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…points of view >> Send letters to: letters@thejewishnews.corn Special Column Editorial A Hearty Mazel Toy To Shaarey Zedek! On Sacred Ground A visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau stirs both horror and hope. 1 The railway tracks leading into the Birkenau extermination camp L ast May, I was invited to the Detroit Tigers' dugout at Comerica Park to attend the press conference of a baseball player accused of shouting anti- Semitic epithets duri...…
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…The Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit Acknowledges An Extraordinary Life Rabbi Irwin Groner 1931 - 2012 Beloved Rabbi, Teacher and Community Leader ^Jewish Federation OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT 4 January 10 • 2013 …
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