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…%1// e you, :pat gregations should try to "at- tract those Jews most likely to respond" rather than try to attract the biggest possible crowd. He said synagogues should "raise up the level of…

… are human beings who can't always come to grips with these issues, but they can help everyone deal with it via Jewish law!' In response to a question about unaffiliated and Reform Jews from Estelle…

…, Rabbi Meyerowitz said, is defining a Jew as one with one Jewish parent of either sex, as opposed to Halacha, which states the mother must be Jewish. "We must appeal to the leadership of the Reform…

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… Lady." Less predictable in this mediafest, however, has been the attention focussed on one particular phenomenon of her reign: "Thatcher's Jews." In- deed, the Jewish contribution to the Thatcher…

…. But Margaret Thatcher's affinity for Jews has transcended political expe- diency. When she talks of Soviet Jewry, the tears she weeps are genuine; more im- portant, when she addresses economic and…

… and the Jews following," one Jewish banker in London told me this week. "On the contrary, the Jews have set the pace for Thatcher." What has startled the British media is that the leader of Britain…

… were her predecessors, to hide her retinue of "court Jews" in government think- tanks and policy committees, carefully shielded from the public gaze. Thatcher has brought "her Jews" out of the closet…

…. No less than five of her most senior ministers — and clo- sest advisers — have been Jews: Education Secretary Keith Joseph, Home Secretary Leon Brittan, Trade Secretary Lord Young, Chancellor of the…

… cabinet than Old Etonians — a reference to the ancient British school of the aristocracy which has tradi- tionally educated Britain's future leaders. Of Thatcher's Jews, only Lawson, Young and Rifkind…

… Lord Jakobovitz — a title un- qiue for a Chief Rabbi. "The entrepreneurially suc- cessful Jew is in fact the model in many ways of That- cherite achievement,". says Jewish playwright Jonathan Miller…

…. "The Conservative Party now underwrites the values of Jewish en- trepreneurial initiative, thrift and ingenuity." This was not always the case. Historically, British Jews were identified firmly with the…

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… individual lives alone, by and for himself. A Jew forms life with the people around him .. . Judaism says we have to be a part of other people's world, in order to share with others." The Sabbath, he said, "is…

… people — "it's become a peaceful anesthesia, a way to escape from the world. But, with the help of the rabbis, Jews can develop ways to cope with the world — how to use technology, how to keep the world…

… young Jews to Jewish life?" "He didn't," he said. "We tried all that and it didn't work — the long-haired rab- bis, the 'telling it like it was'." The latter, he said, was hurtful and he quoted Reform…

… and the overlapping of Jewish institu- 'No individual lives alone, by and for himself. A Jew forms life with the people around him• tions, such as were presented at his Baltimore synagogue, "there is…

…, 'Rabbi, don't give us a book review — give us what the Midrash is about.' There's a sizeable number of Jews who want to get back in, and a sizeable number coming back in. "Judaism needs to be rele- vant to…

… the needs and challenges of the world — that will affect our lives and the world. "Yes, we Jews have a lot of big problems. But we have a good 'product: and there are always going to be 'buyers' out…

… a study commissioned by the future planning committee and con- ducted October 1988-February 1989 by Dr. Jay Weinstein, head of the department of sociology at Eastern Michigan University. Among the…

… American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee re- settle Soviet Jews. Jewish Welfare Federation officials and Passage to Freedom Campaign Chair- men Jane Sherman and Paul Borman were pleased at the response…

… movements of Jews" helped by Proejct Magic Carpet for the Yemen- ite Jews after Israel's in- dependnce in 1948, Operation Moses for the Ethiopian Jews and Passage to Freedom for the Soviet Jews. "When I think…

… a Jew — that's how important this is." Jane Sherman touched on a subject that has bothered some supporters of Israel in her remarks at the meeting. "When I was at the transmi- ' gration camp in…

… Ladispoli, Italy, two weeks ago, my goal was to get as many Soviet Jews as possible to go to Israel. But we all did an about-face," Sherman said. "The despair on their faces was so great. Forty percent had…

… Communists. Soviets Lambast Anti-Semitism A recent article in the Com- munist Party newspaper Sovetskaya Kultura says thousands of Jews are leaving the Soviet Union because of the country's anti…

…I MEDIA MONITOR 1 Newton. Exactly the sofa ou want. Prisons Mistreat Jews, Monthly Says ARTHUR J. MAGIDA Special to The Jewish News ews in American pris- ons do not have the right to keep kosher…

… CONSULTATION CALL 352-2264- Monthly. Written by Jane Lovitch of the - B'nai B'rith staff in Washington, the article, "Jews Behind Bars," asserts that federal prisons general- ly place fewer constraints on…

… that are the only ones formal- ly recognized in North America are in state prisons: Temple Bet Herut in Michigan City's Indiana State Prison and the Jewish Community at Graterford Synagogue in the Penn…

…'s congregation is on Attorney Street, just north of famous Delaney Street on New York's Lower East Side. Once home to several hun- dred thousand Jews and 350 synagogues, the neighborhood now has about 25,000 Jews…

… Jews on the Lower East Side, Congregation Chasam Sopher, in the midst of the Spanish Lower East Side. "A simple red-brick, copper- topped Romanesque Revival building, constructed for a Reformed German…

…, 1989 9:30 P.M. Admission: $10.00 Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit 6600 W Maple Road, W Bloomfield 661-1000 • S\ Funded in part by the Michigan Council For The Arts and the M anny and…

… Natalie Charach Endowment Fund at the JCC AM =III d- AMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESS GREATER DETROIT CHAPTER and Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit invite you to attend American Jews and Israel…

… Metropolitan Detroit Monday, May 15, 1989 7:30 p.m. United Hebrew Schools Building Auditorium 21550 W. 12 Mile Road, Southfield Topics will include: • Divergent Positions on "Who is a Jew" Legislation…

…- sight into Israeli politics, the Arab-Israel conflict, the plight of Soviet Jewry and the Ethiopian Jews. "It broaden- ed my knowledge of political issues around the world," she said. Rabbi Green said he…

… Michigan, announces its spring semester of JudaiCollege will begin May 21. The topics of discussion for the Monday evening program are as follows: "Truth," "Chosen Language," "Life," "The Pleasure Principle…

… 1913 as simple house painters. The two Or- thodox Jews from Poland then began their business with a couple of brushes and a few gallons of paint. From this austere begin- ning, they soon established a…

… presi- dent of the Michigan Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. He still holds memberships in each. Charles Soberman is a member of the Young Presidents Organization, the Board of Jewish Family Ser- vice and…

… serves on the Board of the Michigan Chapter of the B'nai B'rith Anti- Defamation League. "Being involved in many types of organizations goes back to my traditional up- bringing," Myron Milgrom said. "The…

… desire to help others has always been important to our family and to most Jews." Both founding fathers knew what it was like to struggle and always tried to help out other immigrants. They gave many jobs…

…[COMMUNITY Israel Travel Seminar Here Targets Christians And Jews KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer S Judge Avern Cohn Judge Bernard Friedman Hillel Foundations Will Honor Judges The B'nai B…

… Schlussel. Judge Cohn was admitted to the Michigan Bar in 1949. His professional career began in the law firm of his late father Irwin I. Cohn. In 1961, he joined the law firm of Honigman, Miller, Schwartz…

… and Cohn where he remained until his Presidential ap- pointment in 1979 as a United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan. Judge Cohn served on the Michigan Social Welfare…

… Commission, was chairman of the Michigan Civil Rights Commission and was chair- man of the Detroit Board of Police Commissioners. He is a past president of the Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit and past…

… cities and after private practice became a district judge for the state of Michigan until his Presiden- tial appointment in 1988. The reception will be held in behalf of the Hillel Foun- dations at Wayne…

… workshops with experts from Hebrew University at the first annual symposium of the Michigan Chapter, American Friends of Hebrew University, 9:30 a.m. May 21 at Congre- gation Beth Abraham Hillel Moses. The…

… breakfast will be served. The symp- soium is free and open to the public. There will be no solicitation of funds. Co-chairmen of the sym- posium are Michigan Chapter past presidents. Harold Berry and Harvey…

… acquiring visas for resettle- ment. That's how Russian Jews ac- quired the new Israel home. That's how Iraqi, Syrian, Iranian, Ethiopian and Yemeni escapees from oppression can re-establish themselves with…

… dignity, as Jews. There is another symbol in the redemption that is not to be overlook- ed. It is "The Book" and it has attain- ed great power in the people's existence. It received minimal attention in a…

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… Jews] and have an open dialogue," Khalaf said. "Not with in- dividuals. But we -prefer to have it with big, well- …

… University of Michigan - Dearborn western culture program, taught in- terdisciplinary courses on a wide variety of subjects rang- ing from the ancient Near East to the Holocaust. In 1975, he received the UM…

…-D Distinguished Teaching Award, and in 1986 the Distinguished Faculty Award from the Michigan Associa- tion of Governing Boards. He co-authored "A Holocaust Curriculum: Life Unworthy of Life." As of January 1987…

…, Bolkosky has Dr. Sid Bolkosky been at work on the second volume in the history of the Jews of Detroit for Wayne State University Press and the Jewish Welfare Federation. There is a fee. Last day for…

… we don't do this, we will never reach peace." To many, for Israel to trust Arafat is equivalent to Jews sitting down to tea and a cozy chat with Hitler outside the gas chambers of Auschwitz. And even…

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… generation. So when I realized I wasn't who I had been anymore, I had to become somebody else." Brill claims his newfound ability to make people laugh came out of his own personal crisis. "It's like the Jews…

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