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…obituaries Most technology is created to merely improve life. This one is designed to actually save it. Obituaries from page 68 DOROTHY "DOLLY" FRIEDMAN, 88, of Farmington Hills, died April 5, 2013. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Barbara Friedman and Steven Kohler of West Bloomfield; grandsons, Jay and Ian Kohler; many loving nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. Mrs. Friedman was the beloved wife of the late Aaron Friedman...…
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…Y esh iv a iv n-nn , XVI nvv, 4 lyar April 14, 2013 Solomon Cohen Helen Isaacson Samuel Kaluzny Benjamin Kleinfeld Morton Margolis Phineas Pearlman Isadore Weingarden Benjamin Zane 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 minyan. Lt. Philip Ross Morris Sher Fae Skolnik Louis Weingarden Ernestine Weisz Ida Borkin...…
…JUDGE MICHAEL L. STACEY, 90, of West Bloomfield, died March 31, 2013. An Army-Airforce veteran of World War II, he became a Wayne County Circuit Court judge. Judge Stacey graduated from Wayne State Law School. Before becom- ing a judge, he was in private practice and ran one of the first mediation panels in Michigan. He was a member of the Oakland County Bar Association and the Wayne County Bar Association. He was also a member of Congregatio...…
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…metro >> on the cover Who Killed Burton Gordin. Four decades later, the civil rights leader's murder remains unsolved. ••• Does anyone remember? Arthur M. Horwitz Publisher/Executive Editor BURTON GORDIN from page 1 On this particular Friday afternoon, Burton Gordin chose to leave his Cadillac Square office at about 4:30 p.m., earlier than usual. While colleagues, among them Thomas Peloso Jr. and Andronike Tsagaris, would often join him f...…
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…points of view >> Send letters to: letters®thejewishnews.com Editorial Obama's Optimism Must Be Tempered p resident Obama certainly laid the groundwork for renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. During his March visit to the Middle East, he gave both sides cause for hope, urging a clean slate to re-engage in conversation and negotiation. He insisted that the Palestinians, rep- resented by Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Fatah in the West Ba...…
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