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…This Week An Enduring Institution • S1 11 ItUll II In The CA Surrounded by neglect, the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue is a tenacious outpost of spirituality. JULIE WIENER Staff- Writer O n a gray downtown Detroit block where the vacant store- fronts are covered with graffiti and the cracked sidewalks overgrown with weeds, the only bright spot is the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue's fire engine red doors. Save for the doors, this sh...…
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…Opposite page, top to bottom: Jahra Michelle McKinney belts out "Let My People Go" at the Detroit Women's Forum Seder. Harriet Berg sings along at the Detroit Women's Forum Seder, where her dancers also performed. Randi Goode, 3, of West Bloomfield was a reluctant singing star at the Jewish Community Center preschool seder in West Bloomfield. SHELLI DORFMAN Editorial Assistant KRISTA HUSA and BILL HANSEN Photographers Clockwise from top ...…
…NEWER Red Ink At JCC isn't Always Center cuts $200,000 from projected $750, 000 in deficit spending. BETTER LONNY GOLDSMITH StaffWriter T he announced closing of the child development program at the Jimmy Prentis Morris building of the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit was triggered by the need to cut at least $200,000 from a budget in which spending was outpacing income by $750,000, according to the JCC's chief adrilinist...…
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…Jewish Lessons In Kosovo Necessary Response Scholar Michael Berenbaum wrestles with the perceptions and misperceptions about Kosovo through Jewish eyes. 4/2 1999 22 Detroit Jewish News MICHAEL BERENBAUM Special to The Jewish News C onsciousness of the Holocaust is at an all-time high, and yet the greater the consciousness the greater the confusion. Over the past few weeks we have heard many comparisons between Kosovo and the Holoc...…
…Fleeing Serbia )4 C. a . 2 U 7.5 0 0 Yugoslav Jews find refuge from bombings in Budapest. MICHAEL J. JORDAN Jewish Telegraphic Agency Buda test n other circumstances, there would be nothing unusual about busloads of Yugoslays visiting the capital of their northern neigh- bor, Hungary. • But with NATO's daily assault on Kosovo and other locations through- out Yugoslavia, these are no ordinary tourists." Roughly 200 Yugoslav Jews — some ...…
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…Choices in mikva'ot; doing the AJE shuffle; Hearts of Gold. In the past few months, four people have entered the nation's second largest Reform temple only to exit as Conservative Jews. Since Congregation Beth Achim closed its Southfield building in the fall, draining the only mikvah, or ritu- al bath, under Conservative auspices, prospective Conservative Jews have been going to Temple Israel for the final step in their conversion process. Bu...…
…JIITEditorials Editorials and Letters to the Editor are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.com / Inviting Public Scrutiny I is hard to judge the merits of the deci- sion to close the programs for infants, toddlers and preschoolers at the Jewish Community Center in Oak Park. But - it's clear the process of reaching the decision and announcing it wasn't as sensitive to the needs of the 21 families who depend on those se...…
…COMMUNITY VIEWS Learning From Each Other JEFFREY FRANK Special to The Jewish News L ast summer, my wife Julie and I were selected to go on a very special trip. The Jew- ish Federation of Metropoli- tan Detroit sponsored a trip of 30 young couples to tour Prague and Israel for 10 days in November. The trip was to consist of young leaders from the Jewish community and include 10 Reform couples, 10 Con- servative couples and 10 Orthodox coupl...…
