DETROIT

PHIL JACOBS

Managing Editor

B

y week number
two, The Jewish
News vas already
the talk of Detroit in and
out of the Jewish commu-
nity. Editorials welcoming
the new publication were
written in both the Detroit
Free Press and Detroit
Times. Letters of welcome
and support came in from
all over the community.
Again, using red print
and three-deck headlines,
the second edition led
with a story about the
U.S. Department of
Justice prosecuting anti-
Semitic and Nazi g,roups
in America.
Detroit was also
awaiting visits from Dr.
Chaim Weizmann and Dr.
Abba Hillel Silver. Dr.
Weizmann was president
of the Jewish Agency for
Palestine and of the
World Zionist, Organiza
tion. Dr. Silver was the
national chairman of the.
United Palestine Appeal.
In local news, the Allied
Jewish Campaign was
kicked off at the 16th an-
nual meeting of the Jew-
ish Welfare Federation of
Detroit. Abraham Srere,
Federation president,
started the Campaign ap
pealing for $1 million an-
nually.
At another meeting, the
Palestine Labor Cam-
paign raised $35,000 at a
fund-raiser held at the

Wilson Theater. The
money had been raised by
the Geverkshaften, the
Palestine Labor Com-
mittee's: dri.ve for the
1141ratiffit, the Jewish
Labor Federation of
Palestitte.
There was also a fluid -
raisin cY effort
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Passover service to army
and navy posts.
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about a South African
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2 Charities To Give
Out Passover Food

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Staff Writer

oeis Chetim, a
charity that has
given out Passover
food to needy Jewish
families since 1922, will be
combining efforts with the
two-year-old Yad Ezra
kosher food pantry this year.
The two charities will give
Passover food — matzah,
wine, matzah meal, gefilte
fish, cooking oil, chicken,

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weekly feature during The
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Judge Tyner Sentences
Youth To Six Months' Jail

AMY J. MEHLER

Staff Writer

former Birmingham
student will spend
A the next six months
in Oakland County jail for
spray-painting_ anti-Semitic
slurs on the back wall of the
Wells Freight and Cargo
store in Birmingham in
1990.
Oakland County Circuit
Judge Deborah Tyner
sentenced Garrick Anthony
Browning, 19, to jail March
27 and ordered him to per-
form 50 hours of community

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FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1992

service. Mr. Browning will
remain under Judge Tyner's
jurisdiction for one year.
"He was given the oppor-
tunity to show me he could
change his behavior, but in-
stead, he Violated his proba-
tion," Judge Tyner said.
Mr. Browning failed to
meet the terms of an 18-
month probation by not pay-
ing damages and not repor-
ting to probation officers.
Thomas McGinnas, court-
appointed defense attorney
for Mr. Browning, said his
client was "shocked" at the
sentence. "Mr. Browning's

Four Akiva Hebrew Day School students help install six panels of art
created by Akiva students for the annual art fair at Sinai Hospital. The
students are Karina Federmesser, Anna Dubrovich, Luda Lopatin, Ella
Chernyak.

intent was not to blast Jews
or Hebrew culture," Mr.
McGinnas said. "He wanted
to get even at what he felt to
be an unfair employment
termination."

Mr. McGinnas said he
begged for leniency and
psychiatric help for Mr.
Browning. "My client comes
from a broken home and was
raised by his grandfather,"
Mr. McGinnas said. "When
his grandfather died, he just
fell apart and didn't seem to
care what was going to
happen to him." ❑

eggs and horseradish — to
about 1,000 families, star-
ting April 5. The food will be
given to clients of both
charities out of Yad Ezra's
new warehouse on Harding
Avenue in Oak Park.

Moeis Chetim, which
means "wheat money" in
Hebrew, had previously do-
nated just matzah and wine,
plus a food certificate, to the
families. Both charities rais-
ed about $28,000 to buy the
Passover food. ❑

Chain Letter Says
Jews Killed Gentiles

NOAM M.M. NEUSNER

Staff Writer

A

Plymouth business
last week received a
letter claiming that
Jews have poisoned non-
Jews for the last 4,000 years.
The letter was written by
Rose Mokry, a 63-year-old
mother who lives in New
York and who came to the
United States in 1966 from
her native Czechoslovakia.
An official with the
Plymouth business, which is
a branch office of a Japanese
company and employs no
Jews, was disturbed by the
letter's contents and immed-
iately sent it to The Jewish
News. At least one other
Michigan business has
received Mrs. Mokry's letter.
It is unclear how many

letters Mrs. Mokry has sent,
but she has attracted the at-
tention of the United States
Postal Inspection Service,
the District Attorney of New
York and the Anti-
Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith. But Mrs. Mokry's
right to mail the letters is
constitutionally protected,
according to Richard Loben-
thal of the Michigan ADL.
Mrs. Mokry has admitted
in past letters that she ad-
dresses her mail randomly
and also uses random return
addresses. That way, she ex-
plained, someone would
surely read the letter.
The letter says Jews have
corrupted medicine, using it
to poison and sterilize non-
Jews. Plus, Mrs. Mokry
writes that Jews controlled,
via their "non-Jewish prosti-
tutes in the secret services of