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…to a charity of one's choice. Interment at Hebrew Memorial Park. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel. VELMA FRIEDMAN, 98, of West Bloomfield, died Aug. 4, 2007. She was very active with Temple Beth El, its sisterhood and the Beth Elders. She was a member of temple for more than 75 years. Mrs. Friedman was also active in the National Council of Jewish Women and was one of the original volun- teers of Up and Out. She is survived by daughters...…
…Obituaries YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH School for Boys • Beth Jacob School for Girls • Early Childhood Development Center 5751 W. Lincoln Drive • Southfield, MI 48076 • (248) 557-6750 Obituaries from page 87 "The entire world is sustained by the Torah study of young children" During the coming week, the students of Yeshiva Beth Yehudah will study in memory of the following departed friends. In addition, Kaddish will be said during the daily min...…
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…Obituaries Obituaries from page 89 In memory of Frank Adell August 13, 2006 ROMAN"RAY"WIENER, 86, of Commerce Twp., died Aug. 5, 2007. He was born in Sisnowitz, Poland, and was a Holocaust survivor. He immigrated to Detroit in 1949, with his only surviving sibling, Wolf Wiener. He married his beloved wife, Ida; and together they owned and operated Rays Beef Company and began raising their family. Those who knew him will remem- ber his hon...…
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…Editor's Letter A Fund That Echoes Share Your Soul I t was born with proceeds from the sale of Sinai Hospital Senior Thrust to the Detroit Medical Center in 1997. Today, the Jewish Having Robert Naftaly chair the Fund as well as the Fund reverberates with the heart and soul of Jewish Federation task force looking at serving the needs of our Detroit. It continues the Sinai tradition of assuring excellent seniors gives the Fund and Federatio...…
…Letters What A Gift! In June, 16 teachers from Congregation Shaarey Zedek of Oakland County received an incredible gift from Doreen Hermelin of Bingham Farms and the Hermelin- Davidson Center for Congregational Excellence. As her guest, we spent 10 days learning, living and traveling together, first in Prague and then in Israel. Our 10 days of travel were ripe with visual sensations, physi- cal challenges, aromatic smells, emotional experien...…
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…Special Report ON THE COVER Footprints On The Avenue Woodward's history is heavily entwined with Detroit Jewry's. k;.• ‘N; \\ . \\\ •: ‘;* - N ' • ■■ • \\\*- **:„,‘ \NIN : \••••••••‘.., .••••••• \ xA .... The Woodward and Gladstone Temple Beth El, designed by architect Albert Kahn architect, was dedicated in 1922; the last service was held there in 1973. W hen French explorers and their Indian guides landed on our shores in 17...…
…In 1947, parents lined up in the rain at 7:30 a.m. outside the Aaron DeRoy Jewish Community Center at Woodward and Holbrook to register kids for camp. Walking Woodward A guided tour of our heritage. Gerald S. Cook Special to the Jewish News C onstructed in 1807, Woodward Avenue became Detroit's "Main Street:' a major transportation route and the most prominent street in the city. A strong Jewish community presence thrived on Woodward fro...…
…Special Report ON TI--E COVER Walking Woodward from page 13 E David E. Heineman, politician and designer of the flag of the city of Detroit • it 6• „„. . tjjn;i: IP . r4 Emil and Fanny Heineman's home at 428 Woodward Ave., built in 1859. others still provide help to city Orchestra from 1919 until residents. his death in 1936. Initially, • Old Main, south of he did not disclose he was Warren on Cass, plainly visible a Jew, but la...…
…Burton Historical Collection of the Detroit Public Library I Northern served Jewish neighborhoods to the east (the North End-Oakland Avenue area) and to the west. When new Central High was built on Linwood in a newer section, Northern still served this older neighborhood. The Jewish Historical Society maintains a large collection of yearbooks from many Detroit and subur- ban area schools. • Boston-Edison Historic District, from Edison to Bos...…
…Staff photos by Angie Bean Shirley Babcock looks at her scrapbooks of family history in Pontiac. Rise And Fall The Jewish community in Pontiac was a microcosm of Detroit's for nearly 100 years. Alan Hitsky Associate Editor W oodward Avenue was a dirt track in the second half of the 1890s when recent immigrant Joseph Barnett traveled from Detroit to Pontiac to see about a vacant clothing store. His journey was the precursor for a thriving...…
…WItt 1 .1"k later, he and eight Beth Jacob congre- gants founded Temple Kol Ami in West Bloomfield with a platform of social action. "Pontiac was like a mill town at the time," Conrad says, "and the 'mill' was General Motors." He says the company controlled Pontiac's schools and the rest of town. And the Jewish merchants downtown were very con- servative. With the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and black riots in major U.S. cities in 1967 and 1968,...…
…Metro Terror States Targeted Dingell's Gift State House passes bills divesting from Iran and Sudan. Don Cohen Special to the Jewish News House. The bill was Knollenberg's first sponsored bill to pass the House. Knollenberg's Iran bill originally tar- geted investments in North Korea and ichigan moved closer to divest- Syria as well, but those two countries were ing state pension funds from removed to throw support to Wheeler companies doi...…
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…Opinion OTHER VIEWS Latin Mass Cause For Concern the Church has made great strides in reversing a 2,000-year history of anti-Semitism. New York/JTA W ith anti-Semitism resurgent in the world, one of the encouraging elements for the Jewish people, particularly if one is to compare things today to the 1930s and 1940s, is the remark- able change in the Catholic Church's attitudes toward Jews. In the past four decades, a conceptual revolutio...…
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