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…DETROIT JEWISH NEWS theJEWISHNEWS.com Arthur M. Horwitz Shaarey Zedek Sisterhood To Host Vashti's Banquet Sisterhood of Congregation Shaarey Zedek again welcomes women of the entire Jewish community to join them at their annual Vashti's Banquet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 5, Shaarey Zedek in Southfield. The synagogue will be transformed into a Middle Eastern bazaar. Vashti's Banquest, a girls' night out, will include Middle Eastern kosher fo...…
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…fzr _ 44%% • • Annual Chicken Soup Cook Off r d Larry Feinstein of Flint, center in a tallit with his hand on Rafael's shoulder, and the other bar mitzvah boys at the ALEH facility in Jerusalem Never Too Late Flint man, 80, twins his bar mitzvah with Israeli teen with special needs. S ixty-seven years after his 13th birthday, Larry Feinstein decided that it was finally time to have a bar mitzvah. It was an email from ALEH, Israel's la...…
…metro >> that' life Vera Johnson, right, wearing her late mother's Jewish star pin, with friend Amy Awerbuch A- ' New' Jew At 70 Christian woman discovers her Jewish heritage late in life. Sue Pearl Special to the Jewish News A fter living her life as a Christian in the Serbian Orthodox faith for the past 70 years, Vera Dukanac Johnson just recently found out that her mother was Jewish. Upon receiving this surprising news from her go...…
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…metro >> around town BBYO Magic Convention adds Shabbat and middle-schoolers to the mix this year. IPPk BYO-Michigan Region held its annual Regional Convention (RC) Dec. 26-30. With more than 500 attendees, this year's participants included middle school- =wow aged teens in grades 6-8 as well as high school-aged teens from Metro Detroit. One of the newest, most exciting parts of RC was that it fell over Shabbat. To cel- ebrate, BBYO held Sh...…
…Families Together arents and children of all ages spent time together at the synagogue and in the community with hands-on projects designed to give congregants the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others. The Jan. 13 volunteer program was co-spon- sored by the Adat Shalom Education & Youth Department and the synagogue's Sisterhood, Men's Club and Social Action Committee. Following lunch, Rabbis Aaron Bergman and Rachel Shere l...…
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…points of view >> Send letters to: letters@thejewishnews.com Publisher's Notebook Editorial Turning Point For Civil Rights Senate's Rand Paul: A Poor Committee Pick A Five months in 1963 shaped the future of our state and nation. W hile the annual commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jes birthday and civil rights legacy concluded this week, additional celebrations are planned later this year to recognize the 50th anniver- sary of h...…
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