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…11 0 kit!ktl 0,,, 71 n94 1994 PLYMOUTH VOYAGER Local Jews Answer Killings 00kidAtt) lots - RUTH LITTMANN STAFF WRITER H arriet Drissman of Farm- ington Hills thinks the world has a double…

… stan- dard for Jews and Arabs. To prove it, she points to the in- ternational outrage over last week's massacre in Hebron. "You have at least 35 to 40 Jews who have been killed since that famous…

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… discrimination in hiring, education and housing. It then stood up for civil rights, the plight of oppressed Jews around the world and ecumenical movements. In the early part of this decade, it played a key role in…

…, only two of four meetings it arranged to reach out to Jews on the fringes of the Jewish community drew more than a couple dozen people. A drive announced two years ago to be part of the rebuilding of the…

… anti-Semitic incidents do happen, the Michigan Region of the Anti-Defamation League takes the call. The Council continues to court Michigan legislators and staff, but its legislative director says…

….the most important issues she tackled during this slow year in Lansing was a genet- ic testing bill that might affect Ashkenazi Jews and a bill exempting Orthodox Jews from autopsy. Lacking an urgent cause…

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…• I xio.M"vin data Constructive Actions, Without A Violence Factor Jews don't kill, Jews don't hate. We wish that were the sum total of the truth. But what has been even more distressing than…

… the murderous act of Dr. Baruch Goldstein is the reaction we've seen and heard from other Jews. For a rabbi, a man of God, to eulogize that one million Arabs aren't worth the fingernail of a sin- gle…

… Jew, is stunning in its viciousness. For other "religious" Jews to call for the revenge of Dr. Gold- stein's death is a contradiction of the precepts of Jewish law we hold dear. Dr. Goldstein, it is…

… who see Dr. Goldstein's act as a crying out of sorts to attract attention to the killing of Jews, and to protest the peace process. Others feel he might have seen the Palestinians as Amalek, and…

… followed the lead of the Haftorah Zachor instructing Jews to destroy Amalek's peo- ple and descendants. Whatever he was thinking, Dr. Goldstein mur- dered. There is nothing that can justify his ac- tions…

… people about this peace process or not, we have to single out the haters who call themselves Jews. We can- not have a standard for anti-Semites and then look away if a Jew is racist or kills or hates…

… level of responsibility. As Jews we must show ourselves as examples of unquestionable godliness. If we don't, then the price we'll pay as a people for any sort of co-exis- tence or peace in Israel will be…

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…- ian Chief Rabbi Avraham Ham- ra marked the end of an emigration which began in April 1992 and has brought 3,800 of Syria's 4,000 Jews out of the country. Hamra, who had been living in New York for the…

… of the roughly 230 Jews still in Syria are free to leave, and a handful are expected to arrive in New York this week, according to those involved. "Now the community in Syr- ia is gone," Rabbi Hamra…

… atmosphere in the Middle East. On the eve of his departure, more than 100 Syrian Jews gath- ered at the reception hosted by the American Jewish Joint Dis- tribution Committee. Some, like the rabbi, had only…

… which em- igration from Syria was banned, but had risked everything to es- cape. Even after Syrian President Hafez Assad permitted Jews to travel freely, and thereby tacitly permitted the community's em…

…- igration, Syrian Jews feared to rejoice publicly. Over the past years, Israeli censors banned coverage of the exodus out of fear of jeopardizing the operation, and American Jewish publications voluntarily…

… story was publicized in Israel following an announcement from Syria. In Israel, Rabbi Hamra will join 1,500 Syrian Jews who have made aliyah in the past two years after arriving in New York from Damascus…

…. That part of the exo- dus has been kept absolutely se- cret until now since in giving permission for Jews to travel in 1992, Mr. Assad specifically stip- ulated that they were not to go to Israel. More…

…, the Jewish people have to go to Israel," he said. At the reception, those whose families number among the esti- mated 230 Jews still in Syria were the most reluctant to talk SYRIA page 40 …

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… week at a Simchat Torah rally for Syrian Jews outside the home and office of Syria's honorary consul general, Faiz Rifai, in suburban Beaconsfield. Rabbi Martin Penn, co- chairman of the Canadian Jewish…

… Congress' Com- mittee for Jews in Arab Lands, one of several co- sponsoring _ organizations, pointed out that now is an opportune time to pressure Syria to stop mistreating its Jewish population. "While the…

… condition of Syrian Jews has always been tragic, now is the time to go public with our demands," Rabbi Penn said. "Syria is looking to enhance relations with the West," he elaborated, and "to do so, Syria…

… St. Luc suburb, said Syrian President Hafez Assad con- siders Syria's Jews to be "hostages, bargaining chips in future negotiations. "That's another reason for this demonstration, to make the status of…

… Syrian Jews known to communities out- side our own," Mr. Nashen. said. "People aren't aware of how badly they are being treated," he added. Mr. Rifai was not at home when the demonstration started at noon…

… family but had no idea Jews were being held in Syria against their will. They were given literature by CJC communications di- rector Mike Cohen. Very few Jews live in Beaconsfield, where some local…

… waved placards calling for an end to the Damascus government's "campaign of terror" against the 4,500 Jews left in Syria. The rally was initiated by Rabbi Reuben Poupko of Congregation Beth Israel Beth…

…. (Si Sat. 9.5 ABBAKA DACOR THERN lADOR MONOGRAM U S. Rep. Eric Fingerhut, a freshman legislator from Ohio, came to town to give the Detroit Jew- ish community what he consid- ered a frightening message…

… seven other Jewish organizations. "I have never felt so alarmed or that it was so necessary for Jews to be involved in politics." Rep. Fingerhut said his fear stems from a number of factors, including a…

… recent debate on the House floor. The debate was about condemning a speech by the Nation of Islam's Khalid Abdul Muhammad, who ver- bally attacked Jews, Catholics, whites and gays during a Nov. 29 speech…

… given every day on college campuses." He also mentioned last Fri- day's incident in Hebron, when a Jewish settler killed 40 Muslims. We as Jews have an obliga- tion to put this incident into con- text for…

… springboards to higher offices. It's also impor- tant to make sure Jews are in- volved with candidates of both political parties." Following Rep. Fingerhut's address, Larry Deitch, a Michi- gan Democrat, and…

… Harriet Rotter, a Michigan Republican, spoke about their parties and jokingly took stabs at the oppo- site political affiliation. But their message was the same: politi- cal party does not matter —just get…

…0 9 THE UNITED SYNAGOGUE OF CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM MICHIGAN REGION rn Presents `) A Workshop Seminar Titled: Marrying In Marrying Out KEEPING THE JEWISH FAITH Featuring Keynote Speaker Rabbi…

… It All In The Jewish News Classifieds Call 354-5959 American Cardinals Good Friends Of Jews New York Roman Catholic church today," (JTA) — The said Rudin. "It shows how im- two American portant…

… Catholic-Jewish relations archbishops el- are to this pope." "It is one of the ironies of Jew- evated to the rank of cardi- ish history that a reliable friend nal by Pope that the Jewish people have in John…

…'s chief He's a mensch," said Rabbi Win- spokesman in er, using the Yiddish term for "de- the United cent man." States and con- The Synagogue Council is an sidered by umbrella group representing the Jews…

… to access at the relations with Jews, Rabbi Win- Vatican. Malda er said that Archbishop Keeler His promo- tion to the College of Cardinals personally stepped in during the will only increase his access…

… Jozef Glemp of coming. There was the danger of Poland, who met with Jews here nasty confrontations" between Jewish demonstrators and the in an effort at reconciliation. In 1989, Cardinal Glemp gave nuns…

…, said Rabbi Winer. "Archbishop Keeler went the a homily in Czestochowa, in which he said that Jews control full nine yards as president of the the international media, intro- National Conference of…

… Unity, an umbrella body which community for the Religious includes the Vatican's Commis- Freedom Restoration Act, a piece sion for Relations with the Jews. of legislation considered very im- Archbishop…

…. The church opposed the legis- served as U.S. Catholics' episco- pal moderator for Catholic-Jew- lation because Catholic officials feared that a woman could use ish relations. According to Rabbi A. James…

… football fields away from the Arab • 625-3322 • arms around the court races, a mosque — and repeat the lie that good Irish name will do a candi- the 'Jews are endangering Al date well in Michigan." Right or…

…BACKED page 20 FURNITURE OUTLET History's Tragic Repetition Apparently many Jews do not understand what is painfully ob- vious to the Palestinians: The cur- rent conflict is primarily about the…

… right of Jews to have and keep a History has a way of repeating it- state of their own. In the minds of self. the Palestinians, Jerusalem is In 1929 Hebron was the scene theirs; thus, any attempt by…

… Israel of a bloody massacre. The un- to exercise sovereignty is an at- armed Jewish community was tack on their spurious territorial besieged by mobs of its Arab claims. neighbors. Sixty-seven Jews were…

… the Jews" was the cry American taxpayer continues to that came from the mufti's men fund the PLO to the tune of $500 from Jerusalem. With that total million, Israel's ability to defend assault upon the…

… aircraft peated again and again in a me- equipped army. dia either too naive or careless to see for itself is the untruth that Marc Baker the Jews are again attacking Al New Hours Birmingham Aqsa. The tunnel…

… the comment attributed to mosque. What was recently opened by Judge Hilda Gage, candidate for the Michigan Supreme Court, "I'm the government was an exit from running against a Kelly and a the Temple…

… interviewed recently by a Baltimore Sun reporter on my leaving. The toughest question he asked was, if I could have one wish for the Baltimore Jew- ish community, what would that wish be? I said that I wished…

… the Jews of Baltimore could learn to lis- ten to, and appreciate, each oth- er a bit more, from across the Great Divide of denomination- al difference. The same holds true for Detroit. In this job, I…

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… BARON WOLMAN LISA LAW JOHN BELLISSIMO go off and talk to a serious Con- servative feminist Judaic schol- ar, and then observe Orthodox Jews doing a wide range of mitzvah work, from visiting the sick to…

… — The Other. It's the job of a Jewish news- paper to help bridge those gaps among us, and it's our job — each of us — to try to look for the common threads that bind us as Jews rather than those that…

… the expul- sion of the Jews of Spain, Edward Mirsky and Rebeca Romero Varo of Montreal were wed in the small, or- nate Moorish-style syn- agogue, built in 1315 and closed in 1492. The local media gave…

… one of three in Spain re- maining from the time of the expulsion of the Jews in 1492. The other two are in Toledo. The small Cordoba syn- agogue consists of a single square room with a women's gallery…

… acquaintances and strangers. And she does it in a way that never ceases to awe her friends. Last year, Rebecca Blumenfeld of Oak Park was named a Jew- ish News Mitzvah hero. She is a quiet hero and a woman of mod…

… more than twice his age with a range of good deeds, to Rae Ann Sharfman, who has been at the forefront of the Soviet emigration movement, Jews have been NOMINATION FORM: Name of person you are…

… Jews and gentiles, and in hopes of having their actions inspire others to per- form similar deeds, The Jewish News will publish its sixth annu- al Mitzvah Heroes section. We invite readers to nominate a…

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… sensitive about how Jews are portrayed, particularly by other Jews," Reines says. "We can't afford to be comfortable and take our position for granted." Siskel brings his presenta- tion to Michigan Tuesday…

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… Federation of Broward County in Florida, recently chaired an event that featured film critic Gene Siskel. His topic, "How Jews Are Portrayed in Film," hit home very quickly. While watching the movie My Giant…

… featuring Billy Crystal, she took offense at the derisive way Crystal's character spoke about Jews, the very point Siskel was making in his speech. "Gene Siskel's presentation empha- sized that Jews must be…

… Jewish filmmakers turn their religion into a joke and forge negative stereotypes, reports James D. Davis, a Florida reli- gion editor who's heard Siskel speak on the portrayal of Jews in film. Among the…

…• Fine Catering For All Occasions One of Metropolitan Detroit's Most Beautiful & Exciting Restaurants Super Jews: An Exhaustive Guide JAMES D. BESSER WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT Is Superman Jewish…

…, and is that cape thing on his back a tallis? Not a chance — but there are plenty of other Jews in comic books, that form of literary effluvia your moth- er probably threw away when you moved out of the…

… Wonder Woman comic about a "super-powered Jew" being forced to work with a Nazi U-boat cap- tain. There are Evangelistic tracts in comic form aimed at Jews, which Mr. Bergson meticulously docu- ments, and…

… serious read- ers, after all, not recreational Netsurfers interested in hot pics. There are some pics, accessible by links, and other links to some of the big comic sites on the Web. "More Jews are…

… interested to- day in the way Jews are poi flayed in all kinds of media than they have been at any time in history," Mr. Bergson said. "And in today's global village, the media has a lot more impact than it…

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…'t see it as unusual," says Mr. Bronstein, who emphasizes that this is an island where varied groups all get along well. "There are very good rela- tions between Jews and non- Jews on the island," says Mr…

… years the Mormons were building their church, they used the syna- gogue. It is also used by the is- land's Unitarians. Jews were living in harmony with non Jews on St. Croix long before B'nai Or was…

… island of Nevis, was raised on St Croix. And it was the Jews on the island who raised money to send him to Kings College, which is now Co- lumbia University. The tombstones in the Jew- ish cemetery in…

… Christiansted attest to the existence of a Jew- ish community in the mid 19th century, says Mr. Bronstein. This community did not remain active continuously, but by the 1950s it had revived. "I. think it's a…

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…. Two years ago, Michigan voters rejected their Proposal D— by almost 2-1. Now, the auto insurance companies are back, with Proposal C on the November 8 ballot. Michigan voters were not fooled two years…

…- fense of the Jewish people as a point of entry to a greater sense ofJewish spirituality. Standing up for Jews should not be the last step in one's commitment to Am Yisrael, but rather the first step…

…- tion with a slingshot. What is re- quired to touch Jewish souls is a radical reprioritization of com- munal resources and funding. At the State University of New York at Albany for example, Jew- ish…

… Jews. Or so, at least, rd been told by my many friends who worship there. But only recently when I was in New York on a Friday evening did I have the chance to join them. It was thrilling to be part of a…

… success of these institutions depends not only on those who lead them, but also on the persistence of an available constituency. That con- stituency — the many American Jews who se k a serious, sub…

… invest our energies in responding to the needs of the Jews than in endless kvetching about the sorry state of our community. Or about how our enemies are still sharpening their knives. Those who indulge in…

…• A el DIANA LIEBERMAN Special to the Jewish News he best-known superhero in the Bible appears in the T coming week on the stage of the Detroit Opera House, as the Michigan Opera Theatre presents…

… operatic tradition. But, when Mark Lundberg makes his Michigan Opera Theatre debut on opening night, Samson will sing with a voice informed by Jewish litur- gy. After performing the role 22 times in venues…

… homes in A Jew At The Opera JONATHAN S. TOBIN Special to the Jewish News T here is a school of thought with deep roots in Western culture which has always viewed the Jews as the bad guys. Not because…

… any of the crimes The Protocols of the Elders of Zion would ascribe to us. There are a lot of people who have always resented the Jews because we "invented" God. More to the point, they see us as the…

… critics may have a point. It was only with the collision of the ancient Jews with the pagan soci- eties of the Eastern Mediterranean that a lot of the concepts such as the sanctity of life (i.e. no human…

… sacri- fices) and codes of sexual conduct began to spread. Think of the Jews as sort of the Christian Coalition of the ancient Middle East, and perhaps you can imagine why we were seen as such a…

… things Jewish. It often celebrates the values of hedonism in a way Voltaire might have enjoyed. Yet the search for Jews at the opera often uncovers some interesting finds. Even there, our biblical heritage…

…de' A funeral can take place, even without the body. uter, University of Mich A University of Michigan Medical School professor supervises the dissection of a cadaver. w w CC H- LLJ LLJ 44…

… all me morbid. Inspiration for this article came when I accompanied a medical-school friend to his gross anatomy class. The ques- tion that immediately crossed my mind was: What does Jew- ish law say…

… enough, I was happy to establish a post-mortem raison d'etre. But, days later, a co-worker informed me that my "good deed" violates Jewish law. For the most part, Halachah (Jew- ish law) forbids Jews from…

… will .come a day when the body is resurrected, and the body must be resurrected as a whole." Traditional responsa (rab- binic opinions) recommend that Jews bury accident victims with their bloodied…

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… Operation Exodus will soon be replaced by an even more ambitious campaign to aid the Soviet Jews streaming into Israel. That migration is accelerating, not slowing down. At the same time, many federations are…

… having to come up with funds from their local budgets to reset- tle the 40,000 Soviet Jews who are arriving each year in the United States. "A lot of us are worried that we will meet the needs of the…

… Soviet Jewish goals and turn around and find that we've rendered insecure the domestic Jewish needs," said Mark Talisman, direc- tor of the Washington Action Office of the Council of Jew- ish Federations…

…. "But what's the answer? Not to respond to Soviet Jews? That's a ridiculous concept. It has to happen, and so does everything else." In interviews with over a dozen federation directors and financial…

… picture hasn't been as good. "Most of our leaders would be pleased just to break even, given the money need- ed for Soviet Jews," said Rick Meyer, executive direc- tor of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation…

…Editorials IN FOCUS Honoring Jewish Education group effort. The artists come from three Buy a gift-quality calendar showcasing chil- Michigan day schools (Hillel Day School of dren's drawings from…

… Michigan and the Cen- Metropolitan Detroit in Farmington Hills, tral Galilee — and, in the process, show you Akiva Hebrew Day School in Lathrup Village care about Jewish education. and Hebrew Day School in…

…- thing similar about the estimated 1.5 million Jews still in Russia. For so many years, there was a Jewish urgency of sneaking prayer books to refuseniks and watching rabbis and other leading Jewish names…

… Israel. We welcomed Soviet Jews with programs and financial aid. Many of us recounted the emotions of stories of seeing ohm, immigrants, disembarking from planes at David Ben-Guri- on Airport. Under the…

… disenfranchised Jews living in 145 nursing homes all over the Detroit area shows a real strong signal of compassion from the Commis- sion on Jewish Eldercare Services. We know that the work community chaplains such…

… as Rabbi Bunny Freedman does for the Hospice of Michigan makes it clear that this sort of connection is important. Sometimes Jewish families are so discon- nected that they don't have the first notion…

… these 650 Jews at 145 nursing homes outside of the Jewish community? We're not pointing fingers here. It's just a shame that Letters Orthodoxy Being Killed the trip nor plan to use the video for its…

… Although these schools may be formation. We read The Jewish future generations from being lost ones? outstanding institutions of Jew- News for entertainment. We do Thank goodness you were found. Now, let…

… state is irrelevant to I am writing to ask that The Jew- are many other ways to solve it ish News make a correction to its than by airing his frustrations by most Americans, including Jews. The Supreme…

… Decision And Religious Freedom 28 Not since the 1991 Gulf War has an issue unit- ed so many Americans. liberals and conserva- tives, Jews and Christians and blacks and whites are joining forces to show…

… never face. assisted suicide, insider trading and sex of- As Jews, we know that these threats can fenders, RFRA stood out. That's because this quickly materialize into a harsh reality. There- act seeks to…

… adding an amendment to the Con- The fact that the Supreme Court ruling had stitution. The DLIN@aol . com "So What Do You Think ; /I Do you think it's a shame there are 650 Jews living in 145 non…

… and a large Or- thodox minority. Rabbi Herschel Finman, of Michigan Lubavitch, said, "I can- not agree with any type of a state- ment which would be so divisive among Jews." Lubavitch World Headquarters…

… Greenberg, founder of CLAL, the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, says the statement is "definitely not the consensus of the Orthodox community. I think that most modern Orthodox Jews would…

… extremists. The very de- cision to take that resolution pub- The council reiterated that any Jew born to a Jewish mother, or "converted according to the laws of our people," is a full-fledged Jew. But, the…

… our covenant with God. Although most American Jews align with the Reform and Con- servative movements, they have few counterparts in Israel, where the population is divided between a secular majority…

… in Brooklyn issued a statement last week that the im- plication that all Jews are not "le- gitimate members of the Jewish people is absolutely abhorrent and is foreign to basic principles of Ju- daism…

…!" Mr. Burg had given an im- passioned_specch about how the law would be a slap to Diaspo- ra Reform and Conservative Jews. The consequences, he warned, could be that these groups wouldhecome decided- ly…

… 'Agency's salaries and budgets," he told the Jew- ish Agency chairman. "You can't buy Judaism with mon- ey." In the end, backers of the Conversion Law won the day. By a vote of 51-32, the Knesset gave…

… Chessler JNSourceBook 1850: Bet El Society, the first Jewish congregation in Michigan, is formed. 1850s and 1860s: Jews begin to establish significant businesses and enter civic and political offices…

… Council of Jewish Women. "I see a flourishing, thriving community rich in legacies. In the fund-raising community, we Jews are known for giving disproportionately to our number. But we really do want to…

… milestones in the Detroit Jewish experience are highlighted here. They represent events and trends that had lasting impact. For more information, refer to "The Jews of Detroit" by Robert Rockaway and "Harmony…

… Community Archives; the Temple Beth El archives; Judith Levin Cantor, past president of the Jewish Historical Society of Michigan; and David Gad-Harf and Allan Gale of the Jewish Community Council. Suzanne…

… for participants of the Miracle Mission for Teens is scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 13, at U.S. Blades in West Bloomfield. For information, , call (810) 354-1050. 4 Furs And Cigars Michigan's Jews have a…

… long, rich history in the. state. JULIE EDGAR STAFF WRITER ews played an integral role in Michigan's early political and social history. You just have to dig for it. On Sunday, Oct. 13, the Jew- ish…

… captured by na- tive Americans and then ran- somed, there are less obvious but equally fascinating facts in the museum about Jews who settled in Michigan. For example, a disproportion- ate number of Jewish…

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… make a living and fanned out throughout the whole state, taking their Jewish ways with them to all parts of Michigan." from the state's 151 Jewish fam- ilies — went off to fight in the Civil War. Some…

… of Michigan's oldest syn- agogues are on the same routes as the camps set up by lumber- men to ply their trade. Jewish peddlers followed in their path, Ms. Cantor explained, setting up FURS page 16 …

… the Israel Fest, which this year features a Kosher Food Fair. Speakers will include three mayors from Israel's Central Galilee, Michigan's Partnership 2000 sister region of Nazareth, Nazareth flit…

… Walk for Israel chairman, said the celebra- tion, in honor of Israel's Independence Day — Yom HaAtzmaut — "connects Israel to American Jews," something of signif- icance to the Israeli-born Lis…

… instant wiping out of much of the inroads to- ward trust for Jews and Mus- lims were all thoughts that flashed through my mind as I desperately tried to welcome Shabbat... and I could not. There are those…

… in the Jew- ish world who called Dr. Baruch Goldstein a modern-day Mordechai. Mordechai in my studies in Megillat Esther un- derstood diplomacy under a gov- ernment that he did not personally choose…

… lives of so many Arabs and Jews. In working within one of our tradition's binding precepts, Tikkun Olam, we must all be in- volved in the search for peace and resolve that extremists on either side can…

… Tissa, I be- gan to weep and beat my breast to begin my atoning. ❑ Sharma Shapiro is Michigan area director of the American Jewish Committee. A 'Sensitive' Man Cried Out With Action RABBI ALON TOLWIN…

… venegeance and put the lives of Jews around the world in danger. It is easy for us in "comfy- cozy" America to feel sad, lib- eral and egalitarian toward our "Arab cousins." Most of us don't "live on the edge…

… the Pa- triarchs. The press went nu- clear. "An abom- ination, a holocaust." The response of the Israeli govern- ment was swift and sure: it will disarm any Jews living on the West Bank who are…

…." sion. He did what he did and And Jews throughout the where he did it because his vi- world hang their heads in sion was a free and peaceful shame and worry. land of Israel. Who did this cowardly He…

… a time of joy and celebration. Dr. Gold- stein was with his children in shul. The Megillah was read, recounting how the Jews were saved in those days. Today, yesterday and, most probably, tomorrow are…

… different. With- out a Mordechai and an Es- ther to articulate to the Jews the danger they are in, the Children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are in double jeop- ardy. Only 30 percent of the Jews in Israel…

… his weapons and cried out so that someone in the world will notice what is happening to Jews. This morning's papers printed Rabin's government response: "Weapons will be taken from the settlers and…

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… years the percentage ofJewish membership in cults, both religious and psychological, has been hugely dispropor- tionate to the general Jewish population. It's no secret that Jews are seekers. When the…

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… Detroit area interfaith groups were in- undated with sympathetic calls from Jews in the wake of last weekend's massacre of Arab wor- shipers in Hebron. The local leaders were encouraged by the outpouring of…

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… longer be tried for war crimes, espe- cially if they were com- mitted under orders. That ruling was met with strong protest throughout France, from Jews and non- Jews alike. It was regarded as a whitewash…

…. Touvier to the Court of Versailles. It will now have to investigate Mr. Touvier's responsibility for rounding up the seven Jews who were shot in July 1944 in Rillieux-le-Pape, near Lyon, in retaliation for…

…. I do everything else," she says, laughing. It takes a lot time and I love it." In small communities that dot the Michigan coastline or inhabit the wilderness regions of the state, Jews band together…

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…BACKGR• Flurry After The Storm Jews around the country are hurrying to help those hurt by Hurricane Andrew. JAY LECHTMAN Special to The Jewish News F or many Jews in the hurricane…

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…, escalating U.S.-Israel tensions are a guarantee. Finally, the economic crunch Israel faces as the result of the continuing massive aliyah of Soviet Jews is so enormous that experts cannot agree on how many…

… conclusion seems inescapable. For Jews, our best hope of attaining a mea- sure of the comfort we require to face the unknown lies in acts that link us to a con- tinuum that tradition says is 5751 years old…

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… Vol. XCVII No. 10 2 May 4, 1990 FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1990 train Arab farmers, providing the necessary skills. Hadassah is the health saver in Israel not for Jews alone. Time and again the news media of…

… the world have reported about Arabs treated in the Hadassah medical centers on a par with Jews. Prejudice will not be found in the Hadassah dictionary. Hadassah directors and nurses are dedicated to…

… applied to Jerusalem, the capital of Israel. Mention of Jews from Russia establishing residence there and sharing in pro- viding the humanism that is engendered in the causes that are Zionist in origin and…

… to recognize the justice of the health providing movement in the capital of Israel that operates with compassion for Arabs as often if not more, than for Jews. Therefore Hadassah found it necessary to…

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…. For Hadassah, as for every Jew, Jerusalem has a special place. Here we opened our first medical station in 1913. Here stand Hadassah's Medical Center, the great healing institution of the Middle East…

…THE JEWISH NEWS UP FRONT This Week's T o p Stories E yes closed, dreaming of a place where Jews recog- nize an obligation of to- getherness. That place: Jerusalem. This is what Young Is- rael of…

…, according EDITOR to Rabbi Goldberg. There was, instead, a much bigger picture for Jews to see. At nearby Shaarey Zedek, uni- ty was also the message of Rab- bi Irwin Groner: the need to continue to give the…

… sermonize that ed over for Mecca. An obli gation. the Palestinian police Islam has always violated both the let- looked toward the ter and the spirit of Jew. Mohammed, the Oslo Accords and though, was never…

… Agu- tanyahu will choose to move for- ward in the peace process. He can MESSAGE page 24 New Name In Town The Anti-Defamation League picks a former Detroiter to head the Michigan Region. ALAN HITSKY…

… ASSOCIATE EDITOR on Cohen returns to De- troit with a new name and a new job. The 37-year-old direc- tor of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Dayton, Ohio, will replace Richard Lobenthal as Michigan…

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… opening keynote address. Pre-Passover Lunch At U-M Machon L'Torah, the Jewish Learning Network of Michigan, will hold a pre-Passover pro- gram at the University of Michigan Law School at noon March 9 in…

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… 1999: Sinai I Hospital closes, merged by DMC into ; Sinai-Grace. 1987:Three planeloads of Detroit Jews attend Washington rally to free Soviet Jews. 1979: Carl Levin is elected U.S. senator. 1976…

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…Coming Together orating way to keep our eyes on the prize of the eradication of racism and anti-Semitism." Mr. Sahn is president of the Michigan ADL board. "Seder means 'order,' and our coming…

…." The Passover theme of freedom brings blacks and Jews together. LYNNE MEREDITH COHN STAFF WRITER ombining common histories of oppression with common goals for the future, African C Americans and Jews…

… many things dividing us, this event is a meaningful and invig- ❑ The Jewish News will honor Michigan's brightest Jewish high- school seniors in our "College Bound" supplement May 16. Dead- line for…

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