…A Jewish Renaissance Media Publication DETROIT JEWISH NEWS $1.25 AUGUST 3. 2001/AV 14. 5761 La Difference Kosher Restaurant Closes Volunteers Ready Last Brandeis Book Sale SIffi at the Jewish…
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…Contents A 2001 winner of American Jewish Press Association and Society or Professional Journalists awards AUG. 3. 2001 AV 14. --,7 61 VOL. CXIX. NO. 25 Community This Week 29 The Last Chapter…
… 14 Derby 'Just Ducky' After 40 years, volunteers ready Detroit's last Brandeis book sale. Hadassah event chairman earns national award. 16 fin (the end) Spirituality La Difference fine dining…
… Raskin . . 68 Editor's Notebook . .5 Engagements . . . 42 7 For Openers 23 Insight 5 Letters 86 , Marketplace 40 New Arrivals 110 Obituaries .56 Out & About 73 Sports 11 Staff Notebook 49 Synagogues 80 The…
… Scene 53 Torah Portion 43 Weddings Candlelighting Friday, Aug. 3, 8:33 p.m. COVER STORY Page 73 Game Time! 170 Detroit-area teens are ready for a week of athletic competition and Jewish camaraderie…
…. On the cover: Detroit JCC Maccabi team flagbearers Dan Mickelson, Steve Pappas, Mike Disner and Allan Wertheimer. Other flagbearers are Cary Sternberg, Kog West, Scott Weintrob, Elise Lada and Bryan…
… kosher restaurant closes. 46 Something Old Is New Again Eilu v' Eilu Beit Midrash study series slated. 20 Making It Worse Arafat plays religion card in effort to drum up Arab support. . Arts…
… solidarity and support from the American Jewish dias- pora instead of the brickbats and unbri- dled criticism to be found in the open- forum sections of the Jewish News. Political punditry is an important…
…- disabled peers ✓ Comprehensive supports to help children with special needs successfully attend religious schools Thanks to The Jewish Fund and Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit for their support…
… Chanukah 1998. La Difference opened near the SKLAR busy West Bloomfield intersection of 14 Mile and Orchard Lake Editor Road. On opening night, the New York native confided that, at 51, the restaurant was…
… Detroit Jewry has seen many kosher restaurants over the years; lack of sufficient rev- enue to keep a kosher kitchen doomed many. Still, many casual and carryout kosher restaurants are giving it their all…
… have sparred with the Vaad Harabonim (the Southfield-based Council of Orthodox Rabbis of Greater Detroit) over kosher certification and costs. But Kohn had a good relationship with the Vaad; 3'/2 months…
… said glumly on July 26. "But it has cost me an enormous amount of money and there's no likelihood that I can carry it any further. I'm putting the 'We're Closed' sign out tonight." So ended Kohn…
…'s fragile, 2 1 /2-year experiment to operate a high-class kosher restau- rant that would appeal to nonkosher and non-Jewish diners, too. Sweat equity and community support aside, he simply didn't have enough…
… diners. "I can't believe how much it hurts — how it has affected me on an emotional and personal level," said Kohn, 53. "We gave 100 percent effort." The cozy restaurant was like a newborn baby for the…
… his pride and joy. Throughout its run, his signature smile often lit up the dining room. Kohn didn't need to make a living from the restaurant; his main business is Quality Kosher Catering, based at…
… today. In a creative approach, fellow caterers Jeffrey Rosenberg and Alan Linker have hosted weeknight kosher dinners, open to all, in the synagogues they serve. Over the years, some kosher businesses…
… SUBSCRIPTION TO DETROIT JEWISH NEWS JN (246) 354-6620 According to Hank Greenberg: The Story of My Life, written with Ira Berkow, it was not a 1934 World Series game that Hank Greenberg skipped in order to…
… Orthodox Rabbis of Greater Detroit] in this area has had sweeping control over kashrut stan- dards in the Jewish community. It is time for the Conservative reli- gious leaders to stand up and give their…
… attend Yom Kippur services at Congregation Shaarey Zedek ("Hank Greenberg: Detroit's Hero," July 27, page 32), but a regular season game on Yom Kippur, Sept. 18; the pennant race was still going on. (But…
… he had played, with some regret, on Rosh Hashanah, nine days before.) It wasn't until 31 years later that a Jewish ball player, pitcher Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers, skipped a World Series…
…LETTERS LETTERS from page 5 Where Is The Rabbinic Support? Kol hakavod [all the honor]to Conservative Rabbi David Nelson for having the guts to take it upon him- self to become the mashgiach for…
… Dexter-Davison Meats ("Supervised!" July 20, page 28). But where are other Conservative and Reform rabbis, who should be giving Rabbi Nelson their backing? For too long, the Vaad Harabonim [Council of…
… game because of Yom Kippur, the opening game of the 1965 World Series. The Dodgers lost that game to Minnesota and, I think, the Tigers lost the 1934 game that Greenberg skipped. Edgar Guest wrote a poem…
… in honor of Greenberg's act, the last two lines of which read: "We shall miss him on the infield and shall . miss him at the bat, But he's true to and I honor him for his religion that!" Leon H…
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…. Synagogue leadership will begin the process of searching for a new rabbi soon. ❑ — Shelli Liebman Dorfman "She helped me to build up this place," Ayoub says. "I wanted CO give her a special parry." Customers…
… Beirut, too, but is Jewish, he says. Bazzi and Ayoub are Muslim. "It was a nice event with the whole community. Total diversity." "I thank everyone who came," says Ayoub. ❑ — Sharon Luckerman Eilu Eilu…
…. Project director Nancy Kaplan says the idea emerged during a discussion with Eilu v' Eilu instructors. Speaking with community educator Michael Weiss and Rabbi Lee Buckman, head of school at the Jewish…
… Academy of Metropolitan Detroit, Kaplan says they discussed "how great it would be if we could attract JAMD parents and stu- dents to come and learn together." She adds, "A no-charge policy for the high…
…-schoolers seemed a fruitful approach." Later, while composing an announcement of classes for the Hillel of Metro Detroit summer newsletter, she "decid- ed to make them an offer, too," reducing the cost of classes to…
… continued Jewish learning, Eilu Eilu will continue the tuition discount — with no cut-off date con- templated at this point. For information on Eilu v' Eilu, call (248) 593-3490 or e-mail learn…
… Rabbinic Studies at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles, Rabbi Jay Strear is returning to the college. A rabbi at Adat Shalom Synagogue since last summer, Rabbi Strear will begin his post as U…
…-J director of development Aug. 15. Rabbi Strear, who also received a master's of business administration in non-profit management from U-J, will work in the department where he met his wife, Beth Solush Strear…
… StaffWriter vention in Israel this year. plastic ducks on Masada. They became fast friends and "When in Israel, we like to Simko decided to try the project in Detroit. ressed in pastel bib overalls, with…
…, however, symbolize Hadassah has a lot to crow Hills. the new blood in the organization. about as the second-largest "I jumped in before understanding the enormity of the Last year, in between managing her…
… visit HADASSAH on page 19 Detroit's Ducky Derby, a Hadassah-sponsored event that Hadassah hospitals (on Mt. attracted 750 people to Kensington MetroPark. Scopus and EM Karem) that treat The event raised…
… $10,000 for pediatric oncology the Arab and the Jewish COIT111111- research in this country and at Hadassah's hos- nines. pitals in Jerusalem. The members also will visit the Next week, Hadassah will…
… Elaine Sturman, president of the will greet the Hadassah members. Greater Detroit Chapter of Hadassah. "There But first on their agenda, are many nominations from around the country Hadassah will hold a…
… plan to do choice. their "Legacy for Life Walk" for Though the derby is not an original idea, awareness of organ and tissue Jarnicki says, Simko made it work for Detroit donation. The walk down Jaffe by…
… last minute if the community and recruited more than 25 it's safe or not." new members. The convention ends with a This year, the Ducky Derby will take place light and fireworks display at the Aug. 26 at…
… convention is supporting Israel," the race, families come to watch a big truck says Randi Simko, one of Detroit's dump all the plastic fowl into the lake. Those seven delegates and winner of whose ducks are…
… national award for Detroit's Ducky Derby, represents a new wave of younger membership. D . • ... …
…Derby 'Just Ducky' Hadassah In Jerusalem AL H er two years of planning, adassah is not backing out of holding its 87th convention in Jerusalem. More than 550 dele- gates from the United States and…
… the past nine years, since Rabbi Joseph Krupnik joined the Southfield-based Vaad Harabonim (Council of Orthodox Rabbis of Greater Detroit) as kashrut director. Of the six kosher restaurants in a…
…-down restaurant. The others are cafeteria-style restaurants or businesses with limited seating that focus on take- out orders. La Difference was the first fine dining kosher restaurant in the Detroit area in many…
… is an area that does not see significant vol- ume anywhere," Kohn says. "We are working on developing and researching new menus within the concept of fair-priced dairy catering," says executive chef…
… parties will continue until a new ten- ant for the restaurant can be found. The restaurant's liquor license also is for sale. Chuck Ehrenreich, who owns the family-style, family-run Taste of Class kosher…
… north of 14 Mile) to pricey menu. They attribute the short life of many of Detroit's other kosher restaurants to everything from lack of Kosher Dining • ALL-IC Dairy, vegetarian. Carryout with limited…
… 12. 26025 Greenfield Road, Southfield. (248) 552-0088 • SOUP BOWL DELI Meat, vegetarian items. Cafeteria-style with seating. Inside the Oak Park Jewish Community Center, 15110 W. 10 Mile Road, Oak Park…
…(TEE END) La Difference fine dining kosher restaurant closes. SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFIvIAN Staff 'Writer lir hile some may look at the July 26 closing of La Difference as a confirma- tion that…
… Detroit Jewry remains unable to sustain its kosher restau- rants, owner Paul Kohn says it should instead be looked upon as a stepping stone toward future endeavors — by others. Kohn sees his 2 1/2-year…
… struggle trying to sustain the West Bloomfield fine dining facility as paving "the road for a successful kosher restaurant in the area." More than a dozen carryout and sit-down restau- rants have opened over…
… metropolitan region of 96,000 Jews, ranging from the 3-month- old In-line Grill in West Bloomfield to the 8-year-old Unique Kosher Carryout in Oak Park, only one — Taste of Class in Oak Park — is primarily a sit…
… between different segments of the Jewish community as well as a fre- quent stop for non-Jewish clientele. With no remorse, he says he is also comfortable in the resignation that it is "time to move in a new…
…tourists (who are a source of success for kosher restaurants in other cities) to not being used to having them. "We have been limited for so long, it's not the norm for people to expect to ear out…
…," Rabbi Krupnik says. The only places that seem to be doing a nice turnover on a daily basis to be profitable are Jerusalem Pizza and Unique [Kosher Carryout]." In Sweden it's not polite to brag. But we…
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…, supply patrons with "great kosher food and great service." Proud of the four-star rating award- ed by general restaurant reviewers, who scored him without the kosher tag, he saw La Difference as a bridge…
… direction. Ifs time for someone else to step up, he says, adding that he'll gladly advise others of the pitfalls to avoid. "I am will- ing to make my experience in the restau- rant business available to…
… anybody" "We, as restaurant owners, are, in part, a community service," Ehrenreich says of those seeking a place for a fami- ly gathering, a lunch meeting or to take a break from cooking. "The greatest…
… message we can send is to ask the community to support what you have left," says Ehrenreich, whose restaurant has been packed for lunch and dinner since the closing of La Difference. "Our restaurants also…
… need extra business. We need the showers, sheva brochus, Kiddushes inside the restau- rant or outside. We need professionals and people working in offices to call us for carryout — Jews and non-Jews," he…
… for diabetes. Simko persisted and secured spon- MetroParent Magazine, radio sors station WJR, WXYZ Channel 7, the Observer Eccentric Newspapers and the Jewish News. When asked why the Ducky Derby…
…HADASSAH from page 14 Simko credits past presidents of the Greater Detroit Chapter of Hadassah, such as Beverly Apel of West Bloomfield and Hilary Isakow of Bloomfield Hills, and current presi…
… succeeded so well in Detroit, the easygo- ing Simko replies, "People are looking for things to do as a family It brings people out to have fun and to help people." The derby was also the first Hadassah event…
… open to the commu- nity, not just Hadassah members. "It's not only for Jewish people," she says, and notes that you don't have to be Jewish to join Hadassah. " 2001 Deville Highlight Sedan AUDETTE…
… helped her succeed," says Sturman. "She's unbelievably persist- ent and diligent. She never gives up." The most difficult obstacle was find- ing sponsorship for the derby, Simko says. "People don't want to…
… give money to Israel," she says. "Especially national businesses. It's a very political thing." But Hadassah does research "that effects everybody," she says, such as recently developing the insulin pill…
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… important to her. While her family belongs to Temple Israel, a Reform synagogue, they also share Shabbat dinners at The Shul with Orthodox Rabbi Kasriel and Joy Shemtov. Simko wants her children to be…
… comfortable with all streams of Judaism and to learn tolerance, she says. "I've never followed what other peo- ple have done," she adds. The kind of person just right for Hadassah, sug- gest its leaders…
…, _ several stoning, shootings and bomb placements have occurred on roads in the West Bank. — Allan Gale, Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit rorism. Israeli security officials denied involvement…
…, please log on to www.detroitjewishnews.com . Detroit Joins National Rally A public rally to express solidarity with Israel and its people is planned in New York next month by United Jewish Communities…
…, the umbrella organization for Jewish federations around the country. The Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit expects to have a delegation of top leaders attend this nationally organized event for…
… the Jewish community. The rally begins at 1 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 23, on Second Avenue at 47th Street in Manhattan. The Federation leaders will attend the UJC board meeting the following day. Federation…
… leaders encourage Detroiters to make plans to travel to New York to be part of this national expression of unity with Israel. For information, call Federation's Israel and Overseas Department, (248) 203…
…-1456. Feeling The Outcast War crimes, racism, arrests? Israel feels the diplomatic heat. JESSICA STEINBERG Jewish Telegraphic Agency Jerusalem VIT ith Prime Minister Ariel Sharon facing a potential war…
…- al standing following the signing of the Oslo peace accord with the PLO in 1993, the Jewish state finds itself on the diplomatic defensive once again as the peace process unravels. In addition to the…
…walls, and their stone was removed immediately after the ceremony. Despite that, Palestinian officials and Israeli Arab lawmakers warned in the days leading up to Tisha b'Av that the ceremony indeed…
… would take place on the Temple Mount and was part of an Israeli attempt to assert control over the sacred complex. They called on Muslims to protect the mount with their bodies. These warnings prompted…
… angry crowds of Palestinians to throng into Jerusalem on Sunday, pelting Jews praying at the Western Wall Plaza below with rocks. Given the number of people involved and the hot tempers, observers said it…
…Insight , Remember When • • • . • nYing High From the pages of the Jewish News for this week 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. Handlemans host reception benefiting new National Air and Space…
… Museum center. ALAN ABRAMS Special to the Jewish News 1991 An American bodybuilding maga- zine named Israel's prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir man of the year. Plans to open a supermarket near the site of…
… he is currently president of the Friends of the Detroit Public Library. ❑ Twenty Jews were arrested in Kiev and Wilna when they tried to com- memorated Tisha b'Av by visiting Jewish mass graves…
… Syria banned import of all American Kaiser-Frazer cars as part of the blockade against Israel. Detroit's Yetz-Cohen Post of the Jewish War Veterans sponsored a mobile TB unit for free chest X…
… plans for the muse- um's new Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. The site they chose for the July 25 event was the Oxford Township "Sky Ranch" of author Philip Handleman and his wife Mary. The Sky Ranch long has…
…. Shlomo Glickstein, Israel's top ranked tennis player, won the Mutual Benefit Life Open in New Jersey. 1971 Ret. Marine Corps Gen. John Dailey, a Vietnam War combat pilot; Dollie Cole, vice chair of the…
…. Former Detroiter Dr. Joseph H. Levin was named director of Minneapolis-Honeywell's Programming Systems Division. Anne X. Alpern became the first woman appointee to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. 1951…
…-rays. Children of Detroit's United Hebrew School presented a play in Hebrew honoring the late Fred Butzel. — Compiled by Sy Manello, editorial assistant …
… the Ravensbruck concentration camp in Germany have been scrapped. 4,10, 01?' T op brass of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum flew into Oakland County last month to announce…
… been a mecca for the high number of aviation enthusiasts in the area and is home to one of the world's leading private aviation art and litera- ture collections. Handleman, of Birmingham, is the author…
… intifada (Palestinian uprising), the Jewish News is proud to again be a sponsor of a Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit-organized adult unity mission to Israel. Dates of this second mission of 5761…
… operation and incomprehensibly parroted in a front-page New York Times article July 26, would be ludicrous if it weren't so damnably dan- gerous. To the extent that this view is allowed to be part of the…
… longer-range peace can be established and maintained. At the core of the new view is the notion that Israel, personified by then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and America, in the person of then-President Bill…
… Jewish settlers, and sending suicide bombers to Israeli cities. The alternative to a failed negotiation can be another negotiation or continuing a relatively sta- ble status quo or it can be violence. We…
… so N6uu AND DIFFWEITT? As NO F6A L. LEFT WIMG AND NO REA L RIGHT WitvG• Make It Your Mission ould the Jewish people survive without a homeland in Eretz Yisrael, the land of Israel? Although the…
…0 Anion Editorials are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.com Dangerous Revisionism ur hen the Camp David talks collapsed a year ago, after Palestinian Authority leader…
… Yasser Arafat rejected an excep- tionally sweeping offer from Israel, it was clear who had wanted peace and who had not. When the latest Palestinian intifada was launched 10 months ago against Israel, it…
… was clear who had chosen violence and who was attacking whom. But a revisionist view may be gaining force in this country and in Europe. In this view, Arafat deserves credit as a peace seeker; the…
… evidence is that he allowed talks — ultimately fruitless — to go on at the Red Sea resort of Taba in February, five months into the violence. And Israel and the United States are faulted for being insuf…
…- ficiently flexible and underprepared for substantive talks that the Palestinians allegedly wanted. This revisionist view, which has been assiduously promoted by a newly effective Palestinian public relations…
… two summers at the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation, boasting Community Council of Metropolitan 100 affiliates); a group of like-minded Detroit. He is now active in the rabbis; and, marking the new…
…OTHER VIEWS In The Presence Of A Giant was ordained 70 years ago from the Washington, D. C. Jewish Theological Seminary of ive weeks ago, we buried America, where he studied with an era…
… in Bethesda, Md. Ira's last public speech for their deletion of references to the was this past April, at our new sanctu- Jews as the chosen people, as well as ary's dedication; his funeral, three…
… Reconstructionist thought: centrality daunting to lead services with Ira of community, the proud dual around, I learned greatly from his embrace of Jewishness and respectful feedback. Studying sacred Americanism…
…, inclusivity and equality, texts with him, or hearing tales of the and being simultaneously progressive Jewish world generations ago, I was in and traditional, among others. the presence of a giant. Along with…
…'s reluctant bless- Fred Scherlinder Dobb, a former ing, Ira founded the institutions of the Michigan State Temple Youth member, Reconstructionist movement: a syna- gogue association (now the Jewish worked for…
… move- Washington Jewish community as a ment's full emergence, the rabbi at Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Reconstructionist Rabbinical College Congregation in Bethesda and as a in Philadelphia in 1968…
…. leader in Jewish-environmentalism. His During my own years at RRC, Ira e-mail address is rabbifred@aol.com " The Great 'Occupied Territory' Hoax In reality, there are two definitions Ramat Gan, Israel…
… the STEINBERG From the times of Joshua, ancestors of the Palestinian Special following the Exodus from Arabs have a state in any of Commentary Egypt, only the Jewish peo- this land. T O.J 8/3 2001…
…-establish the "Jewish National Home" in this land. The initial area of the Mandate was divided in the 1920s, when Transjordan was given to the Hashemites. The remaining land was left for division between Jews and…
…, "then they get into Israel and Zionism." To The Rescue? David Gad-Harf, executive director of the Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit, has met with the members of Brandeis Women's group to…
… through- out the year. "The reason we expressed interest is because we are more and more involved in education issues and proj- ects. The book sale would be a very good fit for the Council's Detroit Jewish…
…. Certain cate- gories, such as cookbooks, have always been popular. And new cate- gories have been added over the years, like African American and Women's Studies, along with travel, health and fitness…
…. Harriet Shogan of West Bloomfield, book sale co-chairman, remembers her first experience at the book sale putting books in the hands of people who couldn't afford new books. "That hooked me," she says…
…ANNOUNCING BLOOMFIELD AVENUE SHOPPES II The Giants "Organizations told me that the gener- ation now in their 80s and 90s, those women were giants," Sales says. "They built the organizations like…
… Hadassah and ORT. They were the professional volunteers, totally devoted to their organizations. "We don't see a lot of giants today," she says, but adds that not all organiza- tions today are floundering…
… for lack of volunteers. "One possibility for some organiza- tions' success is simply having one good local organizer who makes an organization work." She refers to the example of Young Judaea (a Zionist…
… have to be relevant to people's lives and they may have to reinvent themselves to do that." Sales refers to Hadassah, the largest women's organization in the country, as an example. In the past few years…
…, it has shifted its emphasis from Zionism to a more immediate domestic agenda that includes women and health issues. "Hadassah gets women to join and get involved around the domestic agenda," Sales says…
… talk about the possibility of taking over all or part of the book sale. "It's not a slam dunk yet," says Gad- Harf. "It's a gigantic undertaking." But he says his board members will "participate and…
…If you haven't seen Miss Barbara's lately. . . you haven't seen Miss Barbara's! Greenberg Award Guests Feted Women who are previous winners of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit…
…, • Hot new choreography • Learn to dance in a warm 6- nurturing environment • All ages - All stages • Recreation or competition • We have it all! of governors meeting of the Jewish Federation and United…
… Jewish Foundation of Metropolitan Detroit. Register by phone or at one of our two great locations! Elizabeth Kanter Groskind, is the 2001 Sylvia Simon Greenberg Award recip- ient. She is shown with Tenny…
… earned the Detroit Medical Center's highest level of recognition. Dr. Arthur Porter, president and chief executive officer of the DMC, presented Mark Schlussel, board chairman of the Jewish Fund, with the…
… recognize leader- ship potential and service to the Jewish community on the part of a young woman. Guests at the luncheon included Tenny Greenberg and Julie Greenberg Hazan, daughter-in-law and granddaughter…
… Greenberg award: who had called with the news, their accept- ance speeches and other details. The 36th annual Greenberg NUSS BARBARA'S C A tt‘c- E N T R E JAN i 1A1) . FIR 1101) . BAIIII . 1901…
… Greenberg Award are Beverly Liss (1987), Sharon Hart (1983) and Carolyn Greenberg (1966), DMC Honors Jewish Fund The Jewish Fund, which helps vulnera- ble people improve their health and lot in life, has…
… 2001 Distinguished Benefactor Award at the Woodward Legacy Club's fourth annual donor recognition reception. Porter thanked the Jewish Fund for finding 61 clinical and research programs at the DMC since…
… 1998. Jewish Fund support totaled $4.6 million in grants. The reception honors friends of the DMC who have demonstrated an ulti- mate commitment to philanthropy by including a gift to the DMC member…
… institution in their estate plans. In 1999, the DMC created the Distinguished Benefactor Award to acknowledge the importance of philan- thropy in its overall growth and develop- ment. The Jewish Fund was…
… HERITAGE Let us lend a hand Triathlon for Hope, originally scheduled for Sunday, Aug. 5, has been postponed. Hosted by the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit, the event will raise money for…
… expert staff addresses the unique physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the people who seek our care. What is exceptional about the Jewish Hospice Program? This is a special program that ensures…
… 21211 Haggerty Rd. North of 8 Mile Rd. Next to the Novi Hilton 800.914-3524 248.619-0264 888.437-8243 Robin Lash has been named to chair the annual Night on the Town Event spon- sored by Jewish Women…
… International of Metro Detroit along with co-chairs Ruthe Goldstein and Barbara Coden. The event, set for Wednesday, Sept. 5, at Congregation Shaarey Zedek, is open to the community and offers boutique shopping…
… breast cancer research and treatment at the City of Hope National Medical Center and Beckman Research Institute, when it is rescheduled. For information on the new date, call Marni Stone, (248) 432-5427 or…
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…_ri.j!* olsi ra tilasti 0rImallePa.5 14(),1 %riff -942-1w4/ At the recent biennial convention of the Federation of Jewish Men's Clubs (FJMC) in Toronto, Dr. Harvey Nussbaum of West Bloomfield received a…
… Mdasim Tovim (Doer of Good deeds) award for his service to FJMC, the Great Lakes region, his men's club and the Jewish corn- munity. Nussbaum is a past president of the Great Lakes Region of FJMC Dr…
… from the Detroit area were David Goldis of Adat Shalom and current presi- dent of the Great Lakes Region; Harold Baker of Adat Shalom; Richard Racusin of Beth Shalom; Kerry Greenhut of B'nai Moshe…
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…. Nussbaum and the Adat Shalom Men's Club. He served as international vice president and member of the FJMC's executive committee. He led the FJMC's Yom HaShoah Yellow Candle Program. Attending the convention…
…; Michael Balkin, member of the FJMC Executive Committee; and Steven Korn of Shaarey Zedek. Galilee Women Install Board Temple Israel's Adult Education Presents The award - winning film, never released in…
… a nanny, Chaja's experiences are intertwined with the obsession of her father in his search for two suitcases filled with family treasures he buried in a garden before being transported by the Germans…
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… Aug. 22 at the West Bloomfield Jewish Community Center, is titled "Elul, a Time to Prepare." The series, co-sponsored by the JCC and the Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit (JAMD), will use the month…
… school at the JAMD; and Rabbi Lauren Eichler Berkun, the Detroit- based Midwest rabbinic fellow for the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Having led a beit midrash-type exer- cise for a crowd of more…
… searching for new ways to entice adult learn- ers, Nancy Kaplan, program director of Eilu v' Eilu, the Conservative movement's local adult Jewish learning network, continuously looks to the community and its…
…Community Spirituality Rabbi Lauren Eichler Berkun Eilu Eilu offers Beit Midrash study series. SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN New Class For New Year Staff Writer The first four-week session, beginning…
… than 500 at the kick-off event of Seminars for Adult Jewish Enrichment (SAJE) in February, Rabbi Greenwald is familiar with the program. "There is nothing more exciting in the world of Jewish education…
… learning relationships with the rabbis." For most participants, the class will be the site of a first introduction to Rabbi Berkun, arriving in Detroit in July with her husband Rabbi Jonathan A lways…
… some time." In addition to being offered as part of adult learning programs in Conservative synagogues, the beit midrash format has been included in the Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit's eighth…
…." Other, non-Conservative groups who implement variations on beit midrash-style learning include Aish HaTorah of Metro Detroit in Birmingham, the Kollel Institute in Oak Park and the Southfield…
… carry on with Jewish study on a regular basis." Rabbi Greenwald sees beit midrash study as being "about returning Torah learning to its rightful place; in the hands of every Jew." He says, "I'm always…
… were made for this kind of interaction with their tradition." ❑ Elul Beit Midrash will take place 7-9 p.m. Wednesdays Aug. 22 and 29, Sept. 5 and 12 at the West Bloomfield Jewish Community Center. Cost…
… Conservative movement and a recip- ient of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit's Max M. Fisher Jewish Community Foundation, will offer "Elul-a Time to Prepare," its annual set of classes on themes…
… relating to the Days of Awe, geared to adult and teen learn- ers. "Beit Midrash for the Days of Awe" is a four-part Wednesday night series co-spon- sored by the Jewish Academy of Metro Detroit and the Jewish…
… engaging learners in a communal heshbon ha-nefesh (self-evaluation and assessment), with the goal of creating a more caring community in New Year 5762 and beyond. The fourth and final session in the series…
… of a young man with autism. Each session in the series can be attended independently. Tuition is $10 per session or $36 for the series, with no charge for Jewish educators, Jewish communal agency…
… perceive the truth according to what is accept- Jewish News and beauty of the Torah, able to God because God but the vast majority of wants only the truth and He Jews do not appreciate the divinity hates…
… before you today." `Analyze the matter The Torah tells us that with your reason and it will even the non-Jewish nations be clear to you what is said will appreciate the wisdom allegorically, figuratively…
… society The Jewish people, in general, within the context of true intellectu- and even those who consider them- al advancement and a striving for selves Torah-observant, all too often the truth. "pick and…
… actually "add-ons" accumulated over the generations, that have no source in the authentic halachic (Jewish Law) process. Why do so many people observe And even those who observe the rituals but not the…
…Introducing... Torah Portion Authentic Judaism Follows Torah, Pursues Truth In A Just Society admired by even the non-Jews as righteous, wise and divine. Likewise, the "wisdom" and "understanding…
…" referred to in these Torah verses have all too often been obscured by superstition and an anti-rationalism and anti-intellectu- alism that only the thoroughly indoctrinated would consider wis- dom and…
… understanding. his week's portion contains We must heed the Rambam the following verse (Maimonides 1135-1204) when he (Deuteronomy 4:8): writes (Guide for the Perplexed 11-25): "And who is as great as "It is…
… or and righteousness of the in exaggeration and what is Torah and thus realize its literal, exactly according to divinity. The reality, it the original meaning of the seems, though, is far from words…
…. And then all the fulfillment of this RABBI ELIEZER prophetic verses will be clear prophecy. COHEN to you, and you will achieve Not only do the non- and retain a rational faith Special to the Jews not…
… falsehood. and splendor of our Torah. "And then your views and Why nor? thoughts will not be so confused as It seems that the Torah itself gives to believe opinions that are not true the answer just six…
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…out Best Bets Flatpickin' fiddler Doc Watson and the Hot Kugel Klezmer Band are among the CLASSICAL NOTES Guest conductor Peter Oundjian leads the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in "Best of Baroque…
… tra- ditional brass instruments in a variety of musical styles, offers a concert in Oak Park's Charlotte Rothstein Park 7 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 5. Free. (248) 691-7555. Jeff Tyzik leads the Detroit Symphony…
…. 9, $32.50458. (248) 645-6666. Legendary storyteller/folksinger Ramblin' Jack Elliott takes the stage 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 9, at Ann Arbor's The Ark. Elliot', who is Jewish, "ram- bled" around the…
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… Productions unveils The Butterfly Flick, a Ann Arbor's Washington Street Galley hosts Barry two-act love story by Detroit author William Boyers Avedon: Paintings and Drawing through Sept. 15. 8 p.m. Fridays and…
… Saturdays and 4 p.m. Sundays Opening reception: 7-9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 3. through Aug. 12 at Detroit's Zeitgeist Theatre. The (734) 761-2287. comic drama revolves around the troubled romance Pontiac's Habatat…
…, Aug. 4- The Ark on Thursday. additional matinees 3 p.m. 5. Free. (248) 347-3830. Wednesdays, Aug. 15 and 29. $22.50-$32.50. (734) 433-7673. WHATNOT LAUGH LINES Second-City-Detroit's 21st revue, Mayor…
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…," with DSO concert- master Emmanuelle Boisvert as soloist in Vivaldi's "Spring" from The Four Seasons, 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 3, at Meadow Brook Music Festival in Rochester. At 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 4, also…
… in a way that expresses individuality yoterdals clothing was a means for their, fbrebears to fit in with the larger ,.rnerican culture. SUZANNE CHESSLFR Special to the Jewish News r ash Bash, the…
… annual glare-style show joined with parties galore to benefit the Detroit Institute of Arts, this year features commentary by actress Brooke Shields, blown-up Vanity Fair pages as backdrops and musi- cal…
… productions by rock performers Nine Days and folk singer-songwriter Don McLean. The event, titled "Hollywood Glamour," also can be looked at on a deeper level — representing Jewish attitudes toward clothing…
…, but people can have fun with it, too," says Joselit, a visit- ing professor of American studies at Princeton University and also author of The Wonders of America: Reinventina- Jewish Culture 1880…
…-1950. "I think that one goes s hand-in-hand with the other." Joselit, who has lectured twice in Michigan, defines today's mainstream Jewish dress as a way to express individuality; and yesterday's (1880s…
…-1930s) mainstream Jewish dress as a way for immigrants to express that they were in lockstep with the larger American culture. "We now put something on to make ourselves feel good," says Joselit…
…Brooke Shields provides commentary for this year's Fash Bash. Fash Bash, this year featuring Brooke, ads and a "Hollywooarlamour theme, reminds us that while Jewish women today are fire to dress…
… — as described by Jenna Weissman Joselit, cultural historian and author of A Perfect Fit: Clothes, Character, and the Promise of America (Metropolitan Books; $26). When models parade along the Fox…
… Theatre run- way Aug. 10, they will be wearing outfits by Jewish designer Calvin Klein as well as other top-drawer trend-setters, including Versace, Nicole Fahri, Carolina Herrera, Armani and Badgley…
… Mischka. In Joselit's terms, they will be showcasing the duality of the fun of fashion and the social consciousness that dress implies. Launched by the DIA Founders Junior Council in 1969, Fash Bash is a…
…publisher's letter I t has now been 18 months since I came to the Jewish News as the pub- lisher of Style magazine, and what a thrill it has been! Currently we publish Style magazine five times a…
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…- - E 8/3 2001 84 A va l tftwo e m Don Cohen is a West Bloomfield-based freelance writer-. ration with Santana on the smash hit "Smooth") on vocals, Brian Yale — the band's other Jewish member — on…
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… puppeteering to please his Jewish father, Isidore, an avid amateur pup- peteer; then Muppet master Jim , Henson discovered him, and the come- dies kept coming. But after directing Bowfinger in 1999, Oz told…
… like the princess living the fairy tale," says Gina Wendkos, screenwriter of the Disney film The Princess Diaries, which opens today in Detroit. Wendkos' second produced screen- play, based on Meg Cabot…
…," confides the former painter, playwright and performance artist. "How self-loathing was that?" Enter her knight in shining armor, who proved to be mega-producer and former Detroiter Jerry Bruckheimer. He…
… needed a screenwriter to adapt an article written by a female bar- tender at the rowdy New York club Coyote Ugly. He figured Wendkos was perfect because in her 20s she'd worked every kind of bar job except…
… clothes are in shreds now, but there's a photo next to him of when he was new. It's a crucial part of my heritage." Oz's first memory is traveling by boat to the United States in the mid- dle of a hurricane…
… bankers; hers eked out a living painting portraits of guests at a luxurious hotel. The other kids got to have a bar or bat mitzvah; Wendkos' Jewish mom suggested she check out the free church services next…
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… and Harold has been assisted for years by Friedman head the Jewish Community Center- daughter Gennifer. sponsored Detroit delegation of 13- to 16-year- The coaches are ,,plunteers, and old participants…
… "athleticism comes second to the Jewish expe- of the Detroit delegation, enjoyed the mitzvah rience" in Maccabi. it took me a long time to experience. "I learned that it's always fun to figure that out. - 'For a…
…Living Well Cover Story/Sports Old, New Blood Karen Sklar Gordon represents a Maccabi mixture of the old and the new An accomplished basketball and softball player, and now a young mother, Gordon…
… has been involved with Maccabi for some time. She began coaching the Detroit teams in 1986, is secretary of the Detroit Maccabi Club and was one of the organizers for this summer's Detroit Maccabi teams…
…. He has JAMIE ROSEN been involved with the organization since College Intern 1988 and is president of the Detroit Maccabi Club. I is casino night at the Sunrise Assisted Harold Friedman, who like…
… Horowitz got Living Center in West Bloomfield. involved through his youngsters' involve- Besides various card games, residents menu on the Detroit teams, will lead the enjoy the company of the Maccabi in…
…- Detroit delegation in Jersey Shore. line hockey age-14-and-under team and their The dean of Maccabi coaches, both in two coaches. Detroit and nationally, is swim coach Herb The team decided to participate…
… in the Bernstein, who was involved in the first Sunrise festivities for their local mitzvah proj- Maccabi Youth Games in Memphis in 1982. ect, a new edition to the Maccabi Club of In recent years, he…
… Philadelphia this month helped this year by Steve Rosender. for a week of athletics and camaraderie with Other Detroit Maccabi veterans include other Jewish teen-age athletes, each Detroit Right: track coach…
… Joel Kashdan, who began his team and their coaches had to complete a simi- Amanda Ossipove, 15, of West Maccabi tenure in 1985, softball coach Gary lar project. Bloomfield spikes Bistrow of the Jewish…
…NeW in Detroit? If you're a newcomer to the community and are interested in receiving complimentary High Holiday tickets at a local synagogue, please call by September 15: Karen Alpiner, (248) 539…
…'rith Leadership Network drop-in softball at North Farmington High School. Also on Aug. 19. To have your programs listed, contact Kara Weiner at the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, (248) 203-1499, or…
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