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The 57th
Annual
Jewish
Book Fair
The Best Books on Earth. Literally.
Don't miss
The 57th Annual Jewish Book Fair
Greener Grass
Now through Sunday, November 16!
Israeli Arabs moving into Jewish areas.
Dina Kraft
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin
author of -
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
Post-election analysis
Saturday, November 8 • 8:30 p.m. • West Bloomfield
Advance purchase tickets: $10 Center members
$12 non-members/$15 at the door
Lunch with the Authors
Join us for lunch with authors
Peter Manseau, Rivka Galchen & Anne Roiphe
Publishers Weekly starred-reviewed authors
Thursday, November 13 • Noon • West Bloomfield
$30 includes kosher lunch
Cooking demonstration with Tracey Fine and Georgie Tarn
The Jewish Princess Cookbook: Having Your Cake and Eating It
Sunday, November 9
11 a.m. • West Bloomfield
3 p.m. • Oak Park
Tickets are $15 each, includes demonstration & tasting
An wen hg with E3roadwry composer' Chcries %cuss and special Guests
Saturday, November 15 • 8:15 p.m. • West Bloomfield
Join us for an extraordinary event with Grammy & Tony award-winning
composer Charles Strouse as he performs songs from his Broadway hits
such as Annie, Bye Bye Birdie & Applause and is joined by our community's
own Cantor Michael Smolash of Temple Israel & Rachel Kalmowitz of
Temple Beth El.
Advance purchase tickets: $10 Center members/$12 non-members/$15 at the door
Healthy cooking demonstration with Matt Prentice
Sunday, November 16 • 11 a.m. • West Bloomfield
Come sample culinary delights from the NEW Center Fitness cookbook.
Dishes wil be prepared by area restaurateur Matt Prentice.
$15 includes demonstration and light snack/
$40 includes cookbook and demonstration
Following the demonstration, Center Fitness will be open to the public for a
FREE PREVIEW with special membership rates from noon — 4 p.m. Try out
our state-of-the-art fitness equipment, take a yoga class or check out Zumba,
the amazing Latin dance aerobic workout everyone is talking about!
Call 248.432.5692 or visit us online www.jccdet.org for more information.
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November 6 • 2008
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aher and Fida Abudbai
grew up and lived
most of their lives in
Nazareth, the largest Arab city
in Israel.
Now they live in the hills
above in what is considered
a Jewish city, Nazareth Ilit, in
Michigan Jewry's Partnership
2000 region.
They would have preferred to
stay in Nazareth, near their fam- Saher and Fida Abudbai with their two
ilies, friends and work. Its laby- young daughters on the balcony of their
rinth of steep, winding streets is apartment in Nazareth Hit.
the cultural and political center
of Arab life in Israel, and the
class, these Arabs are drawn by the
city is still very much the heart of the
higher quality of life and services in
Abudbais' lives.
Jewish areas, in contrast to urban Arab
But like many young families, they
communities that suffer from public
simply could not afford to buy a home neglect.
in Nazareth, which is running out of
"When there are no plans made
room to grow.
in Arab areas, people out of lack of
"It was a financial decision;' says
choice have to go elsewhere says
Fida, 32, a social worker who still
Cesar Yeudkin, an urban planner at
works in Nazareth and sends her
Bimkom, an Israeli nonprofit organiza-
two young daughters to school there.
tion that promotes the integration of
"An apartment of the same size in
human rights in urban planning.
Nazareth costs twice as much as ours:'
The director of Israel's Interior
Gazing out from the balcony of their Ministry, Arieh Bar, says the govern-
seventh-story apartment, she sounds
ment is not neglecting Arab corn-
resigned. "There's just no land left for
munities. He says the government has
building;' she says.
approved zoning plans for thousands
of new apartments in Nazareth over
The Setting
the past four years, and the ministry
Nazareth Hit was built by the Israeli
has worked to improve planning for
government in 1956 as the corner-
Arab towns and villages.
stone of a strategic decision to Judaize
"There has been great progress:' he
the Galilee, a majority-Arab region
says.
of Israel. More than 50 years later,
It remains to be seen whether these
the Galilee remains mostly Arab, and
new plans can reverse decades of
contrary to the intentions of military
neglect.
planners who designed Nazareth Ilit,
the city is losing its Jewish residents.
Shifting Sands
Meanwhile, the city's Arab popula-
In northern Israel, more and more
tion is growing — now 15 percent of
Arabs are moving into towns estab-
the city's 52,000 residents.
lished for Jewish residence, such as
The evolution of Nazareth and
Carmel and Ma'alot, Yeudkin says. In
Nazareth Ilit is part of the broader
central Israel, neighborhoods such as
story of Israel's uphill effort to boost
Jerusalem's French Hill, also estab-
the Galilee's Jewish population. It also
lished for Jews, are experiencing the
points to the growing phenomenon of
same phenomenon of Jewish attrition
Israeli Arabs moving into Jewish areas. and Arab influx.
Mostly educated and from the middle
In Nazareth Ilit, the phenomenon
Pho to by Dina Kra ft/JTA
Featuring lectures, children's programs, an on-site bookstore
and more. Here is just a sample of this year's highlights: