CONTENTS

OPINION

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CLOSE-UP

Left Wing Gadfly

DAVID HOLZEL
New Jewish Agenda members
say the group is misunderstood.

Cover Photo: NJA member Ed Pintzuk

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LIFESTYLES

Multi-Careers

CARLA JEAN SCHWARTZ
Renee Mahler loves music and dance
. . . and working with the elderly.

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BUSINESS

ADing Up

KIMBERLY LIFTON
Adcraft Club and Wayne State
honor Michelson and Simons.

George Bush

Michael Dukakis

Who Deserves The Jewish Vote?

True Friend Of Israel

Pro-Israel Record

DAVID SOBELSOHN

DEBBIE K. SCHLUSSEL

ighty percent of America's
Jewish voters in 1960 voted
for John F. Kennedy. Even in the
Republican landslides of 1972 and 1984, a
large majority of our community voted for
the Democratic nominee.
The tradition of Jewish support for the
Democratic Party makes sense. For more
than 50 years, on issue after issue —
church-state relations, civil rights, educa-
tion, health care — the positions of the
Democratic Party have been the positions
of the Jewish community in America.
This year is no different. The positions
of the Democratic nominee are our posi-
tions. His views are our views. His values
are our values.
lb understand the stakes in this elec-
tion, one need only recall the U.S. Supreme
Court's 1984 decision upholding a
government-sponsored nativity scene; the
Court called a creche merely a "symbol of
a particular historic religious event!' Such
an attitude is reminiscent of the days when
the Supreme Court proclaimed that "this
is a Christian nation!'
I do not want to return to those days.
With several Supreme Court vacancies
looming, I want a president who opposes
state-sponsored school prayer and subsidiz-
ing parochial schools. I want a president
who agrees that Thomas Jefferson's call for
a "wall of separation" between church and
state "is as valid today as when he pro-
nounced it 200 years ago!'
Mike Dukakis said that.

n Nov. 8, American voters will be
answering vital policy questions:
Does America want to maintain
and expand upon the greatest peacetime
economic growth and opportunity, in-
cluding some of the lowest levels of
unemployment and inflation? Or should it
return to the languishing, woeful economy
produced by the failed tax and spend
policies of the liberal welfare state?
Does America want to remain in a posi-
tion of leadership and strength abroad en-
couraging and aiding the cause of freedom
and human rights, or should it once again
don the "Kick Me" sign of the blame
America first crowd on its back?
Those who choose peace and prosperi-
ty through strength will choose George
Bush. Under the Reagan/Bush team,
America is on the move again both at home
and around the world. When elected, Bush
will continue to build upon the great ac-
complishments that he and President
Reagan achieved.
There is one fundamental difference
between Bush and Michael Dukakis, which
applies domestically as well as interna-
tionally: When Bush sees a problem, he
sees opportunity, and when Dukakis sees
opportunity, he sees a problem.
On election day, Jewish voters will
answer another question: Should America
continue its strong support for Israel, while
continuing to stand tough against
Palestine Liberation Organization ter-
rorism abroad and combatting anti-

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David Sobelsohn is a Detroit attorney
specializing in constitutional law.

Debbie K. Schlussel is national youth vice
chairman, George Bush for President

EDUCATION

A Reform Yavneh

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HEIDI PRESS
The new Reform day school
is taking shape in West Bloomfield.

ENTERTAINMENT

'Melaniesomething'

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MICHAEL ELKIN
History has
repeated itself
in acting roles
for Melanie Mayron.

LIFE IN ISRAEL

More Than A Spy

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HELEN DAVIS
Israel's new space satellite
puts the world on notice.

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AROUND TOWN

Knowing Noah

A photographic look
at a family Bible story.

Cover photo: Irvin Schlussel, Seth Jacobson

DEPARTMENTS

14 Frontlines
34 Inside Washington
46 Sports
64 For Women
82 Cooking
92 Ann Arbor

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On Campus
Youth
Engagements
Births
Single Life
Obituaries

CANDLELIGHTING

6:25 p.m.
October 21, 1988
Sabbath ends Oct. 22: 7:29 p.m.

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

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