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…"The most wonderful things about living here are all the opportunities and activities." — Helen Weingarden, enjoying life at Fox Run since 2002 Tammy Betel of Farmington Hills, waited more than four hours to speak. A longtime docent at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills, she urged tolerance for all people. support for Israel. Finkelstein also is the author of The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish ...…
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…From the Director So many exciting things are happening at your Holocaust Memorial Center. On Yom HaShoah, the largest audi- ence in HMC Stephen M. Goldman history, 800 people, gathered to commemorate the Day of Remembrance. The audito- rium and classrooms overflowed with a standing-room-only audience. As we remembered and celebrated the lives of our Shaarit Haplaytah and all survi- vors, and honored those who perished, candles were lit, Ani ...…
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…Upcoming Events July 4 Museum closed in celebration of Independence Day. July 10 Barsamian: 20 Years- Searching for the Answer closes. July 24 Secret Heroes: The Ritchie Boys exhibit opens. The Ritchie Boys, named for the camp at which they trained, were a little-known WWII intelligence unit comprised primarily of Jews, mostly refugees from Nazi Germany. Their many exploits: infiltration, interrogation, translation, dis-information campa...…
…points of view EDITORIAL BOARD: Publisher: Arthur M. Horwitz Chief Operating Officer: F. Kevin Browett Contributing Editor: Robert Sklar >> Send letters to: letters@thejewishnews.corn Guest Columnist Editorial The Synagogue Picketers' Intellectual Assumptions Ann Arbor A s the weekly picket of Beth Israel Congregation in Ann Arbor by self- styled Jewish Witnesses for Peace and Friends now enters its eighth year, it may be an appropriat...…
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…arts & entertainment Summer Reading from page 31 Also for art lovers is Modigliani: A Life, in which Merle Secrest provides an in-depth portrait of one of the 20th century's master painters and sculptors — writing of his upbringing as a Sephardic Jew from an impoverished but genteel Italian family, his going to Paris to make his fortune, his artis- tic influences and his long-kept illness from tuberculosis, which he masked with alcohol. who...…
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