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In search of Janet, I get full exposure BY MITCH ALBOM, DETROIT FREE PRESS COLUMNIST February 4, 2004 With all the fuss over Janet Jackson’s exposed breast during halftime of the Super Bowl, I figured I’d better get a second look. But it wasn’t easy. First I went to my TV, where I had taped…

Operation Bubbe is an effort to recruit Jews unhappy with the leadership in Washington who live in northeastern “safe states” to travel to Florida for the five day weekend before Election Day as Get Out The Vote (GOTV) volunteers to make sure Jewish retirees get to the polls. Once in Florida, volunteers will participate in…

Originally published in the Observer & Eccentric Newspapers Congregation Beit Kodesh growing for the futureBY LINDA ANN CHOMIN Phyllis Lewkowicz couldn’t be happier about welcoming new members to the family at Congregation Beit Kodesh in Livonia. Several months ago, she and members of the temple had formed a Save Our Synagogue committee. When Lewkowicz first…

There is a Hebrew saying: ma’aseh avot siman l’banim — the actions of the father is a sign for the children. Otherwise stated as “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” Here is Detroit Free Press columnist Mitch Albom on Mel Gibson and his father’s anti-Semitic views: “The son must refute father’s hateful rants”…

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From Edah On March 26, 2000, Pope John Paul II came to Jerusalem, to the heart of Israel, to that city to which all Jewish hearts have turned for 2000 years. He came to the Western Wall, adjacent to the Temple Mount. He placed a prayer in the Western Wall. It read: God of our…