…DETROIT 750 THE WISH N 17 TEVET 5754/DECEMBER 31, 1993 CLOSE UP New School Reform Package Will Affect Oakland County LESLEY PEARL STAFF WRITER eventy-five years ago this week Jacob Isaacson died and was buried in Detroit. Today his grave is unmarked and no family comes to visit. Yet Jacob Isaacson is anything but anonymous to the residents of an Arizona city. He came to New York with his parents, then se led in the rough-and-tumb e worl...…
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…DETROIT THE JEWISH NEWS Vol. CIV No. 17 Associate Publisher Arthur M. Horwitz Editor Phil Jacobs December 31,1993 Associate Editor Alan Hitsky Assistant Editor DETROIT Elizabeth Applebaum Staff Writers Kimberly Lifton Ruth Littmann Lesley Pearl lq Mitzvah Dogs Contributing Editor Elie Wiesel In a dog-eat-dog world, it's good to have a friend. Washington Correspondent James D. Besser Foreign Correspondent Douglas Davis I...…
…1994 And Its Promise It's not typical form for us to write an editorial or strategy for the Agency for Jewish Education. Fur- pay much attention to the upcoming new year ther discussions and implementations of family when it's anything other than the Hebrew calen- education programs and synagogue-based educa- dar. tional programs were urged. We believe in the This year, though, we can derive a certain sanc- mandate of the AJE and see it as a ...…
…Community Views Editor's Notebook Circling The Wagons Is Not The Answer To Jewish Survival Should Our Children See 'Schindler?' DAVID GAD HARF SPEC AL TO THE JEW SH NEWS PHIL JACOBS EDITOR For the past sev- eral years, the American Jew- ish community has been ab- sorbed by issues that are collec- tively known as "Jewish continu- ity." The symp- toms of the problem include a higher rate of intermarriage, a lower level of ritu- al observan...…
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…"My Papa Marty and Grandma Fanny Refinanced Their Mortgage At World Wide Financial!" SCHINDLER page 5 they are automatically able to handle everything that comes their way. People have been prepared differently for their lives. We can only hope that we help each other in working through an event that Steven Spielberg manifests on our neighborhood movie screens. We weren't all prepared to face the demons of the Holocaust at the same level. Ir...…
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…Rabbis Protest Borman Hall Option While the future of Borman has not been determined, options concern many. JENNIFER FINER JEWISH NEWS INTERN I he Council of Orthodox Rabbis is protesting the possibility of relocating Borman Hall residents because, they said, such a move may violate Halachah. "We are looking for some as- surance from Federation that these people will not be moved or some sort of assurance that their lives will not be place...…
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….MmmmMft Though some investors are uncertain, financial experts are optimistic that the value of Israel's first mutual fund will climb. KIMBERLY LIMN STAFF WRITER etired accountant Benno Levi of Oak Park isn't too worried about his invest- ment in the First Israel Fund (FIF), the country's only closed-end mutual fund. Mr. Levi's initial purchase of 1,000 shares, first offered to the public on the New York Stock Exchange in 1992, cost him $1...…
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…The Man mom Nogales Isaacson's unmarked grave at Machpelah. Seventy-five years ago this week Jacob Isaacson died and was buried in Detroit. Today, his grave is unmarked and no family comes to visit. Yet Jacob Isaacson is anything but anonymous to the residents of an Arizona city. ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSISTANT EDITOR 18 O n the left is a tombstone marked Bell, on the right a grave for Simon Cohen, and in the middle: what appears to be no...…
…gales was building a but of mud and oak timbers, which became the city's first store. Isaac served as proprietor. Customers were mainly railroad workers. In May 1882, Jacob became the town's first postmaster. That same year, Nogales' third resident, John Brickwood, came on board. Brickwood later served as mayor. Meanwhile, Jacob, who for a short time studied to become a rabbi, found everything he needed in the incomparable ad- ventures of the ...…
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