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…Metro YOUNG ADULT TEAMWORK / ON THE COVER Stepping Up To The Plate Duo organizes Pitch for Israel charity softball tournament to rally Detroit's young Jews. Robin Schwartz Special to the Jewish News T - Pitch Fror Israel Detroi 1---fotthders Adam Blanck. of•West Bloomfield and Benjy Gordon of Detroit here's something magical about a night at the ball park: the energy of the crowd, the crack of the bat, the simple pleasure of sitting ...…
…Metro YOUNG ADULT TEAMWORK Stepping Up from page 17 Left: Julia Weinberg, Southfield; Noah Canadian Roots While you may think of softball as an all-American pastime, the Pitch for Israel charity softball tournament has its roots in Canada. The event was originally created in 2008 by Daniel Warner, 27, of Toronto, a man- aging partner in a Canadian market- ing firm and a part-time graduate student in business administration at York Univers...…
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…World Holy Ground Jewish positions on Ground Zero mosque reveal ambivalence. Protestors last month showed their feelings about the mosque. Ron Kampeas Jewish Telegraphic Agency Washington ORT YOUR LOCAL SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS FAMILY OWNED AND OPERATED SINCE 1971' KEEGO HARBOR, MICHIGAN 48320 248.681.6460 24 August 12 • 2010 M ore often than not, Jewish and Muslim groups come down on the same side of battles over religious liberties...…
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…Business & Professional PROFILE Turning 'Em Around Bill Carroll Special to the Jewish News F rom Jewish centers to cities like Pontiac. From synagogues to pharmaceutical firms. From large corporations to small businesses. They all seem to get into financial trouble at least once in a while — and even more so in today's depressed economy. But Fred Leeb of Orchard Lake has been coming to the rescue for these types of operations for the past...…
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…HERE'S TO... Hillel of Metro Detroit (HMD) awarded its annu- al David Bittker Student Leadership Award to University of Michigan- Dearborn student Leora Flatt of Oak Park. The HMD Board of Governors Flatt created this award in memory of the late Davd Bittker of Franklin, whose leadership helped guide both HMD and Hillel International. Flatt completed her junior year at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, study- ing psychology. She served on ...…
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…From the Director's Chair It's hard to believe that it is almost a year since I came aboard as your Executive Director. You are a welcoming and warm Jewish Stephen M. Goldman community and I thank you for your support. I have been busy building on the founda- tion begun by my predecessor and we are reaching ever greater heights in so many ways. Some of the new programs sched- uled include lectures, seminars, teacher training, cooperative prog...…
…"No one knows what happened to six year old Rolf Hess" The Holocaust tragedy keeps resurfacing. This past May, a gende- man with no foreign accent arrived in the Library and after mustering great courage, announced, "I am a Holocaust survivor." He had come to the Library to see if he might find out about his background. He identified himself as Rolf Hess from Malsch, Gemany. He remembers that as a young child, he was deported to a nearby town...…
…HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER ZEKELMAN FAMILY CAMPUS 28123 Orchard Lake Road Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3738 Hold the Date August 29, 2010 Synagogues in Germany: A Virtual Reconstruction Exhibit Opening President's Message As the New Year rapidly ap- proaches, I want to reflect on the resilience of our Holocaust Memorial Center. Twenty months Gary Karp ago, we lost not only one of our founding fathers, but also an extraordinary leader and fundr...…
…Opinion A MIX OF IDEAS Editorials are posted and archived on JNonline.us . Editorial Yes, Maccabi! ewish teens in America find their Jewish identity tested more and more by the spreading and intimidating forces of hatred toward Israel. These forces take the imposing form of campus anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial and Islamist terror. Our teens may not be touched directly by these chilling effects, but thanks to today's instant communica- t...…
…Opinion A MIX OF IDEAS On Conversion, A Way New York/JTA A s the controversy over the con- version issue reached a fever pitch recently, a group of Israeli soldiers shuffled past flowerbeds into classrooms at the Jewish Agency's Kiryat Moriah educational center in Jerusalem. Four-hundred soldiers, many of them immigrants, come together from every army unit for 14 hours a day of learning. Today's lesson has nothing to do with combat, Hebre...…
…Spirituality Welcome To Southfield YIS continues to attract young families to its community. Jonathan, Josh, Naomi and Jordan Elberg Shelli Liebman Dorfman Senior Writer opportunities" after Fischman presented them with a slew of them. "As time passed, we did more research and spoke with various people, but we ven before the date of the next felt that this would be a great place for annual Young Israel of Southfield our kids and it wasn't...…
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…4A a - iA INN Come Celebrate Our 22nd Anniversary! Monday, August 23, 2010 Starting at 6:30 PM Temple Shir Shalom's FOOD FUN AND FIREWORKS FESTIVAL begins with an evening loaded with family fun, food tastings and games, and ends with a spectacular fireworks display! TORAH PORTION Save The Trees By Recycling Parshat Shoftim: - Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9; Isaiah 51:12-52:12. I To tempt your palate, some of the area's most popular restau...…
