…THE JEWISH NEWS THIS ISSUE 61'Y SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY JULY 28, 1989 / 25 TAMMUZ 5749 he Disillusionment Of Thomas Friedman The author of a highly acclaimed book about his ten years of reporting from the Mideast for The New York Times talks about coming to terms with the 'real' Israel. Israeli Workers Strike Chinese Uprising Over Unemployment Alters Detroiter's Plan Jerusalem (JTA) — One million Israeli workers staged a two-...…
…PURELY COMMENTARY New Lexicology With Dictionary On Ancient Aramaic PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor Emeritus A nother lexicographical move- ment has just begun. Scholarly tasks to compile "the world's first comprehensive dictionary of Aramaic, the ancient language presumably spoken by Jesus," is exten- sively outlined in an important article in the New York Times science section July 4 by Malcom W. Browne. This report states that plans call for 2...…
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…UP FRONT Poland And Auschwitz Have New Meaning For Teachers, Survivors STEVEN M. HARTZ Jewish News Intern G eorge Vine was 15 years old when he stepped off the cattle car that took him to Birkenau in 1942. He was told to join the line on the right with the working people, while his family was instructed to move to the left line with the others who were going to get "clean- ed and showered." Last month, the Holocaust Memorial Center's foun...…
…EDITORIAL The Race Is On ongressman John Conyers' entry into the Detroit mayoral election is an interesting development for the city and its suburbs. Not that we are endorsing John Conyers. The Jewish communi- ty for years has had philosophical differences with his attitudes and voting record on Israel and the Middle East. But Conyer's decision to throw his hat into the Detroit election ring could bring a much- needed dose of honesty and sel...…
…OPINION CONTENTS Ukrainian Concern: Justice Or Cover Up? PATIENCE T. HUNTWORK A s a lawyer, I feel obliged to correct several misconcep- tions contained in a recent ar- ticle by Russ Bellant (June 30 Jewish News). The article concerned a June 25 town meeting in Warren at which I and others spoke about grave procedural deficiencies in the Justice Department's search for Nazi war criminals. 1. Mr. Bellant incorrectly referred to the Town Me...…
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…I UP FRONT I Poland Continued from Page 5 Reverand Richard Walston and his wife, Janet, of St. John Lutheran Church in Fowlerville, also joined the HMC trip. "I've had a long, steady in- terest in the Holocaust, ever since I was 10 years old," Reverand Walston said. "In the 1950s, my parents invited a young woman, through an agency that was trying to help people after the war, to live with us. She was a Ger- man gypsy who survived Auschwitz...…
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…CLOSE-UP The Disillusionment Having just written a highly acclaimed book about his ten years of reporting from Beirut and Jerusalem for The New York Times, the two-time Pulitzer winner discusses his coming to terms with the 'real' Israel — and offers his own Five Rules Of Mideast Reporting. ARTHUR J. MAGIDA Special to The Jewish News Friedman at age 36: Two Pulitzers, a remarkable book, and a frustration with "bandits." 22. FRIDAY, JULY...…
…Th omas Friedman Utopian to Cynic Friedman recounts his journalistic and personal journey through the Middle East in the remarkable, just-released From Beirut to Jerusalem. The book stands out from the pack of tomes about the Mideast published each year for a number of reasons: It has a compelling lucidity that more than does justice to a murky, elusive land. It is eminently readable, personal and scholarly, historical and as up-to-date as to...…
…Dissillusionment CLOSE-UP Continued from preceding page Friedman applied for it. Leon Daniel remembers that there "was a lot of ap- prehension in UPI about sending Ibm to Beirut. 'You can't send a Jew to Beirut,' everyone said. But Tom wanted the assign- ment and he had earned it. He was also the kind of guy who I believed could hit the ground running and report as soon as he landed. And he did." Friedman not only ran. He excelled. After tw...…
…when describing Israel. Labor and Likud, he writes, point "to their written platforms and [say], 'Look how different we are from them, but in daily life they [are] each sell- ing the same Puppy Chow." Israel's politi- cal insecurity has made it "a country with a one-year warranty that no one is sure will be honored?' The 1987 strike by Israel's state-owned radio and TV which gave Israelis a respite from news suggested that "Israeli politics ha...…
…CLOSE-UP True Love, Or Just A lthough Israelis and American Jews began dating and fell in love after 1967, they never got married; they never made that total com- mitment to each other. Theirs was a romantic fling — an affair. As with any love affair, it was only skin deep; the two parties didn't really know that much about each other. In many ways, American Jews liked Israel for her body and Israelis liked American Jews for their money. Th...…
…A F A BOOK EXCERPT 9 l i ng ■ THOMAS FRIEDMAN At the time of Pollard's arrest, many American Jewish leaders were highly em- barrassed by the fact that Israel had been spying in the United States, and they lec- tured Israeli ministers for weeks on how in- solent this was — much to the annoyance of many Israelis, who felt that their coun- try was as entitled to spy as any other and didn't have to put up with any lectures from American Jews. I...…
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…INSIDE WASHINGTON hilsum's misses & misses petites contemporary fashions PRE-INVENTORY CLEARANCE SALE Strange Bedfellows Help Kill Nielson's Bill Blasting Israel JAMES D. BESSER SPRING & SUMMER CLEARANCE UP TO Washington Correspondent E -ven as Israel began the process of re- opening schools in Gaza and the West Bank, the issue continued to boil over here in Washington. Last week, Rep. Howard C. Nielson, R-Utah, made good his promise ...…
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…Renee Horowitz, M.D. prisons and detention centers at a cost of some $35 a day per prisoner. Significantly, at the very moment that Israeli workers were staging their national strike and Finance Minister Shimon Peres was unveiling a fresh austerity program, he announced an additional grant of $75 million to the ar- my to finance the military operation in the territories. At the same time, the civilian sector is expected to have suffered an ev...…
…PURELY COMMENTARY Aramaic Continued from Page 2 ceremonialisms than we even imagine. For instance, the Kaddish is in Aramaic. The Universal Jewish En- cyclopedia contains the com- parable Hebrew words in the Kaddish and the English translation. The reference to it and the manner Aramaic is evident in Scriptures must create a growing interest in the sub- ject in Jewish scholarship. Perhaps special studies of Aramaic will thereby be inspired....…
…COMMUNITY UJC Approves Funding For Community Programs Counselor Ayelet Barnea talks to her bunk about the day's activities at Camp Mass. Ayelet is one of 18 Israeli youths working for the Fresh Air Society and Jewish Community Center this summer. In addition, six children from Yavneh, Israel, are campers at Camp Maas. Warshay Will Lead Zionist Federation Leon Warshay will be in- stalled Monday as president of the Detroit Zionist Federa- ti...…
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…Dan Rosen Weinberg and Saltz discuss legal precedents at U-M's Law Library. SECOND THOUGHTS After years in one field, some say goodbye to their old jobs and hello to new careers. STEVEN M. HARTZ Jeu'ish News Intern A s Susan Kalb Wein- berg walked across the stage during the University of Michigan's law school commencement last year, she held more than just her diploma. Weinberg, 39, also carried her children. "My sons, 6-year-old David...…
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