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…THE JEWISH NEWS SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY CLOSE-UP SOUTHFIELD: AT RISK? `Duke For President' Riles GOP Activists Second part in a series NOAM M.M. NEUSNER Staff Writer D avid Duke's presiden- tial bid is giving local political activists fits — and not only because of his Ku Klux Klan back- ground. Both Republican and Democratic leaders are upset that Mr. Duke was put on the ballot for the Mich- igan Republ...…

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…CONTENTS CLOSE-UP Tales Of Five Cities Southfield KIMBERLY LIFTON Mt. Airy, Pa. KIMBERLY LIFTON ENTERTAINMENT Long Trek Home UP FRONT 11 TOM TUGEND With Soviet implosion, activists change tactics. With Star Trek behind him, Nimoy starts a new search. DETROIT 67 Shaker Heights, Cleveland Heights NOAM M.M. NEUSNER Oak Park, Ill. 14 • WSU Hillel's funding may be in jeopardy. • A former Detroiter has a mystical answer. • Lubavi...…

…I EDITORIAL W(=>FIL_IED Right Here In Southfield In Part 2 of our three-part series ex- amining Southfield, The Jewish News compared Southfield and the Jewish Fed- eration's Neighborhood Project to similar cities and projects in the East and Midwest. We found that Detroit, among the cities we looked at, was alone in having a Fed- eration which offered no-interest loans, with the express purpose of attracting Jews into Southfield and Oak Pa...…

…OPINION Is There An Alternative To President George Bush? LEONARD FEIN I t is, of course, much too soon to write off George Bush's prospects for re- election. Among other things he has going for him, there is no coherent Dem- ocratic party that can focus a national debate on the failures of the Bush presi- dency and propose reasoned alternatives. It's easy enough to recount the Bush failures, which mount almost daily, but it is by no mean...…

…iftwopmmispowlimPoSSMIlmmitivTIPIr' 200,000 babies started Ile right at Providence. THE JEWISH NEWS ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER: Arthur M. Horwitz EDITOR EMERITUS: Philip Slomovitz MANAGING EDITOR: Phil Jacobs ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Alan Hitsky ASSISTANT EDITOR: Elizabeth Applebaum STAFF WRITERS: Kimberly Lifton Amy J. Mehler Noam M. M. Neusner CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Elie Wiesel WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: James D. Besser FOREIGN CORRESPONDE...…

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…LETTERS EVERYTHING MUST GO! ALL FURNITURE AND ACCESSORIES IN THE LANDON MODEL (LOT 10) AT THE 1991 HOMEARAMA Continued from Page 6 able to take advanced place- ment courses at S-L, he has already earned sophomore status. At S-L, whether in the classroom or on the basket- ball court, my son received the support and encourage- ment of his administration, teachers and peers. My daughter is now a junior at Southfield-Lathrup. She, too, is bein...…

…4011111iNVIONNINININWONIIPsifflifflaNtitt. UP FRONT Soviet Jewry Activists Retool Their Approach Street protests have been replaced by aid to those left behind in the wake of the Kremlin meltdown. JAMES D. BESSER Washington Correspondent T he implosion of the Soviet empire has provided the interna- tional movement to aid Soviet Jewry with unex- pected successes, while also handing it unprecedented new challenges. At the same time, it ma...…

…UP FRONT lims Soviet Jewry Continued from preceding page TRADITION. Isn't there one more worth carrying on? Friday night. The end of the week. The beginning of Shabbat. A time to relax, reflect and renew. And as much a part of this tradition as the candles and the challah was knowing the weekly Jewish News had also arrived. It brought news about the community, the nation and the world. Today, that tradition hasn't changed. In fact, it's g...…

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…DETROIT B'nai B'rith Will Cut Funds For Metro Detroit Hillel NOAM M.M. NEUSNER Staff Writer Photo by Glenn Triest A Soviet emigres Segey Mikhaylovsky, Andree Semenov and Alla Shapiro volunteer on the phones. Sunday Was Super For Allied Campaign PHIL JACOBS Managing Editor n a day when the recession, economic hardship and even hazardous weather could have spoiled it all, the Allied Jewish Campaign's 12th annual Super Sunday event turn...…

…-101111.110 ■ 111Weiikstiphio- - 4111111•000111W , and Jewish views on rein- carnation. Another chapter considers Zen Buddhist meditation, then examines the role of meditation in Jewish tradition. Rabbi Blank recommends Jews use for a mantra the names of God or Hebrew letters. Throughout the book, the rabbi includes exercises in which the reader is en- couraged to focus on sephirot, centers of the body determined by Kabbalah; to visualize mee...…

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…State, the teens traveled to Lansing where they watched the real Michigan legislature in action. Seth will return next summer to speak at the Boys State and at the Girls State programs. Both groups regularly exchange speakers, he said. "When the representative from Girls State came to talk to us, she got a pretty good reaction." In addition to his work at Boys State, Seth also serves as president of the student councils for the Southeast- ern ...…

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…volunteers to three different Veterans Administration hospitals across the state — in Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor and Allen Park. They will play bingo and bring presents to the patients. • Temple Emanu-El is sending 20 young volunteers to Carl's Chop House, which traditionally serves a Christmas dinner to or- phans, elderly and the needy. The volunteers will help serve the meal. • The Young Adult Divi- sion of the Jewish Federa- tion of Metropolit...…

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…SOUTHFIELD: AT RISK? Neighborhood integration does not happen naturally. TALES OF FIVE CITIES T KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer hanks to a Jewish commun- ity loan program, busi- nessman Boruch Levine purchased a home in the Upper Park Heights com- munity of Baltimore. Without the loan, he said, he and his family would still be living in an apartment. Because of the Neighbor- hood Project, a similar inter- est-free loan program in ANALYSIS...…

…SOUTHFIELD: AT RISK? The Neighborhood Project helps Southfield retain afewish flavor. SOUTHFIELD, MICHIGAN M KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer intzy and Gene Schramm expected to live in Southfield about 10 years when they moved into their home on Jeanette in 1972. "It seemed like every 10 years the Jewish community moved, or it started to move or to spread out," said Mrs. Schramm, president of Writer's Aide Service. "We figured if we waited ...…

…SOUTHFIELD: "There is nothing wrong with our neighbors and there is nothing wrong with the schools. A lot of people who graduated with me are moving back here." — Jeff Bussell reinvested. Look at the shopping center at 10 Mile and Coolidge, the K-mart at Lincoln Center, the increas- ed use of the 10 Mile JCC. "There was an element of uncertainty when we started this program. Was it too late? Too late for what? A number of people are moving ...…

…7.1010764 SOUTHFIELD: AT RISK? Just northwest of downtown Philadelphia rests a quaint urban neighborhood that is integrated -- by choke. MT AIRY, PENNSYLVANIA P KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer Jewish Philadelphia Mt. Airy, with a population of about 34,000, is located within Philadelphia proper at the northwest fringes. Its housing stock is diverse, ranging from large Penn- sylvania stone houses to apartments to dilapidated row houses. P...…

…SOUTHFIELD: the Reconstructionist rab- binical seminary, moved from Boston to Mt. Airy. In addition, offshoots of the Chavura movement, like the New Jewish Agenda, a polit- ical group advocating liberal social causes, are staples within the community. Crucial to the neighbor- hood's stabilization is the Germantown Jewish Centre, often more politically active than other Conservative congregations. During the Vietnam era, actress/activist Jane ...…

…SOUTHFIELD - : AT RISK? Award-winning integration program uses money and markets to keep blacks and whites living together. SHAKER HEIGHTS & CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, OHIO NOAM M.M. NEUSNER Staff Writer Jewish Cleveland Cleveland's estimated 65,000 Jews live east of the city, in suburbs stretching east from Cleveland Heights and Shaker Heights to Beachwood and Pepper Pike. As the suburbs stretch eastward, the homes become more expensive. hen ...…

…SOUTHFIELD: AT RISK? SHAKER HEIGHTS HOUSING OFFICE 6EPARTMENT ----. OF COMMUNITY SERVICES achievement, even some gang violence — Shaker schools routinely win awards and accolades. In 1986, Town and Coun- try magazine rated Shaker Height's high school one of the nation's best. Over 50 per- cent of the class of '91 at- tends an Ivy League or other selective college. Shaker Heights is a wealthy community, and taxes itself heavily to sup- p...…

…SOUTHFIELD: AT RISK? A grass-roots effort created a model of ethnic diversity for a suburban Chicago community. OAK PARK, ILLINOIS 0 AMY J. MEHLER Staff Writer Jewish Chicago A 1980s study of the distribution of the 250,000 Jews in metropolitan Chicago indicates there will be continued concentration of urban Jewish population in the city proper within fewer neighborhoods and move- ment of the Jewish popula- tion to newer suburban area...…

…SOUTHFIELD: AT RISK? awareness and interfaith dialogue. Sandra Sokol, an Oak Park community relations representative, said the village is sensitive to multi- cultural issues, setting aside days for black awareness and Holocaust remembrance. In the mid-1980s, an Oak Park high school janitor was discovered to be a former Nazi guard. After his trial, Kulle Reinhold was deported back to Germany. Since then, Oak Park com- memorates Holocaust Re- ...…

…S 0 UT HF 'ELIE): A T RISK? A little money and a lot ofbard work helped recreate a Jewish enclave in Baltimore. UPPER PARK HEIGHTS, MARYLAND KIMBERLY LIFTON Jewish Baltimore Photo by Craig Terkowitz Upper Park Heights is the only remaining Jewish neighborhood within Baltimore's city limits. Of the city and county's estimated 94,000-person Jewish population, 8,000 affiliate as Orthodox — the highest pro- portion of Orthodox Jews per popul...…

…SOUTHFIELD: the suburbs. At the time, the northwest corridor was in- creasingly black or Or- thodox. Middle class Con- servative and Reform Jews left the area for the suburbs. The Orthodox were com- mitted to staying in the area and launched efforts to secure an eruv, a ritual enclosure that permits observant Jews to carry within its parameters on Shabbat and on holidays. By 1981, after a four-year battle, highway officials, utility companies...…

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…tion," she said. "We feel it is unfortunate that it has been rescinded." Ms. Macki called the repeal "untimely," coming in the midst of current peace talks. "It sends the wrong message in light of the in- flux of Jewish settlers and settlements on the occupied West Bank," she said. "It is blatant apartheid and a double standard." None of the Arab nations, not Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Leb- anon, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Syria and United Arab Emirates, (...…

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…NTERNAT IONA BACKGROUND The Soviet Free-Fall As life in the old Soviet Union gets tougher, Jews will increasingly be blamed. HELEN DAVIS Foreign Correspondent W hen poet Josef Brodksy peered into his crystal ball, he saw a post-communist world that was "sleepwalking into race war." That chilling vision is now being transformed into terrible reality as national self-assertion sweeps away decades of Soviet coloniza- tion to reveal a panor...…

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…NEWS Arab-Jewish Tensions Rise in West Bank Jerusalem (JTA) — As Israeli and Palestinian negotiators attempt to talk peace in Washington, rela- tions between Jews and Arabs have deteriorated sharply in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. The West Bank was espe- cially tense over the weekend, as security forces, egged on by angry settlers, expanded curfews, barred Arabs from parts of main highways and conducted mass arrests in Palestinian towns...…

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