March 05, 1999

…$1.00 March 5, 1999/Adar 17, 5759 DMC Reaffirms Corn ijunity Carnivals, Parcels If )-\nd m Bashes www.detroitjewishnews.com r* Undersecretary of State Stuart Eizenstat balances U.S. policy and Jewish concerns. …

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…Duntorr JEWISH NEWS This Week Secular School. This Week page 25 10 The Deal For Sinai DMC and community leaders say benefits will continue. 22 Man In The Middle Stuart Eizenstat's impact on U.S. policy, Jewish concerns. its tertainment 74 Good Humor Man Carl Reiner shares his classics in West Bloomfield on Saturday. Master Builder. Arts & Entertainment page 72 Business 91 Promoting Business JN www.detroitjewishnews.com March 5,...…

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…One Size Does Not Fit All harity Burnout: at Can We Sell? RICA MEYER RAUZIN ecial to The Jewish. News I' m on the board of a local chari- ty and we have a tough dilem- ma: we don't know what to sell. We know'what to support: in ur case, special education within ocal Jewish day schools. We know hat we need to buy: teacher salaries, upplies, insurance. But we don't ow what to sell. All the good ood stuff is a en. The Girl Scouts have cookies...…

…Photos co urtesy o f Mort Plot nick Big new gifts bring the Jewish Community Center's campaign past the halfway mark. LONNY GOLDSMITH StaffWriter fter almost a year of fund- raising in the community, the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit has gotten a big boost from the outside. The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation in Baltimore has delivered a $2 million pledge while a meeting for Detroit snowbirds nesting in Boca Raton,...…

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…N 1901 1912 Movement initiated to build a Jewish hospital Orthodox rabbis march on Hastings Street with 'Buy a Brick to Save the Sick' North End Clinic opens its doors to all Detroiters during Depression, circa 1922 H 1922 North End Clinic opens 1938 Federation- sponsored survey shows need for Jewish hospital P T A 1 1944 1951 1953 Jewish Hospital Association- formed by Federation raises $2,300,000 Ground broken for hospital Ja...…

…1956 Shapero School of Nursing opened Og at Sinai Hospital 44: 1959 1986 Shiffman Clinic Wing, successor to North End Clinic, opened at Sinai Sinai Hechtman Health Center opens in Bingham Farms Sinai doctors develop device for permanent dentures in 1967 1 ;i:racts with the DMC, either at Sinai- Grace or other DMC facilities. It is Grace unclear, however, how many of these contracts will be renewed once they expire, and the DMC — which...…

…LONNY GOLDSMITH Staff Writer I n 19 years of volunteering at Sinai Hospital, Bertha Fischer has missed only three Tuesdays of work. When Sinai closes this summer, Fischer isn't planning to miss any more days when she starts volunteer- ing at Sinai-Grace Hospital. "I'll keep working as long as the [Sinai] Guild is there," she said. According to Elsa Silverman, that could be a long time. "The adminis- tration has been supportive and earnestly ...…

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…Ming the strings The program was billed as a puppet show, but there were no whimsical footless dolls to be slipped over anyone's hands. Instead, the audience watched as elaborate, delicate-featured, pro- portioned figurines in full-costume, down to their tiny shoes, moved gracefully by invisible wires on a small, elaborately set stage. Interacting with three human members of the PuppetArt Detroit Puppet Theater, who danced in colorful veiled ...…

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…Diplomatic Macher Lefi• In 1980, .Stuart Eizenstat was President Carter's domestic adviser. Above: Zbzgn iew Brzezinski, Eizenstat and Democratic nominee Jimmy Carter prepared for Washington. Man In The Middle Stuart Eizenstat's impact on U.S. policy and Jewish concerns is enormous. JAMES D. BESSER Washington Correspondent Washington II is title is Undersecretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs. It is a mouthful...…

…come back every summer and say `you sent me to a kosher camp, why don't we keep kosher at home?' Finally, Eizenstat said he told his wife, "we're not setting a very good example. That son, Jay, is now an Orthodox Jew and the Eizenstat home is kosher. In fact, when tapped in 1993 to be U.S. ambassador to the European Union, Eizenstat convinced State Department officials to supply extra china for what became the first kosher U.S. embassy ever. "...…

…Diplomatic Macher MAN IN THE MIDDLE from page 23 when Iranian Jews, caught in the tur- moil of the Islamic revolution, were fleeing for their lives. These members of the world's old- est continuous Jewish communities were arriving in Vienna or Rome only to be turned back when their requests for visas were denied by U.S. immi- gration officials; the United States had yet to declare them group refugees fleeing persecution. Eizenstat had been r...…

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…itorials Editorials and Letters to the Editor are posted and archived on JN Online: w-ww.detroitjewishnews.coln A Sinai Legacy hen Sinai Hospital closes this summer in a cost-cutting move, Detroit Jewry can take heart in knowing the historically Jewish hospital will live on in the soul of a vibrant part of our community — The Jewish Fund. Created through the Detroit Medical Cen- ter's purchase of Sinai in 1997, The Jewish Fund has helped el...…

…COMMUNITY VIEWS A Jewish Community On The Periphery AMY GROSS Special to The Jewish News hen was the last time religious services made you cry from the depth of your soul as a sign of discovering your voice? Students and staff from Project STaR, University of Michigan's graduate training program in Jewish communal service, were for- tunate to experience two such oppor- tunities during a recent Shabbat. On Feb. 5-7, nine students and three ...…

…EDITOR'S WATCH Sustaining A Thirst For Jewish Learning / - and potential — and giving them very Jew who wants to help structured roles that mean something perpetuate the culture, her- in our synagogues and communal itage and spirituality of our groups. 4,000-year-old faith has a One of the emotional high points of lifelong obligation to Jewish educa- the National Federation of Temple tion, as a learner and as a teacher. We Youth convention,...…

…COMMUNITY JEWISH COMMUNITY from page 28 are as ready and willing to learn as these, how can professionals who care—/ about Jewish continuity ignore fellow Jews just because they are living out- side their immediate area? In his book Stalking Elijah, Rodger Kamenetz states, "'Why be Jewish?'"is a circular question .. . An uprooting question might be, `Given that I am Jewish, what am I to do about it?''' Students and staff in the STaR program,...…

…OPINION ' Unique Precedents /-KENNETH W. STEIN Special To The Jewish News I srael's election campaign for the 15th Knesset and prime minis- ter is like none other in Israel's history. Barring an unlikely war with the Arab world or some heinous physical violence perpetrated against --Jsraelis, the dominant election issue will not be the Arab-Israeli peace process. The election will be a referen- dum on economic promises not kept, wrenching...…

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…Mercury AJE Forum's Focus Is On Children Sibling baby sitting and Daniel Sobel Friendship Circle Respite Care for chil- dren with special needs are available at the JCC's Kahn Building on March 14. Pre-registration is mandatory (call Bassie Shemtov at 248-855-1212). Jewish educators enrolled in AJE's NIRIM Professional Enrichment Program will receive two units for the session on March 14. There is a fee of $5 per session for Family Circle. T...…

…Israel Bonds Honors Leaders State of Israel Bonds plans to honor 18 Jewish leaders from the midwest, includ- ing Sheldon A. Goldman of Detroit and Jerome P. Subar of Grand Rapids, for their commitment to Israel and the Jewish community They'll be honored with the Menachem Begin Leadership Award at the Prime Minister's Club midwestern regional dinner April 20 in Chicago. Guest speaker will be Gideon Patt, State of Israel Bonds president and ch...…

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…Physicians: The Maimonides Society invites you to pack your "black bag" and come along for A Medical Travelogue Through Israel KOL AMI DUO: A CLASS ACT Temple Kol Ami Sisterhood presents "Two Individuals, One Class Act" an evening of music and song with Susan Greener and. Nathalie Conrad Thursday, March 11. Light dinner at 6:30, program at 7:30. Charge. (248) 661-0040. • • TAI CHI WITH AARP AARP Chapter 3483 presents a pro- gram on Tai...…

…Calendar BETH ELDERS STORYTELLER The Beth Elders luncheon noon Tuesday, March 16 at Temple Beth El features storyteller Corinne Stavish pre- senting her one-woman show "Still Dancing: One Hundred Years of Jewish Detroit." Using the fictional character, Judith Wise Frank, Stavish will illus- trate how, at each stage of life, commu- nity resources can make a difference. Open to the community. Cost $9 for Beth Elders, $10 others. RSVP by March 1...…

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…NI 1 ILL1r CIRCLE SUNSET BOULEVARD The Andrew Lloyd Weber musical --;inset Boulevard at the Detroit Opera House, 1526 Bioadway, 2 p.m. Sunday, March 21. $58 members, $68 others. for families and friends of children with special needs. - Let's Talk: Parent/Professional Communication Program to be held at D. Dan & Betty Kahn Bldg. Jewish Community Center West Bloomfield YOUTH BBYO MEMBERSHIP OPEN HOUSE \`<lichigan Region B'nai B'rith You...…

…Calendar I PLUS A special procj ram for older adults with memor y impairments JET 'THEATRE Jewish Ensemble Theatre (JET) Midwest premiere Never the Sinner by John Logan, based upon the Leopold and Loeb killing of 14-year-old Bobby Franks. Starring Hal Youngblood as Clarence Darrow. Through March 7 Tickets: (248) 788-2900. At the Kahn Building of the West Bloomfield JCC. Regent Plus, located in Regent Street of West Bloomfield, is a customi...…

…erienced Designers... French Canadian Quality Speaking is Sally Arbuckle, RNC, MSN, a clinical nurse specialist and a certified healing touch practitioner at Providence —Hospital. RSVP by March 10: (248) 355-9936. EDUCATION JEWS AND URBAN LIFE "Jews and the Urban Experience" con- ference sponsored by the Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies and the 7- College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs of Wayne State University. Bus tour of ...…

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…Lunch and Learn series on ethical issues presents Rabbi E. Bunny Freedman of Hospice of Michigan on "The Jewish ±erspective on Terminal Illness" 11:45 a.m. Thursday, March 11. Cost: $5. RSVP by March 9: (248) 548-3663. Andrew Zack, chairman. Yad Ezra, 26641 Harding, Oak Park. SHABBAT SONG MAGIC Cantor Annie Rose of Temple Beth Emeth and Mrs. Ruth Bergman of Congregation Beth Abraham Hillel D Moses present "Capturing the Magic of Shabbat Songs...…

…IN personal ad leads to a honeymoon in Israel. DAVID SACHS Editorial Assistant J oe Samet, divorced 11 years and lonely, went on a search for his ,, "soul mate. Joe, 51, also wanted to renew his involvement with the Jewish com- munity that had lapsed over the years. He knew that his new bride would be Jewish. "But I just wasn't meeting Jewish women," said Joe, the father of two sons. He had attended singles parties and dances and asked frie...…

…Bachelors „ Births /- Feb. 16 Brian and Ellen Binke of Waterford are delighted to announce the birth of their son, Jacob 'Lee. Sharing in their happiness are proud grandpar- ents Simon and Ray Binke of Bloomfield Township, Maxine Kelley of Grand Blanc and William McGowan of Sunbright, Tenn. Jacob Lee is named in loving memory of his great-aunt Lena. Feb. 13 Proud parents Diana (Roberts) and Michael Leslie of Flint announce the birth of Aar...…

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