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…Bill Puglianu Jack Edelstein, president, Michigan Association for Ethiopian Jews An Ann Arbor-based organization is aiding the Jews of Ethiopia Ethiopian Pipeline CAROLE GARVIN Special to The…

… eating homemade matzah and observing complete rest . on Pesach is the norm. As president of the Michigan Association for Ethiopian Jews (MAEJ), this Ann Arbor resident's main objective was to convey mes…

… Jewish News hile many Jews celebrated Passover in the comfort of their homes last spring, Jack Edelstein had the unique experience of observing the holiday in the Ethiopian village of Wolleka, where…

…- sages between Ethiopian Jews in Ethiopia and Israel, provide finan- cial assistance to the village and meet with public officials in Ethiopia's capital of Addis Ababa. "I wanted to witness first-hand the…

…%1// e you, :pat gregations should try to "at- tract those Jews most likely to respond" rather than try to attract the biggest possible crowd. He said synagogues should "raise up the level of…

… are human beings who can't always come to grips with these issues, but they can help everyone deal with it via Jewish law!' In response to a question about unaffiliated and Reform Jews from Estelle…

…, Rabbi Meyerowitz said, is defining a Jew as one with one Jewish parent of either sex, as opposed to Halacha, which states the mother must be Jewish. "We must appeal to the leadership of the Reform…

… Michigan Board of Rabbis, answered he hopes to bring together rabbis from all the branches. ❑ hice L Db- Windemere, West Bloomfield's finest nursing center, offers the ultimate in care, in a resort…

… ties. Richard Lobenthal, Michigan "Blacks and Jews do have a com- mon agenda," said Frank Jones of regional director of the Anti- Defamation League, said one reason the two groups may seem to be less…

… escalating tensions between blacks and Jews in Chicago, leaders of both communities late last week issued a statement denouncing bigotry and began planning programs to focus on the "historic ties" between the…

… communities. In interviews, slaves and Jews who were murdered few blacks here said they sense any in Germany!' Yet Jones, 27, added that "It serious problems between blacks and seems like the things on which we…

… Jews. In fact, most blacks interviewed work together have lessened. You just said they feel the two groups share don't see blacks and Jews working together on a lot of projects!' the same goals and close…

… unified is that the goals which bound blacks and Jews 20 years ago "are no longer terribly germane!' Blacks are no longer relegated to the back seats of buses, nor do they have to face ben- ches marked…

… out an elaborate end-game with PLO chairman Yassir Arafat for the control — if not the Continued on Page 18 RENEWING YAVNEH Continued on Page 16 South Africa's Jews are torn between their affluent…

…I LOCAL NEWS) Light-years apart from any other lighting sale of the year ... Primary Continued from preceding page Michigan Court of Appeals, second district. Fischer has been an Oakland County…

… Allardyce, Raymond Holland, Dennis Vatsis and newcomer Judith Holtz defeated other Republican candidates to win respective four-year terms. Blacks And Jews Continued from Page 1 to speak out, he said. The…

… doctors are infecting black babies with AIDS and that Jews are in- volved in a conspiracy to rule the world. Cokely made his comments before followers of Nation of Islam leader Louis Far- rakhan, who said…

… Jews were upset by Cokely's remarks because "the truth hurts." Sawyer waited a week before dismissing Cokely, which further antagonized the Chicago Jewish communi- ty. Only three of the city's 18 black…

… alderman called for the dismissal. Blacks in Detroit reacted with incredulity to Cokely's charges against Jews. "That's ridiculous," Rome Muse said of Cokely's claim that Jews are infecting blacks with the…

… there is much hostility toward Jews within the black community there. Lu Palmer, a newspaper columnist in Chicago, told the New York Times that, "I defy anyone to deny that Jews as a group are greatly…

… are working together now on social pro- grams, although they had dif- ficulty naming anything specific. One who did cite an exam- ple was Muse, who said he has a friend who is working to encourage Jews…

… to become involved in projects with blacks in inner city Detroit. Examples of blacks and Jews working together on social issues may be difficult to trace, but this is not the case in the professional…

… work field. A number of blacks in- terviewed expressed positive views of Jews based on their experience at their jobs. Marion Mays, who lives in Oak Park, said she has "a good rapport" with the Jews with…

… with which he is concerned in exploding the myths re- garding their cultural as- pects include the Jews, Poles, Hispanics, WASPs, Italians, Japanese, Blacks, Irish and the Chinese. In each instance…

… supportive environment European nation were to serves them well in their use as a warrant for chosen field. They are more genocide.' " likely to view the notion of Are Jews the "shrewd `everything for the…

… their spring from Jewish cul- offspring. "As a result, the image of ture." the Jew as a shrewd or good Are inter- businessman may, like Jews nationalists who "plot to other stereotypes in this take over…

… confronting the lian comedian regaled his fake: audience with story after "The 'Protocols' was story of Jews and their widely published, re- preoccupation with money. printed, and distributed. In one joke a…

….' " discussed in Dr. Norman Dr. Helmreich devotes a Cohn's 'Warrant for section on the Jews to a Genocide,' which makes comment on "The Chosen fascinating reading. People." Here is his defini- "Despite its…

… exposure as a tion worth recording: fraud, it is today still widely "In modern times, as disseminated in Russia, the Jews have increased Arab lands and in Latin their contact with people America. Billy…

… "It is easy to dismiss the Jews have been per- such attitudes as the secuted for so many cen- views of a small minority. turies and have only re- Yet, as Cohn points out in cently been able to re- his…

… fanatics for the nated all such references benefit of the ignorant and from their prayer book, while Orthodox Jews have repeatedly emphasized that the concept means service and accountability, not an elite…

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… Lady." Less predictable in this mediafest, however, has been the attention focussed on one particular phenomenon of her reign: "Thatcher's Jews." In- deed, the Jewish contribution to the Thatcher…

…. But Margaret Thatcher's affinity for Jews has transcended political expe- diency. When she talks of Soviet Jewry, the tears she weeps are genuine; more im- portant, when she addresses economic and…

… and the Jews following," one Jewish banker in London told me this week. "On the contrary, the Jews have set the pace for Thatcher." What has startled the British media is that the leader of Britain…

… were her predecessors, to hide her retinue of "court Jews" in government think- tanks and policy committees, carefully shielded from the public gaze. Thatcher has brought "her Jews" out of the closet…

…. No less than five of her most senior ministers — and clo- sest advisers — have been Jews: Education Secretary Keith Joseph, Home Secretary Leon Brittan, Trade Secretary Lord Young, Chancellor of the…

… cabinet than Old Etonians — a reference to the ancient British school of the aristocracy which has tradi- tionally educated Britain's future leaders. Of Thatcher's Jews, only Lawson, Young and Rifkind…

… Lord Jakobovitz — a title un- qiue for a Chief Rabbi. "The entrepreneurially suc- cessful Jew is in fact the model in many ways of That- cherite achievement,". says Jewish playwright Jonathan Miller…

…. "The Conservative Party now underwrites the values of Jewish en- trepreneurial initiative, thrift and ingenuity." This was not always the case. Historically, British Jews were identified firmly with the…

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… York (JTA) — Jews and blacks may be unable to restore the spirit of in- tergroup harmony they developed in the 1960s, say black and Jewish leaders, but the groups can avoid the con- flicts that often…

… and Jews is rather tense, but both groups come out of a commonality that's still there," said Albert Vorspan, director of social ac- tion at the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the Reform Jewish…

… cause of tension between the groups, but as a symptom. The cause of the tension may be that Jews and blacks have diverged in economic status and thus in political and social conviction. Said Phil Baum…

… 1984 and 1985. Blacks don't understand why Jews mistrust them when they say the Far- rakhan's anti-Semitic pro- nouncements are marginal to his real message of black economic independence, said Brown…

…, and Jews don't understand how painful it is for blacks to be asked to refute one of their leaders. Ironically, Farrakhan's notoriety led to the formation of black-Jewish coalitions in a number of cities…

…. Some, such as the New York Black/Jew- ish Coalition, have since become dormant. Wilbert Tatum, a founder of the New York coalition and editor-in-chief of the Amster- dam News, the country's largest black…

… Palestine Liberation Organi- zation. Blacks accused Jews of forcing the ouster. The coalition has since changed its mission to tackle urban issues such as housing, education and crime preven- tion, according…

… to Sol Kolack of Boston, national communi- ty service director of the Anti- Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. Such coalition-building im- plies that Jews and blacks still share an agenda. "Both groups…

…." Blacks and Jews were the only two groups to vote in ma- jority for Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale in 1984. But Friedman and others are concerned about underly- ing tensions. "Polls are…

… professing Jew in Britain to be admit- ted to the House of Com- mons. Exactly 125 years later, the event was marked by a festive luncheon attended by his great-great-grand- son, Jacob de Rothschild, and two…

… more of his descen- dants. At the luncheon held by the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Leon Britton, the Jewish-both Home Sec- retary in the present gov- ernment, expressed what he called "our great…

…- year-old Lord Emmanuel Shinwell who in 1922 be- came the first Jew to re- present the Labor Party in the House of Com- mons. Ian Mikardo, another prominent Jewish Labor MP, said that had it not been for…

… Earl of Perth, the two senior Catholic peers in the coun- try. In his address, Sir Im- manuel Jakobovits, Chief Rabbi of the Common- wealth, pointed to the paral- lel plight of England's Jews and…

… Military. Travel, which offers special travel tours for U.S. Army person- nel. According to the Bavaria-based company, the travellers seem to be in- terested in Israel as a holy land sacred to Jews, Chris…

… emancipa- tion had taken 28 years. The first bill to admit Jews to the House of Commons had been presented in 1830, a year after the Catholics were enfranchised. But it foundered, like other subsequent moves…

…, over the thorny question of whether or not Jews could refuse to swear an oath of allegiance "on the true oath of a Christian." Benjamin Disraeli, a supporter of Jewish emancipation, did not face this…

… hurdle because he had been converted to Christianity while a child. But professing Jews recoiled from doing so. Although the opponents of Jewish enfranchisement included a hard core of reac- tionary bigots…

… whereby each House of Parliament could determine the form of oath to be administered for its members. Even so, Jews were still for some time barred from the House of Lords: de Rothschild was excluded at the…

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… said, "a better way" exists: Try to persuade a non-Jewish mother who is sympathetic enough to Judaism to agree to raising her child as a Jew to convert along with her child; that fail- ing, convert the…

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…- prived of basic human rights. The right of Jews to emigrate, Blum claimed, has been drastically cur- tailed over the last year by the Soviet authorities by severely restricting the eligibility of appli…

…- cants. Only 18,000 Jews were allowed to leave the Soviet Union in the first nine months of 1980, Blum said, less than half the number leaving dur- ing the corresponding period in 1979. An appearance of…

… not only because it helps Jews in 25 countries but also because it helps them to live as Jews, a vice president of the JDC during the past five years. A MAN OF NOBLE TRADITIONS: Taub was not born into…

… and grandfather. With the turbulent situation in the world today affect- ing Jews in various countries, Taub takes over the JDC presidency at a time when the organization will face many complications…

… presidency. Despite the fact that inflation has substantially reduced the value of the dollar, the JDC has under his guidance aided 500,000 Jews in 25 countries in 1980. This means that it helped more Jews…

… programs for the needy Jews there in cooperation with the central body of Hungarian Jewry. During Robinson's administration the JDC also opened a new home for the Jewish aged in Romania. JDC also transferred…

…, the Soviet government permitted the largest number of Jews to emigrate, and JDC — quite apart from providing the Jews who came out from the Soviet Union with basic necessities, like food, shelter and…

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… said, because of the Jewish nationality im-: posed by the Soviets on the identity cards of Soviet Jews. Yet the desire to disappear is ingrained, noticeably dis- played by those emigres who do not choose…

… Israel. "I want to say it strongly, the only reason (Soviet Jews are) in the United States is to disappear. "I don't want to be pes- simistic," Rabbi Essas told his listeners. "Because in the last 15 years…

… we have had a Jewish national movement." In addition, he said, 200,000 Jews have left the Soviet Union. "We stopped, at least for part of our people, this forced assimilation ... Now we have hundreds…

…." Why do the Soviets feel that Jews are such a threat? Although Jews are only one percent of the population, they make up five to ten per- cent of the most sensitive areas of Soviet life — doctors…

…, scientists — "even with dis- crimination," he emphasized. "Jews, by their existence, defy the prescription given to them by Lenin and Stalin, which is to disappear," he continued. "Jews are a living denial of…

… under Keren Kayemet l'Israel — Jewish National Fund — inspiration. Tree planting never ceased through the ages. In the centuries preceding the modern Zionist movement there were Jews who never left Eretz…

… Theodor Herzl's leadership. The JNF and its tree plan- ting program were the ideological crea- tion of Heidelberg mathematics pro- fessor Hermann Shapira in 1901. Since then, non-Jews as well as Jews have…

… Palestine? Every man and woman, Christian or Jew, must have read with horror and shame of the brutalities perpetrated on defenseless Jews in the Holy Land. I join with you in voicing my indignation at the…

… in paying honor to the dead and in exten- ding the sympathy of this com- munity to the Jewish heroes who defended the Jewish set- tlements in Palestine and who Continued on Page 40 Michigan Native In…

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… native Detroiter, University of Michigan educated, who taught at the Universi- ty of Texas before assuming the American history professorial post he now holds at Tel Aviv University. Professor Rockaway, as…

… on Page 34 Salo Baron's Addendum To Russian Jewish History tudents of history, non-Jews as well as Jews, will always be indebted to Prof. Salo Baron for his philosophical studies of the history of…

… Jews through the ages. Sharing a leading role as historian with Heinrich Graetz and Shimon Dub- nov, Dr. Baron has contributed a vast library to the archival Jewish records. A second edition of his The…

… Russian Jew Under the Tsars and Soviets (Schocken-Pantheon Books) sup- plements his great works which were especially highlighted by the 20-volume A Social and Religious History of the Jews. The current…

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…, Southfield, Michigan 48076 $24 per year $26 per year out of state 60' single copy Vol. XCII No. 24 2 February 5, 1988 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1988 knowledge sought on the subject by the present generation of…

… young Americans who are engaged in the effort to secure means of aiding the tens of thousands who demand visas to leave the USSR, especially those desiring to go to Israel. Dr. Baron's The Russian Jews…

… the brief existence of the Duma which was instituted by Nicholas III in an attempt to pacify the develop- ing revolt against his tyranny. It didn't take long for that gesture to be dis- solved. Jews…

… generally participated in the elections to the two Dumas. The socialists boycotted the elections, seeing in it a reactionary attempt to pacify "the discontented masses!" Twelve Jews were elected to the Duma…

…- sies revealed here. The economic status of the oppressed Russian Jews as well as the literary Renaissance that developed in spite of the oppressions. In his descriptions of the Com- munist and…

… revolutionary era, Dr. Baron provides important data with special references to the anti-Semitism that marked a continuation even under Communist dogmas, which proclaimed anti-Semitism to be a crime. Jews like…

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… said. Now, the absorption centers provide housing facilities and residential, social and cultural facilities. After their period of absorption, the Ethiopian Jews are sent to towns where they can be…

… between the Ethiopian Jews and the local inhabitants. But this is a problem because Israel suffers from a housing shor- tage, making it difficult at times "Saying yes to one group means saying no to…

…," he said. "Again, saying yes to one need means saying no to another." Absorption, he observed, is only one side of the process. The other side is acceptance. Tensions be- tween the Ethiopian Jews and…

… de- mand by the Chief Rabbinate Council that they undergo sym- bolic "conversion" rites, intimat- ing that their authenticity as Jews is the question. In some towns, they have been told that they are…

… challenge to their Jewishness is part of the controversial Who is a Jew issue. But there are welcome mats out for the Beta Yisrael, and this is the norm rather than the excep- tion. One prominent example is…

… spiritual leadership of the Ethio- pian Jews. Begun said at the same time, the institute would respect the tradition of the Ethiopians. In spite of some transitory diffi- culties, Rosen is certain that the…

… Ethiopian Jews will make it. "Their commitment to Judaism is unbelievable," he said. "They have been persecuted for hun- dreds of years for being Jews but they have stuck it out. Ethiopian Jews rejoice when…

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… to be extend- ing an olive branch to Reform Judaism. "Reform Jews are Jews, just like us," Rabbis Avraham Shapira and Mordechai Eliahu said last week in Jerusalem in a joint interview with representa…

…- tives of the overseas Jewish media. The Ashkenazic and Sephardic Chief Rabbis denied that they, in . any way, "fail to recognize" the Jewishness of Reform Jews. This represents a major departure from the…

… position held by many Orthodox Jews here and abroad. The two Chief Rabbis also con- tended that the controversial "Who is a Jew?" issue is "wrongly , portrayed" as one of "recognition or non-recognition" of…

… other Jews. The fact is, said Shapira, the only issue at stake is the conversion procedure practiced by Reform rabbis. "We do not interfere or com- ment on these rabbis' activities in any other areas. But…

…'s never been any real dif- ference in Morocco between the Mussulman and Jew. Let us in- spire in our children and grandchildren the same spirit of amity that brings us here to 'I night." And the presidents…

… re- sponsible for the massacre of tens of thousands of Christians, Muslims, as well as Jews. The photograph of the Pope and Arafat became the chief provocation for it suggested to the world that the…

… than they are to the PLO and the Arab extremists. To ignore those important statements by the Pope is to hand the PLO another political victory. During the past 20 years, Catholics and Jews have made…

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…- rael is looking increasingly at Western Jewry, particu- larly the United States, as the next major supplier of immigrants. Yet American Jews, while united in sup- porting Israel, are not ex- pected to…

… make aliya in the large numbers that Israel wants. Since the creation of the Jewish state more than 45,000 American Jews set- tled in Israel, 80 percent of them making aliya after the 1967 Six-Day War…

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… individual lives alone, by and for himself. A Jew forms life with the people around him .. . Judaism says we have to be a part of other people's world, in order to share with others." The Sabbath, he said, "is…

… people — "it's become a peaceful anesthesia, a way to escape from the world. But, with the help of the rabbis, Jews can develop ways to cope with the world — how to use technology, how to keep the world…

… young Jews to Jewish life?" "He didn't," he said. "We tried all that and it didn't work — the long-haired rab- bis, the 'telling it like it was'." The latter, he said, was hurtful and he quoted Reform…

… and the overlapping of Jewish institu- 'No individual lives alone, by and for himself. A Jew forms life with the people around him• tions, such as were presented at his Baltimore synagogue, "there is…

…, 'Rabbi, don't give us a book review — give us what the Midrash is about.' There's a sizeable number of Jews who want to get back in, and a sizeable number coming back in. "Judaism needs to be rele- vant to…

… the needs and challenges of the world — that will affect our lives and the world. "Yes, we Jews have a lot of big problems. But we have a good 'product: and there are always going to be 'buyers' out…

…CLOSE-UP A home in a Jewish neighborhood in Johannesburg. South Africa's Jews are torn between their affluence and the growing problems of apartheid Walls and gates are becoming commonplace…

…. LILA ORBACH Special to The Jewish News J1 OHANNESBURG, South Africa — It is winter now in South Africa. But a winter's day here is more like a spring day in Michigan. The sun is strong. And despite…

… imminent, it arrives in waves, ebbs and tides that slowly reach every cor- ner of the country. A glimpse at the life of the Jews of South Africa shows a community brac- ing for this change. There is no one…

… response to the boiling political situation, and the Jews react in different ways. The scene in the Jewish community varies from a Jewish South African soldier proud to fight for his country to a lonely…

…'s Jewish communi- ty is both holding on and letting go. They are a strong and tight-knit community, these South African Jews. And they have made their mark on every facet of society. They own food chains and…

… and the fear in most households. There's a sense that one of these days things are going to explode. Of the estimated 120,000 Jews in South-Africa, some venture that as many as 20,000 have left. "You…

…, ser- vants, well-kept gardens and swimm- ing pools. Here people live, luxurious- ly, in one of the most physically beautiful countries anywhere. Many Jews living in South Africa, especial- ly those with…

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… edition". Israel as a news source, Friedman points out, also has many secular news attrac- tions. "Through Israel," he re- minds us, "the historical Jew is transformed from the power- less to the powerful…

… course, is the reason why many Jews who were never Zionists or religiously inspired to dream of a return to an ancestral homeland became ardent advocates of the Jewish State. Israel's amazing rout of the…

… combined might of the Arab nations in the Six-Day War made every Jew proud and elevated the Israelis, in the world's eye, to a superior status. Coincidentally, that victory cost the Isrelis much of the…

… objectivity. there was, in the words of a German stage director, a "closed season" on Jews during which anti-Semitism in any form was virtually taboo. With the transformation of Israeli's role, this "closed…

… the assumption that a reason for the predominance of Israeli news in the world's press is the large number of Jews working in the media who, the argument goes, are overly sensitive to the Israel story…

… when "the Jews, with their moral record of preaching and advocating, …

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… is a Jew?" ritten by Irving Greenberg ept. 14) contains gross distor- Jns of fact and many inconsis- ncies. On the one hand, Greenberg tates that "al pi Halacha (accord- ng to Halacha) is exactly the…

…- tated to us by the Oral Torah which Jews have always consid- ered to be the word of God. Far from being divisive, those who are in the forefront in the battle to amend the law to read "Giur K…

…-culture of "Jewish non-Jews," individuals who will not be accepted as Jews by a significant percentage of our people, and who will certainly, at one time or another, experience the frustration and heartbreak…

… on Woodhaven, between 12 Mile and 13 Mile, because the home was within 1,500 feet of a JARC home Normandale in Beverly Hills. The Woodhaven homeowners said the 1,500-foot rule in Michigan iaw was valid…

… a study commissioned by the future planning committee and con- ducted October 1988-February 1989 by Dr. Jay Weinstein, head of the department of sociology at Eastern Michigan University. Among the…

… American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee re- settle Soviet Jews. Jewish Welfare Federation officials and Passage to Freedom Campaign Chair- men Jane Sherman and Paul Borman were pleased at the response…

… movements of Jews" helped by Proejct Magic Carpet for the Yemen- ite Jews after Israel's in- dependnce in 1948, Operation Moses for the Ethiopian Jews and Passage to Freedom for the Soviet Jews. "When I think…

… a Jew — that's how important this is." Jane Sherman touched on a subject that has bothered some supporters of Israel in her remarks at the meeting. "When I was at the transmi- ' gration camp in…

… Ladispoli, Italy, two weeks ago, my goal was to get as many Soviet Jews as possible to go to Israel. But we all did an about-face," Sherman said. "The despair on their faces was so great. Forty percent had…

… Communists. Soviets Lambast Anti-Semitism A recent article in the Com- munist Party newspaper Sovetskaya Kultura says thousands of Jews are leaving the Soviet Union because of the country's anti…

… coun- tries where barbarity, prejudice and ignorance united, perse- cuted and expelled the Jews from the bosom of society. "Resolved, That the expres- sion of our sentiments shall be placed on the…

… Pontiffs and distinguished Hebrews in Rome. During the revival of letters in the West learned Jews were especially patronized by the Popes because of their oriental scholarship; while the Pontiffs…

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…UP FRONT Separation Of Families Is Ethiopian Jews' Main Problem referring to the support American Jews gave to the rescue of Ethio- Staff Writer pian Jewry. "You still have a lot of While the…

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… profound road to his current position. Born changes, and not all for the better, in Ethiopia, the son of a high the first Ethiopian Jew to be or- priest, he went to Italy to study for dained a rabbi told a…

… the community, he told his tions of rabbinic Judaism, Ethio- listeners, gathered at the Detroit pian Jews continued to literally fol- Chapter of the American Jewish low the laws outlined in the To…

…' Are Planned For Developmentally Disabled MIKE ROSENBAUM Special to The Jewish News The Michigan Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, in partnership with the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit…

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… celebrate — and pray for — freedom. This year we can also give thanks for the miraculous exodus of thousands of Ethiopian Jews who have made it to the Promised Land of Israel after years of suffering. To mark…

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… be no such thing as a last chance to end the animosities. Hussein will surely have another chance to alter his personal pessimism. When Jews sit down at the Seder table,they are commemorating what is…

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… Israel's Enemies . . . Honors for Cohodas, the Upstate Michigan Leader . . . Tribute to the Late Sam Levenson number of non-Jews who have often been in the ranks of those who back the efforts of Israel…

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