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t will be five years ago tomorrow since Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin was cut down by an assassin's
bullet. A few months ago, his legacy — both as a gener-
al who led Israeli troops to some of their finest victories
and as a statesman who chose a wise path toward a permanent
peace — was as solid and bright as a diamond.
But the violence that broke out Sept.
27 with the killing of an Israeli border
policeman and escalated after Ariel
Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount has
suddenly cast a long shadow over Rabin's
vision of two peoples ultimately able to
learn how to share a common land in
prosperous harmony.
Some say the vision was flawed from
the beginning, that the PLO and Yasser
Arafat were using the peace process to stall
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while they built the resources and the
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mood for renewed intifada. Others say the
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vision was mostly correct but that the
implementation was fatally flawed by the continued growth of
the West Bank settlements and the sometimes too stern Israeli
enforcement of its police powers over Arabs.
And yet others, in Israel and the United States, cling to the
core of the process that Rabin inspired, insisting even as the
stones, bullets and missiles fly, that peace is inevitable and that
its final shape will look a lot like what Rabin had in mind.
Our look back at what Yitzhak Rabin means to Israelis and
Americans begins today on page 6. An editorial explaining why
we think his real legacy was the courage to dare is on page 37.

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JewishBook Pair

s sure as it's autumn, it's time for the Jewish
Book Fair, one of the Detroit Jewish
community's storied traditions.
In its 49th year, the Jewish Community Cen-
ter of Metropolitan Detroit-hosted fair
0 brings Jews together through the
enrichment of books and authors for
all ages.
This year's festivities run Nov. 1 12
at both JCC sites. The coming week's
coverage is listed at right; next week-
end's activities will be recapped in our
Nov. 10 issue.
Books have been precious through-
out our people's history. Knowledge is
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power, indeed. And much of Jewish
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life through history is rooted in the
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gifts of knowledge gleaned from books
of all shapes and sizes.
In a remarkably simple way, through the power of the
word, Book Fair brings Jews of all stripes together at
Detroit Jewry's central address to share in the delights of
fiction and nonfiction. Not everything is a bestseller, but
everything does have a Jewish bent.
Book Fair . . . a place to relax, dispense with the rhythms
of the workday and nourish your literary soul.
See you there!

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Shabbat shalom!

A 2000 winner of Michigan Press Association
and American Jewish Press Association awards

Polls open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 7

Jewish Book Fair

18 The Write Stuff

Local authors add variety
to Book Fair's national lineup.

47 Humble Beginnings

Book Fair founders are thrilled
event is nationally recognized.

Some of the Authors:

50

"Motherland: Beyond The Holocaust"
by Fern Chapman

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87

"Jew vs. Jew" by Sam Freedman

"DLity" by Bob Greene

"The Family Orchard" by Nomi Eve

"Setting Fires" by Kate Wenner

"Being Jewish" by Ari Goldman

"Today I Am a Boy" by David Hays

"God at the Edge"
by Rabbi Niles Goldstein

90

"Open Secret: Gay Hollywood"
by David Ehrenstein

94

"Indistinguishable Symphony"
by Martin Goldsmith

96
98

"Jew Boy" by Alan Kaufman

105
151

"Talmud & The Internet"
by Jonathan Rosen

"The Bialy Eaters" by Mimi Sheraton

"Does the Soul Survive?"
by Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz

Spirituality

77 Building A Better Life

"Dudu" Fisher concert to benefit
children affected by Chernobyl.

106 Citizen Athletes

Three new faces in the
Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.

AppleTree

117 Politics Not As Usual

An Election Day look back
at Jews and politics in history.

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November 3, 2000
Cheshvan 5, 5761
Vol. CXVIII, No. 12

DEPARTMENTS

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Alefbet'cha
Anniversaries .
76
AppleTree
117
Ask Wendy
143
B'nai Mitzvah .... 67
Births
67
Business
116
Calendar
65
Carla Schwartz . . 112
Community
47
Crossword
129
...Answer
144
Cyber Spot
98
Danny Raskin ....100
Editorials
37
Engagements
71
For Openers
5
Insight
35
Marketplace
123
Maze! Toy!
67
Obituaries
151
Out & About
82
Spirituality
77
Sports
106
The Scene
114
Torah Portion .... 80
Weddings
73

Candlelighting

Friday, Nov. 3, 5:06 p.m.

Shabbat ends

Saturday, Nov. 4, 6:07 p.m.

Cover: Yitzhak Rabin
Photography, Lance Davies
Page design, Debbie Schultz
Concept: Tripp Liles

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DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

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2000

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