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…The Way, We Learn Swimming It takes determination to rethink the needs of Jewish education. HARLENE APPELMAN Special to the Jewish News involvement. The decision to embark upon a search for more Jewish learning and n a recent- provocative and involvement may come important study. Stanford about for reasons beyond the University researcher control of educators and Arnold M. Eisen notes that communal leaders; but once in the face of our-so...…

…nil A SOMEONE In Jewish Education One of you is Jewish, the other is not. Together, the two of you created a beautiful child. Now he's of an age to begin religious education and you've got a decision to make. Listen to what some adult children of inter- marriage say: •"I'm half and half and on the fringes of things." •"It's not like being Republican or Democrat. Every day, something aris- es that reminds me that I'm split". Let you...…

…v W ay We Learn Education Is Universal Adults must grow spiritually and educationa4 RABBI AVROHOM FISHMAN Special to the Jewish News "We must ahvays remember thai the true accomplishments of a school and its teachers are measured before G-(1 and in the eyes of any thoughtful observer by what they have been able to do for less gified students.'' in developing and using cognitive strategies; others may have written or oral language diffi...…

…In Jewish Education NATIONAL ROLE from page 59 "We need to inspire more teenagers to study beyond their bar and bat mitzvah so that they have a better understanding of what it means to be Jewish before they ever get to college," Naftaly said. The range is broad, he said, because " we need to have many entry and rein- forcement points along the way. There ), are no silver bullets. The "family" represents the founda- • tion for the national m...…

…vva li,c he We Learn lennium campaign. Whether to send a child to a day or congregational school should be based on desire, not finances, Naftaly said. "My sense is that \ve should be doing more to assure a Jewish education is there for every child." . Which is why Federation has upped its ante to congregational schools by $390,000 to $500,000 and has kicked in an additional $550,000 to upgrade classroom computers in all congrega- tional an...…

…At 's Cookitig? * Congregation B inaT Davtd F n sdistatis School *or Plemb ei Ni sw# 4 41 For ikeost o tiovi for Septe mb er 99% ak e A Challenge To Parents "We must be models of our own teachings." GARY A. FABER AND SANDRA L. FABER Special to the Jewish News (–\ e are quite good at For more information call 248-855-5007 er a Pontiac ENROLL YOUR CHILD IN CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM'S OUTSTANDING RELIGIOUS SCHOOL NEW EDUCATION ...…

…temp& The Way, 7.44-el to ptaad a/ eve fa-ct f4 -t4.1-e We Learn .3-te a•ez ta ewe 6e444d4c4.1 civildtzpv, caqi4444. tke 11 ar4d c4.1tem,a-te, 9-tox,d,“-ode- role models that children choose for themselves are often outside of the 4amily boundaries; they may be unhealthy or inappropriate choices. Children need to establish meaningful relationships with adults they know, which could mean parents, teachers, neighbors and/or caregive...…

…The Way, We -\\ In Jewish Education Learn If I Ran Hillel Teach the "how to's," promote hands-on, involve parents. SHERI DEVRIES Special to the Jewish News A s- a frequent volunteer at Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit, I have been able to achieve a "fly on the wall" perspective on the teachers and students. Generally, the quality of education received by Hillel's students is exemplary ,. In this light, my comments are not a c...…

…f I '7 X I I '7 X Eilu Eilu is a cooperative adult Jewish learning project of our local Conservative movement and is a resource for adults seeking to connect with Jewish history, holidays, culture, and Torah. We are sponsored by Adat Shalom, Beth Shalom, Beth Abraham Hillel Moses, B'nai Moshe, Hillel Day School, Shaarey Zedek, and Women's League for Conservative Judaism-Michigan Branch. Eilu v' Eilu serves the entire Jewish community a...…

…n Jewish Education The Need For Vision Hebrew schools need to be both spiritual and thought-provoking. KEN KIRSHENBAUM Special to the Jewish News I f I were the education director, I would start with a clearly articulated vision for Hebrew school. Vision is important because it can align people. Vision can motivate people, and if used properly, change cultures. . With an intermarriage rate of around 50 percent, our educational system (and...…

…The Way. We Learn A Fair Wage Would Help Attracting young teachers is vital and it will take more than good wishes. by parents. In the 1970s, most parents thought of nursery schools as a nice place C was the best of for children to play for times. It was the a few hours a .week. In the 1980s and worst of times." Charles Dickens '905, all this changed. description of Europe on Many women went the eve of the French back to work or contin-...…

…Life on TEACHING TRADITION from page 71 Birmingham • 555 S. Old Woodward A OW* Sign up for our - One Day Sunday Did you miss out on a complete Jewish educat because you were shooting spit balls? Join former Sunday School drop out Rabbi T and revisit the meaning of Judaism. You will get • An Overview Of The Five Books, its structure and them • A Crash Course In Jewish History from Avraham to Zionism • The Meaning and Mystical Insights Into ...…

…The In Jewish Education fildith Way., We Learn Time To Study Our community Friedrnan a nel Sonya Miyerov study together at a „ 'Wailers in Torah" pro- gram in June. ers a wealth of adult education opportinities. STUART J. SNIDER Special to the Jewish News I n the Middle Ages (when I was in elementary school), the principal mode of Jewish education was the synagogue afternoon Hebrew school. From 4 to 6 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays...…

…n Jewish Education Making Adult Learning Work We know what needs to be done, but will we do it? Why? Because they yearn to learn, and these are the institutions that are meeting that need. Often, they seem to be the only game in town. he question is not what The conventional wisdom is that needs to be done — the many Reform, Conservative and unaf- Orthodox keruv organiza- filiated Jews not only contribute gen- tions (locally based institu-...…

…The Way, Leavvr en What SAL/1E Achieved Cooperation of rabbis, Federation outreach were keys to enrollment success. . IRWIN ALTERMAN - Special to the Jewish News S AJE was conceived last year as the largest program of seminars for adult Jewish enrichment in our communi- ty's history. The first year's Seminars for Adult Jewish Enrichment pro- gram was extremely successful .,,, by any measure. More than 50 courses of three sessions (one h...…

…n Jewish Education Continuing The Process Jewish education is needed in a college setting, too. DR. DAVID KAGAN Special to the Jewish. News T he trials of Jewish higher education parallel those at all levels of Jewish education. Doubt, however, remains as to when we can comfortably assert that the process is complete. At what stage of our children's growth would we relinquish all control and influence that we maintain over their future? T...…

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…• $ -!• ,•,••', • In Jewish Education Confronting Entropy A year-long Israel program would help students handle the Jewish void on campus. RABBI RICH KIRSCHEN Special to the Jewish. News A crucial segment of Reform Jews is being woefully under served, if not overlooked — students ages 18 to 27. This group represent 98 percent of all Reform Jews at one time or anoth- er. But the fact that there has been almost no college representation ...…

…The BETH ABRAHAM HILLEL MOSES SAYS "CHAI" TO THE NEW MILLENIUM Way, We Learn MEMBERSHIP ONLY 980* Jewish. If the proverbial Reform col- lege student is on the school newspa- per, involved in intramural sports and Includes High Holiday Tickets has schoolwork and a social life, for 1999 and 2000 BETH ABRAHAM HILLEL MOSES' Jewish life often becomes irrelevant. BETH ABRAHAM HILLEL MOSES' StUdents are not rebelling against being Jewish but do...…

…n Jewish Education The Key Is Consistency Children need role models who practice Judaism, a rabbi argues. RABBI AVRAHAM JACOBOVITZ Special to the Jewish News `Any educational program that is theoretical but unpracticed is doomed to fail." E xamining the educational challenges of the future, it seems to me that many among us follow the "wis- dorn" derived from the following story about a town built on the two sides of a river connected b...…

…The Way. We Learn A Lesson For A Lifetime Sixty years later, Hebrew school teaching still inspires Willard Posen, UHS, '40. JODIE KAUFMAN ecia/ to the Jewish News I n the late 1930s, Willard Posen could think of a lot better \ vays to spend his rime than going to Hebrew school. Bur 60 years later, he feels a little differently about those 10 years he went ro Detroit's United Hebrew Schools five times a week. "In retrospect, I apprecia...…

…z .Z.k • ' "' ". THE KROGER CO. OF MICHIGAN ‘• • • , AMERICA'S FIRST HEBREW TEACHER Judah Monis, North America's first instructor of CELEBRATES EDUCATION Hebrew, taught students at Harvard College from 1722 to 1760. Monis' Hebrew course was based on his own handwritten Hebrew grammar manual that he submitted to the Harvard Corporation in 1720. IN THE METRO—DETROIT JEWISH COMMUNITY His career, in turn, teaches today's student...…

…Hit The Water For Family Fun The Elusive Barry Manilow Freud: Conflict and Culture" provides an intimate kok at • "Si und of psychoanalysis the father — a selfdescribed "completely Godkss Jew." CI-IESSLE R SUS Special to the Jewish News o figure a man who was a militant atheist and also a lifetime member of 13'nal 13'rith. Go figure a man writes somber -volumes about tile tuner reaches ot the human syche. mid then a book -bolt )oki!s.. p...…

…Best Bets FABULOUS FINERY on to a successful career not only as a musician but as an actor on the big screen. Last year, fans were Harry Connick J r. surprised to see grew up the son of two Connick — alongside a lawyers who co-owned a number of Jewish record store in New celebrities — appear on Orleans, La. He began TV during the CBS playing piano at age 3 tribute to Israel's 50th and was accomplished anniversary. enough to perform at GAIL Z...…

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…Families take to e water for advert ure, dinzng and by residents of southeast Michigan. And the sport itself, whether sailing or boating, is a great family activity, says Emilye Semansky of Farmington Hills. She should know. Both she and her husband, members of the Great Lakes Yacht Club, have participated in boating every year since the mid-1980s, a tradition their grown children have continued with their own children. "It really is a famil...…

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…Couch While widely discounted and uncommonly practiced, Freud's ideas have become part of the fabric of our culture. FRANCINE KLAGSBRUN Special to the Jewish News T he first book I ever wrote was a biography of Sigmund Freud for young people. Although it was well received by the New York Times and other publications, the only review I vividly remember came from a critic who hared it. After tearing the book to pieces, he concluded sarcastic...…

…"For me, in some ways therapy is a sort of praying.") to patients who do not suffer from severe mental Freudian terms such as "repression," "projection," illness.) I might even add criticisms of my own. "ego" and "superego" fill our everyday speech. And For instance, scholars have made much in recent Freudian ideas about the hidden meaning of dreams years of Freud's connections to his Jewishness, and and the power of the unconscious mind have ...…

…-PSYCHOANALYZE Till's from page 89 5 L of: Freud's Vienna consulting room, with the famous • analytic couch, where famous patients like the Wolf Man, Dora and Rat Man laid there heads and bared their souls. "! Right: Manuscript of Freud's BBC interview statement, Dec. 7, 1938, on his founding of the science of psychoanalysis. It reads.in part: "I had to pay heavily for this bit of good luck. People did not believe in my facts and thought m...…

…WE NOW SERVE Ll UOR! JEWISH IDENTITY Vow d-E0J6 ci--uf.f6t14 frikefr ih4itke`if the Ci. - i146t1 Sled In. from page 89 ?)0A)46-oityl rebcoie IMMO MEM OMNI =III SINN MINI =III IMMO MEM =NM l ■ IN•11 long quotation about Jews from a source Freud claimed he could no longer trace. In 1925, he wrote: "My language is German. My culture, my attainments, are German. I considered myself German intellectually until I noticed the growth of anti-S...…

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…ANS,:r..7soN Z, V,WWN THE RIGHT THING from page 95 • know what I mean, not down deep, not grasped that they got grease spots on their lapels, and had eye infections, and ate fish for lunch. I found myself watching his mouth as he spoke, the way I'd watch a talking snake, fasci- nated and repelled at the same rime." The novel begins in the spring of 1945 as the German army, reeling and near defeat, works ro hide a vast store of plundered art...…

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…My husband, daughter and I was the key to the door out of moved out of the apartment building Brooklyn." before Barry did, and he made a point After high school he entered City of coming over to say a sincere good- College of New York, lasting only a bye. Knowing that I was a writer, he couple of semesters until he trans- also made. a point of saying he would ferred to the New York College of grant me an interview anytime. Music. He landed a j...…

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…So he's not your typical major-leaguer. But we made an all-star trading card for him anyway. DOgr „Fo oC> tiv,:q.X1 "ref;tfois 03, 1rOjEw 0- Series 'I is now available at The Detroit Zoo through August 14 or while supplies last. Each series contains 5 cards, with 4 series in all. Collect all 20 through September 19. Children 2-12 admitted to the Zoo receive them absolutely free. 8/6 199( Detroit Jewish News 10 …

…ME OAK PARK SUMNER CONCERT SERIES Calendar OUT & ABOUT from page 85 Sunday, August 8 7:30 p.m. • Rothstein Park (on the pedestrian deck over 1-696) Big Band Express Free admission If it rains, concerts are held inside the Jimmy Prentis Morris Building of the Jewish Community Center. For further information: (248) 967-1112 Sponsored by: The Neighborhood Project, Jewish Apartments and Services, Jewish Community Center; the City of O...…

…At The Movies Commander In Chief On the 25th anniversary of the resignation of Richard M. Nixon, a Syrian Jew portrays the beleaguered 37th president in "Dick.' JN: You had a small role in Oliver Stone's Nixon as Bebe Rebozo, but you've said that you didn't look at the work of other actors who've por- trayed Nixon. Is that so your perfor- mance wouldn't be tainted? DH: I wouldn't use the word tainted. I just wasn't interested. I didn't feel...…

…At The Movies Everyday Superheroes The may be "Mystery Men," but Ben Stiller and Paul Reubens have had to learn to deal with fame. SERENA DONADONI • Special to the Jewish. News liff 1. ystery Men, Rated PG- 13 and opening today, may be the latest in a long line of movies adapted from comics, but it has a distinctive twist. This particular crime-fighting posse is made up of superhero wannabes, average folks with a specific skill that ...…

…********************** r anger personified), Stiller is in the midst of filming his first major Jewish role. He plays a rabbi in Keeping the Faitk. romantic come- dy co-starring ienna Elfman and Edward Norton (who's also direct- ing). He will then structure a film around his character Derek Zoolander; world-famous male super-model. Garofalo, for one, thinks Stiller fits the bill: "I think he's a Jewish Tom Cruise," she says. But \‘'hat Still...…

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…that old romantic feeling. Restaurants were (and still are) places to socialize, be seen and even to fall in love. And nostalgia had a lot to do with it. "Speaking of nostalgia, Detroit once had a reputation as a city of great legitimate theaters: the Cass, the Shubert and the Detroit Opera House. All were showplaces as famous as the Fisher, Masonic Temple and the Birmingham Theater are now. "The Cass fell upon hard times and converted to movi...…

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…44 Puzzle Toy By Matt Gaffney and David Bianco (QSyndicate@aoLcom) Notorious 2 3 4 5 8 9 11 10 in cooperation with THE DAILY TRIBUNE & ROYAL OAKLAND COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION Announces the 1999-2000 Main Stage Season 21 20 23 13 19 18 17 12 16 15 14 22 25 24 26 27 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Sept. 17 - Oct. 10, 1999) Dracuk (Nov. 5 - 21, 1999) Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (Jan. 14 - Feb. 6, 20...…

…Dining Guide AUBURN HILLS Lelli's of Auburn Hills, 885 Opdyke Road, Auburn Hills, (248) 373-4440.The second of Lelli's traditionally fine Italian ristorantes is located across from the Pontiac Silyerdome. Besides elegant surroundings, it features the same excellent food served by the Lelli fami- ly since 1939. Reservations are accepted for any day except Saturday. BERKLEY Sila, 4033 W. 12 Mile Road, Berkley, (248) 548-3650.There is nothing...…