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Rabbi Stephen Wise, Abba Hillel
Silver and other global Jewish lead-
ers for not doing enough to save
our brethren. Pages were devoted
each week to our men and women
in uniform, sharing collective pride
at their heroism and sorrow upon
news of their capture or demise.
Slomovitz was a full-throated sup-
porter of the annual Allied Jewish
Campaign and an incessant peddler
of War Bonds. But the Jewish News
also had the stuff of life — birth,
engagement, wedding and anniver-
sary announcements, specials at
Cunningham Drugs and Gardner-
White Furniture, the weekly social
scene column that was his genera-
tion’s version of Facebook ... and
“Detroit Youth’s Listening Post,” a
weekly column by Danny Raskin
that appeared in the very first edi-
tion and whose purpose was to
“bring youth closer together in their
work, social endeavors and play, and
to inform them of what others are
doing to co-operate and help you in
every way possible in whatever tasks
you may partake and to be your ‘lis-
tening post’ on whatever informa-
tion or situation may interest you.”
(Extract from Arthur Horwitz,
Publisher’s Note, March 23, 2017)

50TH ANNIVERSARY
OF THE SIX DAY WAR

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July 18 • 2017

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It was the picture seen around the
world. In June 1967, David Rubinger,
a press photographer in Israel, fol-
lowed Israel Defense Forces soldiers
who were fighting to liberate the Old
City of Jerusalem. At the Western
Wall, three soldiers posed for a pho-
tograph. They were Tzion Karasenti,
Yitzhak Yifat and Chaim Oshri.
While their names are not famous,
their faces have become symbols of
the reunification of Jerusalem.
(Extract from the story, which first
appeared on the Israel Defense Forces
blog on May 20, 2012, during the
45th anniversary of the Six-Day War.
Republished in the DJN June 1, 2017)

50TH ANNIVERSARY
OF THE 1967 RIOTS IN DETROIT

It all began in a building that had
once housed Congregation Shaarey
Zedek. By 1967, the former syna-
gogue at 12th and Clairmount had
become a blind pig. On July 23 of
that year, police raided the place,
sparking one of the worst civil dis-
turbances in U.S. history. Although
the turbulent year of 1967 wit-
nessed 59 riots throughout the
country, Detroit’s was by far the
most extensive. Four hundred and
twelve buildings were burned or

damaged enough to be demol-
ished. Looting and arson were
rampant. National guardsmen and
federal troops were called in to
maintain order. Forty-three people
were killed, many as a result of
military and police error.
(Extract from “Out of the Ashes”
by Julie Edgar and Julie Wiener, July
25, 1997) •