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EXPERIENCE JEWISH HISTORY
ON MARCH OF THE LIVING
APRIL 18 MAY 4, 1990

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Present
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YOU ARE OUR FUTURE
TEENS 16.20

This spring 3,000 Jewish youth from Israel, South America, North
America, Western and Eastern Europe, Australia and South Africa
will gather in Poland on Yom Ha Shoah (Holocaust Remembrance
Day), and Yom Ha'atzmaut (Israel Independence Day) in Israel.

Registration Deadline February 2

Scholarships Available

For further information, please call

Rabbi Bruce Aft
Agency for Jewish Education, 352-7117
Renee Wohl, Director, A.J.E. Resource Center
will accompany the group.

THERE ARE ONLY
229 DAYS LEFT
UNTIL
ROSII HASHANAH*

* But you don't have to wait until then to feel Jewish.

Try

IN A JEWISH WAY

Learn how to make a Shabbat candle-stick holder
How to make your home a touch or a ton more traditional
How to hang a Mezzuzah or a Kosher salami
How to cook Jewish foods and how to eat them
Walk away with something more than just heartburn
Walk away with a Jewish heart
For the novice or the maven
For the Jew by Choice or the Jew by Birth
The entire community is welcome!

Sunday, January 28th
From 2-4 P.M.
Temple Shir Shalom
5642 Maple Road*
West Bloomfield

**Just a little east of Bloomfield Charlie's

Presented by J.E.F.F. and the families of Temple Shir Shalom

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1990

Jerusalem Post

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nothing to do with Erwin
Frenkel's resignation.
Unfortunately, a small
group of senior journalists
used that event to advance
their own agenda."
He pledged in writing to
respect the Post's editorial
independence.
Meanwhile, the Post rebels
are using the well- or-
chestrated publicity they
drummed up to raise
millions of dollars to start a
rival daily newspaper in
English.
And a "third force" is
taking shape in the form of a
new weekly, headed by Hir-
sh Goodman, that is ex-
pected to hit the stands this
summer. Goodman secured
multi-million-dollar backing
for his enterprise, and has
already snared some of
Israel's best journalists
—such as Ehud Ya'ari and
Ze'ev Schiff, and even Natan
Sharansky — for his staff. ❑

`Post' Appoints
Gross Editor

Jerusalem (JTA) — The
Jerusalem Post has named
David Gross, a 66-year-old
British-born journalist, as
its new managing editor.
Gross joined the Post in
1950.
The appointment was an-
nounced less than a week
after Post publisher Yehuda

Levy fired more than 20
senior staff members, in-
cluding Managing Editor
David Landau, in a dispute
over editorial policy.
The dispute led to a joint
letter of resignation from the
staff members to David
Radler, chairman of the
Canada-based Hollinger
newspaper chain, which
bought the Post last April.

'Post' Chief
Vows Respect

Tel Aviv (JTA) — A skep-
tical staff has been assured
by Yehuda Levy, publisher
and president of the
Jerusalem Post, that he will
respect the editorial in-
dependence of Israel's only
English-language daily.
Levy, who fired 28 senior
staff members on Jan. 2
after they complained he
was interfering in editorial
matters, informed readers in
a front-page article Jan. 11
that the dispute at the Post
has been resolved.
A staff committee repre-
senting all editorial
employees was authorized to
negotiate a written com-
mitment from Levy to
respect their editorial integ-
rity and to reinstate any of
the 28 dismissed staffers
who wanted to return.

NEWS

Czech Jews Mirror
National Political Shifts

New York (JTA) — Caught
up in the rapid bid for
freedom in Czechoslovakia,
a leader of the Jewish com-
munity who was criticized
for supporting the Commu-
nist regime has resigned his
post.
Bchumil Heller, who was
president of the Council of
Jewish Religious Com-
munities in Bohemia and
Moravia, resigned his posi-
tion Nov. 27, partially in
response to a petition cir-
culated that day among the
Jewish community in
Prague.
However, the secretary of
the entire Council of Jewish
Religious Communities of
Czechoslovakia, who was
also asked to step down, did
not do so.
"What you see in the
Czech Jewish community is
a mirror of what is happen-
ing in the general Czech
population," said Elan
Steinberg, World Jewish

Congress executive director.
The changes come as the
Communist Party is volun-
tarily relinquishing its 41-
year monopoly on power in
the country and allowing
non-Communist ministers
into a new Cabinet.
Steinberg said Heller, an
elderly man, resigned in
part because of poor health.

Synagogues Get
Security Rules

New York (JTA) — The
United Synagogue of
America announced that it
is circulating guidelines for
improved security ar-
rangements to its affiliated
congregations all over the
United States.
The move was prompted by
the recent mail bombs at-
tributed to anti-civil rights
activists on the far right.
Congregations are urged to
be in touch with police.

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