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…LETTERS LETTERS THE JAMD ADVANTAGE at the from page 6 A History Treasure Many thanks to special writer Ronelle Grier for her fine account of the adventures of local children who take the "youth tour" of historic Jewish Detroit ("Discover Detroit" Jan. 13, page 44). For the past three years, the Jewish Historical Society of Michigan, with Federation funding through the Max M. Fisher Foundation, has worked hard to make this field trip mean...…
…MI ME' L r Sl agg How Time Flies! E and then the desire to be "free" once again sets in and the lament for sum- mer fun begins. We mature adults seem to be only too mindful that summer seems so fleeting, especially here in Michigan. After what seems like six months of winter, we are eager to have some warm weather, see blooming things, enjoy the sunshine. And then — two months later we are back in the winter mode. It's just not fair! Are yo...…
…Reception Honors Rabbi Rabbi Yeruchim Olshin, rosh yeshivah of Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, N.J., will be honored at a reception 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 23, at 15041 Burton in Oak Park, hosted by Mrs. Sol Nusbaum, Rabbi and Mrs. Dov Loketch and Rabbi and Mrs. Joseph Nusbaum. Beth Medrash Govoha is the largest kollel of advanced talmudic Rabbi Olshin studies. The local Kollel of Greater Detroit in Oak Park was founded by Beth Medrash Govoh...…
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…Something Extra Community Calendar Thursday, Jan. 20 Saturday, Jan. 22 Women in Art "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly — Women in Art" is the subject of a Temple Beth El Sisterhood tour of the Detroit Institute of Arts led by docent and art history professor, Wendy Evans, 11 a.m.- 3:30 p.m. $20 bus and tour; lunch, in the DIA Cafe, extra. RSVP: (248) 851-1100, ext. 3135. Tribute to Naomi Shemer Sisterhood Shabbat at Congregation B'nai Moshe ...…
…Somethin Extra CALENDAR If Community Calendar from page 13 reach the 7 Monday, Jan. 24 AN AD - IN THE jiitirI AMP: SECTION MARCH 3 SECTION'S CAMP A LISTING IN THE SECTION'S DIRECTORY.- Women of Distinction National Council of Jewish Women, Greater Detroit Section hosts Judy Cantor, sleeping bag to "Abba's Forest Campout," 6-7 p.m.; pizza and hot cocoa served. Congregation Beth Shalom. RSVP: Barbara Katchke (248) 547-7970, ext. 234...…
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…I t' s My f For 42 years, Rabbi Charles Rosenzveig has been the Holocaust Memorial Center's one-man show. ,‘: 4 tf • 1,01 *&. ALEX K HARRY KIRS BAUM Staff Writer is fingerprints are everywhere. From fund-raiser to museum curator, library builder, educational programmer, dinner organizer and special-event coordinator, Rabbi Charles Rosenzveig, founder and executive director of the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills, ove...…
…Metro Cover Story IT'S MY LIFE from page 17 Rabbi Rosenzveig in his office from place to place. In America, creat- ing a living memorial to all who had been slaughtered became his quest. Rabbi Rosenzveig conceived the concept of the HMC — the first free- standing Holocaust memorial center in the United States — and made a reality in it its original location next to the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield and then last year in a grea...…
….Fgr.m1PRIMITIFF" Rabbi Rosenzveig said that he "never took a dime" in salary from 1963- 1982, when he was still trying to raise money for the HMC. "I said if I take a salary, we won't be able to put up a building," he said. In 1984 when the HMC opened, he was paid about $75,000 a year with- out a contract. In 1992, only after he raised a $4.5 million endowment as a cushion, he finally agreed to sign a contract with the HMC, stipulating a sal...…
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…Jewish Presence A rabbi's son with sense of balance nominated to head Homeland Security. RON KAM P EAS Jewish Telegraphic Agency Washington 111 ichael Chertoff, the Jewish judge President Bush nominated last week to head the vast Homeland Security bureaucracy, brings a rabbi's son's sensibility to resolving the tensions between protecting Americans and preserving civil liberties. Bush made clear in his announcement that he found Chertoff ...…
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…World Back To Reality Abbas' honeymoon is brief as Israel calls for a crackdown a er terror attack. DAN BARON Jewish Telegraphic Agency Sderot, Israel T JILT 1/20 2005 34 he optimism that accompa- nied Mahmoud Abbas' Jan. 9 election as Palestinian Authority president appears to be van- ishing. In the latest evidence of the pres- sures that both Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon are fac- ing, a dusty Israeli border town wen...…
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…World Powerful Imprint Auschwitz trip builds Jewish identity among teens. CHANAN TIGAY Jewish Telegraphic Agency New York A decade after taking part in the March of the Living, Bradley Laye still credits his experience with launching him on a career in Jewish communal service. "The march was the thing that start- ed it," said Laye, now the CEO of Hillel of Broward and Palm Beach, Fla. "It was the seed for my Jewish involve- ment and love...…
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…aDM Editorials are posted and archived on JNOnline.com Dry Bones On The Road to Cairo Jr WHIZZ BANG! ewish relationships with Egypt go back quite a way, possibly as far as the 12th Dynasty — about 3,800 years ago. We've been in and out of the country a good bit, leaving under Moses to seek freedom in Canaan, but returning again after the Babylonian and Roman conquests, leaving again when the Muslims seized power seven centuries later, re...…
…OTHER, VIEWS Seeds Of The Next War Jerusalem ne of the most meaningful gauges of the integrity of a peace process and its likelihood for success is the degree to which the "peace partners" educate towards peace. It is for this reason that the entire Palestinian Authority (PA) education apparatus, both formal and informal, has been such a tragic disappointment. Instead of seizing the opportunity to educate future generations to live with Isra...…
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…Pho tos by David Br Charity gala, celebrates 25 years of Wince excellence. DIANA LIEBERMAN Special to the Jewish News W hen Susie Kellerman, 26, was a young girl growing up in Huntington Woods, there were weeks when she spent more time at Annette and Company School of Dance than she did at home. "Our slogan back in the day was 'blood, sweat and tears,"' she remembers. "We danced our hearts out and it was our way of life." Kellerman, now a ...…
…Arts di Life Best Bets A FuN-GEFILTE EVENING The Cleveland-based klezmer band Yiddishe Cup revives the Jewish humor of the 1950s and 1960s by parodying everything from cha-cha to doo-wop to rock. They also play a pretty mean mainstream klezmer. collection of Greek stories, which he fin- ished around 8 C.E. in an attempt to tell the story of the world, numbered 250, of which playwright-original director Zimmerman chose eight for her play. T...…
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…Robert Krulwich brings his Jewish religion into his view of the world as he reports on science. Body Of Knowledge Ace broadcaster brings viewers up to date on latest scientific findings in new PBS series. SUZANNE CHESSLER Special to the Jewish News R obert Krulwich loves to explore and looks for innovative ways to get lots of TV viewers to go along with him. The broadcaster, seen regularly on ABC-TV feature segments that delve into scien...…
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