through in picked up the practice as order to bring him into well. Muslims, for exam- this world," she said, cry- ple, also incorporate the ing at the memory. rite, as do ma...…
…Lion and massive bleeding. Occasionally, an overzealous circum- ciser has been known to sever the head of the penis, or glans, while removing the foreskin. Dr. Ricardo Gonzalez, chief of pediatric urology at Detroit Medical Center's Children's Hospital of Michigan and a professor of urology Wayne State University School of Medicine, said that routine circumci- sion for the masses may-not be worth the risks. "Let's assume that [the potential he...…
…The Eris Brigade In a potentially competitive field, mohelim say its the mitzvah, not the money, that motivates them. JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR Special to The Jewish News I t took Cantor Earl Berris six months after he moved here to gain his bearings and scope out the area's mohel scene. Now he's ready to enter the fray. Starting this month, the Congregation B'nai Moshe cantor, who has moonlighted as a mohel for the past 20 years, will once aga...…
…the other hand, requires that a mohel possess a medical degree. But while the mohelim interviewed for this story agreed that being appoint- ed for the task by the parents is a great honor, the distinction carries a lot more for them, namely income. The assignation of the brit milah to "-the mohel has become so widely accept- ed that a veritable business has arisen. For many parents, bestowing financial gratitude for the service occurs some- ti...…
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