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» U-M Students Help Detroit

Hillel's "Jewish Detroit Initiative" brings students to assist the inner
city. See page 8.

» Aiding Ailing Soldiers

Congregation Beth Shalom welcomes 16 Israeli army veterans
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A pair of West Bloomfield brothers shoot two anti-drinking
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U-M junior Eli Newman sets pins at Latino
Mission Society's new youth center.

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JCC Film Festival strives to
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wring the Yom Kippur War, the enemies were Syria
and Egypt.
After the war, all fingers pointed at Lt. Gen. David
"Dado" Elazar.
Once respected and beloved throughout Israel, Elazar
was chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces from
1972 to 1974. A government commission blamed
him for Israel's terrible losses during the war
while Defense Minister Moshe Dayan and
Prime Minister Golda Meir remained initially,
and inexplicably, unscathed.
Elazar resigned, and by 1976 he was dead
of a heart attack. He was 51 years old.
Though later exonerated, Elazar
remained something of an enigma, both

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