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…Letters Beyond Day Schools The article "All About Education" (Nov. 17, page 29) describes the noble initiative proposed by the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit for seeking financial resources to secure the future and stability of our local day schools. As a past president of the com- munity-wide United Hebrew School system, I recall with pride the educational achievements and contributions the UHS provided to the Detroit Jewish comm...…
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…First Round Whatever Works he sounds of Nedi, his one remain- Israeli songs ing sister, moved to Tel blare into the Aviv to get away from it parking lot from the all, said Moshe. open doors of Esther's His parents were Judaica Giftworld as a especially crushed, and small band plays tunes his father came close to and Orthodox men committing suicide. sing along on a "It's not an easy life Harry Kirsbaum Saturday night in West for them," he sai...…
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…I Something Extra NOTEBOOK An Enchanted Evening And More It was an evening of enchanting music, but the concert's main purpose was to raise money for New Orleans firefighters Ivho lost their homes in Hurricane Katrina. The Nov. 22 concert, per- formed by Cantor Joel Colman of Temple Sinai in New Orleans and other cantors and soloists, raised $12,278 to benefit the New Orleans Firefighters Fund, which aids the neediest of the hurricane surv...…
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…To Life! THE SCENE A Journe A West Bloomfield native ckaws on his own Israel experience to shape new novel. Robin Schwartz Special to the Jewish News s Aaron Hamburger and his brother Sheldon of West Bloomfield Above: Sheri Jankelovitz of West Bloomfield attended the lecture. Seymour Blustein of Farmington Hills and Frank Mandlebaum of West Bloomfield itting in the back seat of his par- ents' car on the way to the Birmingham Temple...…
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…I To Life! PARENTING Out. Of The Starting Gate Pediatrician's book explores "work-life unreadiness" among 20-somq.things. Suzanne Chessler Special to the Jewish News el Levine remembers being "bashed around" when he began work- ing in the field of pediatric medicine. One example: He completed a research project for a senior doctor who took all the credit. Levine, now director of the Clinical Center for the Study of Development and Learnin...…
…SPIRITUALITY Making The Connection Hebrew Day School second-graders read from actual Torah scroll. Ann Arbor very year, second-graders at the Hebrew Day School of Ann Arbor mark the beginning of their Torah studies with a Chagigat Torah, a celebra- tory event involving friends and family. This year the ceremony took on new meaning when the children read directly from an actual Torah. "We wanted the children to associate their learning with ...…
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…I Metro Dec. 1, 1955 What was going on in Detroit on the day of Rosa Parks' historic civil rights . stand. Irwin Cohen Special to the Jewish News F fifty years ago, the first day of December fell on a Thursday; same as this year. Dec. 1, 1955, became a his- toric date because of seamstress Rosa Parks' stand by refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus to a white , man. Over the course of time, Mrs. Parks would live, die and ...…
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…I World Fighting Back Reform leader is offended by the stance of the religious right. Michael Jacobs . Jewish Renaissance Media that anyone who disagrees with you is not a person of faith?" Rabbi Yoffie did not break new Houston ground in stating the fundamen- he Reform movement took tal social positions of the URJ steps during its biennial that are in conflict with the reli- convention here to estab- gious right. But he reinforced lish it...…
…they cloak themselves in religion and forget mercy, it strikes us as blasphemy." • Family values. For Reform Jews, Rabbi Yoffie said, that term includes teaching science without a religious tilt, ensuring health care for everyone, allowing the terminally ill to make their own decisions about dying, and researching embryonic stem cells rather than protecting "a frozen embryo in a fertility clinic." Evangelicals Rabbi Yoffie did not specify ev...…
…I World for Rent 4! - Big Questions At biennial, Conservative Jews look to recapture movement's place in the sun. Sue Fishkoff Jewish Telegraphic Agency Oakland, Calif ow should Conservative Judaism cope with dwin- dling membership, grow- ing intermarriage rates and soci- ety's increasing religious and polit- ical polarity, while remaining true to its base in Halachah, or Jewish law? Those are some of the vexing questions the United Sy...…
…reversal' Rabbi Epstein says he didn't believe two decades ago that the Conservatiire movement "had the resources to both promote in- marriage and keruv" But with intermarriage a reality, he says he has "come to the conclusion that whether we can or can't do both, we must." Rabbi Epstein believes the new approach "goes beyond the idea of keruv as welcoming the intermar- ried;' but without transgressing any key Conservative values. "There are m...…
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