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…Front Lines NI Alenline 0 T This Week Yom HaShoah: A Special Ritual You Don't Say really good writer can scare you, make you laugh or weep or enthrall you with a beautiful description. Such people know, enjoy and employ words to their advantage. We all should-develop an appreciation for language. Perhaps then we can help elimi- nate such poignant descriptive words as "thingy" or the prolif- eration of "like" merely by using a well const...…
…Celehrate Wit17 U5. Join us for a dinner honoring Robert P. Aronson as he enters his 18th year of service to the Detroit Jewish community Yom HalAtzmaut - Israel independence Day Wecinescia, May 3 200 • 5:50 p.m. , Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit D. Dan & Betty Kahn Building • Eugene & Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus 6600 West Maple Road • West Bloomfield Strolling Dinner - Special Program - Israeli Entertain...…
…Front Lines Law, Order Alan Hitsky Associate Editor T he Oak Park Public Safety Department seems to have ended a spate of incidents against Jews walking in or near the Bridgewater Village Apartments complex at 1-696 and Greenfield. Public Safety officials, neighbors and Oak Park Mayor Jerry Naftaly say a continuing "blitz" by police officers and a change in ownership policies have reduced incidents. General Electric Credit has taken owner...…
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…Metro Survivors Irma and Zygie Allweiss of West Bloomfield and Shaarit Haplaytah President Abraham Weberman light a candle. Rep. Knollenberg HMC hosts Holocaust commemoration ceremony. Rabbi Rosenzveig Harry Kirsbaum Staff Writer A crowd of more than 425 filled the Holocaust Memorial Center auditorium in Farmington Hills on Sunday, April 23, as tribute was paid to the memory of 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust and the vict...…
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…World ON THE COVER Bound By Land And People As Israel approaches 58, a former Detroiter tells her tale of aliyah. Amanda Sue Niskar Special to the Jewish News Editor's Note: After growing up in Farmington Hills and build- ing an international reputation as a epidemiologist in Atlanta, Amanda Sue Niskar immigrated to Israel last September with her mother, Joanne, through the aliyah assistance group Nefesh B'Nefesh (NBN). She shares the sto...…
…World ON THE COVER it's a tornado warning. Then a cousin explains this is a Shabbat siren. The evening of erev Rosh Hashanah, Mom and I walk to our cousins' home for a tradi- tional holiday dinner. In the morning, I go to an Orthodox synagogue across from my flat. It is a small, elderly congregation, but hearing the shofar here con- nects us with the past, present and future. When Yom Kippur ends, I think I can continue with my absorption st...…
…The Niskars at the landmark menorah near the Knesset in Jerusalem. substantial cuts in their already low salaries. I am supposed to receive my first paycheck Jan. 1; I don't and I'm not sure why. I am told my paycheck problems are normal for government employees. I'm told to be patient. I finally am paid Feb. 1, but it's a very small amount. And I get nothing March 1 because of a computer glitch. To complicate matters, I am in the process o...…
…tworld Score a Hat Trick on May 3rd. Local Events Mark Israeli Holidays • Yom Hazikaron, Israel Memorial Day, will be observed at 7:30 p.m. Monday, May 1, at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield. The community service will commemorate Israel's fallen heroes and victims of terror. The program, free and open to the public, will include a candle- lighting ceremony and the tradi- tional Jewish memorial service for those who have given...…
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…Health & Fitness Picking Up The Pieces Asperger's advocate rallies for living life to the fullest with the syndrome. Nick Dubin: "I knew I wasn't Ang ie Baa n, Sta f f Photog rap he r I stupid. It was that experience that propelled me to get the diagnosis." Judith Doner Berne Special to the Jewish News ick Dubin is turn- ing what might have been a setback into an advantage. The 28-year-old West Bloomfield resident only realized that...…
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…To Life! FDU Between The Pages Bookstock's annual book and media sale brings unexpected donations. Shoppers at Bookstock's 2004 event Sunday, April 30, through Sunday, May 7, at Laurel Park Place, Six Mile at 1-275, in Livonia. "It is not at all unusual for n the midst of being a us to find photographs',' said source of low-cost reading Roz Blanck of West Bloomfield, and listening enjoyment Bookstock volunteer co-chair and an annual fun...…
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…Arts & Entertainment TERNATIONAL Mosaic The Eighth Annual Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival presents films from throughout the world. Diana Lieberman Special to the Jewish News STORIES on page April 27 4 2006 48 45 …
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…Arts & Entertainment JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL Mosaic from page 45 Live and Become T he blockbuster film of the eighth annual Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival, Live and Become, is the work of Radu Mihaileanu, a French director of Romanian Jewish descent. Perlasca, about an Italian who saved the lives of several thousand Jews in 1944 Budapest, was origi- nally made for Italian television. Shalom, a haunting gem of only six minutes, is a Brit...…
…Join Os in Celebrating Yom lialturfaut and Our 100,100th Participant THIS Year in Jerusalem! Nearly six years have passed since the launch of Taglit ("discovery")-birthright israel and, in that time, more than 98,000 young Jewish adults from 45 countries have received the gift of a lifetime: a free, educational, ten-day trip to Israel. I)1 U6'1 am 4.1s., inn nnnth VU 13 auvut. LU 111.133 a 11111C311/11C. Lilt 1 trip participant will arri...…
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…Special Guests said. "In 2004, we increased to 19,000, and, last year, we - are pleased to report that 24,000 members of our community were in attendance. We expect this year to be even better!' Grand Prize Film Live and Become is the win- ner of the fourth annual Sarah & Harold Gottlieb Award for Contributions to Jewish Culture that is presented to the festival's best film. Live and Become will be shown at all five festival sites. The first...…
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…Celebrate Yiddish Michael Wex "kvetches" at Workmen's Circle fund- raiser. Michael Wex, humorist and author of the bestseller Born to Kvetch, is the program headliner for Celebrate Yiddish, an event - to raise funds for Workmen's Cii-cle/Arbeter Ring. Michael Wex: "Yiddish is a lot of things, but innocent isn't one of them." the "nonstop grumbling of the Israelites, who find fault with every- thingunder the sun" Wex briefly explains ...…
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…A Benefit for the Program for Holocaust Survivors and Families ,./ .4 ,ive in collaboration with the 1;'ecome and ‘ Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival benefit co-chairpersons: Ruth Aaronson Rose Fenster committee: Bobbie Blitz Rosa Chessler Barbara Cohen Dr. Charles Domstein Leah Ann Kleinfeldt David Oliwek A mother is powerless to save her son. One boy dies. Another takes his place. To survive, he must pretend to be Jewish. His with...…
