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speeches by Israel's consul general for
the Midwest, Tziporah Rimon, as
well as former Michigan Governor
James Blanchard.

A small pro peace
caucus; "Beautiful"
Oscar nod; drug
"lifer" stays free.

Thirty-five people turned out last
Sunday for the Pro-Israel Pro-Peace
Caucus at the Michigan Democratic
Party's convention.
The newly formed caucus works to
get "pro-Israel" Democratic candidates
elected at all levels of government. But
with widespread dissent among both
Israelis and American Jews about the
peace process, what does it mean
today to be "pro-Israel"?
Caucus Chair Stephen Steinhardt
said the group is keeping things "broad,
because if we get too narrow and specif-
ic, we'll be fighting among ourselves."
The caucus believes that "the people
making the final decisions should be the
people of Israel and their negotiating
partners," said Steinhardt. "The United
States should take facilitating role, but
not impose its view," he added.
The Sunday gathering featured

Life Is Beautiful, the tragicomic fable
of a Jewish father trying to shield his
son from the horrors of a concentra-
tion camp, has won seven Oscar nom-
inations, including best overall picture
and best foreign film. Roberto
Benigni was nominated for best direc-
tor, best actor and best screenplay for
the Italian film.
Steven Spielberg scored in both the
more-glamorous and less-noticed cate-
gories. His graphic World War II saga,
Saving Private Ryan, won 11 nomina-
tions, including best picture, and he
was nominated for best director.
Nominated in the documentary
feature category was The Last Days,
produced by Spielberg's Survivors of
the Shoah Visual History Foundation.
The film shows the experiences of five
Hungarian Jews who survived the
Holocaust and then return to the sites
of the former concentration camps
and their native towns.
Prince of Egypt, the much ballyhooed
animated version of the life of Moses,
was nominated for original score and
for original song, the rousing When You
Believe by Stephen Schwartz, which is
sung during the movie by the children
of Israel as they depart Egypt.

Mindy Brass won her first round
against Oakland County Wednesday.
Brass, convicted of setting up a

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From the pages of The Jewish News
for this week 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50
years ago.

Kevin Jay Lipsitz, right, and Lino Zovich
compete in last week's matzah ball-eating
contest in New York. The event at a kosher
restaurant was a benefit for city soup
kitchens. Russell Machover, a 41-year-old
investment banker from Long Island, won
by downing more than 16 in a row.

cocaine buy in Troy seven years ago,
will remain out of jail on bond while
awaiting the resumption of her retrial.
The San Diego-native is living with a
family in Farmington Hills.
Brass had a heart attack while an
inmate of the Scott Correctional
Facility in Plymouth and is in the final
stages of congestive heart failure. She is
on the University of Michigan Medical
Center list to receive a heart transplant.
Dr. Andrew Hauser, the prosecu-
tion's expert witness, concurred with
Keith Aaronson, Brass' physician, say-
ing that her prognosis was poor and
that she shouldn't be returned to jail.
An appellate court's ruling that the
prosecution withheld a piece of evi-
dence overturned Brass' conviction
and life sentence last July. The case
will resume on April 12 at Oakland
County Circuit Court

Marking
100 Tears
Of Detroit
Jewry

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UVItaft§ftftU

This is Congregation gnai
Moshe on Beaubien Street in
Detroit following its merger in
1935 with the First Hungarian
Hebrew Congregation, whose
name is inscribed in the arch
above the stained-glass windows.

. . .

Remember
When • •

Photo courtesy of Leonard N. Simons Jewish
Community Archives/Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit. If you have information
about this photograph, please call Sharon
Alterman, Jewish community archivist:
(248) 203-1491.

1909

Danny Raskin reports that Jovans
Lounge inside Jacques restaurant now
features ex-Tiger pitcher Denny
McLain performing on the synthesiz-
er keyboard with ex-heavyweight box-
ing champ Leon Spinks tending bar.

1979

West Germany is under increase
pressure from Simon Wiesenthal,
Jewish organizations and church
groups to extend the statute of lirn-
itations for Nazi war crimes set to
expire at the end of the year.
The United States has proposed
peace talks with Israeli Foreign
Minister Moshe Dayan, Egyptian
Prime Minister Mustapha Khalil
and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance.

1969

In response to anti-Israel propagan-
da in the student newspaper the
South End, Wayne State University
President William R. Keast called
on the editor to end the campaign
and meet with him and a university
advisor. Television commentator
Lou Gordon condemned Keast's
actions as insufficient.

Celebrating the 100th anniversary
of the birth of author Sholem
Aleichem, his daughter, Lala
Kaufman of New York, remembers
her father playing wistful Jewish
melodies on the grand piano in
their drawing room without music,
by ear. She quotes him as saying, "I
might have become a musician
instead of a writer. Who knows?"

1949

It is reported that six Arab nations,
in addition to Egypt, decided to
enter armistice talks with Israel.
However, before accepting Dr.
Ralph Bunche's invitation to join
the Rhodes talks, the six nations
first will await the results to current
Egyptian-Israeli talks.
Fifteen-hundred bowlers from 25
cities will be in Detroit this weekend
for B'nai B'rith's sectional tourna-
ment at the Downtown Recreation.

2/12
1999

Detroit Jewish News

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