…JXEditorials Editorials and Letters to the Editor are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.com Making Numbers Work opulation studies have the potential to provide valuable demographic data. An unadul- terated sample can tell us a lot about who we are as a people. The last major study of the Detroit Jewish community was in 1989. Cost is a concern, but the time may be right for another. The struggle to protect Jewish identi...…
…SPECIAL COMMENTARY A Beacon For Xenophobics? cism and Nazism up close. We never had death camps on our soil. We were he Atlantic Ocean seemed never occupied. It's all foreign to us. to yawn wider this week Besides, most of us scarcely com- than it has in years. prehend Europe's system of propor- Europe was in turmoil, tional elections, with its legions of haunted by the specter of a radical small ideological parties holding big- right rising...…
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…I CALLED MOM FOR LUNCH ON TUESDAY, BUT SHE WAS GOING TO A BOOK REVIEW IN THE LIBRARY. I DROPPED BY ON THURSDAY, BUT SHE COULDN'T COME Jewish Community Teams With Detroit The Detroit Jewish community will sponsor a City Year Detroit Team at the Northwest Neighborhood Empowerment Center (NHEC)/Adams Butzel Recreation Center, a Detroit Jewish Initiative pro- ject facility. An Americorps program, City Year is a national youth service organi...…
…Community A Foundation Federation assists local women in creating philanthropic repository. SUZANNE CHESSLER Special to the Jewish News S To: Susie Pappas. of Bloomfield Hills takes part in the discussion. At right is Beverly Liss o West Bloomfield f/N 2/11 2000 42 Above: At a Jewish Women's Foundation training session on Jan. 23 are Margot Halperin of Birmingham, standing; daughter Gayle Kahn of Bloomfield Hills, to her left, and San...…
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…There's Still Time To Register For SAJE Twenty-five courses spanning the Jewish experience will comprise the Leare second term of SAJE — Seminars for Adult Jewish Enrichment. The SAJE courses, starting Tuesday, Feb. 22, are each made up of three 50- minute sessions over three weeks. Offerings will include Jewish story- telling, Jewish arts and culture, ethics, Jewish poetry, Jewish music, prayer, Israel and a course taught in Russian. There w...…
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…THE GEM & CENTURY THEATRES Best Bets CLASSICAL NOTES Guest conductor Alan Gilbert leads the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in Richard Strauss' Suite from Der Rosenkavalier, and works by Bartok and Mozart, 10:45 a.m. and 8 p.m. Friday, 8:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 11-13, at Orchestra Hall. $14-$62. (313) 576-5111. University Musical Society hosts renowned violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, in a program celebrating the develop- ment of v...…
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….>. vipkv %,„ Pho tos courtesy of Warner Archivcs I Remembering Ford Freedom Award honoree Sammy DavisJr., who overcame prejudice Wha t Made SUZANNE CHESSLER Special to the Jewish News S ammy Davis Jr. fans will remember him singing stan- dards in clubs and on TV, cigarette in hand at a time when smoking seemed sophisticated. But "Sammy tried not to smoke on Yom Kippur," recalls his widow, Altovise Davis, who attended services with her...…
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…ets for Israeli theater because I was interested in that. I'd like to go back." Sammy Davis Jr. died in 1990, after a bout with throat cancer and difficulties with alcohol and drug dependence. Altovise Davis had troubled years after his death, when tax problems forced her to live with family and friends as financial issues were addressed through litigation. Moving toward financial independence again, she hopes to give volunteer time to serve y...…
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