WASHTENAW September 2007 Elul 5767/Tishrei 5768 Volume XXXII: Number 1 FREE HDS's Jennifer Rosenberg Apples & Honey celebration at the JCC receives Grinspoon-Steinhardt Halye Aisner, special to the WJN Award for Excellence pples & Honey, an annual fam- Jewish organizations to provide information ily event that celebrates the fall about their purpose and to educate par- in Jewish Education A Jewish holidays, will take place ticipants about the upcoming holidays: By Samantha Leapman and WJN staff writers on Sunday, September 9 from 1–4 p.m. at Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year; ebrew Day School of Ann Arbor the Jewish Community Center of Washt- Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement; gan co-teacher Jennifer Rosenberg enaw County. Chairing the event this year and Sukkot, the fall harvest H is one of 76 exemplary classroom are Pyper Alpern and Viktoriya Strumba. festival. Jewish educators The event is open to everyone and is free A special New- from across North of charge. comers table will America selected to Participants will be able to taste apples welcome new receive the eighth and honey, symbolic of the Jewish New Year JCC members and annual Grinspoon- and children will have the chance to partici- new arrivals to the Steinhardt Awards pate in many activities including bouncers, Ann Arbor commu- for Excellence in games, shofar blowing and arts and crafts. nity. Jewish Education. Clowns will entertain guests with face paint- Reservations are Rosenberg has ing and balloon animals, and a petting zoo required to attend. worked in the field and pony rides will also be part of the fun. For more informa- of education for Israeli food, kosher baked goods, and lunch tion on sponsoring 15 years. She has a Jennifer Rosenberg will be available for purchase along with a table or to register master of arts degree in education from Har- gifts and Judaica items. for Apples & Honey, vard University and a bachelor of science degree This program brings together many local call 971-0990. n in elementary education from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She was formerly a vice-principal of Oakland Hebrew Day School in Oakland, California, and the school’s general Kol Halev in Argentina studies coordinator; prior to that she was a head teacher for first and second grade. She spent a Jonathan Levine and Cantor Annie Rose, special to the WJN year in an intensive Hebrew language program n late June 2007, Kol Halev, the adult choir Unforgettable receptions with members of the and Americans sang “Hine Mah Tov”—one in at an ulpan in Israel. She has also taught at the of Temple Beth Emeth (whose members Jewish communities, wonderful performances song and heart, arms around each other and Akko Center for Co-Existence in Akko, Israel, I also include members of Beth Israel Con- by collaborating choirs, tours of synagogues, swaying as they sang. where she developed a program that facilitated gregation and the Ann Arbor Reconstruction- beautiful services, and a tremendous sense of Each community had its own flavor and discussions between Jewish and Arab students. ist Chavurah), and non-singing travelers began bonding were highlights of the trip. Concerts character, the most unusual being Moises Ville, The Grinspoon-Steinhardt Awards are de- by Kol Halev in two a town of 2,000 people in the Argentine inte- signed to recognize, honor and support out- Jewish day schools were rior, hundreds of kilometers from anywhere. standing Jewish educators in day schools and particularly memorable, This unlikely rural location was the site of what other formal Jewish educational settings on the with hundreds of chil- is best described as the only shtetl in the Ameri- local level. Each Awards winner has made a ca- dren singing and clap- cas. The travelers visited four synagogues (one reer commitment to the field, has contributed ping along throughout working), a Jewish elementary school (working in some outstanding way to his or her school or the shows. in the afternoon for a small group) and a Jewish community, and exemplifies excellence in Jew- The head of the teachers’ seminary (used only sporadically). The ish education. These teachers passionately en- Jewish community in most notable structure is the Kadima Theater, gage children in Jewish learning, convey to them Cordoba addressed Kol built in grand European style, and inscribed a love of Jewish history, Torah, Talmud, Israel Halev and friends after prominently in Yiddish . and/or the Hebrew language. They are from the first concert: “You The history involves a community from diverse backgrounds, representing each of the have come from so far Kamenetz-Podolsk, Ukraine, that sought to es- North American Jewish denominations. away, and we have only cape pogroms and other hardships of the late JESNA (Jewish Education Service of North Kol Halev of Temple Beth Emeth met, yet already we are 19th century by purchasing land and settling America) developed the Grinspoon-Steinhardt family. We are one. We in rural Argentina. In the process, they found Awards in partnership with the two founda- a 12-day concert tour of Argentina, visiting must keep our new community together al- plenty of hardship, disease, and starvation, but tions as a reflection of the deep commitment synagogues, Jewish centers, old-age homes, ways; our children must know each other, must ultimately came under the sponsorship of the Harold Grinspoon and Michael Steinhardt have and other sites of Jewish and Argentinean life. know the love we share and the one-ness of us. Baron Moses Hirsch—hence the name ”Moises for Jewish education and their recognition that The 55-member tour group spent time in six You have brought us something we will trea- Ville“ (pronounced in Argentinean Spanish high caliber educators comprise the basis for a cities and towns, with eight concerts by Kol sure. Please come back to us again.” Then every something like ”moy sess vizheh.”) The com- meaningful Jewish educational process. In the Halev engaging audiences in each community. member of the diverse crowd of Argentines Continued on page 37 Continued on page 37
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------Six Days of War: War: of Days Six n - chaired by Jeffrey and (Oxford, 2002). (Oxford, His newly published Power, Faith, and Power, Fantasy America in Judy & David are the Juno-award-winning Juno-award-winning the are & David Judy The Main Event Celebrate Israel will be a focus of the Main Main ofthe focus a bewill Israel Celebrate The Main Event is scheduled for Decem Allison Allison Stupka will coordinate child care sing along, clap, snap, gesticulate, and dance. gesticulate, snap, clap, sing along, stars of TV’s hit Treehouse series “Judy & most Da the among now are and Box” Boom vid’s entertainers Amer in North popular children’s ica. They launched in February 1993 with the vision of providing hip, fun-filled children’s ac audience’s young a engage could that music tive at involvement every turn. The Canadian, Jewish duo of & David Judy is a celebrated and sought-after live family concert act. They have also become one of the most prolificchildren’s recording acts in North America, with 15 al and credit their to releases video four and bums over five millionrecordings sold around the n world. more informationFor contactor to theregister, JCC at 971-0990. make you hurt from laughing. This event will This event laughing. hurt from you make October the check – October late in place take In News for Jewish more details. Washtenaw event this humor, Jewish celebrating to addition is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate Jewish involvement. and community philanthropy Laurie Barnett and Kim and Steve Saxe. Laurie and Steve Barnett and Kim as Event, the community begins to celebrate independence. ofIsrael’s anniversary 60th the is a speaker, keynote this year’s Oren, Michael a Senior at Jerusa Fellow the Shalom Center, lem research and educational institute. He is of author best-sellingthe the Mid Modern the of Making The and 1967 June dle East book is the Middle East 1776 to Main the Present. The the of lighting community a feature will Event Menorah. Chanukah ber 6, 7:30 p.m. at the newly renovated Mar riott Eagle Crest Conference Center and will include a dessert reception. Tickets for the make to asked are attendees and $36, are event a $100 minimum family contribution to the Campaign. Annual 2008 For more information about Federation pro grams, contact Jeffrey Lazor at jefflazor@jewis or 677-0100. hannarbor.org Iraqi-Jewish Iraqi-Jewish community that settled there centuries ago. Israel will prepare a Judeo-In dinner. for dian feast for the event. Kids will learn about the four species and holiday practices, and explore the ethics ofand customs being a good guest. Their afternoons will include cookie baking Bagel, the Steal soccer, Israeli Cohen, withJen n art and a nature class. decorating sukkah For more information or to register, contact Allison Stupka at 913-9705 or email info@ aarecon.org. The brochure, with directions and more, will also be posted on website at www. aarecon.org ------
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As As a Celebration of Jewish Humor this Event Campaign Maimonides proudly Society Maimonides the year, This Night of Hilarity and Charity Campaign Leadership Kick-Off This Young This Adult Young Division (YAD) pro There There will be several workshops offered and chaired by Larry and Joanne Smith Smith Joanne and Larry by chaired and event will feature comedian Joel Chasnoff. who Joel, has opened for some of the world’s biggest acts, including Jon Stewart of the funnier the on humor his focuses Show, Daily aspects of Jewish life and what it means to be Jewish in America. Heavy appetizers will be minimum suggested $5,000 a is There served. contribution to the Annual Campaign for at tendance at this event being held September at cindy@ Adams Cindy RSVP to 19 at 7 p.m. jewishannarbor.org. Ezra Burstein. and Dr. Riba Michelle Dr. General the Director Yisraeli, Avi Dr. presents for the Ministry of Health of Israel and the former Director General of - Hadassah Hospi tal. This event Celebrating Jewish Health will at the Uni 11 October at 6:30 p.m. place take versity of Michigan Depression All Center. County Washtenaw in dentists and physicians are invited. Heavy appetizers will be served and tours of the Depression Center will be are $18 or Tickets untilavailable $5 6:45 p.m. Officers. House for man and Yehuda Bechar. Bechar. Yehuda man and gram will feature a comedian guaranteed to Ron Ron and Julie Stein Perry and Vais Monica sukkah building, supper, and song. Overnight song. and supper, building, sukkah bunk accommodations will be available for individuals and families. Saturday begins the Yoga Torah morning early with retreat, formal the in Sabbath a worship, for options two and sukkah and a walk-meditation, led by the group. JuBu Havurah's throughout the afternoon, including the ex discus and screening film prayer, of ploration Klezmer live to dancing folk hike, nature sion, concept the on roundtable lively a and music, of “shelter” in contemporary Israel. Local will Israel conduct Chava and cook gardener a workshop on Jewish cooking of Calcutta, including some history and recipes from the ------
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The Judy & David concert features interac The Jewish Federation of Washtenaw This Federation year’s events calendar fea The Ann Arbor Reconstructionist New New this year will be two options for cel Community JCC Sukkot Family Concert Sukkot Family JCC features Judy & David special the WJN to Aisner, Halye The Jewish Family Community Center ofFall Washtenaw a with Sukkot celebrate will County Da & Judy cost by entertainment featuring The Concert p.m. 3 at 30 September Sunday, on vid includes which family, per $30 or person per $8 is and dinner. the concert, activities, Sukkot tive music, with songs both children and par attunedespecially are songs Their love. will ents to what matters to preschoolers, brought off con with and touch, whimsical and light a with tagious melodies and appealing arrangements. The emphasis is solely on the joy of making and polish they do with verve music—which and a kinetic rapport with each other and the Theyaudience. sing, they play (Judy the piano, originalan theyspinput and guitar), the David song first very the From songs. to favorite old them on encouraging audience, the include they Marcy Epstein and Evelyn Neuhaus, special the WJN to Neuhaus, Epstein and Evelyn Marcy Retreating to the sukkah of the world Retreating the sukkah to
Jeffrey Lazor, special the WJN to Lazor, Jeffrey Federation 2008 Annual Campaign: Celebrating Jewish Life Jewish 2008 Annual Campaign: Celebrating Federation tures some of the world’s brightest and most brightest some of tures the world’s someglimpseat a for below See minds. creative of programs that being offered. the exciting
Washtenaw County has adopted the theme of theme the adopted has County Washtenaw Celebrating Jewish Life, which will resonate throughout the year’s campaign and - com munity “The building diverse and events. ac Ann Arbor tive Jewish has Community a lot to celebrate. The breadth and depth of reli gious, cultural, educational and social activi offabric the our to much so add available ties This theme lives. is a natural in that it will al opportuni varied these all showcase to us low said Fisher. the year,” ties throughout County’s 2008 Annual Campaign will fea ture a new campaign structure emphasizing an affinity group-based solicitation process, increased leadership from the Adult Young Division, and more frequent phone-a-thons in order to connect with the entire Washt enaw County Jewish community all with an emphasis on celebrating Jewish life and val “The ues. campaign will raise the resources necessary for activities and programs in our community to Celebrate Jewish Life and to com Jewish other for same the do to us allow munities around the world who are in need” Freed. Dr. remarked U Havurah Havurah will host its seventh annual Sukkot retreat September 28-29, at 25 Camp Talahi, is theme year's This Arbor. Ann from minutes ideathe encompassing World,” the in “Guests guests revered as earth the walking are we that both in blessed and aware hosts, gracious and our transience and stewardship of creation. Guests from other congregations in Ann Ar bor, bor, Lansing, greater Detroit, and northern attend. to invited are Michigan addition the with retreat day-long a ebration: al option for a Friday, For Shabbat overnight. there will be the opportunity for Havurah members to mix more informally in prayer, I ICommunity
Absolute YAD Ellisha Caplan, special to the WJN he Jewish Federation’s Young Adult ish knowledge expected—just an interest in Division kicked off a year of new pro- checking out a new place, meeting some new If you like the new look of the Tgramming for one of their most pop- people, and learning about ways to get more in- Washtenaw Jewish News ular new programs on August 31. Absolute volved”, says Evan Zacks, Absolute YAD Chair. make your next YAD, a monthly bar night that melds social The next Absolute YAD is set for October gatherings with social action began in Octo- 1 at Bar Louie, and will start right after the design project a ber 2006, and quickly became a mainstay for first Power Hour event of the fall, a Young local Jewish singles and couples. The events Adult Division event for future and current take place in a variety of Ann Arbor watering members of the business and professional by Dennis Platte holes, and at each one, there is a chance to community, featuring Gerry Miller, COO of 734.483.9619 sign up for something to benefit the Jewish Eprize.com. [email protected] community, from Purim baskets for Jewish For more information on Absolute YAD, Family Services’ older adults, to Super Sun- call Ellisha Caplan at 677-0100. day slots, to a trip to rebuild New Orleans and filling boxes at Food Gatherers. Absolute YAD Upcoming Dates: For young Jews in Washtenaw County Monday, October 1 at 8 p.m., Bar Louie looking to get involved, Absolute YAD low- Thursday, November 1 at 8 p.m, Vinology ers barriers to involvement that exist in some Monday, December 3 at 8 p.m, Monkey Bar organized Jewish programs. “This is a way to Thursday, February 4 at 8 p.m, Buffalo dip your toe in—no RSVP required, no Jew- Wild Wings YAD Shabbat in the Park set for 9/ 7 Ellisha Caplan, special to the WJN ach summer for the past seven years, the The food is always a little different from your Jewish Federation of Washtenaw Coun- typical Shabbat dinner fare, and this year is no Ety’s Young Adult Division has set aside different. Chef Cari of West Bloomfield is cater- one night for a Shab- bat experience different from the rest. Over 150 people gather at Burns Park, blankets in hand, for a laid back night with Shabbat songs and a ca- tered picnic dinner. The event, which will take place Friday, September 7 at 6 p.m. in Burns Park, is particu- larly aimed at welcoming newcomers to the Ann Arbor area. The host committee for Shabbat in Nearly 150 people attended Shabbat in the Park '06 the Park, which is just as diverse as the local young adult population, will ing an Israeli-style dinner with all the makings make a special effort to invite people who are for shuk-style falafel sandwiches (plus vegetari- either new to Ann Arbor this fall or have never an chicken nuggets for picky eaters). “This event attended a YAD event. “We decided to invite is one of the best we do,” said YAD Co-Chair and first time attendees to come for free this year. Shabbat in the Park organizer Laura Burstein, Sometimes it’s hard to come to an event when “there’s such diversity in YAD, because between you don’t know anyone yet, and we wanted to the ages of 25 and 45 people are in all different add an incentive for people to take a chance and places in life—some of us are still on the dating come out to see what we’re about,” said YAD Co- scene, others are in relationships, and then there Chair and event organizer Stefanie Aronow. are a bunch of young families with children as For Ashley Adox, also one of the event’s or- well. Shabbat in the Park manages to create an ganizers this year, Shabbat in the Park was one atmosphere that’s fun for everyone.” n of her first introductions to the organized Jew- B To find out more about the Jewish Federation’s Young h ' Ann Arbor's only full service a n ish community in Ann Arbor. “My husband Jim v a Adult Division or to RSVP for the event by September z i M fine stationer y store
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A at Gallup Park. The fee of $25 includes lunch day, September 20, from 2:15–4:15 p.m., at the Receive 10% off any and boat ride. Naturalist Cheryl Saam, AACA JCC. The topic for discussion will be “Child and Bar/Bat Mitzvah invitation instructor and facilities supervisor of the Ann Adolescent Development: The Latest Research Pen In Hand Arbor Canoe Liveries, will lead participants on How Kids Grow and Learn,” featuring devel- order when you mention 207 S. Four th Avenue, Ann Arbor through 2.5 miles of still-water and wetlands, opmental psychologist Kate Rosenblum, Ph.D., this adver tisement (734) 662 7276 providing instruction and education along the from the Center for Human Growth and De- way. Reservations are required by September 14 velopment at the University of Michigan. n Washtenaw Jewish News Jewish News Washtenaw 4 Washtenaw Jewish News A September 2007 5 ers 734.274.2072 Nightclubs Sports Sports Entertainment Casinos Restaurants Theatre Theatre • • • • • • For your routine transportation needs, transportation your routine For Cab Features: Ann Arbor Yellow Fleet Largest • Area’s • Skilled, Courteous Driv • Clean, Model Late Cars Airport & Local Service • 2-Way • Deliveries Select Ride can help. uttle • Accessible Transportation uttle Whatever your ground transportation needs, t Sh One call does it all: www.SelectRide.com Shuttle ! Airport Taxi • Limo • Airpor Taxi Night on the Town. . . . Night on the Town. 4 per person Door to Door Service – Safe, Convenient & Fun y $2 For economical Airportshared-ride For our Airport transfers, offers: Shuttle • Low cost with reservations advance service • Hourly door-to-door per year days 360 hours per day, • 18 Available • Onl ------to be held on October 9 from For more information or to register for either either for register to or information more For Another Another emerging issue in the communi Jewish the and JFS question, this address To In addition, Randall Ross of the Com als, lay leaders, and Baby Boomers themselves themselves Boomers Baby and leaders, lay als, n attend. to encouraged are or both of these events, contact or Abbie Lawrence- 769-0209 Services: Family Jewish at Jacobson visit www.jfsannarbor.org. for for Older Adult Services. Jewish profession range of co-sponsors for this event, including including event, this for of co-sponsors range Cen Services, Social Catholic Michigan, AARP ter ter for the Education Institute offor Women, Labor and Industrial Relations at the Univer of Center Community Jewish ofsityMichigan, Learning Lifelong Osher County, Washtenaw Beth Institute, Temple Emeth, Senior Turner U-M Resource Center, School of Social Work, and Community the College Washtenaw En Project. Career core ty the involves aging of the large Baby Boom cohort. Many businesses are re-branding and re-examining their services to meet the needs of the millions of Boomers approaching their ofthose beyond energywithfar and 60s health their But predecessors. what about the Jewish community? How is the Jewish community vol (as now Boomers Baby engage to prepared participants, unteers, and donors) as well as to com the in age they as needs unique their meet ing years? entitled event lunch a planned have Federation Preparing for a Perfect Storm: The Jewish Baby Boomer Summit - Cen Community Jewish the at p.m. a.m.–3 11 Dynamic ter. and nationally-acclaimed key note speaker Mark Goldstein, co-founder of “The entitled talk a will present LLC, Wave Age Americanization of Jewish Baby Are Boomers: Storm?” a Perfect into Heading We munity Foundation of Southeast Michigan are Boomers Baby ways myriad the willshare making a difference in Southeast Michigan. results the present willServices Family Jewish of the JFS Jewish Baby Boomer study con ducted this and summer, the Jewish Federa tion will plan news the about share strategic ------
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Nearly Nearly 70 percent of adults over the age of Given the large number of Washtenaw The presentation will be preceded by din The trip is designed to it make easy for Jewish families to spend a long together weekend JCC ski trip committee chair “ThisBob Sims is says also an opportunity to share a com An An application and a flier withdetails about the trip can befound on the JCCwebsite at R focus JFS events of upcoming special the WJN to Lawrence-Jacobson, Abigail Baby Boomers and career-changers the the career-changers and Boomers Baby enaw enaw County is holding two timely events this fall. “What Are Doing You with the Rest of 2nd Life’s in Work Fulfilling Finding Life?: Your Per a for “Preparing and 24) (September Half” TheBoomer fect Baby Summit” Jewish Storm: high-priority today’s address each 9) (October in our community. issues 50 plan to continue working even during re tirement, according to the American Associa until However, (AARP). Persons Retired of tion to given been has attention little recently, very faltering its later life with desires and needs for fulfilling, paid Michigan, of state the In work. loss ofeconomy, jobs, and aging population, the need for creative work opportunities for of the age 50 is particularly over adults salient. lo- the from layoffs by affected families County cal pharmaceutical and industries,automotive as who adults well as the middle-aged many are preparing for an active and event meaningful a dinner holding be will JFS retirement, Doing with the You Rest Are “What entitled Life?: ofWork Finding Your in Fulfilling Life’s 2nd Half” on September Monday, 24, from 6-8 Community p.m. at College’s Washtenaw Morris Lawrence Building. Keynote speaker Lily Jarman-Reisch, LMSW, M.A, Director of SeaChange, will draw on current research and case examples of laid-off professionals and other older career changers from South east Michigan and Silicon Valley. California’s She will describe the characteristics of those in mid-life who have successfully transitioned receive Participants will work. of fields between to unique the tips challenges for negotiating a bibliography as well as changes, career older resources. useful and other which in forum open an by followed and ner participants can share ideas about the kinds of resources that could be most helpful to those considering career change after age 50. Jew ish Family Services is partnering with a broad JCC plans family ski, snowboard trip plans family ski, snowboard JCC specialBob the WJN Sims, to and Ski Family four-day a planning Countyis ofWashtenaw Center Community Jewish The Snowboard to Trip Boyne Mountain ski resort during spring break. Cross country skiers are also The welcome. trip will include three nights lodging, three full buffet breakfasts, lift dinner, Shabbat non-skiers), for credit (optional days 7-hour two and 12-hour two for tickets optional bus transportation both ways, and a pre-trip pizza The party. dates are Thursday, 2008. 2, March February Sunday, 28 through at willa There Michigan ski resort. be plenty of things grandparents)for non-skiers (e.g., to and do, they can meet each other at the pre-party to plan activities with each There other. too kids for playcare 3–8, kids for class play & ski All-day ofages: kids allwillactivities for be young to ski, and babysitters for the 0–7 months Prices for crowd. kids are JCC reasonable. the trip. on is welcome anyone is not required; membership pletely pletely different enthusiasm with Jewish friends and others we know from around town or will meet. The JCC will have a variety of ways to help trip-goers find each other and hang together.” out JCC the writing or calling, in, stopping by obtained be also can They www.JCCAnnArbor.org. withMI at Anyone 48108, 2935 971-0990. Ann questions Arbor, Birch Hollow Drive, about n the trip him at [email protected]. email can call at 761-9491 or Bob Sims ISeniors
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Mondays Wednesdays 11 a.m.–Noon. Fitness Fun with Maria 10:30 a.m–noon, Class: The Bible in its Farquhar. $4 or 3 sessions for $10. Time with Dr. Lizbeth Fried Liz will con- Noon. Dairy Lunch Buffet. $3. tinue her Emeritus classes through WCC. Classes are held at the JCC, 971-0990. 12:30 p.m. New American Club Thursdays at the JCC ESL Class for Russian Seniors. 10–11 a.m. Fitness Fun with Maria Far- Monday, September 10 quhar. $4 or 3 sessions for $10. Rosh Hashanah celebrations 10:30 p.m. New American Club. ESL Class 1–2 p.m. Rabbi Rob Dobrusin, accompa- for Russian Seniors nied by pianist, Bob Sims, will celebrate the 11 a.m –noon. Current Events with New Year with us. Heather Dombey, a Jewish perspective on Breathing rough Both 7–9 p.m. Russian family group, Rachel the news. Murkis Ensemble will play and sing Russian, Noon. Homemade Dairy Luncheon Buffet. English, and Yiddish music for all. Refresh- Mendele Moicher $3. Nostrils? ments will be served. Thursdays Sforim’s Art of Bilingual Fiction e 17th David W. Belin Lecture in AmericanMonday, Jewish September Affairs 17: 1-2 p.m. Michael Homel, EMU professor 1–2 p.m. Thursday Special Events and Heinze will discuss theof question history, will of present a discussion of the Presentations (see below). “cultural exploitation” workin America, of Neil Sedaka and others from the 1950s. The talk will be on “Neil Sedaka, A 2:15–3:15 p.m. Literary Group with Sid- especially as it pertainsnice to Jewish boy from Brooklyn and the pop ney Warshausky. performers, past and present.music of the late 1950s.” Thursday Special Events and Presentations: ursday, MarchMonday, 8 September 24: 7:00 p.m. Lifeline Stroke screenings Thursday, September 6 1 p.m. Miriam Brysk, Emeritus Biochemis- 202 S. ayer St.,9–4 Room p.m. 2022Lifeline Co. will do ultrasound try Professor, Photographer and Mixed-Me- tests by appointment. Tests will take place in Call 763 9047 for details dia Artist presents her exquisite new series Newman Lounge, so lunch will be served in of pieces honoring the children of the Ho- the Gelman Lounge or the Levine Lounge. locaust. Tuesdays Thursday, September 20 11:30 a.m. Pre-Mahj brown bag 1 p.m. Yiddish Open House Marilyn Krimm Here’s Noon. Mah Jongg. presents “Music and Mame-Loschen” (Mu- sic in the Mother Tongue). Yiddish songs 1–2:30 p.m. Drop-In Hobby Time. Join (with English translations) by soprano vo- the Reason two quilters, an embroiderer, a person who calist, Krimm. Nelly Ullman will make in- draws, and a knitter in fellowship and a troductions and give a 10-minute Yiddish You Want a nosh. lesson through songs translated for your un- derstanding. (See Yiddish Open House box) Stain Resistant Yiddish Open House Do you speak Yiddish or do you remember a bis’l. from childhood? Yiddish is part of our Carpet... heritage. Help us keep it alive with our new series. Each program will feature 10 minutes of Yiddish vocabulary and expressions with Nelly Ullman then an exciting musician, speaker or film.
Coming next month Wednesday, October 10: Monday October 22 MATINEE MUSICALE 1–2:30 pm. JCC Newman Lounge. 1:30 p.m. Refreshments; 2 p.m. perfor- We will show the ANN ARBOR•BRIGHTON• CHELSEA mance: Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra film Almonds and Woodwind Quintet performs in honor of Raisins: A History Daniel Pearl Day. Cost: $7.00/person. The of Yiddish Cinema Matinée Musicale Series is a multiple-con- narrated by ANN ARBOR • BRIGHTON • CHELSEA cert recital series of classical music presented Orson Welles. 734-971-2795 by Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra Music This 90-minute Lamp Post Plaza, 2396 E. Stadium Director Arie Lipsky and the A2SO’s brass, feature inter- string, and woodwind ensembles. sperses film clips and Friday, October 12 interviews of September 2007 September 5–7 p.m. Jewish Family Services and Yiddish actors A the Jewish Community Center present and directors a Senior Shabbat Dinner at JCC. Join us from this in a delicious meal, musical accompaniment re-emerging and a short Senior-oriented Shabbat service. popular $15 meal. Call the JCC, 971-0990 to make a genre. The ONE store for your perfect floor. reservation and to pre-pay. Make check out to JCC (Senior). Washtenaw Jewish News Jewish News Washtenaw 6 Washtenaw Jewish News A September 2007 7
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Both workshops feature a panel and break- and panel a feature workshops Both TBE’s interfaith couples’ discussion Books must be written by a Jewish au An exciting program is planned with relatives and their Intermarried couples upcoming two attend to encouraged are The first Beth Emeth. at Temple workshops & Dreidels: Trees Plagues, “Eggs, workshop, in the Interfaith the Holidays Navigating 7, October will be Sunday, held on Family,” “Bris, workshop, The second 3–5 p.m. from Lifecycle Navigating Bat Mitzvah: Baptism, will be held Family” in the Interfaith Events 3–5 p.m. from 2, December Sunday, on out discussion groups. These workshops are great for people celebrating Judaism in the home and wanting to know Childcare more. will with notice. be advanced available group meets Non-members monthly. and relatives of an intermarried couple (Jewish/ not Jewish) are welcome. For more infor or 665-4744 at Fitzig Devon contact mation, [email protected]. The Jewish Community Center of Washt enaw County’s Jewish Book Festival is searching for local authors who would like to promote their new books through the Book Festival. This Jewish year’s Book Fes November Sunday, from place will tival take 18. November Sunday, 11 through They also must content. Jewish thor or have been have published within To the last year. submit a book or for further information, contact Leslie Bash or Rachel Rosenthal at 971-0990. Submissions must be received by 7. September Friday, Hadassah opening event opening Hadassah is the event opening Hadassah This year’s with of the theme Conference Fall Regional Arbor Ha Ann The Tent.” the Red “Under interfaith for Workshops couples and their families for Local authors sought Book Festival annual JCC dassah chapter is hosting this weekend-long is hosting this weekend-long dassah chapter Inn. 19–21 at The Campus October event in Ohio, chapters from members Hadassah will and Michigan be meeting to Kentucky, other. each learn and inspire socialize, Jewish today, of Israel topics the on speakers women and philanthropy, organ donation activities Other empowerment. political and and meditation Jewish and yoga include will Hillel and comedian local a by entertainment register can Participants Hakavod. Kol choir for the whole weekend or for the day only. in Membership Hadassah is not required to reimburse registration be will There attend. ments available for first-time attendeesto a Regional receive an To conference. invita one, like would you if conference, the to tion contact Eileen Thacker at tethacker@yahoo. at 769-7523. Young Martha or com ------Washtenaw Jewish News Washtenaw Please patronize our advertisers our advertisers Please patronize and thank them for supporting for and thank them the TBE’s Brotherhood is one of 250 local af local of250 one is Brotherhood TBE’s Activities planned for the upcoming The brotherhood maintains an up- The theme of this brunch “ORT year’s is The Opening Brunch is a time to learn ORT was established in 1880 in Tsarist ORT members and potential members ganization dedicated to nurturing men’s in ganization dedicated to nurturing men’s primaryThe goals life. Temple in volvement to assist are members better to become Jews participa increased through men better and tion and in Brotherhood Temple activities. in the involvement congregation Active and the community brings the participants to spirituallygether and socially. filiatesof the MRJ-Menof Reform Judaism (Formerly North American Federation of Brotherhoods) Temple with 25,000 mem bers across North America dedicated to the men for role a and Judaism ofReform ideals in congregational life. In addition, we look for opportunities to participate in national programming and events. year include raising and lowering the TBE Sukkah, sponsoring the Chanukah Latke a Dinner, monthly Limudim (learning) lec- ture series, a monthly rap/discussionmen’s sum retreat, Brotherhood annual an group, more. and much and fallmer softball, to-date calendar, as well as photos of past events, at www.templebethemeth.org/tbe/ brotherhood. For more information, visit the website or contact Brotherhood Presi at 327-9149. Wagner Marv dent ORT opening brunch Levitt, Joan special WJN the to will America ORT of chapter Arbor Ann The host its Opening Brunch Octo on Sunday, Adler. of at the home Sue ber 7 at 10 a.m. It will in Mexico.” feature excellent Mexi can food prepared by ORT members. The program will highlight the ORT School in which is Mexico, making a big difference in City. of in Mexico the lives students about how ORT helps students around the It world. is also a great opportunity to meet old and new friends, and to learn about the exciting programs the Ann Arbor chapter is year. the coming planning for Russia to provide vocational and techno logical education for Jews. throughToday, its network of schools, colleges and cen ters, ORT provides training and education for nearly 270,000 students in 56 countries, enabling them to compete in the ofchanging market the 21st century. rapidly to are invited For attend this opening event. more information contact Joan or to RSVP, Levitt at 665-5061, or email jflevitt@com cast.net. TBE Brotherhood News Brotherhood TBE special the WJN to Wagner, Marv Brotherhood is Beth an Emeth’s or Temple ------Every Every newcomer will receive a card to be For more information about the Apples & The Newcomers’ Booth The will Newcomers’ offer informa Along Along with a brand new website, www. sup community strong continued Through tion about Ann Arbor and the Ann Arbor Jew Ann Arbor and the Ann tion about to chance a and coupons gifts, community, ish meet others who have recently moved to the of the Fed Members JCC and the Jewish area. eration will newcomers. boards be welcoming stamped at each station and will then be col lected at the end of the visit, at which time the gift. Hashanah a Rosh guest will receive Honey program and Booth, callNewcomer’s at 971-0990. Rosenthal Rachel Apples & Honey program Apples program & Honey newcomers welcomes and newArbor area Ann the to Newcomers ofmembers Center Community the Jewish visit to the invited County are ofWashtenaw on Honey & Apples at Booth Newcomers’ - com This free p.m. 1–4 9 from September munity of celebration Holidays Fall the Jewish at the JCC. will place take dents dents collected hundreds of canned goods and local for farms local from produce fresh gleaned organizations such as Food and Gatherers SOS Services.” Community emuhillel.org, students coming to campus this EMU at Hillel exciting many find will September First most ofevents, which The will be planned by Hillel interns. programming three EMU’s at Students of Hillel Danielle(FYSH) intern, Year with EMU’s students new will connect Lindow, Jewish campus life. The Green Family Tzedek/ Social Justice intern will help students explore globaland local our affect that issues important andsustainability hunger, as such communities intern and genocide, the community environment, Advocacy Israel Grinspoon The activism. will campus, bring to informal education Israel and will the provide opportunities for students to to experience continue the culture will and global contribu Hillel course, Of Israel. of tions provide traditional Shabbat dinners and social programs as well. dents dents planned and organized a special activity Sisters Big Brothers withBig not ‘ThinkBigger,’ did fair, who children for County Washtenaw of have mentors. Students helped brighten last for Chanukah some clients of Jewish Family Services ofCounty Washtenaw who received Chanukah celebration packages, which the students organized and assembled. Other stu port, port, Hillel at EMU will keep providing mean ingful Jewish experiences and enrich the lives of Jewish students so that they may enrich the of percent 80 Over world. the and people Jewish EMU graduates remain in Michigan, therefore become will students EMU at Hillel the of many leaders in Jewish communities. Michigan’s Di- rector Silver is excited about the future of Hil lel “the at students, staff, EMU, and lay leaders are passionate about Jewish campus life. Hillel at EMU is cultivating Jewish leaders andfuture I life. community Jewish in participants active many the with working continue to am eager Jewish community organizations - and commu Jewish advancing in partners as supporters nity years more many anticipates EMU at Hillel life.” of n vibrant campus life. Jewish ------
illel illel at Eastern Michigan University foundation an independent became on July 1, 2007. Claradirector Silver,
According to According Eileen Freed, acting director Hillel at EMU was nominated for a 2007 Hillel Locally, at EMU students are regu Community Aura Ahuvia, special to the WJN special the to Ahuvia, Aura Family Rosh Kippur Hashanah ser and Yom families young for year this offered willbe vices at the Ann Arbor Reconstructionist Havurah. SeferBeit ofHavurah’s direction the the Under (religious school) Director Geoffrey Berdy, these services will plentyinclude ofsto music, ries, and activities. Family services are geared school. elementary through age tot kids toward Parents are encouraged to attend along with their children, and both kids and parents are needed as volunteers to help with various as pects of the service. For more information, or call to volunteer, Geoffrey Berdy, 649-8723, or check the Havurah’s website, www.aarecon.orghttp:// www.aarecon.org. Reconstructionist Havurah services holiday offers for families young H of Hillel at EMU since September 2006, de Clara Silver, special the WJN to Silver, Clara EMU Hillel now independent foundation now EMU Hillel about started EMU at “Hillel history, the scribes ten years ago as an expansion of Hillel of - Met part-timea only with (HMD) Detroit ropolitan with combined work Hard associate. program strong community support has built a vibrant - profession full-time two with foundation Hillel al staff and Throughfive student the interns.” generous support of the Jewish Federations of at Hillel Metropolitan Detroit County, and Washtenaw supporters, community many as well as EMU has been able to representing grow and flourish; now students Jewish 1,000 over serving spectrumthe broad of experience. Jewish County, Washtenaw of Federation Jewish ofthe “Hillel at EMU’s new independent status re on life of Jewish vibrancy theincreased flects the Eastern Michigan University campus and is a testament to the talents and efforts of the Hillel staff, students, and lay leadership. Hil lel at EMU has developed into THE address The EMU.” at justice social and life Jewish for this vibrancy, reflects of board new directors and includes community members from - and the metropoli Arbor area Ann both the tan Detroit area, which positions Hillel at success. its recent on build EMU to Gold Medallion, the highest honor awarded by the EMU Division of Student Affairs. Freed remarks “The that, Gold Medallion nomina Hillel by at EMU is tion well received deserved. EMU students, interns, and staff have set a that programs and highmeaningful bar program for creative the of examples few a Just ming.” first- the include nomination the garnerhelped ground-breaking the Bands,” the of “Battle ever Women Jewish and Muslim Roof: One “Under and Coming “Alternative Spring Together,” the or week-long Tzedek, social Break,” justice, trip to Miami Florida to participate in a build Humanity. for withing blitz Habitat
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University of Michigan welcomes Frankel Institute Fellows Matt Weingarden, special to the WJN he Frankel Institute for Advanced Ju- Deborah Dash Moore, taneously imagined as an agent of cultural disso- Yael Shenker, daic Studies is pleased to welcome its Frederick G. L. Huetwell professor of History, lution and as a site of cultural renewal. instructor of Hebrew literature, University of Jerusalem
first cohort of scholars for the upcoming University of Michigan (September 2007 – April 2008) T Representatives of West Bank Settlements in academic year. Arriving from around the globe, Jewish Photographers and American Cities Fiction and Cinema of Israel the Institute Fellows represent a broad range of Barbara Mann, scholarly interests and areas of expertise. While American-Jewish historian Deborah Dash associate professor of Jewish literature, A scholar of religion and nationality in Ortho- in Ann Arbor, the Institute Fellows will enjoy the Moore will observe how Jewish American Jewish Theological Seminary dox literary discourse, Yael Shenker plans to study opportunity to do individual research and col- photographers have been culturally and insti- the different ways in which Jewish and Palestinian The Meaning of Space: Between the Academy laborative projects under the common theme tutionally well situated to expose the visual con- centers of population—towns, villages and settle- and Jewish Studies of “Jews & the City.” For information on how to sequences of modernity. Beginning with Jewish ments—are presented in literature and cinema by contact the Frankel Institute Fellows or to learn photographers connected to the New York Through an exploration of space within writers and directors identified with the national- more about Frankel Institute events, call 763- Photo League, she will study how their street Jewish culture, Barbara Mann will investigate ist religious community in Israel. The aim of her 9047 or email [email protected]. photography can be understood as a mode of the spatial turn within the humanities and so- study is to examine the ways in which these texts existential ethnography. Dash Moore will con- cial sciences, as manifested in the field of Jewish confront a perceived threat to living space. The Institute Fellows and their individual research tinue with another generation of Jewish photog- Studies. She will focus on the normative mean- projects raphers who, after the League closed, reconceived ings of space in canonical texts from the bible Veerle Vanden Daelen, the family album as a template for re-imagining to the modern era and consider how space has academic collaborator assistant, University of Antwerp Murray Baumgarten, strands of kinship. These projects expose a per- figured in contemporary scholarship. Given Ju- Experiences of Jewishness and Clustering in professor of literature, University of California Santa Cruz sistent concern with a moral responsibility for dasim’s particular relation to space, Mann as- a City as Perceived by Jews and non-Jews: looks given, taken, and withheld. pires to broaden the discussion of space within Wrestling with the Angel: Civic Virtue and The City of Antwerp since World War II in (September 2007–April 2008) the academy as a whole. Modern Jewish Writing Comparative Perspectives (September 2007 – December 2007) Murray Baumgarten will analyze the di- , Diverse characteristics can mark Jewish inhab- ary of Venetian Rabbi Leone Modena, the first Gil Klein, Fellow Getty Research Institute Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, itants of a city as Jewish, as a minority group. The modern Hebrew autobiography. In it, Rabbi senior lecturer of architecture, Israel Institute of Technology aim of Vanden Daelen’s project is to study which Modena reveals the fault lines of his identity— Consecrating the City: Rabbinic Ritual markers exist, to whom they are relevant, and caught between exilic despair and diasporic Topography in Late Antique Galilean Towns Designing Politics: Architecture, Nationalism what they may mean. An analysis of Orthodox possibility. Baumgarten will explore the ways in An historian of urban architecture and ma- and Judaism in Post-’67 Jerusalem Jewish life in Antwerp serves as a starting point which these polarities come to define character terial culture in rabbinic literature, Klein plans Combining interests in architecture and for a comparative and larger research of cities in and community in modern and urban Jewish to examine various rabbinic gatherings in the politics, Alona Nitzan-Shiftan seeks to create Western Europe and the United States since the writings. Building on this work, he will consider major Galilean towns as a form of ritual, estab- the first architectural history of Israel’s monu- end of World War II. She expects to clearly outline how modern works written in Yiddish, Hebrew, lishing an urban topography. This provides in- mental efforts to reunify Jerusalem after 1967. markers and borders of Jewishness and interpret Italian, Spanish, and English illuminate the sight into the rabbinic constitution of a coherent Nitzan-Shiftan will explore how Israeli politics their impact for both Jews and non-Jews. theme of identity wrestling as it has emerged sense of urban community. The acknowledge- played a role in the spatial and aesthetic con- (January 2008 – April 2008) from contemporary Jewish women writers. ment of cities as a significant subject for the late figuration of the contest over the territorial, his- (September 2007 – December 2007) antique rabbis is a new development and Klein’s torical and religious meaning of Jerusalem and Deborah Yalen, work will contribute to this understanding by how the Israeli-Palestinian conflict included the post-doctorate, Lila Corwin-Berman, developing an integrative method of working city’s urban image. University of California Berkeley assistant professor of history, Pennsylvania State University with urban and literary theories. (September 2007 – April 2008) Eradicating the Distinctions between City (September 2007 – April 2008) Sprawling Judaism: Authenticity in the and Countryside: Jews, Urbanization, and the American Suburbs Shachar Pinsker, Shtetl in Fin-de-Siecle Russia and the Soviet
An historian of modern Jewish and Ameri- Scott Lerner, assistant professor of Hebrew and Jewish culture, University Union associate professor of French and Italian, of Michigan can religious experience, Lila Corwin Berman Franklin and Marshall College A student of Eastern European history, poses the question: how does physical space Spatializing the Margins: The European Cities Deborah Yalen will examine how late Impe- shape religion and identity, and how do these From Ghetto to Monumental Synagogue: of Hebrew Modernism 1900-1930 rial Russian and early Soviet Jewish demogra- forces, in turn, create physical environments? Narrative & Jewish Identity in the Capitals of A scholar of Modern Hebrew and Jewish Lit- phers shaped narratives of Jewish urbanization While at the Frankel Institute, Berman will ex- Risorgimento Italy erature, Shachar Pinsker plans to study the role through their interpretations of the 1897 Im- amine the geographic shift of American Jews In Italy, the story of Jewish emancipation of European cities in Hebrew modernist litera- perial and 1926 Soviet censuses. Yalen will ap- from the urban to suburban world. She will was recounted on urban landscapes by means ture. Maturing during the first three decades of proach the topic by considering the shtetl as an challenge the established position that the post- of a physical move from an actual ghetto. Scott the twentieth century, several cities in Eastern, intermediary space between the countryside war suburbs were places of religious decline and Lerner’s work explains that this story was Central and Western Europe emerged as crucial and city – the spaces utilized to gauge back- middle class dullness, arguing that suburbs pos- continued by what he has referred to as the to the development of Hebrew Modernism in wardness and modernization. Throughout, sessed a sacred geography of their own. Berman “narrating of architecture” of the monumen- many guises: as literary centers and “satellites,” the perceptions of Jewish urbanization were plans to map the various ways in which Jews tal synagogues, built over the ruins of the de- as sites for contact and interaction with other influenced by the agrarian, weakly industrial- locate their Judaism in suburban space, trans- molished ghettos (sometimes figuratively and literatures part of “international Modernism,” ized autocracy and then by a utopian, Marxist- forming themselves and their landscapes in the other times literally, as in Rome). Lerner hopes and as objects of literary representation. Thus, Leninist party-state that anticipated dissolution process. to focus on the passage from the real ghetto to Pinsker plans to explore the complex relations of urban/rural boundaries. (September 2007 – April 2008) construction of synagogues as principal signi- between Modernism, Jewish cultures and the (September 2007 – April 2008) fiers of Jewishness in three Italian cities—Turin, City. Sara Blair, Florence and Rome—each of which simultane- (September 2007 – December 2007) professor of English, University of Michigan ously served as the capital of a new nation. The Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at
(September 2007 – April 2008) the University of Michigan provides annual fellow- View from Below: Photography & Urban Catherine Rottenberg, ships for scholars and artists from around the world Vision on the Lower East Side lecturer of gender studies, Ben-Gurion University , to conduct research within a given theme. Established A scholar of 20th century literature, mod- Julian Levinson Jews and Blacks in New York City through a generous financial contribution from the Samuel Shetzer associate professor of American Jewish Studies ernism, photography and visual culture, Sara Jean and Samuel Frankel Jewish Heritage Founda- and English, Catherine Rottenberg will examine the rep- Blair is exploring the ongoing importance tion, the Frankel Institute is the only one of its kind at University of Michigan resentation of the Lower East Side and Harlem of the Lower East Side to the development of in modern Jewish and African-American lit- a public university in the United States. The Institute modern photographic practice. From the early Metal, Granite, Uproar: Jewish Modernism in erature, exploring how the “borders” of these is committed to interdisciplinary, multilingual work 20th century through the present time, pho- the Cauldron of New York “racialized” urban enclaves are depicted, and spanning ancient times through the contemporary tographers have exploited the distinctive spaces In an exploration of the ways in which Jew- under what conditions characters are allowed to era. By combining intellectual autonomy and depth of the Lower East Side to generate new ways of ish writers have represented the modern me- access “white” areas of the city. Rottenberg pro- with the ideal of a scholarly community, it aims to September 2007 September apprehending modernity. Blair hopes to bring tropolis—in particular New York City—Julian poses that the literatures’ relationship to space offer global leadership in Jewish Studies.
A attention to the entangled careers of Jews in the Levinson will show how a range of texts written has much to tell about the different ways Jews Applications are now being accepted for 2008-09 city, the photographic aesthetics they shaped to in Yiddish, Hebrew and Yiddish focus on the diz- and Blacks negotiated their “racial” and class Institute Fellowships under the theme “Studying respond to the urban landscape, and the chang- zying spectacle of New York. Levinson will illumi- identities. It may explain how the two groups Jews: New Topics, New Methods, New Direc- ing forms of visual knowing that were in turn nate how different languages equip Jewish writers positioned themselves in relation to (and were tions.” The application deadline is October 19, shaped by their work. with different tools for articulating the experience positioned by) dominant white US society. 2007. For a detailed description and application (September 2007 – April 2008) of modernity. He will discuss New York City in a (September 2007 – April 2008) materials, visit http://www.lsa.umich.edu/judaic cultural context and as a literary symbol—simul-
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Beth Israel Congregation trip to Israel extraordinary experience Rabbi Robert Dobrusin, special to the WJN
ewish tradition has always believed that Ascherman and a resident of Gush Etzion tion with the land and laying the foundation at Independence Hall, the site of the declaration the important things in life are better • Visiting institutions large and small, and for future high school or college trips to deepen of the State of Israel in 1948. She told us that Jdone in community. We pray in a min- serving different populations including Neve their connection with Israel further. nothing upsets her more than when people say yan, study with a partner (hevruta), and join Hana, a children’s village in Kiryat Gat; ALYN When Moses approached Pharaoh with the that Israelis are accustomed to sending their together with others to celebrate and, lihavdil, hospital for children in Jerusalem; and Pinat statement “Let my people go,” Pharaoh asked children into the army and accept the possibility to make a separation, mourn our losses. Ham, a place for soldiers on duty to gather for “Who would be going?” Moses answered: “We of war as the reality of life in Israel. She begged There is no commandment or tradition which says that traveling ought to be done in a group; but as I think about my experiences traveling this summer in Israel with more than 60 Beth Israel members, extended family and close friends, I can say without any hesitation: this was an extraordinary experience and it wouldn’t have been the same if I, or any of us, had been traveling alone. I had circled the dates of June 24-July 9, 2007 on the calendar when I first began think- ing about a group trip to Israel two years ago. We have taken congregational trips before, the most recent being in 2001, but it was more than past the time to undertake another trip. From the moment we began to make preliminary an- nouncements, the response was overwhelming. This past October, approximately 50 people attended an informational meeting over dinner in Beth Israel’s sukkah to begin to talk about ex- pectations and hopes. By the time the deadline came to register we had reached 64 participants, almost three times the number of our largest previous trip. But the success of this trip was not only about the large number of participants. Working with our tour provider (Keshet: The Center for Educational Tourism in Israel) and other con- tacts, we were able to build an itinerary which included the “must-see” sites as well as those off the beaten path. We structured a program which would be educational, spiritually inspi- rational, challenging and, last but certainly not least, fun. Our outstanding guide, Peter Abelow, and I spoke for hours on the phone before the calm and warmth during difficult times will go with our elders and our young children.” us all to realize that the status quo is not ac- trip to go over details. And, despite a terrible • Davening in various different places including What made this trip most remarkable to me was ceptable for any Israeli; and that no matter how heat wave when we first arrived, we left from on top of Masada, at the Kotel in Jerusalem and in that we traveled with so many different people: proud Israelis might be in the courage of their the airport to plant trees at Neot Kedummim, the Mesorti (Conservative) syngogue in Tzefat young and old, first timers and veteran travelers, young people, no one wants to see continued the Biblical Landscape Park, and it seemed we • Camping out in a Bedouin-style tent in observant and not so observant, those on the hostilities as the permanent future of Israel. rarely stopped until we boarded the El Al plane the Negev right politically, those on the left and all points This message never left us as we traveled two weeks later. • Meeting many Ann Arborites in Israel, in- in between. While there, these vastly different throughout the land. What a beautiful place! Among the most memorable moments were: cluding those studying at the Conservative Ye- people formed a hevra, a group of friends and What wonderful people! What great accom- • Participating in “hands-on” tzedaka proj- shiva in Jerusalem and those who made aliyah. study partners to learn and to understand more plishments and what a wonderful future! But ects delivering food to the needy in Jaffa and Through it all, there was the sense that what of what Israel is about, why we should care and that future completely depends upon reaching Tel Aviv, and packing food boxes for delivery we were seeing and what we were experiencing what we hope for. the greatest and most beautiful dream of all: the throughout Israel had not only historical and national significance As I write this article, there are once again dream of peace, peace within Israel, peace with • Spending a quiet, inspirational and joyous but a spiritual dimension as well. It was my possibilities on the horizon for better times for Israel’s neighbors, peace in the world. Shabbat in Tzefat and following Havdalah with privilege to be able to teach Torah while sway- Israel and its neighbors. This was one reality Our trip helped all of us understand bet- singing and dancing on a rooftop in the Old City ing on a bus climbing the hills of the Galilee, that was particularly evident through our trip. ter the challenges Israel faces, her hopes and • Hiking through Nahal David in Ein Gedi and and also while gathering in the cooling shade Of course, we felt safe. And, of course, we felt dreams for the future, and to feel a greater part to a waterfall in a secluded canyon in the Golan of an ancient building in Tzippori, in the syna- pride. But we all knew and saw very clearly that of what is happening there. • Visting places of significance including Inde- gogue at Masada, and on early morning walks through all that Israel has become, its continued And I, as a rabbi, am privileged to have helped pendence Hall, (the Memorial to Yitzhak Rabin) in Jerusalem. growth and continued stability and continued so many people be part of this experience. n and Yad Vashem (the Holocaust memorial) And through it all, there were the kids. Our meaning for all of us depend upon a resolution • Discussing the political situation with peo- group included more than a dozen children to the problems which plague the region. ple from various perspectives including the di- who played and sang and hiked and swam their One of the most moving presentations we rector of Rabbis for Human Rights, Rabbi Arik way through Israel, building a stronger connec- heard was from Taly, the guide who spoke to us September 2007 September A Washtenaw Jewish News Jewish News Washtenaw 10 Washtenaw Jewish News A September 2007 11 ------We We were a di selves. selves. Our tour company arranged for two tour guides and two counselors. There youth were about 18 chil dren on our trip. cre counselors The ated a cohort that included all the kids. My son was the youngest, with a group of preteens with yet - and teens, in a few short days, they were a cohe sive group. Their experience will stay with them, largely due to the skills of the counselors. verse group; the oldest was 84 and seven. was youngest Our guides were superb at bringing us together. I must Tzedekah played an important role in our in role important an played Tzedekah Our children were a group onto them I’ve been to Israel many times. I lived in belong we that knowing here returned We in and around Jerusalem and for Israel. and for Jerusalem in and around trip. helpedWe deliver food packages with Israeli high school students to the needy in visited We Jaffa. a youth village that houses and helps abused youth; we packed up food hospi a Alyn, visited and Jerusalem in boxes tal that treats all children (with no regard to religion, nationality or ethnicity) who have orthopedic conditions. severe mention Abelow Peter of Keshet (our tour company). My wife described him as the best college professor you could ever have. I’d add that his knowledge base, along with his group skills, helped make the experience trip Israel. to in a lifetime” “once truly a there. family have and years several for Israel I’ve gone on Federation missions and trav I’ve country. the throughout eledextensively been to Israel with my family several times, traveling to many places. Rabbi ThisDobrusin and 60 other trip, members of with Beth Israel (and a few family members from wife Bunky My elsewhere) was and special. I that one ofdirection, sense a with back came Israel. to us back will take assuredly Israel is there. a place no like other on earth. we that important so is it why is that Perhaps support protect it, visit it, and This it, it. live as under bread the we break Sukkot, coming Sukkah, we will reflecton theyear that has passed and the experience we had in Israel. May it come to pass again that we have the opportunity to travel along together in our n Israel. land of promise, ------Jerusalem Jerusalem is magnificent. For almost a Our Shabbats were magical. In Safed our so important that we protect it, support visitso it. important and live it, it, that we it, protect Israel is a place like no other on earth. Perhaps that is why it is that is why no other Perhaps on earth. place is a like Israel to fightfor thehuman rightsfor all,regardless pas us to spoke Efrat from Someone politics. of of block Etzion settle Gush the about sionately importance their and Bank West the and ments included included a presentation by a former Michi gan resident who now writes, paints, and talks of mysticism in Safed. In Jerusalem for talk and sang dined, we Shabbat, second our ed of our faith. My visit to the Italian syna gogue was memorable, more for the vision of my seven-year-old son peering out from eyes his in ofwonder look a with balcony the than for the beauty of the ornate interior, decorations. group the after Jerusalem in stayed (we week went back to Michigan) we walked around the sometimes city, with a guide and some times on our own, we visited the requisite Quarter, Jewish the promenade, (Haas places the southern exca Wall), the kotel (Western vations, City of David, tunnels, Ben Yehuda Street) and some out of the way drive or places walk as can you easily how saw We well. close how ofsectioncity, the eastern the into the neighborhoods of Gilo are to of took thethe We a city. ride to restEfrat in Gush Etzion, the block of settlements just out listened side We to Jerusalem. impassioned speakers on topics near and dear to them as from A well representative as in many Israel. Rabbis for Human Rights spoke of the need gions. We had lunch in Yerucham, near Beer near Yerucham, in lunch had We gions. Sheva, served by a family Moroccan in their Ethiopian an of story the to listened We home. woman, to who it walked through made the desert, and sur center, refugee Sudanese a vived with family. her lives she now where Israel group had a Shabbat dinner on a rooftop overlooking the mystical Our city. activities considered the awful decision that was made made was that decision awful the considered that day not to surrender to the Roman le ------e’ve e’ve been excited about this trip Dobrusin Rabbi Sukkot. last since had a meeting with potential
The Negev is a desert, yet not. full It’s of The picture of the traveledWe by bus (actually, two buses) Israel is our homeland. Its continued sur continued Its homeland. our is Israel We returned We reluctantly to Michigan af W Neal Elyakin, special the WJN to Elyakin, Neal Thoughts of Israel Thoughts ian ian bunkers in Gadot in the Golan Heights and looked at how easy it was to target the and Valley Hula visited beyond. We a lovely and break a take can soldiers where spot little enjoy a nice home baked cake, cookie, or a wifethe of by doctor a of bit prepared coffee home drove he as bullet terrorist’s a by killed from the hospital after treating Palestinian patients. saw We the beauty of the Jezreel the fieldsmy (including old kibbutz’s Valley, cotton fields where I worked in the 1970s) and the villages. visited We the Moshav of Nahalal, where Ann Arbor has had a deep relationship with the local school through the Partnership 2000 program. While there, we were hosted by some of the families and treated to a lovely presentation by some of and students. teachers the school’s stood on the edge of We the and beauty. life, Ramon Crater at night and thought about our ancestors who stood similarly and ac cepted without reservation our We Torah. Masada, of top the from rise sun the watched encampments Roman the of remains the saw surrounding that marvelous mountain, and on on announced the es State the of tablishment of Israel; we were awed by the simplicity of the place. were We equally awed by our speaker’s passionate love for this Promised Land. Our tears were tears of joy, pride, and love for this people the countryand who it happen. made families standing ona sand dune in Tel in Aviv 1909 establish ing the city was in the same place as where the declaration of in dependence was made. Looking at those peo ple, standing in their attire European parcel ing out land purchased to establish the city, I their belief about their passion, in wondered that of awe in again was I Land. Promised the the land of to commitment Israel. for the next two weeks to and thethe very visited south. We former verySyr north vival is what we pray what for, we work for, and what we know is a part of our spiritual survival. Standing in the Hall, Independence place David Ben-Guri ter ter three weeks of joy; two weeks with over friends, and congregants Israel Beth other 60 Kib in family visitingour week extra an and Shamir. butz participants and said a congregational trip to Israel during the summer of 2007 would tiesour opportunity great bea strengthen to to our synagogue and to Israel, and to meet Indeed. people. new I Journey to Ethiopia
A two thousand year journey: Israel to Ethiopia and back A three-part series Eileen Freed, special to the WJN his July, I had the opportunity to par- Jewish community. But whether descended Waiting for aliyah ticipate in the United Jewish Com- from the tribe of Dan, early traders to Africa, or The Falas Mura waiting for aliyah live in Tmunities (UJC) Campaign Chairs King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, it was the Gondar where they receive medical and and Directors (CCD) Mission in which clear from the time of their “discovery” nearly other humanitarian aid, undergo interviews 170 Jewish leaders traveled back and forth 100 years ago, that this was a group of Jews with and examinations to determine their eligibil- through time to learn first hand about the strong attachment to their traditions and a his- ity, and wait, sometimes as long as ten years, to incredible journey and challenges of Israel’s tory of discrimination not dissimilar to the ex- join their families in Israel. Next month’s article Ethiopian community. I was accompanied perience of Jewish populations in other parts will focus on our travels in the Gondar region. on the mission by the Jewish Federation of of the world. Back in Addis Ababa, those Falas Mura who Washtenaw County’s 2008 Campaign Chair In the 1980’s and early 1990’s the majority have been granted permission to immigrate (and my husband), Gary Freed. of Ethiopia’s Jewish population, known as Beta are brought the capital for the final two to three Yisrael, arrived in Israel, primarily through weeks of preparation. Landing in Addis Ababa two major projects: Operation Moses and Op- There are three transit homes for these Just 12 hours after landing in Israel, we left eration Solomon. During Operation Moses in families, and they receive small cash assistance on an Ethiopian Airlines charter flight to Addis 1984, 8,000 Ethiopians were airlifted from the and basic supplies. On the grounds of the Is- Ababa, arriving as the sun began to rise. Our refugee camps of Sudan raeli embassy, they receive medical examina- to Israel. At least another tions and care as well as the vaccines required 4,000 died of starvation, in Israel. Most importantly, they attend classes illness, and at the hands designed to give them a rudimentary introduc- of unscrupulous guides tion to life in western society. While we would A new friend proudly shows off the new as they crossed the desert only see the conditions from which they came backpack he will wear the next day on to follow their dreams of during the second leg of our Ethiopian jour- his way home to Israel. reaching “Jerusalem.” Be- ney, it was evident from what was taught in cause of the danger posed the classes that there would be an enormous by Ethiopia’s civil war and and difficult adjustment upon arrival in Israel. communist government Some of the things to which these village farm- in the late 1980’s and early ers were introduced include: brushing teeth 1990’s, a coalition of groups with a toothbrush and toothpaste (even un- resolved to bring the re- screwing a toothpaste tube was new), lighting mainder of Ethiopia’s Jews and putting out a gas stove (no, you don’t blow home to Israel. Jews from out the flame), using a toilet and diapers, and villages primarily in the storing food in a strange cold box. There was Gondar area in the moun- amazed concentration in the faces of the im- tainous northern region of migrants as they discovered these wonders. Ethiopia descended on Ad- We had the opportunity to meet a family dis Ababa with the promise who was to fly to Israel in the next few weeks. of being brought to Zion. Demica, a farmer, and his wife Gabri have eight On May 25 and 26 of 1991, children ages 10 months to 18 years old. They in a period of just 36 hours, were anxious to join their family in Kiryat 14,324 Jews were airlifted Gat—they have not seen each other in 15 Walking through the shanty town across the street from out of the surrounded city years. While at the embassy, we met Mola (also the Sheraton Hotel in Addis Ababa. to begin a new life in Israel. a farmer), his wife Yamekesh and their three Falas Mura children approved for aliyah children. They had been waiting for nine years play in the courtyard of their transition drive from the airport gave us the opportunity The Falas Mura since they left their small village for the chance residence. In just two weeks they will be to see some of the city in which contrasts be- If the Ethiopian exodus was completed in to start a new life in Israel and rejoin their rela- in Israel. tween rich and poor were quite evident. Even 1991, then who are the Falas Mura, almost tives there. They are eager to return to Judaism, prepared with the supplies other Israeli chil- that could not prepare us for the juxtaposition 21,000 of whom will have made aliyah by the and their children are excited about starting of our palatial hotel literally 100 yards from end of December 2008? The Falas Mura are dren possess. I also had the pleasure of teaching school (aliyah for families with children is be- a few adorable children to blow bubbles! The a huge and incredibly impoverished shanty- Ethiopian Jews who converted to Christianity ing accelerated to get all school-age children to town. The seven-star Sheraton Hotel in which during the past one hundred years for a variety excitement and nervousness about their im- Israel by this December, so they can begin their pending aliyah was palpable, but throughout we stayed is owned by an Arab oil magnate of reasons including avoidance of discrimina- education as soon as possible). We assisted JAFI and, among other amenities, has magnificent tion or the desire to make a better life for one’s the process, the adults and children exhibited a staff in distributing new clothes and backpacks mild and sweet demeanor. I was struck by the grounds and swimming pools and heavily village and family. In many cases, missionaries so the children would be able to start school guarded and gated security. Right outside the used the strength in numbers of local Chris- absolutely beautiful be- hotel fence families, many of which have come tians to forcibly convert Jews to Christian- havior of the children from the countryside looking for work, live in ity. Though promised “full “recognition and at every stage of what decrepit shacks on streets heavy with muck and rights” following conversion, many of the con- must be a stressful en- mud from rain and sewage. In spite of the mean verts found themselves not fully accepted by deavor. conditions, there is a sense of order and dig- their Christian neighbors and strangers in the We left this final nity. Residents are careful to cover the spigots Jewish community. stage in the long ordeal at public water stations with plastic sacks, and a During Operation Solomon some 3,000 of of the Falas Mura to sign warns of penalties for public urination. these Falas Mura were not included in the airlift emigrate from Ethio- After this introduction to the gross inequi- and were left behind in Addis Ababa. The North pia and returned to the ties of a third world country, the group began American Conference of Ethiopian Jewry and palace from where, in visiting the various facilities and programs run many in the Ethiopian community in Israel a few short hours, we by UJC’s partners, the American Jewish Joint took up their cause, and the Falas Mura com- would travel to Gond- Distribution Committee (JDC) and the Jew- munity was recognized by the Chief Rabbin- ar—back in time some 2000 years. n September 2007 September ish Agency (JAFI) responsible for humanitar- ate as “being among the seed of Israel,” eligible, Next month: The A ian aid and immigration services for a group under certain conditions, to make aliyah and known as the Falas Mura. undergo a formal re-conversion process, re- long road from village turning to Judaism. Since 1995, the Falas Mura life in the mountains of History of Ethiopian Jews have been immigrating to Israel, and a census Ethiopia to Ben Gurion In order to understand the Falas Mura, it is indicated that, with a concerted effort, all eli- Airport. necessary to take a step back. There are many gible remaining Falas Mura could be brought In the Israeli Embassy compound, children and parents dis- stories regarding the origin of the Ethiopian to Israel by the end of 2008. cover the delights of blowing bubbles. Washtenaw Jewish News Jewish News Washtenaw 12 Washtenaw Jewish News A September 2007 13 ------AUGUST — More WASHINGTON than 100 members to try of would the House U.S. of they signedRepresentatives a Bush President warning letter Arabia. Saudi arms sale to his proposed stop a Jewish-born Lustiger, — Jean-Marie PARIS Vati top a became who Catholicism to convert can A died. figure, former archbishopof Paris, he was the but son refugees of Jewish Polish while converted hiding out in Catholic - board ing schools II. duringWar He said World he always considered himself a Jew. Mourners at funeral his during him for Kaddish recited Dame Cathedral. Notre Paris’ by sponsored village, youth A — YORK NEW the American Jewish Joint Distribution Com mittee, which will serve 500 impoverished Rwandan orphans was created. The village is the brainchild of Anne Heyman, a South Afri to moved was who lawyer York New can-born Rwandan of percent 15 that learning after help genocide. orphans to due are children ramp up its domestic consulting services to help individual federations. re a released RightsFirst Human — PRAGUE Western in anti-Semitism that concluding port - Europe and levels, unprecedented at is Europe an governments are woefully inept at measur crimes. hate prosecuting ing and thus electedwas 83, Peres, Shimon — JERUSALEM Israel’s ninth president, a largely ceremonial role, for a seven-year term. The Nobel Prize winner has held virtually every top civilian includ post in Israel during his career, 60-year ing that of prime minister. JERUSALEM — Hamas gunmen took over the Gaza Strip after routing the rival Fatah at a key Palestinian Authority security compound. Hamas declared victory after seizing the Pre ventive Security Service compound in Gaza a City, last stronghold President ofMah P.A. territory. in the coastal Fatah Abbas’s moud JERUSALEM — Israeli President Moshe Kat sav confessed to sexual misconduct under a rapeserious more him spared that bargain plea charges and possible prison time. He resigned early as part ofhis presidency plea. the decision JULY Church’s Catholic The — YORK NEW to- a sparked ofMass Latinuse the the allow to Benedict Pope Catholics. and Jews between do authorizingwiderdeclaration usea issued XVI ofan form of older Catholic Mass, the Latin worship that includes a prayer read only on of the Jews. the conversion for Good Friday announced Bush President — WASHINGTON a major new initiative aimed at bolstering Pal plan The Abbas. Mahmoud President estinian included tens of billion millions $30 as of new well as funding for Authority, Palestinian the new military aid to Israel and a reported $20 arms The Arabia. Saudia to sales arms in billion entice to way a as seen was Arabia Saudi to sales Riyadh to attend American-hosted an - interna Pales the and Israel on conference peace tional tinians in the fall. Fla.–The HOLLYWOOD, Broward County School Board in South Florida approved two the to light green a give effectively that measures only charter Hebrew-language school. nation’s The Ben-Gamla Charter School, to open for the new will school year, be direction operated by the a pri under Academica, company, vate rabbi. an Orthodox Siegel, ofAdam ------JUNE — Jewish TheCommu United YORK NEW nities passed a $40.2 million budget, allocat ing a significant portionto arestructuring plan aimed at boosting the sagging cam paigns of the North American Jewish fed to erations. According the plan, the UJC will beef in up its office system, its pillar dissolve and affairs foreign and Israel oversee to Israel MAY NEW — YORK Edgar Bronfman, who served as president of Jewish the World Congress for two came move The resigned. years, 30 nearly months after Bronfman fired hisclose associ ate ate and a top WJC official, Rabbi Israel Singer. WJC The Bronfman claimed Singer stole denied. money from Singer allegation an WJC, the president interim its as Lauder Ronald elected within June, officialsvoicing hope theorgani inter and oflegal years its past get could zation nal wrangling. Amir ousted TheParty — Labor JERUSALEM which vote, in an as internal its leader Peretz followed a government-appointed commis sion that cited his mishandling of the Second Prime former runoff, June the In War. Lebanon Peretz whom Ayalon, beat Barak, Ehud Minister margin. a narrow by backed, ultimately WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the speaker of the U.S. Syrian House to of a message delivered Representatives, is Israel to saying ready Assad, Bashar leader talk peace. Israeli Prime Minister Olmert im mediately saying issued Syria “clarification” a Pelosi terrorism. for backing its end first must mes- that conveyed they say delegation her and smooth to later Pelosi Pelosi called Olmert and sage, slammed House White The flap. the over for what officials said was an attemptto con policy. foreign duct an independent III Ellis T.S. Judge Federal — WASHINGTON rejected a government proposal to close the Ellis ruled staffers. trial ofAIPAC former two the request unconstitutional. Former senior staffers Steve Rosen were and in Weissman dicted in August 2005 and now face a trial 14 2008. ofdate Jan. Court Supreme — U.S. The WASHINGTON - Jew Most abortions. late-term on ban a upheld ish groups opposed the decision, which rolled privacy back protections women’s established decision Wade v. 1973 Roe in the court’s Pres remembered Jews Russian — MOSCOW democratically first Russia’s Yeltsin, Boris ident elected president, as the one who ended - de ofcades anti-Semitism. state-sanctioned JERUSALEM — An Israeli governmental re port sharply criticized Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s management ofreport the 2006 Commission’s war Winograd in The Lebanon. in exercising failure “serious was a said there judgment, responsibility and in prudence” the handling government’s of the Despite war. a Aviv rallyOlmertagainst Tel person in 100,000 to Livni Tzipi Minister Foreign from call a and stay to decision his in firm stood Olmert resign, in office. SAN FRANCISCO — The Jim Joseph Foun dation announced the firstof its long-awaited grants, designating four gifts, the largest, $2.5 million, to B’nai Organization’s Youth B’rith Professional Youth Initiative. It is estimated that the foundation will give away up to $25 million a year. ------Pales
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cil voted to impose sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program. The resolution demanded that end Tehran all research on uranium en development and research halt and richment that can make or deliver atomic weapons. The resolution, watered down to meet Russian - de if Iran of force use the permit not did mands, not comply. does NEW NEW YORK — The U.N. Security Coun APRIL NEW — YORK Liviu Librescu was one of 32 victims killed by a student gunman Virginia at a Holocaust professor, engineering The Tech. survivor who had moved to was Israel, shot while blocking the doorway to his classroom. the gunman He prevented South from Korean students his of one but all enabled and entering escape the window. through to fition aJewish kindergarten in Berlin and attempted to set fireto thebuilding. The in- cident marked a new level in attacks on Jews in Germany. MARCH report government Israeli An — JERUSALEM found that Israel’s Muslim minority has a far greater birth rate than the Jewish majority. Data released by the Industry and - Min Trade istry showed Jewish women had an average of 2.69 compared children, to Muslim women 4 children. to average, on birth, who give BERLIN — A German court sentenced Ger mar Rudolf to two and a half years in jail for anti-Jewish incitement and Holocaust denial. He claimed in a 1991 article that the didNazis not gas Jews at Auschwitz. Rudolf was sen tenced to in 14 months by deported a was German He court in country. the fled but 1995, 2005. November resumption of aid to the P.A. — renouncing — renouncing of aid to resumption the P.A. Israel recognizing violence, and adhering to accords. past peace BERLIN sprayed — neo-Nazi Vandals graf tine: Peace not Apartheid FEBRUARY — JERUSALEM Masorti Jews reached a com freedom the over government the with promise of men and women to at together daven an area Israel’s Conservativeof Wall. the Western movement dropped its Supreme Court appeal after the government agreed to enforce mixed theat site a at free for worship to ability groups’ ofsouthern end Wall. the JERUSALEM — SecretaryU.S. of State Con andOlmert Ehud Minister Prime Rice, dolezza Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met in Jerusalem. Olmert and Rice re thefor the preconditions international iterated JANUARY JERUSALEM — Longtime Jerusalem mayor Jimmy died. Kollek President Teddy Former — Mass. WALTHAM, Carter discussed his controversial book, sity. The book, published in November, blamed November, in published book, The sity. for Israel of the It failure East Middle peace. sparked widespread debate and prompted to 14 board Center Carter the of members Jewish resign in protest. Democratic leaders had dis views. Carter’s from themselves tanced — A suicide JERUSALEM Palestinian bomber and Jihad Islamic bakery. Eilat an in three killed the Al-Aksa Military Brigades, a Fatah-linked the attack. for responsibility claimed group, ------
Year in Review in Year NEW YORK — The Conservative movement’s movement’s Conservative The — YORK NEW opinion a rabbinic approved authorities legal allowing ordination of gay and lesbian rabbis and sanctioning same-sex unions. The move followed years of internal debate over whether The clergy. gay on ban traditional the reverse to Jewish Theological Seminary’s new chancellor, Arnie Eisen, later announced it would accept gay and lesbian students to its rabbinical and schools. cantorial JERUSALEM — Iranian President Mahmoud in Tehran a hosted conference Ahmadinejad that brought together Holocaust revisionists including David Duke and members of Ne turei Karta, an ultra-orthodox anti-Zionist group. The two-day conference titled “The Globalthe Review to Conference International international sparked of the Holocaust” Vision outrage. Adelson Sheldon mogul —Casino YORK NEW and his wife, Miriam, made their first pledge of $5 million to by help bankroll birthright February israel in up followed was gift That trips. mil $30 another and million $25 additional an August. in lion DECEMBER nities refocused its annual General Assembly Assembly General its annual refocused nities to focus on fundraising for rebuilding Israel’s By in Lebanon. war country’s the after North the time of the By G.A., the UJC had raised Campaign. $320 Emergency Israel its for million the end of the Jewish it year, has raised some $360 million. JERUSALEM —Talks on forming a unity government in the Palestinian Authority were suspended. Palestinians had hoped that by bringing the more moderate Fatah into the government, aid a Western embargo imposed when Hamas came to power in March could be removed. But the Islamist terrorist group rejected donor conditions nations’ that it rec terrorism. ognize and renounce Israel NOVEMBER WASHINGTON — The Democratic Party for Representatives of House U.S. the back won control gained also and 1994 since time first the of the Senate. Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), vice Democrats’ the was who Jew Orthodox the even seat his kept 2000, in nominee presidential though he lost in the Democratic primary to liberal Ned Lamont. Six new Jewish members of Congress and two new wereJewish senators elected. Nancy Rep. Pelosi (D-Calif.), who has as chosen was groups, Jewish many to ties close ofSpeaker the House. Commu Jewish United The — ANGELES LOS abled people were murdered. abled people were JERUSALEM — Israel said it would continue Minis- Defense Lebanon. over flights Force Air over flights surveillance the said Peretz Amir ter track armsshipments to needed were Lebanon what to ended Hezbollah combatants from neighboring cease-fire a after months two Syria, would be later designated as Israel’s Second War. Lebanon OCTOBER peo50 - ofthan remains more The — BERLIN ple, many of them children, were discovered in a mass grave Experts in Germany. Menden, suspected the dead were victims of the Nazis’ so-called euthanasia program, in which dis Compiled by Justin Sulsky Justin by Compiled — The following is a (JTA) chro YORK NEW 5767: A chronology of top news of top 5767: A chronology nology of ofitems news the past year. the top I I High Holidays
New Torah for Pardes Hannah: first reading since the Holocaust on Rosh Hashanah Lucinda Kurtz, special to the WJN ardes Hannah, the Jewish Renewal rabbis replaced eight and older children and a Children’s Program Community of Ann Arbor, wel- columns (in Bereshit), each day from 11–11:30 a.m. Pcomes our first Torah during these checked the entire To- Pardes Hannah will offer a Yom Kippur upcoming High Holidays and welcomes you to rah using new com- Kol Nidre Service and Yom Kippur Day Ser- join us for this historic occasion. Carried back puter technology, and vice at the Friends Meeting House at 1420 from Jerusalem by our Reb Elliot Ginsburg in showed Elliot how to Hill Street led by Reb Elliot Ginsburg. The July, it will be read for the first time since the sew the klaf, the scroll, gathering and preparation for Kol Nidre on Shoah on the first day of Rosh Hashanah. to the atzei chayyim, Friday evening September 21 will start at 6:45 Since our inception 13 years ago, Pardes the wooden rollers, p.m. with Kol Nidre beginning at 7 p.m. Yom Hannah has grown and developed as a com- so that he could hand Kippur Day services will begin at 9:30 a.m. A munity. As we complete our bar mitzvah carry the parchment restorative yoga offering will be available to year, we are truly excited to welcome Torah on the plane. congregants at services at 2:45 pm following and this Torah, in particular, into our lives Our community by meditation and chanting at 4 p.m., fol- and our hearts. We are grateful for the out- was particularly inter- lowed by Mincha. Yizkor will be at 5:45 p.m. pouring of generosity from members of our ested in having a Torah and Neilah at 7 p.m. There will be childcare Ann Arbor community (and beyond) that rescued from the Ho- and a children’s program to be announced. helped us gather the resources for this most locaust and it seems it Kabbalat Shabbat Sukkot Service will sacred symbol and text of our tradition. was “bashert” that we Pardes Hannah members, Lucinda Kurtz, Miriam Brysk, and take place on Friday, September 28 at 7:30 This Torah was hidden in a cowbarn embrace this Torah Linda Jo Doctor, with Rabbi Elliot Ginsburg, preparing to sew p.m. There will be a special service on Sim- during the Holocaust by a fleeing resident and link its past with the parchment of the sefer Torah. chat Torah, at the Friends Meeting House, of Wengerov, Poland, a small town near our present. What a led by Reb Elliot, on Thursday evening, Warsaw, who miraculously survived and re- remarkable privilege and honor it is for us leading a “traditional” Jewish Renewal ser- October 4, to formally dedicate our Torah, turned for the Torah after the war. The Torah at Pardes Hannah to continue the lineage vice using new High Holiday prayer books. rejoice with it, and thank our community too had survived, but with some smudging of this Torah in another time and space but Services will be from 9:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. for their support. Check the schedule for in the opening columns. The scroll found its with the same sacred intention of honoring Reb Elliot will lead a Meditative Service on additional service times and details. Every- way to a synagogue in Israel but the congre- our tradition and learning from its “deep Day Two with the support from other service one is welcome to join for the Holidays and gation lacked the funds to repair the Torah story” of our people. leaders in the community from 10 a.m.–1 for regular bimonthly services on the second and render it “kosher” for reading. Pardes Hannah will be offering services p.m. On Friday, join for a vegetarian pot- and fourth Saturday of the month, at 2010 Reb Elliot found the Torah in the care on Rosh Hashanah Day One and Two, Sep- luck lunch at the JCC followed by taschlich Washtenaw (the Activities Center of Beth Is- of Machon Ot, Israel’s preeminent insti- tember 13 and 14 at the Jewish Community at 2:45 p.m. at Brown Park, off Packard be- rael Congregation). For more information, tute dedicated to repairing and maintain- Center at 2935 Birch Hollow Road. On the hind the Mallett Creek Library. There will be see the website at www.pardeshannah.org or ing Torah scrolls. Machon Ot’s respected first day of Rosh Hashanah, Reb Elliot will be childcare available on both days for toddlers call 644-7305. n September 2007 September A Washtenaw Jewish News Jewish News Washtenaw 14 Washtenaw Jewish News A September 2007 15 ------n “Our “Our philosophy is, everyone is welcome,” to compelled feel that congregations Even Rabbi says years,” it for doing been “We’ve Recently a board member suggested “pay a go back “We and Altenburger forth a lot,” not That’s how Congregation Beth Sim Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum says that for a And Steven Fruh, the one whose fam He He went to the free Rosh Hashanah ser A A representative of one of the smaller vices last year at Abraham, Congregation B’nai a Lubavitch-led congregation in downtown Philadelphia, liked what he found, and joined wel most the was “It holidays. the after right up he explains. non-judgmental place,” coming, leader spiritual Goldman, Yochonon Rabbi says of B’nai Abraham. That is, he “an admits, ex “ and “understands pensive he thephilosophy, it.” do of that don’t congregations perspective” turn actually at line the draw tickets for charge ing Congregation people B’nai away. Israel, a small Conservative congregation in Danbury, for check doesn’t but tickets, for charges Conn., at the door. them have a number - “We of‘reg Nelly Altenburger. who ulars’ always show up, and always there’s kvetching.” some as you system, pray” whereby those who only want to come for the holidays would pay re down. voted was quickly The idea dues. duced we decided we day, ofthe end the at “But says. not we how see are That’s not going to check. ourselves.” a gay- chat and Torah, lesbian-friendly con gregation sees in itself York, New It’s either. had “Open an policy Door” since its found ago. ing 15 years in barriers many “so faced has that community freeoffering years, the over Judaism” to coming High Holiday services “has a deeply religious a strategic not just move.” it’s us, meaning for ily needed to share one ticket when he was growing up, is now a member of Beth Sim chat —these Torah days he “gives signifi the sure the to make to congregation cantly” n closed. never are doors man Jan who Toas, moved to the Philadel phia-area two years ago after many years as a loosely self-described“three-times-a-year Jew,” affiliated with his Reconstructionist family’s synagogue. versity of Michigan Hillel's Reform, Conser Reform, Hillel's of Michigan versity vative, Orthodox (which includes the Ann Arbor Orthodox and Minyan) Humanistic High Holiday services. Tickets are required Non-students free. for them get students but a to are asked make $70 contribution for ei ther Rosh Kippur Hashanah tickets or Yom all services). for donation ($120 suggested congregations in town “In noted, fairness to the larger congregations in town charge for tickets, we that recognize that no one likes charging for prayer services, but that they have higher cost structures than we which do, Given may make that necessary.” the wide range of options available in the County Washtenaw Jewish ev community, eryone who wants to should be able to at servicestend the High Holidays. for ------Temple Beth Emeth does not turn people turn not does Emeth Beth Temple Uni the attend students 2,000 than More Fewer Fewer synagogues are willing to open their While such thinking is widespread, none Some congregations report that offering Congregation a Sinai, Last small year, - Con “People enjoyed the services, and wanted Chabad rabbis say free services help mem That happened to 60-year-old retail sales Most Most congregations of all denominations let The Conservative movement sponsors of the their year, ticket contribution is ap TBE always pliedtheir dues. membership to provides free tickets to university students from the ofUniversity Michigan and East ern This because Michigan year, University. sponsored is Auditorium Pease at service the by EMU Hillel, EMU without studentattend to welcome be will or members faculty can be Tickets arranged charge. through the Hillel. or EMU office temple away for financialreasons.If there is a- con cern about the cost of a tickets, confidential talking by be made always can arrangement with true holds This director. executive the to membership in the congregation as well. Anyone under the age of 30 is given a year ofThere is a guideline free membership. for but dues, arrangements can be always made individual circumstances. accommodate to free free services for students, young professionals and faculty members. Three to four hundred last year. people attended “It’s age. college beyond adults to free for doors a trend that makes more traditionally struc tured synagogues nervous,” says Golin. “In economic their of lot a movements, liberal the that Jews of number the around built is model so a year, times three synagogue to come only they we say, have to make those days how we financially.” support ourselves of the movements keep track of how member budgets congregations’ are affected by High sales. ticket Holiday servicesfree actually helps fundraising. servative synagogue in San Jose, Calif., offered free services for the first time.Congregational reports Dick they in more took Steve President money than in any previous as year, many of those who attended for free made substantial afterwards. donations Dick “Some even says. to became contribute,” members. The year before, when we charged people donation.” that was their felt tickets, for bership “Our experience grow. is, get people get involved, them it excited, generates more theyAnd say, vitality in the community. Jewish Mendel Rabbi says support this,” to want hey!I Lifshitz, who runs the three-year-old Chabad Idaho. in Boise, Center Jewish should should be more “If helpful. you really don’t have the room, at least know what other ser - sug he community,” your in on going are vices very rare.” “That’s gests. rate. highlya at reduced or free, for in Jews young Project Reconnect, encouraging its member alumni young to seats free offer to synagogues of Conservative youth programs. 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• • • He He says the movement encourages syna Some congregations and institutions are Many people credit Chabad-Lubavitch with with Chabad-Lubavitch credit people Many Rabbi Jerome Epstein, executive vice presi In In general, most congregations will give Paul Golin, assistant executive director of the group has a policy that no one will ever be turned away. There are no tickets sold and sold tickets no are There away. turned be contributions come to the group whenever each person is moved to contribute. Mem con additional an make to need not do bers tribution the High Holidays. for "pay of rejection the was principles founding Hol High offered always have They pray". to to wanted who anyone to servicesfreely iday join in. That said, that do let people know that they incur extra costs for High Holiday services and ask them to consider making a donation. There is also a charge for non- members who join in for the communal and ends, Kippur Yom after "Break-the-Fast" babysitting. for able for the public to purchase for the holi days. If someone purchases tickets, and endthe before member a become to decides dent dent of the Synagogue United of Conservative Judaism, says holiday there free have always offer been that some synagogues Conservative more “much in services, voguebecome but it’s years.” especially the last five this past decade, gogues to to offer free need tickets to They a non-member forever. not but two, or year a for ante up and join and eventually, up it’s to the it. encourage to synagogues doors: their opening just beyond going spearheading the for spearheading free movement holiday services than across the denominational more spectrum. of network extensive its on Building operates movement the centers, outreach 2,000 - a global www.chabad.org/High engine, search HolidayServices, which lists free services at its the world. around centers ish Federation of Greater Philadelphia is co- first-timea Year,” of New the “Taste sponsoring event aimed at outreach and students young 29 rep event, At the Aug. Jewish professionals. willhand synagogues localof most resentatives to seats free with along wine kosher of sips out services. High Holiday their The National Synagogue in Washington is hold is Washington in Synagogue National The blowing 11, on Sept. Giveaway” “Honey a ing Holiday High free away giving and shofar the of at the corner and K. Connecticut tickets shanah Under the Stars,” a free Rosh Hashanah pecting Hashanah 2,000 to Rosh 3,000 people free for a “Rosh Ha Stars,” the Under shanah 12 on service that its Sept. at Eve sponsoring at will get Things rolling Park. Ridge Oregon 5 p.m. with picnicking, family activities and a performance the by Israeli group Seeds of Sun. At seven sundown, shofars will be blown from from conducted be will service the and hills, the bandshell. a symphony but need, in to for free those financial tickets find many process a it, for ask to has person the embarrassing. the Jewish Outreach says Institute, synagogues ------
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services-High Holidays and Shabbat. A con A Shabbat. and services-HighHolidays ets to those individuals and families who County over thehave moved to Washtenaw past They Kippur. year also since Yom have a reduced membership fee to people aged 35 and under which includes tickets for the High Any Holidays. one with financial dif High onorno fees reduced getcan ficulties fees. membership reduced or tickets Holiday The procedure is a confidential call, ad theof vice-president financial the by dressed congregation. bad reports that "praying without paying" has been the policy for all the 32 that years Arbor has existed. Ann in House Chabad tribution of $180 for nonmembers for the feels person each whatever or Holidays High they are able to contribute is suggested but At At the High they Holidays, would buy one second- this by affected very was I kid, a “As The only thing that’s changed since Tickets for these services are usually free for servicesthese free usually for are Tickets In recent more years, however, and more Other congregations view it as a mitzvah, to least at back dating trend, growing a “It’s has “mentality in-gathering, or “Thekeruv,”
By Sue Fishkoff Sue By 63-year-old When — (JTA) FRANCISCO SAN his was up growing in Fruh Manhattan, Steven “They a to synagogue. belong not did parents he says. it,” afford couldn’t ticket between them, for the congregation’s service in the basement. overflow rate, he third-rate thing,” “That’s says. what I grew up with—this one ticket my parents in the main sanctuary.” and not even shared, lucky. Fifty if bucks is the then price. you’re Hundreds of dollars if not. As you’re sum ‘Praying without Paying’ is becoming a more popular option among shuls popular option among is becoming a more without Paying’ ‘Praying mer draws to a close, tens of thousands of unaffiliated AmericanJews begin theyearly hunt for affordable Rosh Hashanah and on year this fall which services, Kippur Yom 21-22. 12-14 and September September but of members a congregation, dues-paying can be quite expensive for non-members, if they are even available. Price is driven by de year the of times two only the are these -- mand that many Jews, synagogue members or not, can it step inside a shul. And while the resources, extra crowd synagogue’s a on pressure puts ofalso be source a major revenue. for doors their opening begun have synagogues free on the High Some Holidays. look at it as non- introducing at aimed strategy outreach an members to their congregation, in the hopes community the with entranced so be will they that they will members. dues-paying become who those for opportunities worship providing cannot afford tickets, or are away from home. Still others emphasize the communal respon sibility aspect, explaining that a synagogue Jew. any should be to open intermarriage percent 50 the and G.A. 1994 the former says director Waxman, Mayer of rate,” synagogue services for the Orthodox Union, referring to the General Assembly of the then- results the on focused that Appeal Jewish United Survey. Population Jewish of the 1990 National he says. the mainstream,” entered I High Holy Days
“Our Father, Our King — Avinu Malkeinu.” Rabbi Aharon Goldstein, special to the WJN he theme of God as Parent and Ruler This fervent broken-hearted plea, of “Fa- arouses in us an awareness of the most power- dominates Rosh Hashana. ther, it is I, your only son, help me!” broke ful bond uniting Father and child. No matter T The Baal Shem Tov taught that through the barriers separating father and how far we may feel we’ve strayed throughout the love God has for each one of us is analo- son more eloquently than any words the the year, no matter how muted or inadequate gous to and surpasses the love a father has prince might have uttered. At this moment, our ability to communicate with God, the for an only child born in his old age. the king embraced the errant son. shofar of Rosh Hashana enables us to recon- Rosh Hashana is the anniversary of the For thousands of years the Jewish people nect in a more fundamental and powerful creation of Adam and Eve. Thus, it corre- have wandered in exile. At times, we even way than previously envisioned. sponds to the rebirth of humanity and we seem to have lost our means of communi- The “Great Shofar” sounded by God sig- reestablish our relationship as children of cating with our Father. We are very much naling the Messianic Age, will pierce all bar- God on this day. like the proverbial prince, who when facing riers and penetrate beneath the surface of The sounding of the shofar is connected his father the king could only cry. our very beings. When God sounds the Great to this central motif of Rosh Hashana, that We are in pain not only because our self- Shofar we will be able to express, completely of God as our Divine Parent. created barriers separate us from God. But and openly, the fundamental child/parent To better understand this we look to an- also because even when we wish to return relationship we intrinsically have with God. other parable of the Baal Shem Tov: we encounter all sorts of seemingly insur- The shofar of Redemption will usher in a An errant prince, an only son, traveled mountable obstacles born of the national time when the love between God and the far from the palace. After many years had and spiritual exile of our people. Jewish people—concealed throughout our passed, the prince yearned to be reunited The shofar represents the wordless cry trial-ridden exile—will be fully revealed. with his father, the king. However, by the of the only child within each of us. Chosen May we all be inscribed and sealed3 for time he returned to his native land, he had because of its simplicity, it symbolizes the a good and sweet year. But even before the forgotten his mother tongue. From deep incorruptible nature of the soul connected New Year may we all find ourselves in the within his soul a cry emerged, a cry tha— to the essence of God, Himself. Holy Temple in Jerusalem with the revela- no matter how estranged the child—a father Transcending the conventional modes of tion of our righteous Moshiach, and he will could understand. communication, the shofar’s shattering wail redeem us. n This Rosh Hashanah honor the earth By Paul Steinberg 1 DALLAS (JTA) — Rosh Hashanah is a time But, he also said, “we shouldn’t be hug- it with righteousness, with fruits and dew, of rebirth. However, this fall holiday brings ging trees and worshipping the creation with rains and warmth…. a different sort of rebirth than springtime: more than we worship the Creator, and that The fundamental lesson of Rosh Hasha- After months of grueling heat and decay, the is what global warming is all about.” nah and the fall holidays is twofold: that we earth is refreshed with kernels of September Although Falwell offered one religious human beings have incredible power for green. In Israel, palm trees blossom with perspective on the earth and the environ- which we 2must be grateful and that we must honey-sweet dates during the fall, providing ment (one, likely, not shared by all evan- set limits upon this power. Throughout the the flavor of our celebration of the birthday gelicals), it is antithetical to the Jewish fall holidays, we confess our transgressions, of the universe. perspective. After all, every Jewish holiday our acts of selfishness, self-importance, and Yet while the earth renews itself physi- born out of the Torah is associated with entitlement. Indeed, Falwell had it exactly cally, we renew ourselves spiritually. honoring the earth and the cycle of the sea- backwards: By loving the earth and protect- For this reason, Rosh Hashanah, also sons. Furthermore, Maimonides taught that ing its supreme value, we are in fact serv- known as the Day of Remembrance, is the we come to love, appreciate and know God ing and showing reverence to God as the traditional time of year for heshbon nefesh, when we “contemplate God’s wondrous and Creator. We are the chief custodians of the “taking stock of the soul.” As I take stock of great deeds and creations.” earth, “placed in the garden to till and tend this past year, I find myself thinking more True, the first chapter of Genesis says it” [Genesis 2:15]. than ever before about Judaism’s view of the that mankind “shall rule” the creatures of By merely picking up trash, we belittle earth. I recall a G-Eight summit to discuss the earth and expresses that mankind is the the intention of God’s creation. Again our governmental responses to global warming apex of God’s creation, but in no way does it rabbis expound: and gas emissions. I remember the United indicate that everything that precedes man- When God created the first human be- Nations scientific panel declaring that it is kind is unimportant. ings, God led them around the Garden of “very likely” that human activity is the cause In fact, God markedly identified each as Eden and said: “Look at my works! See how of “unequivocal” warming and climate “good.” Moreover, the medieval collection of beautiful they are — how excellent! For your change. I also recollect the stir over the Os- midrashim, Pirke de Rebbe Eliezer, suggests sake I created them all. See to it that you do car-winning documentary An Inconvenient that Genesis’s distinction of man as “ruler” not spoil and destroy My world; for if you Truth. I am reminded again and again that means spiritual leader. After man was creat- do, there will be no one else to repair it.” the earth and, in turn, humanity are in po- ed, the other creatures feared him, worship- [Midrash, Ecclesiastes Rabbah] tential crisis. ping him as their creator. Yet, he humbled The scientific disciplines teach us that Will this Rosh Hashanah bring more himself and used his power over them to the earth and its ecosystems live in a deli- awareness of this crisis and teshuvah, mean- make common cause with them, by leading cate balance. Our Torah teaches us that we ingful change, than the passed one? them to “make God King, the one who cre- are supposed to preserve and keep that bal- Consider this past March, before his ated us all.” ance sustainable, respecting the trees, plants, death, when Jerry Falwell, founder of the Rosh Hashanah is a time to remember and animals by how we grow, reap, yoke, and Moral Majority, one of the largest evangeli- the moral of the creation account, acknowl- even slaughter them. If we learn anything cal political lobby groups, launched into a edging our unique status as masters of the during the holiday season, it is that what we fiery tirade in which he derided environ- earth, while stressing Judaism’s core theo- do in the world matters. Our actions have mentalists, opposing anyone who accepts logical assertion: God is the creator of the an impact and it is the intent behind those the possibility of global warming. universe and it belongs to Him. We remind actions, as well as our commitment to tik- September 2007 September Rather than scientific proofs, Falwell of- ourselves of this when we ask God for yearly kun olam, repairing an imperfect world, that A fered interpretations of biblical verses as his blessings, echoed by the poet’s supplication marks our sacred pact with God. n evidence, concluding, “I agree every Chris- in our High Holiday prayer book: Rabbi Paul Steinberg is the author of Cel- tian ought to be an environmentalist of rea- In Your lovingkindness and faithfulness, ebrating the Jewish Year (Jewish Publication sonable sort. We should certainly pick up O Lord, support Your world that is judged at Society, 2007) trash. 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7 Shabbat Services*pm 7:30 Shabbat Dinner served from 6 – 7:15 pm 7:15 – 6 from served Dinner Every Friday Friday Every Adult Hebrew for You! You! for Hebrew Adult or [email protected] or [email protected] Dinner RSVP’s Dinner appreciated are Shira: Family Shabbat in Songin pm 6:30 Shabbat Family Shira: $9 for Dinner catered by Simplyby catered Scrumptious Dinner for $9 For info, contact us at 734-665-4744 734-665-4744 at us contact info, For Weekly Courses begin in October. October. in begin Courses Weekly Shabbat for Everyone, for you Shabbat Everyone, for www.templebethemeth.org, 2309 Packard St. St. Packard 2309 www.templebethemeth.org, Hebrew in a Day on Sunday, September 30. 30. September Sunday, on Day a in Hebrew *Utilizes the new Reform Prayerbook, Mishkan Tefilah Tefilah Mishkan Reformnew the *Utilizes Prayerbook, ContactDevon [email protected] at Beginning October 5th at Temple Beth Emeth 5th at Temple Beginning October September Services Shabbat Erev will be held at 7:30 pm 4 I Congregaion
September programs at Beth Israel Elliot Sorkin, special to the WJN Selichot Service features film may receive free High Holiday tickets as The annual Selichot Service, which in- Beth Israel’s way of welcoming them into cludes prayers and readings to usher in the the local Jewish community. People who are High Holiday season, will take place on Sat- age 35 or younger may become members at urday, September 8, at 11:30 p.m. The service a special rate of $300 for their first year of will be preceded at 8:30 p.m. with havdalah membership. Tickets for the High Holidays and a movie, Contact, about the search are provided free of charge to all members for extra-terrestrial intelligence and about of Beth Israel. Non-members may purchase searching for answers to significant ques- tickets for the High Holiday Services. Those tions, seeking connections in the world and interested in further information are asked the role faith has in one’s life, and all critical to call the synagogue office at 665-9897. issues as the High Holy Days approaches. Pre-Yom Kippur study session Rosh Hashanah family celebration A pre-Yom Kippur study session entitled “Preparing for our Encounter with God: for young children Home Traditions for Erev Yom Kippur” will On Wednesday, September 12 from take place on Wednesday evening, September 4–4:45 p.m. in the Main Sanctuary, Beth 19, at 8 p.m., led by Rabbi Robert Dobrusin. Israel will offer its annual “Rosh Hashanah This discussion entails an exploration of the Family Celebration” – a program of stories, traditional customs for the day before Yom songs, dramatic games, and the blowing Kippur. These rituals have developed over of the shofar. The program is intended for the centuries and involve prayer, tzedaka, families with young children, although all a special blessing for the children, and tra- are welcome to attend. ditions relating to the meal before the fast. Rosh Hashanah family service for chil- They are intended to help Jews prepare in dren through third grade, and childcare/ moving and meaningful ways for the day to services for ages three and up. come. With some contemporary twists, these On the second day of Rosh Hashanah, rituals continue to be a spiritually moving a family service for children through third way to prepare for the day ahead. grade and their parents is set for 10:30 a.m. –noon at Vitosha Guest Haus, 1917 Washt- Baby Shabbat enaw Avenue, to be followed by a simple On Saturday, October 6, at a service that kiddush of challah, honey and apples. Alter- begins at 9:30 a.m., Baby Shabbat will be natively, childcare and Junior Congregation celebrated at Beth Israel. New babies born services are offered for all children ages three over the past year are officially welcomed by and up at Beth Israel Congreagation on the the congregation around 11:30 a.m. Babies first and second day of Rosh Hashanah, and are presented with T-shirts marking the date on Yom Kippur. of their upcoming bar/bat mitzvah year, fol- Yom Kippur services for 4th–7th lowed by a kiddush. graders, and 8th graders and high Introduction to Judaism series school teens Explore the philosophy and practice Services for 4th–7th graders at 2010 of Jewish holidays and life-cycle events on Washtenaw Avenue will be led by Deborah Tuesday evenings, beginning September 11 Ball, dean, of the School of Education and from 8–9:30 p.m. and ending December 18. William H. Payne collegiate professor in Topics will include gaining a better under- education at the University of Michigan. standing of why we keep kosher, observe There is also a separate teen service on Erev Shabbat, or wear a tallit (prayer shawl); how Yom Kippur, September 22, at 7 p.m. in the the tradition of bar and bat mitzvah got Beth Israel Chapel for students in 8th–12th started and what Jewish perspectives on the grades. afterlife may be. The group will study clas- sical Jewish texts as well as contemporary Free tickets for High Holidays for perspectives and provide an opportunity newcomers, special dues for those for discussion and journaling. This course is 35 and under open to anyone who is interested in conver- Individuals and families who have moved to Washtenaw County since October 3, 2006 Continued on next page
Jake Kander is new program director at BIC Jacob Kander has been hired as the new program director at Beth Israel Congregation. Kander is an alumnus of the University of Michigan. After graduating with a double major in psychology and film and video studies, he worked for the University of Michi- gan Hillel as the program associate. Kander then worked as the program director for Congregation Agudas Achim in Columbus, Ohio. While an undergraduate at U-M, Jake worked at the reli- September 2007 September gious schools for both Beth Israel Congregation and Temple Beth A Emeth, and was the Shabbat leader for the Jewish Community Center of Washtenaw County Early Childhood Center.
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is scheduled for every second and Tot Shabbat for Tot 3–5 year olds and their Morning Sukkot services will be held For the fourth on year in October a row, On the previous Oc evening, Saturday, All of Beth Israel’s events, with the ex Beth Israel Beth Israel previous from Continued page parents parents will meet on Saturday mornings September 8, and September 29 from 11 Shabbat a.m.–noon. on Tot September 8 is of director assistant Hirshbein, Peretz by led Washtenaw of Cener Community Jewish the on September 27 and 28 from at 9:30 a.m.– cel partAs of the congregation’s 12:15 p.m. will there beebration a luncheon of Sukkot, and Sukkot, of day first the on Sukkah the in Students of all a kiddush on the day. second the in join and attend to encouraged are ages to occurs which procession, etrog and lulav etrog and Lulav service. the of end the wards sets with instructions may be purchased the congregation. through 5, after the Simchat Shacharit Torah and there a.m., 8:30 at start which services Hallel will be a free pancake breakfast in the so cial hall from 9–10 a.m.for congregants and visitors, followed by the Hakafot, the Torah Tots service. the of rest the and processionals and their parents are invited to the pancake breakfast with the rest of the congregation, followed by a Simchat program Torah Tot them. for just tober 4, at 7:30 p.m. the congregation will mark the beginning of the Simchat Torah holiday with family-friendly proces Torah and snacks. sionals ception of High Holiday services limited space and securitydue concerns, are to openthegeneralto oftennoat community, cost. If you would like more information, call 665-9897. sion to Judaism, as well as to anyone wishing anyone to as well as Judaism, to sion to deepen his or her own understanding of by willled be class This tradition. Jewish the Rabbi Sara O’Donnell Adler and will meet for 15 sessions. There is a $100 fee for non- members. Shabbat Shabbat child care and Tot County’s September 29 by Jen Levine. Enjoy stories, puppets, songs, and a kiddush just for year olds and their parents. In general, Tot Shabbat fourth Shabbat of the month. There is no charge. Childcare for pre-schoolers aged from Saturday every offered is old years 2–5 10 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Sukkot activities Shabbat Sukkot dinner Tot are and family parents and their Tots in the them for a time just to invited 28 at 5:30 p.m., September on Sukkah This is one night dinner. a Friday including Shabbat of a series of of outside events Tot to families with allow which preschoolers observances. participate holiday in Jewish the general to open are All these events and required are Reservations community. the meal. for is a charge there and the International Simchat Torah Shul of Pancakes
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or or 665-4744 or Jill Pritts, Thursday, September Thursday, 13, Participants are welcome to bring their own their bring to welcome are Participants First Friday Shabbat Dinner Shabbat Friday First Di Adult Young us Join at the Federation and Twenties Thirties (TNT) of Temple September 26, Wednesday, 6 p.m. pizza Sukkah decorating followed by blessings Suk 11 a.m. 27, September On Thursday, Fall Fall Hikes: Sundays, September 23 and Join a new natural, social, spiritual and For For families with kids aged birth to five Join us for this wonderful preschool Birth preschool wonderful this for us Join ShabbatTot will be every week starting Join in every week for Tot Shabbat at Birthday Birthday of the World Tot Program dinner to the temple at 6 p.m.. A rousing service rousing A p.m.. 6 at temple the to dinner with Israeli dancing will be at 7 p.m. followed at by 8 Meditation and p.m. an Study Adult withSession Levy at 8:30 p.m. Rabbi vision (YAD)’s Shabbat in the Park on Friday, Friday, on Park the in Shabbat (YAD)’s vision El- contacting by RSVP p.m. 6 at 7 September at [email protected]. lisha Caplan Beth Emeth provides a welcoming, inclusive Jewish community through monthly social and cultural activities. Non-TBE members the at website Visit http://www. are welcome. templebethemeth.org/tnt for events, email [email protected] or upcoming call 665-4744. TBD. Cost socialthe in hall. saladand dinner led in by 7:30 Meditation sukkah. p.m. Judy Freedman. kot services with Yiskor will be followed by a light lunch. RSVP by calling 665-4744 by 21. September October 14, 11 a.m. 14, October ecological group now forming in Southwest (JHOM) Michigan of Hikers Jewish Michigan. Caring Emeth’s Beth Temple by sponsored is adult All anyone. to open is and Community The welcome. are children and singles couples, – on basis a on monthly place will take hikes exciting and different trails in the local area. All skill levels Bring are welcome. your back years years old. Older siblings and grandparents are welcome as always. Non members are welcome at all events. For more informa tion, contact Devon Fitzig, dfitzig@tem last will hike Each drinks. and munchies pack, approximately 1–1/2 to 2 hours. For further Simchat Torah Celebration Simchat Torah information, contact Eli at Eli contact information, [email protected]. email or 546-9645, site: http://www.templebethemeth.org/ Web tbe/jewish_hikers_of_michigan & ThirtiesTwenties (TNT) Event Sukkot Celebration Rosh Rosh Hashanah, in the TBE sanctuary. 2:30 p.m. - An Cantor with celebration World the of day This is open the to nie community andRose. needed. are no tickets 5 October Friday, 5:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 6 p.m. and Shira (Song Fest) at for 6:30 Tickets thep.m. $4 dinner (macaroni and cheese, fish sticks, applesauce and salad) can be purchased in 665- office, temple the contacting by advance is encouraged. purchase Advance 4744. of Michigan Jewish Hikers Families with Young Children with Young Families plebethemeth.org [email protected].
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discussion discussion Sayings of the Fathers) the of Sayings ( (Hardcover), edited (Hardcover), Pirke Avot Avot Pirke Healing Healing and the Jewish Imagination: Begins Sunday, October 14, 6:30–7:30 p.m. 14, October Begins Sunday, Celebrate the new moon/month in a (The two learning opportunities are sepa opportunitiesare learning (The two Instructors: Devon Fitzig & Rabbi 11 & 4, Nov. 21 28; and 14, Oct. Sundays, Cost: $25 for non-members, free for 1-2 p.m. 1-2 in p.m. the chapel following the Rab Fridays from noon–1 p.m., beginning on beginning from noon–1 p.m., Fridays the middle ofIn the Mishnah’s Mondays, October 8, 15, & 22, 7:30 p.m. & 22, 15, 8, October Mondays, This three-session class will examine Jew October 10, 17 & 24 10, October 14 & 28 7, November 12 & 19 5, December September 5, 19 & 26; October 3 at 8 p.m. p.m. 8 at 3 October 26; & 19 5, September rate. Students are invited to take one or both.) both.) or one take to invited are Students rate. on the Focuses 12. October Begins on Friday, - teach a withportion) (Torah parasha weekly ing Rabbi meditation. Levy by from followed All levels are welcome. Childcare may be with notice. advanced available sored by Caring Community and the TBE Sisterhood, each short service is followed by a discussion, study session, or special presentation. A complete service schedule is found at www.templebethemeth.org/tbe/ or service a lead to like you’d If rosh_chodesh. discussion, contact Abbie Egherman at 975- 0828 subscribe or To [email protected]. to the Rosh Chodesh email list, contact De von at [email protected] with notice. be advanced available may care meaningful gathering of women. Co-spon bi’s Pirke Avot course. course. Avot Pirke bi’s Robert Levy 10. Feb. 20 & 27; 13, 6, Jan. 9; Dec. 18; members. This course will cover Jewish the cycle life rituals; and customs ology;holidays, events; pre-modern history; history of the state of Israel and the Holocaust. Childcare with notice. be advanced available may ish ish perspectives on healing, exploring per collection a developing and experiences sonal of prayers and readings to use in our daily The booklives. will be available for purchase at TBE: Spiritual And Practical Perspectives On Juda Health And ism 12 October of civil law is a small collection of rabbinic philosophy. is a compilation of pithy rabbinic wisdom and can serve as a into the window rabbinic mind. Childcare may be available with ad notice. vanced Women’s Rosh Chodesh Rosh Women’s Basic Judaism Course Basic Friday afternoon Meditation and and Meditation afternoon Friday Levy, Rabbi with Learning William Cutter. Contact Devon Fitzig at 665- at Fitzig Devon Contact Cutter. William book. a sign4744 to up and purchase with Rabbi Avot Lunch & Learn: Pirke Levy Robert Imagination Jewish the and Healing Anniewith Cantor Rose Shem Tov, Shem translated Tov, by Jacob Immanuel Schochet. Contact Judy Freedman for more information at 769-1709 or freedmanjudy@ are: dates Class comcast.net. Torah) (Simchat ------— with —Sat , , Wednes Session may meet on
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Devon Fetzig, special to the WJN specialDevon the to Fetzig, Activities at Temple Beth Emeth Activities Temple at tember tember 22, 9 a.m. at Auditorium Pease (2nd floor) Septemberurday, 22, 1:30 p.m. in the TBE Chapel 8:30 p.m. 3, October Wednesday, brew Classes are on Wednesday evenings (be- evenings Wednesday on are Classes brew gins 10). October 8:50 at Saturdays chapel. TBE the in held tion a.m., followed by a lay-led chapel service at is fine. dress Casual (optional). 9:30 a.m. 9–4 p.m. Congregation. Israel feel comfortable with the Hebrew alphabet. This course is designed to teach the basics of Hebrew language reading. Become a - con fident Hebrew reader in one crash course. & TBE $60 included. are materials and Food BIC members/ $80 non-members. Register by calling 665-4744 by September 10. Adult begins in October Hebrew levels. Advanced & Intermediate ning, check with Conversational Devon. Thursday, Hebrew classes will be offered on Thursday evenings (begins October 11). Winter and fall ofthe continuation a are semesters spring information, more for or form a For semester. visit www.templebethemeth.org/tbe/adult_ calling 665-4744. by Register education. Rabbi Levy begins on September 1, weekly at at weekly 1, September on begins Levy Rabbi 8:50 a.m. Holiday Adult Study Sessions (no (no Sessions Study Adult Holiday required): tickets Fall Adult Learning at Learning Adult TBE Fall days 7:30–8:45 p.m. days be- Wednesdays most Chapel TBE the in place will The class the study ginning 5. September and Baal his Shem writings. Tov The book is Tzava’at entitled is It Amazon. from available of Baal Israel Rabbi The Testament Harivash, ed by Yaron Zilberman ed that by Yaron features women team swim Hakoah Viennese Jewish the from during the rise of fascism in 1930s Austria. The film describes the success women’s as athletes leading up to the Anschluss of 1938 when the swimmersAustria tofled disparate Unit the and England, Palestine, in locations ed States. The documentary ends with some returning team swim the from women ofthe 65 for at later a years theirreunion Vienna to old swimming pool. tember 18, 1-3 p.m. 1-3 p.m. 18, tember Monthly Film and Discussion series held on afternoons from Tuesday 1 to 3 p.m.. Coffee and noshes provided. Childcare is available with advanced usu notice. Movie Tuesdays month. ofthe Tuesday third the on occur ally . film is Watermarks The September
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Youth leadership training thrives at Habonim Dror Camp Tavor Emily Eisbruch, staff writer n recent years Habonim-Dror Camp Then, during the last four weeks of the sum- Tavor has earned a reputation as an out- mer, we were each assigned to a tent or cabin. Istanding Jewish camp attracting many We lived with the campers and helped with Ann Arbor kids. This summer 35 Ann Ar- the daily routine and created programs and bor families sent 57 young people to Camp Tavor. Among those were seven Ann Arbor high school students who par- Trust the cosmetic surgery experts. ticipated in an ex- citing transitional With so many options in cosmetic surgery procedures summer at Camp Tavor. These young and restorative treatments, it’s more important than ever people (Judy and to get the facts from board-certified plastic surgeons. Sophia Blumen- thal, Adam Funk, Maya Lamm, Ma- Call for a confidential consultation: 734 712-2323 tan Naamani, Ce- leste Tannenbaum Paul Izenberg, MD and Yoni Siden) had outgrown the David Hing, MD Maya Lamm, Judy Blumenthal, Yoni Siden, and Sophia Blumenthal status of “camper,” Richard Beil, MD and they weren’t Daniel Sherick, MD yet full-fledged counselors. They were enter- activities for them. It was a fantastic experi- CENTER FOR PLASTIC & ing the 12th grade and this was their Madatz ence. We all learned a huge amount and had Board certified by the RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY American Board of Plastic Surgery summer at Camp Tavor. an amazing time.” Madatz is Camp Tavor’s intensive coun- Matan Naamani, a senior at Pioneer High, Reichert Health Center, Suites 5001 & 5008, Ann Arbor Offices in Brighton, Chelsea, and Saline selor in training and leadership development mentions that one of the highlights of his program. (The word Madatz is an acronym Madatz experience was being co-chair of a for Madrichim Tzi’irim or “young counsel- Madatz project. Naamani explains, “Each ors.”) Camp Tavor—located two hours west year, the Madatzim do a project to enhance of Ann Arbor near Three Rivers, Michigan— the camp and to leave a mark on the camp for Washtenaw Jewish News is well-known for empowering young people future campers to remember and enjoy. This 1/4 Page Color Ad September 20 07 “Trust the Cosmetic Surgery Experts” through its emphasis on leadership. Accord- summer, we decided to build a campsite for the ing to Camp Tavor’s Executive Director Shel- younger kids. It included a working fire pit and ley Goldwater, “We focus on letting kids have a lakefront to park canoes. We also built a ga- Production: Contact B LaLonde 734 786-1501 fun and be themselves, while also cultivating zebo structure in the camp’s garden.” [email protected] leadership skills and building a strong sense of Now that Madatz 2007 is behind them, community and connectedness.” Naamani and Tannenbaum are looking for- This summer, the Madatz program at- ward to being two of this year’s leaders of Ken Placement: Gina Thompson 734 712-7416 tracted 25 high school seniors-to-be from Pardes, the local Ann Arbor chapter of Ha- around the Midwest, including seven from bonim. Ken Pardes offers monthly programs Ann Arbor. While the head counselors (Mad- to the Ann Arbor area youth, including Shab- richim) at Camp Tavor are all college-aged bat dinners, holiday celebrations, and social or older, the Madatz program provides an action events and outings. The group—open excellent training and learning environment to all school-age kids—is known for being for high school students. Many will be fu- welcoming, fun, and promoting informal, ture Tavor counselors or a leaders in the local creative education. Naamani and Tannen- youth group. The Madatz summer features baum agree the Madatz summer experience three weeks of focused leadership training at Camp Tavor helped them understand followed by four weeks of hands-on involve- clearly how to develop and implement suc- ment with younger campers, all supervised by cessful programs for younger kids. n experienced, veteran counselors. For more information on the activities offered University of Michigan senior Yelena Adel- by the Ken Pardes youth group this year, contact man was one of the counselors supervising Sophia Blumenthal at 769-1153 or Matan Naa- Camp Tavor’s 2007 Madatz program. Adel- mani at 904-6578. To learn more about Habonim man grew up in Saline and went through the Camp Tavor, call Ron Sussman at 971-1147 or Madatz program at Camp Tavor in 2003. She visit the website at www.camptavor.org. comments, “The Madatz 2007 participants were an incredible group. My role was to help them develop new leadership skills. I found it really gratifying watching them each develop and seeing the positive impact they had with the younger campers.”
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A now a Huron High senior, says, “During the first three weeks of the summer, all of the Madatzim lived together and had activities on how to interact with the campers and what kind of example to set. The role-playing we did really helped us gain confidence. We also Celeste Tannenbaum and Matan Naamani put the campers to bed one night each week. participated in the Madatz Program. Washtenaw Jewish News Jewish News Washtenaw 20 Washtenaw Jewish News A September 2007 21 I Youth
Hebrew Day School hires six new staff members Dina Shtull, special to the WJN ne of the many wonderful quali- (BA, Biology, magna cum laude, 1997). She “I am looking forward to meeting all the teach- and his family moved to Ann Arbor this sum- ties about Ann Arbor is the wealth has a California State multi-subject teaching ers and students at HDS and becoming part of mer. His wife will teach Hebrew at the U-M, and Oof professional talent that it both credential from the Bay Area Teacher Training your community. It seems like a very warm and his oldest child will join the kindergarten class at attracts and retains. Hebrew Day School is Institute. Lempert has coached synchronized welcoming environment,” said Leibovich. Hebrew Day School. “During my visits to Ann fortunate to be benefiting from Ann Arbor’s Arbor,” shared Sasson, “I could feel the power veteran professionals, as well as new profession- of a large, vivid, and welcoming community, als who have just moved to town. This year, the in which I plan to establish my new home. It is school has hired six new professionals. Hebrew both a privilege and an honor to become a part Day School’s returning teachers are looking of the HDS family, and it is also a mission for forward to working collaboratively with these me to preserve the Jewish heritage by teaching excellent additions to the team. Hebrew, Judaic, and Torah.” Barbara Bergman has been hired as a special Hebrew Day School has also hired two mu- education teacher. Bergman has a long history sicians to help teach the school’s expanded in- with HDS; her children attended the school in strumental program funded primarily by the its early years, and she served as president of Benard L. Maas Foundation. Debra Gombert the board. Bergman has over 30 years of expe- has been hired to teach the fourth grade re- rience working as a language arts consultant in corder and music theory class. She will also lead Ann Arbor’s public and private schools, with the school’s Klez Kids Band. Gombert works as specific assignments at Thurston, Eberwhite, a musician in many Ann Arbor organizations. Carpenter, and Freeman. She was a classroom She is a song leader for the JCC’s Early Child- teacher at Northside and Logan schools, and hood Center, teaches recorder, Kindermusik, a teacher consultant assigned to Burns Park, and Music Play classes for the Ann Arbor School Mitchell, St. Francis, Dicken, and most recently for the Performing Arts, and is a music therapist Ann Arbor Open, where she managed the spe- with Building Bridges Therapy Center in Plym- cial education program for the last nine years. outh where she works with autistic children and Bergman has worked extensively with teach- children with learning disabilities. Gombert has ers, parents, and directly with students in the a B.A. in Music Therapy from Eastern Michigan classroom and in one-on-one sessions. “I am University, and she studied flute performance thrilled about my newest involvement with at the U-M School of Music. Her background New HDS teachers Rear: Uzi Sasson, Mark Schuppener. Front: Dahlia Leibovich, the staff, students and families of HDS,” said includes other disciplines as well; she has an Barbara Bergman, Debra Gombert. Not pictured: Leah Lempert. Bergman. “As a former parent and past presi- M.A. in computer science from the University dent, I am aware of the great value HDS plays swimming, and she plays piano, clarinet and Uzi Sasson will be Hebrew Day School’s fifth of Wisconsin and a B.A. in mathematics from in the Jewish community, and I am excited to cello. She remembers, as a youth, going to He- grade Hebrew and Judaic Studies teacher. Sasson Vassar College. be a part of it.” brew school in the JCC building. is completing his Ph.D. in administration and Joining Gombert will be Mark Schuppener, Leah Kessler Lempert has been hired as a Dahlia Leibovich has been hired as the leadership studies from Indiana University of who will teach and direct Hebrew Day School’s curriculum specialist and classroom assistant school’s database manager and support staff Pennsylvania. His article “Religious Education fifth grade instrumental string program, also for the school’s lower grades. Lempert grew up for marketing, recruitment, and development. and Community Involvement among Jewish funded through the Benard L. Maas Founda- in Ann Arbor and is excited to be back, now Leibovich has an M.A. from Harvard’s Gradu- Adolescents” has been accepted for publication tion. Schuppener received both his M.A. and with her new husband. She is moving to Ann ate School of Education, with a specialization in the Fall 2007/Spril 2008 issue of Religious Ph.D. in violin performance (2007) from the Arbor from San Francisco, where she taught life in the arts. Her varied professional experiences Education. While working on his Ph.D., Sasson U-M. He is on the faculty of the Ann Arbor sciences and general studies at Town School include being a studio educator for an early taught Hebrew and Israel advocacy at the Agen- School for the Performing Arts, directs the for Boys. Previously, Lempert worked at the childhood center, a designer and researcher cy for Jewish Learning in Pittsburgh, and he string youth program at St. Francis of Assisi, Exploratorium in San Francisco where she led for an obesity prevention program sponsored volunteered for Young Judaea. A native Israeli, plays in three area orchestras, and is a violin biology demonstrations and maintained the by the Heinz Foundation, a library archivist, he has an M.A. from Tel Aviv University where coach for the Michigan Youth Symphony and exhibits. She has also tutored math, Spanish, and a development assistant for the Society for he majored in political science and philosophy. the U-M Residential College. n French, and English, and taught high school Contemporary Art in Pittsburgh. Leibovich at- He also has a graduate certificate in Entrepre- For more information about Hebrew Day English grammar in Bucharest, Romania. She tended Jewish day school through 12th grade. neurship and Innovation from the Swinburne School, call 971-4633 or browse the website at was a teaching assistant in French and Biology She is in Ann Arbor while her husband studies University of Technology in Australia. Sasson www.hdsaa.org. while she was a student at Carleton College at the University of Michigan Medical School. was an officer in the Israeli Defense Forces. He Darbuka Day at Tamarack Camps HDS staff, special to the WJN he weather could not have cooperat- Naddaf. Before they knew it, they were play- mance. Observers couldn’t ed better with a group of 50 children, ing in concert, and raising the darbukas in joy help but get up and dance. Tadults, and grandparents who spent at the completion of a musical set. A master Darbuka Day wasn’t Darbuka Day at Tamarack Camps on July 22. of the instrument, teacher Naddaf is an Ar- only about drumming. andWhat ethics is Darbuka for centuries. Day, you might ask? It was a ab-Israeli from Nazareth who is one of the Encouraged by Tamarack day to learn how to play the darbuka, a hand founding members of Shesh-Besh, a group of staff, many reached the drum of ancient origin used in a wide vari- eight musicians: four Jewish musicians from top of the camp’s climb- ety of traditional near Eastern music. Open the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra and four ing wall, swam in the to the community, the day was sponsored of Israel’s best Arab-Israeli musicians. The lake, took out a kayak, or by the Hebrew Day School of Ann Arbor group performs worldwide delivering a mu- jumped off the “iceberg” under a grant from the Kellogg Foundation. sical message of hope for peace. Bishara also tower floating in the lake. “The goal was to experience a day of fellow- teaches and performs for Arab and Jewish The families had a pic- ship through music,” says Dina Shtull, head children in Israel, teaching the value of coex- nic lunch together, and of Hebrew Day School. “Kellogg recognizes istence through his music. spent time in the camp’s that the lives of children, families, and com- “At first, I was a little resistant to learning Pioneer Village making Raising Darbukas after a musical set September 2007 September munities can be improved through culture how to play a drum,” said Anat Hodish, who doughnuts and candles, A and creative programming. We are grateful along with her husband, Israel, and two children spinning rope, taking in a hay ride, and pet- of activities that parents can share with their to Kellogg for allowing us to offer this kind Gal and Yonatan, participated in Darbuka Day. ting the camp’s horse. children? Everyone I talked with hoped we of programming to our community.” “But Bishara was so warm and welcoming, and “The HDS-sponsored Darbuka Day was could have another event like this next year.” n Sitting in the shade of a willow tree, par- in the end, it was a lot fun, a great, enjoyable ex- a wonderful opportunity for families to enjoy ticipants adjusted the darbuka under their perience.” Children and adults each had a sepa- time together on a gorgeous summer day,” said For more information about Hebrew Day right or left dominant arm, and repeated the rate session with Bishara, who then brought Pamela Ramseyer. “How better to bring the School and its programs, contact 971-4633 or browse www.hdsaa.org. 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The JCC is offering birthday party pack Kids’ Konnection, a Konnection, Kids’ child comprehensive The Jewish Community Center of Washt Fast and Fun Floor Hockey is a fast-paced will Photography how teach Perfect Picture serve to how children teaches Tennis Terrific to open are and weeks six for run classes All The JCC program provides a safe and nur For more and information a registration ages ages for children between the ages of two and ten years old. JCC parties include a coordina staff tor, assistant, party room, party activities - paper table goods, decorations, and materials, is bring to need you All drinks. and pizza cloths, child. and the birthday cake the birthday enaw enaw County is offering a series of enrichment youth classes beginning the week of October 8. Abrakadoodle Art is an innovative multi-media art education program that uses The Art. styleofProcess artinstructioncalleda learning are children what on focuses instructor This art. their of creating “process” the through through creativity fosters of style instruction experimentation art in new techniques. game that teaches children to work as a team, strategize and exhibit good It’s sportsmanship. also tons of fun and improves a hand- child’s coordination. eye take a to contrast, balance focus, panoramic shot and even learn how the parts of a camera pho frame will their to able be Children work. tos and have their own Assistant Campshow. will Nate Bankirer, Director, be the instructor this class. for a tennis ball like All a ofpro. the basics of - ten will Participants class. this in covered be will nis learn to serve, position volley, themself on the against opponent. their court and score children in kindergarten through fifth grades. For a class schedule, fees and more details re fer to the JCC Chai Lights publication or call 971-0990. Center Community Jewish the at program care Countyof for Washtenaw children from kin drop-in a dergarten to fifth grade,features activities, after-school In Out-JCC’s School’s care, service and transportation from some area el ementary schools. Staff planned children. for turing environment and supervised activities give children the op portunity to imagine, create and Artsexplore. and crafts, cooking, science projects, sports, outdoor play, Judaic programming, drama, monthly themes and nutritious snacks are all willprograms exciting and New fun. the ofpart provid is assistance Homework offered. be also ed daily at 5:15 A p.m. schedule of snacks and and bi-weekly posted, are regularly activiites emails keep parents up-to-date. Children en Konnection rolled in Kids’ the JCC Enrichment Kindergarten attend to invited are Program tuition. at a prorated at 4 p.m. form, contact Craig Pollack at craigpollack@ 971-0990. or jccfed.org JCC youth activities youth JCC special the WJN to Pollack, Craig to to choose from and parties can be scheduled schedule To evenings. weekday and Sundays on at DeYoung Noreen contact party, preschool a at For [email protected]. email or 971-0990 Pollack Craig contact parties kids’ age school [email protected]. email 971-0990 or It’s partyIt’s time at the JCC New year of Kids’ Konnection year begins New JCC Fall Youth Enrichment Classes Youth Fall JCC ------All 17 submissions from 12 artists, ages JFS Cards can Tribute be sent in honor All donations collected from these Trib JFS tribute cards JFS tribute special the WJN to Lessure, Carol Coun Washtenaw ofServices Family Jewish month last cards Tribute new its out rolled ty featuring designs from four young artists: Bridget Roberts, age 4 from Gretchen’s House; Mira age Kaufman, 7, Hebrew Day age 15 School; from Robert Huron Axelrod, High School; and Melissa (Buffy) Meiller, High School. Community from 17, age 4 to 17 years old, were displayed at the JFS Bat Mitzvah Cruise celebration on April 22, adornand currently the halls at the new JFS Artist office. Jon Lockard worked with the Card committee Tribute to select four win En groups. age all representing designs ning ofthe interpretation beautiful a offered tries events. and lifecycle themes Jewish or in memory of one a or loved on a special occasion. The cards are available for single sets and tributes can or bein boxed ordered via the JFS website at www.jfsannarbor.org, mail. or 769-0209, phone ute cards will help fund JFS services for in dividuals and families in need throughout County. Washtenaw Youth artistsYouth featured on Ethical Start Traditions Pajama PartyEthical Start Pajama Traditions All JCC Early Childhood Center three and four year old children and their parents are invited to attend an evening of traditions from 6 September Thursday on learning and 6–7:30 at p.m. the Jewish Community Cen The ter. cost is $10.00 per which family, in child and dinner pizza a program, the cludes siblings. younger for care Families are asked to bring in an object that represents a value or tradition they want to card a with along children their to along pass explaining their item. Children are encour this event. pajamas to wear aged to Ethical Start” Program The“An will be in troduced to all of the parents with the help of the children and teachers. “An Ethical is Start” a curriculum designed by a team at the Jewish Community Center Association that teaches ethics to young children. 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This Kindermusik class will class a pres This provide Kindermusik Kindermusik Kindermusik for Child the helps Young For more information or to sign up for Are Are you wondering how to raise self-reliant, and compassionate, ethical Jewish children? Explore these issues and gain insight and support from other moms as we read and discuss The Blessing of a Skinned Knee by Wendy Mogul. New classes are forming to discuss the book, which addresses such top ics as the challenges faced by as parents they try to uphold their own values that are of ten at odds with the current culture, using a Jewish lens to understand ways to define appropriate expectations, helping your chil dren realize their potential without creating priv between connection the learning stress, and more. ileges and responsibilities This group is co-sponsoredEarly Childhood Center and Jewish Federa by the JCC Adult Division. Child Young care willtion’s be available, and coffee and snacks will be information more For session. each at served at 971-0990. DeYoung call Noreen New Jewish Mamas at Groups forming New ECC Kids at last years Sukkah last years Kids at ECC
Rachel Rosenthal, specialRachel the to Rosenthal, News from the Early Childhood Center News enaw County enaw will host for Kindermusik the Child, taught by Young Linda Anderson on 10 through September December Mondays, $300, is class the for cost The p.m. 4:10 at 17 all materials. includes which New KindermusikNew class special the WJN to Aisner, Halye The Jewish Community Center of Washt sure-free, sure-free, developmentally appropriate transi tion to opportunity musical before an taking on more formal provides class This instruction. to explore development, voice, rhythm, nota tion, musical symbols, and authentic - pre-key string and woodwind instruments. board, voice joyful confident, a everydevelop child for singing and speaking as well as - essen tial building blocks for a future of learning. Students explore many facets of the musi cal experience: speaking, singing, moving, dancing, listening, creating and playing in reading learningabout as well as struments, and writing music. As the capstone to the Kindermusik journey, the class broadens and deepens the introduction child’s to the of musicianship. excitement fulfillment and the JCC at 971-0990. contact the class, I Youth
JCC Raanana hosts Friendship Carnival Craig Pollack, special to the WJN he Jewish Community Center of Washtenaw County’s Camp Raanana had another fabulous summer of fun in the sun at Independence Lake. Sports, arts and crafts, swim Tlessons, nature classes, singing and drama, field trip, theme days, Judaic programs and singing and drama kept a record number of campers excited and busy throughout the summer. A special highlight of the summer was a Friendship Carnival put together by Raanana campers and staff for the mentally and physically challenged campers at High Point School. Thanks to a “Day of Caring-Day of Sharing” grant awarded to Camp Raanana by the Coca-Cola Company, July 31 became a day of new friendships, laughter, learning and sharing that the campers will remember for years to come. Camp Raanana worked in collaboration with High Point to design a carnival that would foster a positive interaction between the special needs campers at High Point and the Raanana camp- ers. During the week leading up to the carnival, High Point campers visited Raanana campers at Independence Lake and played games and made art projects with them. Raanana campers were introduced to the types of special needs camp- ers they would meet at the event through open dialogues with High Point educators and Raanana staff. The Raanana campers were instrumen- tal in organizing and implementing of the carnival activities. Camp Raanana was fortunate to forge an additional partnership with Chris Nordman Associates; a professional carnival company with a history of working with the special needs community. Aside from carnival games, Camp Raanana offered the campers at High Point a giant slide, an inflatable obstacle course, a moonwalk, a dunk tank and snow cones and cotton candy. Prizes were also distributed to all of the participants. Including the Camp Raanana participants, the age range varied from 5 to 13 years old, with a total popula- tion between the two camps of 20 campers PERFORMANCE Children’s and 40 staff members. NETWORK The Friendship Carnival was a huge suc- cess. Friendships and a sense of community THEATRE Theatre were fostered between the two camps. The Raanana campers came away from the ex- Network perience with a new sense of understanding and acceptance of the many differences and similarities that make the Ann Arbor com- munity so special. In fact, during the event, several Raanana campers asked if the kids from other camps that were on the High Point property that day could come over and join the fun. Honey Creek and Gretchen’s House joined the festivities. For the High Point camp- ers, the carnival represented an opportunity to interact with other children from the community in a non-threatening environment. Moreover, this provided a chance to spend an afternoon just having fun. n