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…EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK Alt Ore 34th Annual Meeting and Election of Officers Shock, Then Awe T hey jumped into the ambulance, their instincts as medics kicking into gear. They went 80 mph past green lights, putting on two sets of gloves and preparing body-parts bags should they be needed. Leah Stern, a native Detroiter, and other medics for Magen David Adorn, Israel's emergency and relief agency, were responding to a suicide bombing in the Fre...…
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…Staff Notebook Regionally Speaking c ore urban areas that attract young people are one of the keys to keeping Michigan vibrant, said Gov. Jennifer Granholm, keynoting the annual meeting of Detroit Jewry's public affairs voice. For example, Detroit and its suburbs are one region — "and we ought to think of it as one region," she said to the 400 people gathered May 21 at Temple Emanu-El in Oak Park for the Jewish Community Council of Metropol...…
…Mixed Reaction Sharon's acceptance of the road map re-starts peace jitters. SHARON LUCKERMAN Staff Writer IED Tugman Bais Chabad Torah Center said that this peace plan is "a non-starter." He visits Israel often and supports the settlements, "Unless the Arabs and PLO are willing to disman- tle Hamas and other terrorist organizations — and I don't see that happening — Bush's plan is simply wishful thinking without looking at reality," Rabbi...…
…Texas Two-Step Bush team navigated rough waters to gain Israeli endorsement of peace plan. map," Powell said in Paris on May 23. The Israeli Cabinet qualified its approval by attaching 14 reservations to the plan. It also voted to reject the Palestinian demand for a "right of return" for refugees from Israel's 1948 War of Independence and their descendants — several million people in all — to their former homes inside Israel. Israeli officia...…
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…MORE FOR FATHER'S DAY AT JEWIStLCOM ters Yitzhak Shamir and Benjamin Netanyahu. This time the Likud, which returned to power in March 2001 through Sharon, as well as the other parties of the right, know the price of leaving the government, Cohen said — "the infiltration of the left." There remains one group that is not likely to back down, however. With their dream of settlement out- posts spreading through the West Bank vanishing with a flic...…
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…This Week Neighborhood Project Closing Federation's home-loan service ends 17-year run. HARRY KIRS BAUM Staff Writer A fter 17 years of providing more than 1,200 interest- free home loans, the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit's Neighborhood Project closes down at the end of May. Federation established the program to enhance and preserve the Jewish communities of Oak Park and Southfield, said Amy Neistein, Neighborhood Project dir...…
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…Federal Funding JARC wins federal grant to provide clients with mental health support service. .S. Rep. Joseph Knollenberg, R-Bloomfield Hills, announced the first federal grant funding for JARC, a nonprofit organization that serves people with disabilities and their families. Knollenberg made the announce- ment on May 18 at the dedication cer- emony of JARC's newest group home, the Jack and Evelyn Schreier Home in Farmington Hills, one of 2...…
…Jewish War Veterans memorialize the all from the war in Iraq as well as those of earlier generations. Clockwise from top.. American flags mark the graves at Ferndaks Machpelah Cemetery. Past JWV Command- er Marvin Revich stands at attention as buglers from Ferndale High School play taps. Rabbi Herbert Yoskowitz speaks at the Memorial Day commemoration. abbi Herbert Yoskowitz has a standing engage- ment every year on the last weekend of Ma...…
…Affording the best is not the Question... finding the best is... Stoorman, Teicher Win NCJW Awards S Kira Stoorman and Perry Teicher took the top prizes May 18 at the 58th annual Jewish Youth Awards ceremony held at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield. Nineteen high school seniors entered the competition sponsored by the National Council of Jewish Women, Greater Detroit Section. "We could have had 19 winners; these kids were so phenomenal. But ...…
…Washington Watch Security Crisi$ Jewish organizations get sympathetic ear, but little help, on rising security costs. JAMES D. BESSER Washington Correspondent J14: 5/30 2003 24 ith the nation jittery about the possibility of new terror attacks, Jewish leaders are jittery about something else, as well: how to pay for soaring security costs for Jewish schools, community centers and other facilities. At a meeting last week with Jewish lead...…
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…Insight Remember When • From the pages of the Jewish News from this week 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60 years ago. Sanctity of Life 1993 Bar-Ilan professor talks philosophically about capital punishment and IDF restraint. DON COHEN Special to the Jewish News n ow is Bar-Ilan University like the Israeli army? For both, what they do is no less important than how of human life provides the philo- sophical basis for both supporters and opponen...…
…[J1411 0phdon Editorials are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.com Dry Bones A Mission Of Hope here's no better time to affirm allegiance to Israel than today, lyar 28 (May 30) — Jerusalem Day. This day of commemora- tion provides the perfect backdrop to con- sider joining the fourth Miracle Mission to Israel April 18 28, 2004. Visiting the biblical land of our fore- bears is always uplifting. But a visit is bound to...…
…OTHER VIEWS that a daughter, Anneke Burke- Kooistra, lives in Mayville, Mich. Anneke, who met her Jewish American husband, Donald Burke, on an Israeli kibbutz where both worked as volunteers, converted to Judaism; she lectures about what her parents, now both deceased, did during the Shoah when their country was over- run by the Nazis. One of the girls' mothers volun- teered to drive them to meet her and they heard the rest of the story from ...…
…Armenian Genocide Slighted Jerusalem ry as I may, some things just don't get easier with time. A few weeks ago, for the 13th time since immi- grating to Israel in 1990, I again grappled with the abrupt switchover from the sadness and solemnity of Israeli Memorial Day to the unbri- dled festivities of Israeli Independence Day. But this year, it was not just the emotional somersault that left me uneasy. As I watched on TV the offi- cial ceremo...…
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…INSIDE: Community Calendar Mazel Toy! ... 40 • • • • 42 The first graduates of Detroit's Mumford High School celebrate 50-year-old bonds. SHARON LUCKERMAN StaffWriter iffy years ago, they were carefree Detroit teens hanging out at Cupid's Bow diner, Fredson's deli, Zukin's ice cream parlor and the Wy-7 bowling alley. Now they're doctors, lawyers, judges, artists, teachers and businesspeople. This was a special group who received speci...…
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…Please join the Anti- Defamation League and B'nai B'rith for an informative evening with Kadima Hosts Golf Event The second annual Kadima Golf Classic will be Monday, July 14, at Franklin Hills Country Club. Registration and lunch will begin at 11:30 a.m., followed by a 1 p.m. shot- gun start, 6:30 p.m. cocktails, 7:15 strolling dinner and 8:15 p.m. grand finale featuring a raffle and auction. All proceeds will benefit the Lois and Milton Y....…
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…ktRWWWWWW WItor INSI ED V Synagogues 56 Torah Portion 58 LIGHTS OF PEACE Tonight's Chabad "Candles for Peace" initiative to inspire worldwide Shabbat prayers for Israel. SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN Staff Writer iriam Amzalak has Shabbat candles in her house and in her car. "Everywhere we go, we take candles," said the local direc- tor of the worldwide Chabad-Lubavitch Shabbat Candles for Illff Peace program. "We want to make sure that on...…
