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… Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam. The B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation sponsors im- portant social and service activities, but does not satisfy the need for polit- ical activism, said stu- dent Rachel…

… Bordman, who serves as president of Hinds student board. Miss Bordman and Hillel's Executive Direc- tor Mark Finkelstein support JSU and hope members will use Hillel as a resource. Fourteen members of JSU…

… LITTMANN STAFF WRITER Aside BACKGROUND Golan Peace? Are Syria and Israel inching close to an accord? Page 33 ewish students at Michigan State University are or- ganizing a politi- cal presence on…

…Celebrating 50 years of growth with the Detroit Jewish Community IFI VW 13 1 1 I 1 1-1 1 N r- '11114 7 SHEVAT 5753/JANUARY 29, 1993 Spartan Group Jewish students organize at MSU. RUTH…

… campus. "We're forming a student voice," said stu- dent P.J. Cherrin, who spearheaded the forma- tion of the Jewish Student Union. Mr. Cherrin said Jew- ish students do not have adequate representation in…

… met last Sunday with a representative of the Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit. Council's As s o - SPARTAN page 10 BUSINESS B2 + A2 Success Two U-M grads 'byte' the software market…

…. Page 37 ENTERTAINMENT Sephardi Baton Brazilian and Sephardi music are featured Sunday. Page 71 Contents on page 5 Bringing Back Memories Local Jews from Czechoslovakia fear a new wave of anti…

… — split in two. Cooperation between the two republics like- ly will continue, but observers fear the moral in- fluence of the Czechs will not. "The Slovaks were always worse," says Mr. Klein, of West…

… guess — he growled, "You dirty Jew bastard." Slovakia became a satellite of the Nazis in 1939, when Hitler forced the breakup of the coun- try. By 1940, the Slovaks had established their own institutes to…

… "solve the Jewish problem," and more than 10,000 Jewish busi- nesses were shut down. Two years later, Slovakia deported 60,000 Jews, many of whom went straight to Auschwitz. Among the unique aspects of the…

… Michigan's Hillel. the past two years," said Irwin Alterman, chair- grams" for young people. The man of Federation's Jewish Campaign currently stands at ap- Education Division and co-chair- proximately $23…

… pro- grams sponsored by youth groups, campus Hillels, Jewish day schools and other institutions geared to- ward helping Jewish children, teens and young adults maintain Federation's board of governors…

… percentage of AJCampaign revenue. "We recog- nized that basic human needs were allocated al- most all of the available new money is badly needed by organizations such as the University of dollars during More…

… Jewish Campaign nears completion with its Days of Decision, a final plug for pledges, representatives of agen- cies catering to young people hope their agency budgetary needs will be met. But there's no…

… guarantee. If the Campaign does not reach its $27.5 million target by the end of Days of Decision on June 17, these agencies will likely sustain cuts — even though many of their programs have been designated…

… for priority funding. This year, the board of the Jewish Federation of Metro- politan Detroit has targeted "con- tinuity programming" as a priority for AJCampaign alloca- tions. The category includes…

… partly determined the 1993 fund- ing priorities on the basis of a 1989 demographic survey showing an increase in intermarriage and as- similation. The board reasoned that programs catering to the needs of…

….1 million. Last man of Days of Decision. "We de- year's Days of Decision brought in termined that this was a year to $1.5 million; so it is possible, but balance it a little more or we'd nev- FLATTENED page…

… efer„ Thav were Nib Wan itftg/ thou* Ott twills O the pogroms Ets- oPed tin ited Slates, NM up a balms aro) raise Willies, So sticri4 was their sio-; that if hmire the subject of a ttl-page frature i…

…•t 1926 to die Detroit News. But what has trap eied to the %allay since? Valet was the sad fate of ete re- porter who told Iftg. , ,ir tale? And whet of Sermon Petlyare. the mart-trim insfigat- ed the…

… University of Michigan junior Tammy Wasserman is concerned, Jewish stu- dents in Ann Arbor can be broken up into four categories: Hillel, Greek, Closet and Floating Jews. In interviews with 24 students at the…

… roots. The "Hillel" group represents A students involved in any branch ciology course on the American of the organized Jewish commu- Jewish community, is not scien- nity at U-M. "Greek" represents tific…

…7 50 DETROIT THE EWISH NEWS 12 KISLEV 5754/NOVEMBER 26, 1g93 Still Another Lack Of Progress At the 62nd GA, the issues of years past again surface unsolved. PHIL JACOBS EDITOR AND NEIL RUBIN…

…. school and then Hebrew school. She also told She stared down the pro- of how in her synagogue she "wore" the fessional panel of social work- proverbial scarlet letter because she didn't ers, Ph.D.s and…

… educators who have a spouse. had just completed an hour Across the hall, audience members told of discussion on Jewish iden- speakers on intermarriage that, unless they tity and continuity and asked…

… experienced marrying out of the faith, the them where she fit into real "experts" were in the audience. Jewish life. A child of sur- Not one of the 3,000 participants at last vivors, she week's 62nd Council of…

… said the general Jewish com- Jewish Federations General munity only superficially Assembly in Montreal didn't tried to understand and help know the significance of the her with the second genera- number…

… 52 — the current in- tion of pain she lived with. termarriage percentage ac- That pain, she said, altered cording to CJF. her ability to exist "normal- Then there was the dis- ly" as a Jew. cussion…

… of 35 Photo by Paul Hackner duced herself on the audience and 40, who have done ev- microphone as a single par- Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak erything asked of them. ent. She told a similar panel…

… Rabin addresses Journalists at the NO PROGRESS page 30 Montreal Queen Elizabeth Hotel. w hat do you object to?" Students of Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism are accustomed to this question…

…. Schindler is an enigma. Professor Bolkosky, a University of Michigan- Dearborn instructor and author of the Holocaust curriculum "Life Unworthy of Life," recent- ly traveled to New York to learn more about…

… everal years ago, might have been unclear, now there's a Dr. Mark Smiley, definite sense of spirituality. Indeed, Dr. the Hillel Day Smiley talked about the urgency his School headmas- staff of teachers…

…7 50 THE DETROIT SH NEWS 10 TEVET 5754/DECEMBER 24, 1993 Seeing A Movement's Change From A Post Of Authority Spielberg's Triumph PHIL JACOBS EDITOR "Schindler's List" comes to the screen…

…. SchindlerTaps Into Memory LESLEY PEARL STAFF WRITER skar Schindler was a woman- izer, an alco- holic, a manipulator. He also Saved the lives of 1,300 Jews dur- ing World War IL To Sid Bolkosky, Mr…

… the man. He sat among Holocaust survivors, their children "Schindler" and a handful of newspa- per reporters, previewing Steven Spielberg's latest endeavor, Schindler's List, which opens tomorrow in…

… Detroit. Based on the historical fiction novel of the same name ' by Thomas Keneally, Schindler's List is the true story of a German man who, through his cunning and business sense, came to save the lives…

… of Jews by employing them.in his fac- tory, claiming they were necessary for the war ef- fort. "I was completely taken by surprise. I didn't think Spielberg could make a movie so uncompromising about…

…, both male and female, ter, talked about have to pick up continuing education in the need for spiri- areas such as Torah and tefilah (prayer). tuality to play "The Schechter movement itself is more of a…

… it was a part of Jewish continuity we can tell that the news is positive. that was most important when taught by parents. That message will now gain a national audience as Dr. Smiley takes office as…

… the president of the Solomon Schechter Day Schools Principals Council, an um- brella organization that in- cludes some 70 schools and 20,000 students in North America. Dr. Smiley becomes the…