News Digest

Judaic Enrichment Early Education Project

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A project of Federation's Hermelirt/Davidson Center for Congregation Excellence
and the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education,
Jewish Theological Seminary

invites you to an Evening of Learning

THE ROAD IS MADE BY WALKING

Educating Jews and Christians to and for a new relationship

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A Unique Event for Parents of Preschool Children and Children of All Ages

with

Mary C. Boys

Professor and author Mary C. Boys, based in
New York City, is on the faculty of Union
Theological Seminary as the Skinner and
McAlpin Professor of Practical Theology. She is
also an adjunct faculty member of the Jewish
Theological Seminary and the Teachers College
at Columbia University.

Boys is a board member of the Tanenbaum
Center for Interreligious Understanding and
works as a consultant on teaching to Christian
and Jewish theological faculties.

TUESDAY, MAY 15, 2001 • 5:30-8:30 P.M.

Temple Beth El
7400 Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Hills

For information, call Dale Rubin at (248) 203-1520

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Germans Seem
Tired Of Guilt

Some 60 percent of
Berlin/JTA
Germans feel neither guilty nor
responsible for the Holocaust, and 45
percent said they are tired of being
confronted with the Nazi past, accord-
ing to a new poll.
The survey, published Sunday in
Der Spiegel magazine, also had 28 per-
cent saving Hitler would have been a
great statesman had he not instigated
World War II and the Holocaust.

Catholics, Jews
Press Vatican

New York/JTA — Catholic and Jewish
leaders agreed not to try to influence
each other's theology and called for
the protection of holy sites around the
world.
The International Catholic-Jewish
Liaison Committee also said in a joint
statement that the Vatican should
open all its World War II archives.

Argentina, S. Africa
Aliyah Sought

Jerusalem/JTA — Faced with dimin-
ishing immigration from the former
Soviet Union and Ethiopia, the Jewish
Agency for Israel aims to step up its
aliyah efforts elsewhere, according to
the Israeli daily Hdaretz.
The paper said the agency plans to
increase its activities in Argentina,
South Africa and France.
Jewish Agency Chairman Sallai
Meridor was quoted as telling the
paper that at least 40,000 new immi-
grants must make aliyah annually in
the coming years in order for Israel to
maintain a Jewish majority of at least
80 percent.

Conference Focus
On Agunot

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The director of Israel's
New York/JTA
rabbinical courts and seven well-known
Orthodox rabbis from the United States
participated in a conference on "approach-
es to deal with the agunah crisis."
The Brooklyn gathering with Rabbi
Elivahu Ben-Dahan discussed strate-
gies for helping observant women who
are prevented from remarrying because
their estranged husbands refuse to give
them a Jewish divorce.

