DETROIT
JEWISH NEWS
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A 2002 Michigan Press Association
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Friday, May 2, 2003
Nisan 30, 5763
Vol. CXXIII, No. 12
COMMUNITY
9.
29 Open-Hearted Heroes
DEPARTMENTS
Senior volunteers win
"Eight Over 80" honors.
1948 veterans fight a final battle 55
years later — for historical truth.
Alefbet'cha 9
Anniversaries
. .44
AppleTree 85
B'nai Mitzvah . • • .39
Calendar 37
Candlelighting . . . .9
Crossword 104
Danny Raskin . . .78
Editor's Notebook . 5
Engagements . . . .42
Entertainment . . . 61
Food
82
For Openers
9
22
Insight
Letters
6
Marketplace
90
New Arrivals
.39
113
Obituaries
Out 8c About . . 62
Sports
88
12
Staff Notebook
Synagogues
50
Torah Portion . . 52
43
Weddings
61 Back To Their Roots
Retro pop, community singing
Cover:
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SPIRITUALITY
45 Love And Harmony
Pops concert introduces temple's
new cantorial soloist, and his future wife.
Survivors
light memorial
candles at
the Holocaust
Memorial
Center.
ANN ARBOR
9 Why Is This Birth
Different?
Keeping a kosher Pesach
is a labor of love.
THIS WEEK
OPINION
14 Not On Our Watch
25 Responding To
Anti-Zionism
OBITUARIES
Wayne State has an obligation
to community, Jewish students.
Caring for children
Holocaust service stresses remembering
so the slaughter won't happen again.
22 Remembering
Commemoration marks 60th anniversary
of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
114 Edith Honigman
Attuned to people
Israel At 55
COVER STORY page 53
E
arly this week, there was guarded hope that peace talks could resume and
that Israel's 55th birthday could be celebrated joyously. Then another suicide
bomber struck Wednesday, killing three Israelis and injuring at least 55 other
people — reminding us that Palestinian militants still want the Jewish state
expunged from the Middle East, nothing less.
Whether new Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, whose own background
toward Jews brings his credibility into question, can deter such attacks remains to be seen.
One thing's for sure: Yom HaAtzmaut, Israel Independence Day, will come on Iyar
5 — this year on May 7.
Suggested names for the new state that would emerge from Palestine were many:
Zion, Ziona, Judaea, Ivriya, Herzliya. But the chosen name, Israel, honored the
Israelites, the name by which the Jewish people had been known since biblical times.
The War of Independence started May 14, 1948. It ended when a truce was agreed
to with Israel's Arab neighbors in early 1949. Israel was by then larger than the origi-
nal U.N. Partition Plan of 1947 had envisioned, but smaller than what was within
reach militarily. Israel's borders have continued to change.
Israel's population has grown from 600,000 in 1948 to 6.6 million today —5.3
million Jews and 1.3 million Arabs. Waves of
immigrants, especially from Eastern Europe,
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the former Soviet Union, Argentina, Ethiopia
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and Sephardi lands, have swelled the number.
Israel is a tapestry of military might, geo-
graphic beauty, historical treasure, farming
ingenuity, high tech leadership, cultural artistry
and spiritual diversity.
But it must stand sentry against radical forces
trying desperately to literally blow up any
chance of lasting peace in the region.
16t Wit
Shabbat shalom and chag sameach!
Robert A. Sklar, editor
113 Dr. Aaron Stern
Israel's Greatest Generation
renew popularity in Israel.
Photography, AP
Page design, Alex Lumelsky
82 Celebrating Israel!
Authentic recipes for marking
Israel Independence Day.
85 He Wrote The Words
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Contrary to the cover reference, the
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will appear next week, not this week.
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