June 20, 1997

…Mr. Integrity Can Natan Sharansky keep Israel's government afloat and still be a bridge to American Jews? …

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…(DETROIT' THE JEWISH NEWS UP FRONT This Week's Top Stories No More Single Issues A study advises the - United Jewish Appeal to address needs of the younger generation. JULIE WIENER STAFF WRITER escuing Jews from the S o- the funds it raises to UJA, said viet Union and Ethiopi a. executive vice president Bob Protecting Israel from i is Aronson. And he says the new hostile Arab neighbor s. study doesn't reveal anything Fighting anti-Semit...…

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…June 20, 1997 4. 10 10 Up Front OPINION Growing awareness of similarities. 25 Polishing The Brass Jewish Federation Apartments is ensuring a healthy future by getting into fund-raising. TELL ME WHY The Marshall Plan against Israel. 35 To Heal Beth Shalom offers a special prayer service to provide congregants emotional support. BUSINESS The little company that could: Crown Rail. ISRAEL Long-Distance Love It's a difficult relati...…

…O Right: Teacher Debra Schindler pins a flower on her former student, Nicholas Edwin. Below: Amanda Warner and Phillip Rubin read one of their favorite stories. High school grads revisit their first graduation. JULIE WIENER STAFF WRITER BILL HANSEN PHOTOGRAPHER , nce they receive their diplomas _most high school students can think only of college and the future looming ahead. But last week, seven new high school graduates briefly steppe...…

…Putting n The Beth Greenapple works to enrich the Judaic content of the JCC. PHOTO BY DANIEL LIPPITT JULIE WIENER STAFF WRITER II n encouraging people to learn about Ju- daism, Beth Greenapple likes to think of chocolate cake. "You don't have to have a big piece or eat it with a fork, but it's there for you," she says. As director of Judaic enrichment, a brand-new position at the Jewish Com- munity Center, she's dishing up a lot of metaph...…

…A year after he was brutally attacked, Dr. Mark Diem is on the way to a new career. JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER lmost exactly a year ago, Dr. Mark Diem was flat on his back in a hospital bed trying to make sense of his position: There he was, cracked up and bruised, the victim of an enraged patient. He hated the tubes protruding from his arms and mouth, the bandages around his face and head, the fussing over him by other doctors. The ordeal le...…

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…Polishing The Brass Jewish Federation Apartments is ensuring a healthy future by getting into the fund-raising business. JULIE EDGAR STAFF WRITER ewish Federation Apart- ments relies very little on the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit for its funding, even though it serves 30 percent of the older Jewish pop- ulation that is in need of services. Only 2.5 percent of its budget comes from Federation, and that pays for food and Russian...…

…V I 63® THE JEWISH NEWS C_) Vol. CXI No. 17 Publisher Arthur M. Horwitz Editor Phil Jacobs Associate Editors Elizabeth Applebaum, Alan Hitsky Assistant Editor Gail Zimmerman Copy Editor Lynne Konstantin Senior Writer > C Julie Edgar Staff Writers Lynne Meredith Cohn, Jill Davidson Sklar, Julie Wiener Contributing Editors Michael Davis, Neil Rubin Washington Correspondent James D. Besser Foreign Correspondent Douglas Davis Israel Correspon...…

…D Helping Hearts avid Meyers is a desper- ate man. His 29-year-old wife Jane is in the hospital again, her lungs filled with flu- id. He has a full-time job as a bricklayer, and there are two children, ages 1 and 2, who need their parents at home. A benefit Sunday will help the Meyers family make life more comfortable for Mom. JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER START PACKING FOR CAMP AND YOUR SUMMER ADVENTURES The Best Selection of Great Backpac...…

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…Left: Teacher Lisa Kaufman hugs Lani Levy. Below: Ben Luger and Justin Rostker look nervous. Bottom: The eager graduates. fter years of hard work (er, make that play), they were ready to move on. In what has become an annual tradition, the gradu- ating nursery school students at Beth Abraham Hil- lel Moses in West Bloomfield donned caps and gowns in the synagogue social ha _ ll for a grown-up style cer- emony last week. With the graduation ...…

…fl -( ffnai B'rith Girls came out to Jewish Federation Apartments to lend their car as ❑ Q expertise. JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER JOHN M. OISCHER PHOTOGRAPHER Top: Miriam Lieberman goes for a high shine. Left: Lisa Freiman pays particular attention to the wheels. Bottom: The car wash crew takes good care of its charge. \ /- \—, crew of five members of B'nai B'rith Girls' Ruach Chapter soaped, sprayed, dried and shined almost 50 cars la...…

…To Heal Beth Shalom offers a special service to give congregants emotional comfort. LYNNE MEREDITH COHN STAFF WRITER ealing does not necessar- ily mean finding a cure, says Rabbi David Nelson of Congregation Beth Shalom in Oak Park. It can mean spiritual and emotional relief, "being able to deal with the challenges that confront each of us personally. It's a much wider definition." And that definition also in- cludes a Jewish element, says ...…

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…4 'x Bank Buddies Jewish Federation sends out several dozen volunteers to help at the Food Bank of Oakland County. JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER BILL GEMMELL PHOTOGRAPHER re re ail ,- .FAci,t • Marie Kramer and Barbara Barron prepare food boxes for distribution. Volunteers pause for a photo during a hectic morning of separating and packing. olunteers who came out to the Food Bank of Oak- land County recently tackled a daunting job: Unpack...…

…/-- Neo-Nazis At Opera Patrons at the Detroit Opera House were greeted with German pro-Hitler literature in their programs. JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER M /-- ost likely, it was an opera fan who tucked pro-Hitler fliers, print- ed in German, into the programs of the June 4 produc- tion of The Flying Dutchman at the Detroit Opera House. A stack of loose programs in the theater lobby was targeted by the group that calls itself New Order, said...…

…• SHALIACH page 19 and Adi, 8. (Adi, by the way, says that she has spent half her life in Detroit.) He will work for the Israel Seminars Department of the Jewish Community Centers As- sociation. Prior to coming to De- troit, Mr. Kaye was a school principal. There were many highlights during his time here. The shall- ach's office is more traditionally a place where an Israeli edu- cates area Jews about vacations or life in Israel, with a mino...…

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…Jewish Healing Adat Shalom volunteers provide free medical care to homeless guests. JULIE WIENER STAFF WRITER T synagogues and churches to take turns housing and feeding its homeless clients for week-long in- tervals. This week was Adat Shalom Synagogue's first turn, and as the shul prepared for the homeless guests, project chair Nancy Wel- ber Barr began looking for doctors PH OTOS BY BIL L HANSEN hey came for the basics: food and shelt...…

…HISTORY OF THE FRESH AIR SOCIETY 1928-1940: A 'RADICAL CHANGE' OCCURS In 1929, a radical change occurred when the Fresh Air Society decided that "gentlemen should be included on the board in addition to the ladies." The first male member of the board was Samuel Gilbert. The depression changed the financial structure of camp. Those children whose parents could not pay the full fee were still accepted, and full-fee applicants were registered o...…

…We're All Going To Miss Jeff Kaye We first met Jeff Kaye at a rather significant time, the initial Miracle Mission in 1993. It was interesting to hear our new shaliach's Scottish accent in an interview at a Jerusalem hotel. What else would you expect, though, from a young man from Glasgow? A shaliach's stay in any city is for a very short _time, maybe three years. Jeff Kaye remained in Detroit an extra year. He became so much more than a man ...…

…a \ /— /- Community Views Editor's Notebook A Growing Awareness Of Similarities Welfare Reform Or New Terror? MELVIN J. HOLLOWED. JR. SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS ALAN HITSKY ASSOCIATE EDITOR It was a glittering extrav- aganza. In April, all of metropolitan Detroit, it seemed, turned out to par- ticipate in the grand open- ing of the Museum of African American Histo- ry. The buoyant mood of the celebration was infec- tious as the atten...…

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…Testing Religion An increasing number of newly religious Jews in Israel don't want to throw away their secular life. LARRY DERFNER ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT ran was dressed in regula- tion Tel Aviv hip attire — black T-shirt, black pants, red sneakers. His black Charlotte Hornets cap wasn't part of the outfit, however — for him it was a kind of"starter" kip- Pak Like an undetermined but clearly growing number of once= secular, bohemia-inclined I...…

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…N SAT. 1 0-3 Article Reprints from • DETROIT THE JEWISH NEWS Bar/Bat Mitzvah 1997 VOYAGER SE enjoys singing, acting, basketball. golf and camping. His mitzvah projects included singing at Fleishman Residence and assisting at the Temple Israel Sunday school. He also sent do- nations to organizations including JARC, NCJW, Jewish Family Ser- vice and BBYO. STK# P-202 Leah Karchin Leah Rachel Karchin of Grosse Pointe Farms will ob- serve...…

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…Matthew May and Alexandra Westcob met in the summer of 1990, when both were coun- selors at Tamarack. For a year after they met, they sent letters back and forth across the At- lantic. The next summer, romance kicked in. \__, May bummed around the ,-) U.K. for a while; then Westcob met him in Florida for his broth- er's wedding, starting a back- and-forth that lasted several years. "I made seven or eight trips to the U.K., she made five or six...…

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