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culate last month after word
spread that Jakks, a former
dinner and dance restaurant,
was reportedly sold to the
owner of a topless bar.
Licht's Farmington Hills of-
fice did confirm the space had
been rented but would not
reveal the name of the new te-
nant, saying only the new te-
nant does own many bars and
restaurants, one of which is a
topless bar. "The landlord
will not allow what the peo-
ple have signed against," said
Licht. "I'm too involved in the
Jewish community to let
anything happen."
The new outfit will be more
of a bar than a
restaurant."They're not into
dinners," Licht said. "The
food is insignificant. They're
stressing liquor and drinks."
But for some, the idea of a
bar, with or without tops, is
unsettling. "I don't agree to
have a topless bar or any bar,"
said Weiss, who has written
to state representative David
Gubow (D-Hunting Woods) to
protest the potential opening
of a topless bar. (Gubow said
he was looking into the mat-
ter.) "We are afraid," said
Weiss. "We are afraid of
drunks. We'd appreciate it if
the landlord would change his
mind and put in the same
thing as before."
Despite Licht's claims to
the contrary, several people
remain suspicious of the new
owner, suggesting he will rent
the space as a regular bar and
six months later he'll turn it
into a strip joint.
Licht assured that it won't
happen.
"If he tries to deviate from
what he's supposed to have,"
Licht warned, "he's not going
to have a lease."
Should a topless bar open,
Borenstein's owner Avram
Borenstein said he'd consider
taking legal action.
"I don't want a place that's
not family oriented," he said.
"We can manage very nicely
without such
establishments."
Licht's office at first refus-
ed to comment on the issue,
calling it "office business."
However, later Licht agreed to
speak to The Jewish News,
saying, "I don't want to make
this anything more than it
is."
In light of all the fuss that's
been made, Licht said, "I just
wish the people had checked
with me first."
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said. "As long as there is the
ability to have children, it is
a God-given responsibility to
bring children into the world.
Contraceptives are allowed
only when a woman's life is at
stake. Sterilization is not
allowed. This applies equally
to the male as to the female.
However, if a life is at stake,
sterilization is sometimes
permissible."
That same concept applies
to abortion, which is strictly
prohibited unless the
mother's life is threatened,
Rabbi Silberberg explained.
Jewish law says that when
performed by a non-Jew, abor-
tion — "killing a person
within a person" — is murder,
and is a capital offense, the
rabbi said. For this reason,
Orthodox jews are opposed to
Medicaid abortions.
Prof. Frymer-Kensky took a
different view of reproductive
rights, believing that the con-
ditions under which the Or-
thodox doctrine was
developed may no longer
apply.
"We have three important
goals," Frymer-Kensky said.
"The first is procreation.
Judaism is gloriously pro-
natalistic. The second goal is
sexuality. The third is family.
The nuclear family is the
basic unit of Jewish life. In
ancient times, these three
goals — marriage, sexuality
and fertility — were intercon-
nected."
In pre-modern times, 50
percent of all women died in
childbirth, and the rate of
death of newborns and spon-
taneous abortions was great,
Frymer-Kensky said. Thus,
girls had to marry at 12 or 13
and have a large number of
pregnancies in order to pro-
duce as many healthy
children as possible. But
these conditions no longer ex-
ist, and it may no longer be
necessary to have a complete
bond between sexuality and
procreation, she said.
The use of contraceptives
can be looked at as a question
of intent, explained
Frymer-Kensky.
"There is a sense that you
should not seek to avoid hav-
ing children," she said. "But
you can use contraceptives to
facilitate having children in a
way that will be healthier to
the children and the mother."
The health of the mother is
also the major consideration
in abortion, Frymer-Kensky
believes.
"There are good grounds for
saying that the choice has to
be open to women," she said.
"We cannot make women
vessels of reproduction. We
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