…750 1 ADAR II 5755/MARCH 3 , 1995 Kindling Renewal Clo se UP 1 - Menorah House continues to evolve amid challenges, concerns and a lawsuit. RUTH LITTMANN STAFF WRITER 13 reeting residents by their first names, daily basis. The Medilodge Group invested many nursing-home administrator Dennis thousands of dollars in new meat and dairy uten- Hayes walks down the halls of Menorah sils. There also are new refrigerators, counters House. Smil...…
…Come Visit the Happiest, yet Saddest Display Cases in the Jewelry Business at Greis Jewelers. If you were a Greis Jewelers display case, you'd be happy and sad, too. You'd be draped with stunning pearl jewelry priced so attractively that it was only a matter of time until buyers with exquisite taste, much to your dismay, bought these fantastic designs right off of your shelves. You'd light up with glee as the staff at Greis' newly expanded s...…
…March 3, 1995 14 15 Detroit ROUND UP Shimon Peres 'strikes out' on the national pastime. 25 Grayling Experience A different culture for teens from up north. TELL ME WHY Rebuilding The Past Do you know-a Noa and 18 Mila Street. 38 Local attorneys build survivor-Polish project. Learning never ends. page 18 TRAVEL Israeli art and culture in a Tel Aviv museum. 34 Being Jewish Is No Blue-Light Special FINE ARTS Oak Park artist tr...…
…Hillel Decision: Unifying Or Dividing? Hillel Day School faces a big decision in the next few weeks, a decision that has been hanging over the school for months. Does it move to the Jewish Community Cam- pus at Maple and Drake roads or expand its pre- sent facilities on Middlebelt Road? Either action leaves a dilemma for factions within the Hillel family and the rest of the Jew- ish community. Moving to Maple-Drake would put the school in the...…
…Editor's Notebook Opinion Cutting The Toikey And Other Bad Habits It May Not Be P. Boys Will Be Boys ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR ERICA MEYER RAUZIN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS As we all know, sequels are im- portant. How could we have gone on not knowing what happened to Michael Corleone (even if it did - mean seeing Sofia Coppola play his daughter in Godfather III)? And what think- ing man would have been able to function withou...…
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…MENORAH HOUSE You Could Spend A Lot Of Time Looking For New Homes. IN IN • NI MI Clothing Sales. Furniture Bargains. Great Restaurants. page 1 (with Menorah House)," Ms. House took place during the sub- Burstein says. "They just weren't sequent 2 1/2 months before the Borman Hall relocation. organized." The transfer of Borman Hall But now, Ms. Burstein, who visits the home at least once a residents was premature, Mr. day, describes ...…
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…DETROIT THE JEWISH NEWS Vol. CVI No. 26 Associate Publisher Arthur M. Horwitz Editor Phil Jacobs Associate Editors Elizabeth Applebaum Alan Hitsky Staff Writers Jennifer Finer Ruth Littmann Jill Davidson Sklar Steve Stein Contributing Editor Elie Wiese! Washington Correspondent James D. Besser Foreign Correspondent Douglas Davis Israel Correspondents Ina Friedman Larry Derfner Photographer Glenn Triest Local Columnists Danny Raskin Carla J...…
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…A Jew RUTH LITTMAN STAFF WRITER Grayling young people devote a Sunday to learning about a different people. artin Shlanger, in his own words, was a despicable, 95- pound, walking human skele- ton after World War II. Liberated from Auschwitz death camp in 1945, the young man wandered the streets of a nearby city. Sick with dysen- tery, hungry, tired and filthy, Mr. Shlanger paused in front of a movie theater. He stared blankly at advertiseme...…
…Rebuilding The Past ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR Two local attorneys help Poland save remnants of a once-great Jewish community. Michael Traison at a 17th-century synagogue In Zamosc, Poland. ichael Traison sees ghosts when- ever he walks the streets of War- saw. There are Jewish students in yeshivot, Jewish children playing along the street, Jewish busi- nesses, synagogues and institu- tions. They are visions of what used to be an...…
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…Exclusive Offer REBUILDING page 15 Only from Glassman Saab (the communists) just crushed into the ground." There are records of Jews in Poland since the 9th century CE, with more than 3,350,000 resid- ing in the country before the war. About 11 percent, or 369,000, sur- vived the Holocaust. In many cities, much of what once comprised a vibrant Jewish community remains, albeit in a decrepit state. There are syna- gogues and apartment complex...…
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…UN AWARD page 19 school students from schools as far as Winnipeg and Miami also competed for top prizes. "Other kids come really pre- pared, with their lap top corn- puters and things like that. They are really competitive," Nechama said. Kathy Sklar, a high-school teacher at Akiva, told the stu- dents that winning was not the goal. "She just said, 'Go, do your best but have fun,"' Nechama said. "That's what I did." Ms. Sklar said she was pro...…
…Choose the best place to park your money. New Nursing Home Plans In Progress RUTH LITTMANN STAFF WAITER Representatives of the Jewish Federation and United Jewish Foundation sought approval Feb. 28 from the West Bloomfield Township Planning Commission for a skilled-nursing home on the Maple-Drake Jewish Communi- ty Campus. If approved, the plan would centralize most Jewish eldercare services in West Bloomfield. The plan proposes construc- t...…
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…So Your 185 lb. Baby is Leaving Home! ,-- cate with them and want to lis- ten to their views. The only prob- lem was there were no men." When Judith Martin asked the students what they thought about government support for private schools, the responses were mixed. Azriel Chelst said he felt gov- ernment funding should follow each student to the school of his choice. Some of his classmates agreed. Others said if a parent decides to send a chi...…
…resident "s Column by Eli A. Scher; KEREN KAYEMETH tEISRAEl declaration of peace between Israel and Jordan is a triumph made possible by agreement on many water-related issues. Israel, which consumes approximately one million cubic meters per day for home use, needs to protect and expand its water resources even as it helps Jordan. In August 1994, even before the treaty was finalized, Israel responded to a severe shortage of water in Jordan ...…
…fi • • • COMPILED BY STEVE STEIN Hadassah Sends Relief Supplies To Sarajevo L ast August, four Hadas- lected more than 200 pounds of sah nurses traveled to goods in this area. General Sarajevo to assess the Linen provided a large donation war-torn Bosnian city's medical of uniforms. needs. The nurses re- turned home with a plan for a nationwide effort to collect and send medical supplies and clothing to Sarajevo. In the past few weeks, 30...…
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…MARCH 3, 1995 Joy Of Purim Through Parcels Institute Co-Hosts Model Seder 0 n Tuesday, March 21, at 6:30 p.m., the Ecumenical Institute for Jewish-Christian Studies and Temple Beth El in Birmingham will sponsor its annual model Passover seder. Members and guests of the Ecumenical Institute are invited to share a model seder with members of Temple Beth El. In addition to the tradi- tional Passover meal, guests will participate in readings, ...…
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…cle? The answer the rabbis give is that God's presence, the She- hina, can be restricted within the limits of the smallest square inch. The Shehina can be felt within the human heart. The Shehina goes with a person wherever he goes. And, significantly, they added that when man does not do the right thing, when he vio- lates the moral law and seeks more for himself than he has a right to expect, the Shehina de- parts from him. He stands alone, ...…
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…Being Jewish Is No haron Levine was driving through not sending their children to Israel, religious farmland in Novi last summer when school, day school and camp is tantamount shul," Ms. Faber says. "In six months, he she spotted an open-air vegetable to foregoing a long-term investment with stopped driving on Shabbos. He was no longer working on Saturdays. We were no sale. There were ripe tomatoes, heavy-duty dividends. longer answering the ...…
…But for Orthodox Jews like Mr. Borenstein, keeping kosher "is not even a question." And for Conservatives like Ms. Levine, "it's just a way of life. It's expensive being Jewish, but it's a commitment." lissa Berg, a Conservative Jew, want- ed to wrap herself in the spiritual seclu- sion and comfort of a tallit. She purchased an off-white wool one with grey stripes and a Hebrewrrayer.pairrtedorr it. All told, Ms. Berg will have spent more than ...…
…MIDRASHA ADULT JEWISH LEARNING •:• SPRING 1995/5755 "relebrating Purim: Then and Now" Community Educator Ruth Bergman Monday, March 13, 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM At the Applebaum Jewish Parenting Center of Congregation Shaarey Zedek, in the Bina! Israel Center, 4200 Walnut Lake Road, W. Bloomfield Tuition: $10 "PREPARING FOR a series of free open learning sessions This final session in our text study series, "Behind the Veil: A Closer Look at...…
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