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…Letters Positive Reinforcement After reading Harry Kirsbaum's column "The Party's Over" (Feb. 9, page 8), I must say that he seems like a very negative person or maybe just negative about Detroit. It's sad to see that he couldn't say anything positive about the place he calls home. I find that many Metro Detroiters sometimes take on this very pessimistic attitude about Detroit while visitors can't under- stand why anyone would continu- ally ...…
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…To Life! S, I R T Li A L Love Of Learning Down's syndrome doesn't limit Sam Miller's Jewish studies. Susan Tawil Special to the Jewish News M gybe once in a century is there cause for such joy. On Feb. 19, the Miller family celebrated twice — once for Dora Miller's 100th birthday and later that day when her great-grandson, Sam Miller, made a Sly14111 (completion cere- mony) on Mishnayot Rosh Hashanah. Mishnayot is the 2,000-year- old cod...…
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…FOOD It's Adar! A triangular menu for a Purim lunch. Annabel Cohen Special to the Jewish News remember Purim posters at my reli- gious school while growing up. They read, "Be happy, it's Adar." For us kids, this meant the Purim carnival, homemade cos- tumes and hamantashen. Guess, what — it's Adar! All over town, people are gathering food gifts for friends and (traditionally) the poor. Many people make a dinner-like meal for Purim. While ...…
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…TORAH PORTION SPORTS Rebuilding Year The Torah's Treehouse Bloomfield Unified shows its hockey potential. Shabbat Terumah: Exodus 25:1-27:19; I Kings 5:26-6:13. Steve Stein Special to the Jewish News All three are excited about the Chargers' future. "We'll be better next year when everybody is used to the sys- tem," said Haron. Hertz said, "It helps to see a lot of the kids on your team in school every day." Added Werner, "We're develop...…
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…Metro .Olympic Local skaters do well at Turin games. Keri Guten Cohen Story Development Editor Pho to by Lee Jae -Wo n / Reu te rs L Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto won a silver medal at the Winter Olympics. ocal Jewish figure skaters that participated in the 2006 Olympics in Turin came home win- ners. Ben Agosto, 24, who graduated with honors from Birmingham Groves High School in 2000, earned a sil- ver medal in the ice dancing competiti...…
…1 e Bais Chabad Pre-Purim Celebration! omen and girls in all sorts of festive costumes got into the spirit of Purim early at a Rosh Chodesh Adar pre-Purim party Feb. 27 at Sara Tugman Bais Chabad Torah Center in West Bloomfield. The holiday officially begins at sundown the evening of Monday, March 13. The second annual pre-Purim party was held for members of the Torah Center and of ER.E.E. (Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe). About 30 ...…
…DIGEST Know Anyone 95? The Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit will host its annual brunch to honor those who have reached their 95th birthday. The festivities will be 10:30 a.m. Friday, May 19, at the Jewish Community Center in Oak Park. The family of Bessie Spector, invitation events. The first, at the Jewish Community Center in Ann Arbor, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 8, also features Technion-Israel Institute of Technology alumnus A...…
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…I World NEWS ANALYSIS Election Countdown With Leslie Susser Jewish Telegraphic Agency Kadima still Jerusalem W ith Israeli elections less than a month away, the leaders of the three main parties are under mounting pressure. Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Kadima, well ahead in his bid for re-election, has become the target of vicious campaigns by Labor and Likud. As they continue to trail badly in the polls, there are rumblings ...…
…World Tolerance Obstacle The Museum of Tolerance site in downtown Jerusalem. Wiesenthal Center faces challenges over building museum in Israel. site in the seventh century. In response, the High Court has appointed former Chief Justice Meir Shamgar as a mediator. Shamgar has a month to find a resolution on the topic. Muslims aren't the only ones opposing the project — the build- ing plan is also unpopular among many Israeli Jews. After ye...…
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…Opinion Editorials are posted and archived on JNonline.us . Editorial One-Sided Wrath T he response of Iran's pres- ident, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to the car- toon riots raging across Muslim lands is a look inside the fevered mental state of Islamist extremists. He said that he was sponsor- ing a contest for cartoons about the Holocaust. Since Ahmadinejad already had labeled the Holocaust a myth, one could anticipate what direc- tion these d...…
…OTHER VIE \A S Consider The ORT Difference T he IN Editor's Letter on Feb. 2 ("Israel's Future Dangles," page 5) was the second article in two weeks about education shortfalls in Israel. This letter, like the JTA article of Jan. 5, "Struggling To Make The Grade" (page 35), did not mention the network of 167 ORT schools in Israel and the financial support Women's American ORT and American ORT contributors have provided to ensure high quality...…
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…Arts & Entertainment Not Your Father's Song Recital In her latest project, black-Jewish producer helps break down the glass ceiling between opera and everything else. Willette Klausner: Three Mo Tenors' Jewish mother. Diana Lieberman Special to the Jewish News T hree Mo' Tenors, playing this month at the Fisher Theatre, introduces a half-dozen young, classically trained black performers, singing everything from opera to hip-hop, Broad...…
…Arts & Entertainment Gail Zimmerman Arts Editor Piano Man Born in 1979 in Voronezh, Russia, where he attended one of the country's special music schools for gifted children, pianist Kirill Gerstein is one of today's most promis- ing new pianists. He was the first- prize winner at the 2001 Arthur Rubinstein Piano Competition in Tel Aviv and was chosen Kirill Gerstein to receive a 2002 Gilmore Young Artist Award, an honor given to young pian...…
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…IN L \, E Hollywood's Night Shining a light on Oscar's Jewish nominees. screen time as co-star Heath Soon after, Heart's oldest son, Ledger, who is up for Best Actor. River, began acting, providing the family with a secure financial But Oscar politics are always strange. 78th Annual he footing. A great young actor, Jake's Academy Awards River died in Joaquin's arms mother, airs 8 p.m. Sunday, from a drug overdose in 1993. screen- March ...…
…Arts & Entertainment nN H COVER Hollywood's from page 41 cesses. RACHEL WEISZ Weisz Weisz, 34, is nomi- nated for Best Supporting Actress for The Constant Gardener, a thriller in which she plays a liberal activist mar- ried to a British diplomat. She began acting while studying at prestigious Cambridge University in England. After graduation, she went into the British theater and did some British films. Her commercial breakthrough fil...…
…New Generation The descendant of Nazi yes-men, Marc Rothemund directed Oscar-nominated film about a leader in Germany's resistance. Munich was the first film Kushner (Angels In America), 49, has writ- ten. Suffice it to say that Kushner's Roth very dovish views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict were bound to attract con- troversy, and they did. Some critics saw those views detrimentally influencing his screenplay and oth- ers did not. B...…
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