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…Staff Notebook 1.1. ► ► lit is_pleased to announce artments the winners of our 2003 Jewith services Eight Over Eighty Event! Rabbi Gold is a musician and leader -in Aleph, the Alliance for Jewish Renewal. Her retreat, April 25-27, is part of an expanding leadership pro- ne of the faces in the kitchen at gram offered by the progressive, trans- denominational spiritual-practice cen- Congregation B'nai Moshe ter. may be new, but the other has ...…
…'Phis Week Looking Forward Despite diplomatic experiences, Seeds of Peace's Aaron Miller believes personal relationships matter. DIANA LIEBERMAN StaffWriter/Copy Editor D r. Aaron David Miller, former senior adviser for Arab-Israeli negotiations at the U.S. State Depart- ment, took over in January as presi- dent of the international youth organization Seeds of Peace. Dr. Miller, the author of three books gri the Middle East, spent more th...…
…War On Campus Palestinian sentiments are being injected into the anti-war issue. after the new Palestinian Authority prime minister is confirmed in the coming weeks. And international pressure for a peace agreement is likely to mount once the Iraq war ends. RACHEL POMERANCE Jewish Telegraphic Agency Washington ince military action against Iraq began, American college campuses have erupted in Guessing At Tactics protests against the war — m...…
…One Of Our Own Marine corporal from Vermont is first Jewish casualty in Iraq War. JOE BERKOFSKY Jewish Telegraphic Agency When Evnin was 6, hii parents separated, but his father, Michael, of Rockville, Md., returned and lived with his son from the ages of 8 to 12. His father recalled that when Evnin was born, "he looked like an angel. He was extremely beautiful, almost shockingly so. He had long, blond, golden hair, which as an infant he wo...…
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…LOOKING FORWARD from page 17 groups from the Balkans. Seeds has run more than 2,000 kids in a decade through the camp in Maine, which is the only the depar- ture point for year-round co-existence and conflict resolution programming done primarily through our center in Jerusalem. We also run an adult Peace Partners program, using a grant from the State Department. DJN: What are your plans for the future of the organization? ADM: My objective ...…
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…Soldiers On Duty During Passover A s Jewish families around the world prepare to gather for Passover, local families with loved ones in the military face the hol- iday hoping for a phone call. "I'm disappointed he's not going to be home because, before the war start- ed, our plans were for him to be home for Pesach." Marlene Zeitlin of Farmington Hills was talking about her son, Allen, 21, a U.S. Air Force airman 1st class based in the Unite...…
…Anti-Israel Move WSU student group proposes divestment resolution to student council. DON COHEN Special to the Jewish News A n anti-Israel student organi- zation at Wayne State University has asked the WSU Student Council to pass a resolution calling for the Detroit-based university to divest from companies doing business with Israel. The Student's Movement for Justice (SMJ) pushed for immediate passage of its proposed resolution at the co...…
…Says Simon Cichette, a senior from Southfield, "all [the council does] is have concerts and show movies. It is foolish to think they represent stu- dents on political issues." Cichette also noted WSU President Irvin D. Reid is "on our side of the issue," referencing a statement Reid - issued last October. The statement said, in part, that divestment from "companies linked to Israel or any other legitimate state in the region is simply not help...…
…Cautious Optimism Students go on with their hires amid lessening of war clouds. RACHEL KOHN Special to the Jewish News majority of people in Tammy's area do not believe Israel will be affected by this war. "In the last war, yes, people were nervous, but they don't take seriously what's going on now," she says. After all the procrastination and "this week the war will start — no, next week — no, the next," Israelis stopped expecting anything...…
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…Insight A(.aWala • Updates 40' Women of Wan Weigh Remember When From the pages of the Jewish News from this week 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60 years ago. nOir-a Alkee '1" Backers of women's prayer at wall weigh A their options after a court ruling. RACHEL POMERANCE Jewish Telegraphic Agency New York City , aced with an Israeli Supreme Court decision banning a women's group from reading the Torah at the Western Wall, feminists- and ad...…
…Insight WOMEN from page 31 ZOOS ES X00 causing an uproar among other wor- shipers who considered it a sacrilege. Israel's Supreme Court accepted the group's case in the summer of 1989 on condition that the group pray at the wall without the Torah. with one sponta- Since then neous exception — the group has not used Torahs at the wall. Members either have held prayer sessions at the wall without the Torah or have read from the Torah at nearb...…
…Editorials are posted and archived on JN Online: -vvvvw.cletroitjewishnews.com Dry Bones The New Old Lesson Of Passover here is nothing terribly miraculous about precision bombs or Warthog heli- copters or Bradley fighting vehicles, but for Iraqis, they will serve the purpose that a river of blood and infestations of locusts and frogs did for the Israelites in Egypt. The force of arms will set the Iraqis free, just as the plagues did for th...…
…OTHER VIEWS Seeking War Insight In Talmud Mercer IsLInc4Wash./ITA s I got to work clearing the house of leaven and preparing for seders, I couldn't help noticing that the war in Iraq has coincided with the weeks leading up to Passover. The coincidence is eerily appropriate. Jewish tradition teaches that Passover has its origins in an ancient conflict. It's the first war in the Bible, and it foreshadows key issues confronting America now in t...…
…Road Map, Road Kill Philadelphia he signs of an impending sellout are all too obvious. Statements coming out of Washington confirm the fears of many that the nightmare sce- nario envisioned by many friends of Israel in this country is about to become reality. It goes something like this: . After American forces finish off Saddam Hussein's regime and begin their attempt to transform Iraq into the first moderate Arab democracy, the State Depart...…
…OTHER VIEWS Voices From The Bombshelter Tel have to say that there is a cer- - tain relaxing aspect to being in Israel right now While everyone back in the United State is in a tizzy trying to figure out how to deal With the war and possible terrorist attacks, life here is amazingly calm. For instance, I don't have to worry about where my bomb shelter is. The one at home is 30 yards from my door. At the research institute near Tel Aviv wher...…
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…JCCouncil Earns Civic Accolades The Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit received a national award at a symposium in Washington, D.C., on March 31 for fostering black-Jewish relations. The Council was recognized for the 2002 Detroit Clergy Mission to Israel and West Africa, a trip that brought together nine African-American min- isters and area rabbis for a trip to Senegal and Israel. The Marjorie Kovler Awards for black- Jewish r...…
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