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…DETROIT JEWISH NEWS $1.00 JUNE 9, 2000/SIVAN 6, 5760 Inside: Federation Caps Millennium Campaign "Kosher Sex" Author To Speak At JCC www.detroitjewishnews.com The Voucher Debate Michigan…

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…4 | JUNE 9 • 2022 PURELY COMMENTARY essay ‘Never Again’ For Jews O ne Sunday morning when I was about 9 years old, my Hebrew school class was ushered into a large room to watch a film about…

… few walking dead, a British soldier sat on a bulldozer shoving naked dead Jews into a mass grave. I thought about this for a considerable time. But rather than rage at the Nazis, my anger was at…

… assimilate or ignore their background, they were never considered to be native citizens. The Nazis taught me that being a Jew was based on blood, not on reli- gious observance. There was no escape from…

… increase in the Middle East. Groups participating were the Jewish Community Relations Council/American Jewish Committee (JCRC/AJC), the Zionist Organization of America-Michigan Region (ZOA-MI), ADL…

… Michigan, Hadassah Greater Detroit Chapter and the National Council of Jewish Women-Michigan Region (NCJW- MI). “We stand together against antisem- itism, and we stand together against hatred,” said…

… Rabbi Asher Lopatin, the executive director of JCRC/AJC, noting that although all the sponsoring groups do not agree on many issues, they are united in their desire to defend Jews. “ All the groups…

… here have passions for Israel and so many other things that are central to our lives. “This rally is about stopping Jew hatred, stopping antisemitism,” Lopatin said. “Before the Holocaust, there was…

… not enough protest against antisemitism,” said Kobi Erez, executive director of ZOA-MI. “Jews were discriminated against. Their stores were boycotted. They were attacked in the streets. People…

…, including some Jews, thought it would pass if they just stayed silent. “In the face of hate, in the face of antisemitism, the worst thing we can do is stay silent. We are here. We are proud to be Jewish…

…. We are proud of our non-Jew- ish allies who showed up to support us today. “We stand up against hate against of any group, and we are standing up against hate against the Jewish people,” Erez said…

…. ZOA-MI President Sheldon Freilich, added, “Since the 1930s, we have not seen this kind of hatred, Jews attacked on the streets and graffiti defacing buildings. I’m a child of Holocaust survivors…

…, and I’m scared of what’s going on in our United States of America. As Americans, we need to stand up and not accept this. “Many antisemites today view Israel as a reason to attack Jews. This is…

… antisemitism.” ‘ALL HATRED IS INTOLERABLE’ Seth Gould, president of JCRC/AJC, said, “We stand together against antisemitism and hatred of any kind — hatred against Jews, hatred against Muslims, hatred…

… in religious expres- Howard Lupovitch made an early morning talk a thoughtful sion among Jews. lesson about the American Jewish experience. Movements percolated when Jews no longer had to meet For Jews…

… different attitude to count- gious beliefs ranging from Orthodox to Secular Humanistic. er the loss of communal authority. Movements also distinguish our differences as Jews so they Orthodoxy came in response…

… taught anything, it tion, acculturation and apa- thy. Breakfast co-hosts were the Michigan is the difficulty ... to maintain a offices of the American Jewish Committee and certain level of commitment in a…

… identity as American Jews is defined as much by Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Colby College in the spiritual experience we get from movements as the reli- Waterville, Maine. This year, the Hillel…

… Day School of gious precepts of the movements. In Michigan, we see syna- Metropolitan Detroit graduate also became a visiting associ- gogues in all Judaic streams striving to be more relevant and ate…

…THE JEWISH CHRONICLE The only Jewish publication in the State of Michigan Devoted to the interests of the Jewish people Vol. I. No. 17 DETROIT, MICH., JUNE 23, 1916 Health and Disease Among the…

… Jews $ 1.5 0 per Year Single Copies 5 Cents 10. By DR. EMIL RICE to eliminate the consumption of crease on this continent as well as The relative immunity of the Much of this immunity is undoubt…

…- meat of animals which manifested in Europe. That the Jews guarded Jews to all contagious and infectious edly due to their strict adherence to the slightest trace of disease. And their health carefully…

… embody many rigid aphor- rejected as food by the Jews was and practice of medicine were from can prove that it still survives today. isms on bodily and dietary cleanli- bought and consumed by adherents the…

… earliest times considered of In a way it appears peculiar that the ness. Many of the apparently funda- of other faiths. Another factor great dignity and worthy of great Jew who is physically inferior to his…

… onslaught of disease, and emerge studied anatomy, physics and bot- from the conflict with a lesser mor- any without intending to practice Daughter of Supreme Court Justice tality. Physically the Jews are the…

… well re- to holy wells and sacred relics and sist misfortune. This applies not were warding off disease by the only to the well-to-do classes, but wearing of omulets, the Jews have also to the poor…

… quarter of Phila- The first thing to attract our at- delphia, I was horrified at the mis- tention today is the fact that the erable conditions under which hu- longevity of the Jews is greater than man…

… Jews were crowded into a space only suf- is fifty-seven years, while for his ficient for one ; bread, fruits and Christian hrother it is forty-one. vegetables eaten uncooked were sold For that reason…

… life insurance com- from stands covered with thick lay- panies regard the Jews as especially ers of dust and flies ; these were desirable clients. handled promiscuously by hands of Among the diseases to…

…jews d in the 18 June 20 • 2019 jn Zioness Movement Amanda Berman asks progressive Jews to challenge anti-Semitism of the left. T he vast majority of American Jews have their home on the…

… political left, according to Amanda Berman, executive director and co-founder of the New York City-based Zioness Movement. She says American Jews generally believe in human rights, want to see wide…

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… 336 7578 (For hearing impaired in Michigan only) - 20 FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1990 - - Soviet Jews Continued from Page 1 first six months of employ- ment, seeking skills which will help them get a promo…

… Society expects 40,000 Soviet Jews to arrive in the United States. 1=1 Machon Hosts Rabbi Taub Rabbi Taub Machon IfIbrah, the Jewish Learning Network of Michigan, will have Rabbi Baruch Taub of…

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… Uni- versity of Michigan. The study found that Jews have more positive attitudes toward' blacks and a greater commitment to equal oppor- tunity than do other white Americans. Jews almost unanimously…

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… office 557-8210. Advertising in The Jewish News Gets Results Place Your Ad Today. Call 354-6060 64 FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1990 Study: Jews Still Favor Equality For Blacks ELENA NEUMAN Special to The Jewish…

… News A lthough Jews may disagree with statements and poli- cies of militant blacks and various black leaders, there has not been the Jewish backlash against blacks and racial equality in the 1970s and…

… May 18 at their annual meeting in New York, "Jewish At- titudes Toward Blacks and Race' Relations" may raise some eyebrows. "I expected the study to find that Jews are more tolerant and pro…

…-integration than other white Ameri- cans," said author of the study Tom Smith, a spe- cialist in race relations at the National Opinion Research Center. "This was not surprising. I knew that Jews are one of the most…

…- vices. "The commitment is there and can be galvanized again. We can revitalize the black-Jewish dialogue." The study is the first to be based on a random national sampling of Jews from 1972 to 1988. Data…

… per- cent). Similarly, Jews reject the notion that too much government money is being spent on blacks (87 percent to 89 percent). But while Jews are dedicated to a colorblind society and racial equality…

… in theory, they tend to oppose various measures to imple- ment it. A majority of Jews do not favor affirmative action, more government spending for blacks and the use of bus- ing to achieve school in…

…- tegration. While integrated schools are supported by 97 percent of Jews, only 14 percent to 21 percent ,back busing to achieve such integration. In terms of sending their own children to integrated schools…

…jews d in the 100 Years Ago O Irwin Cohen Special to the Jewish News TOP: Looking toward City Hall on Woodward and Michigan from Cadillac Square. The big building left of center is the posh…

… Ponchartrain Hotel. RIGHT: Looking up Woodward and Detroit’s skyline from Canada. 16 ne hundred years ago, in 1917, Detroit’s Jews wondered and argued about the number of Jews residing in the city. Community…

… • 2017 jn forces. Jews constituted only 3 percent of America’s population in 1917. However, almost 5 percent of those serving in the armed forces were Jews. Eighteen percent of the serv- ing Jews were…

… volunteers, which also was above the national average. By the time the war ended almost 18 months later, more than 60 Detroit Jews would die while in uniform. In August 1917, the Jewish Legion was organized by…

… Palestine from the Turkish yoke. Cottler became a corporal and served in the same bat- talion with David Ben-Gurion, who Detroit Jews enlist, Balfour Declaration issued, cars more popular and Jewish…

… businesses flourish. would become Israel’s first prime minister. British Prime Minister David Lloyd George and his Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour were sympathetic to the right of Jews to return to their…

…The Jewish Community's Family Newspaper THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review 2114 Penobscot Bldg. VOL 9—NO. 14 of Jewish Events Detroit 26, Michigan, June 21, 1946 RA. 7956 34 401 ° America…

…'s Leading English- Jewish Newspaper $3.00 Per Year; Single Copy, 10c Demand Britain Yield Palestine M • date to U American Jews Unanimous Bevin Attack on Jews In Demand for immediate Entry of DPs into…

… Jews in the United States— this week telegraphed appeals to President Truman to insist on the immediate and unconditional transfer of 100,000 displaced Jews from Europe to Palestine. The messages were…

… Office, the continued attempts of the present British Labor government to prevent the entrance of Jews into Palestine and the attacks upon the Jews of America and their Christian friends by Foreign…

… Secretary Ernest Bevin, out- standing American leaders, Jews and non-Jews, this week inaugurated a new campaign to secure justice for the surviving Jews in Europe, based on new approaches. Demands now are…

… for a loan from the U. S., in view of her inability to live up to promises. , Bevin's AttaCk Called Vulgar Mr. Bevin's attack upon the Jews of New York has been called "vulgar," a "cheap slur" and an…

… Germany and Austria, where displaced Jews have been confined since V-E Day, warned against catastrophe if these first victims of Hitlerism are not permitted to go to Palestine, and urged the .U. S. Govern…

…- ment to aid in their transportation and resettlement. - United in Support of President's Policy The ,Anierican Jewish Conference assured the President that America's Jews are united in support of his…

…," the conference wired. The American Jewish Committee- pointed out that "procrastination threatens the health, morale and very life of the displaced Jews now in Europe." It called upon the President to…

… urge the British government to permit without delay the entry to Palestine of 100,000 Jews and that "our government further express -its readiness to provide transportation and care for these people…

… quality of life, and Jewish life, in Southeast Michigan. contents Views 5-12 Jews in the D Out of Hiding 14 A group of Ethiopia’ s Hidden Jews finds aid and support to improve their lives and…

… on Israel’ s claims to protect Jews all over the world. Arts&Life A New Light & Color Experience 32 The essence of studio glass goes digital in Glass 48: Habatat Direct. Going to the Library 34…

… Area libraries are beginning the reopening process. Celebrity Jews 35 Online Events 35 Health Health Care Heroes 36 Health care heroes today reflect physician heroes of the Holocaust. Etc. The…

…• ave., • LYNNE SCHREIBER Special to the Jewish News Prose Oak Park real estate takes off as Jews from all backgrounds, like ennifer and Lowell Friedman, flock to the amiable neighborhood. 6…

…/8 2001 14 hen Lisa and Kevin Feber decided to move back to Michigan, they knew they wanted to live in Oak Park. They like the central location and proximity to high- ways — Feber teaches kindergarten in…

… Oak Park's dis- tinct camaraderie among Jews of all denominations. The Febers fell in love with a 1,800-square-foot 1947 Cape Cod and immediately put in a bid. To their surprise, so did two other…

… families — and a third was considering it. The Febers had to pay more than the asking price of $175,000 to get the house. More and more young Jews are drawn to north Oak Park, the area north of 10 Mile…

… to 14 synagogues (mostly Orthodox), Oak Park is attracting Jews of all affiliations. It is one of the best examples of camaraderie across denominational borders, in part because of the cooperation and…

… have moved into the area each year in the last five years. • Approximately 24,000 Jews live elsewhere in Michigan, according to statistics gath- ered by the Michigan Jewish Conference in Lansing; but col…

… Extremely 26% Very 29% Not Attached 12% Somewhat 32% 16 June 8 • 2006 AN Hand in Hand from page 15 into new households in the past four years is 3 percent, the lowest. • 58 percent of Jews in Detroit…

… were born here, a record amount, but more Jews are planning to move away in the next few years (430 households "probably" moving each year for the next three years), compared to the 168 households who…

… school. The Lansing/East Lansing area has 2,100 Jewish residents and 2,500 Jewish students, many from Oakland County. Grand Rapids has 2,000 Jews, Kalamazoo 1,500 and Flint 1,300. Benton Harbor, Muskegon…

…, Traverse City/Petoskey, Jackson, Mt. Pleasant, Bay City, Midland, Saginaw and Houghton all have small Jewish populations. Demographic Profile: • In Metro Detroit, 24 percent of Jews are 65 or older…

…, ranking it 11th in the country, behind 10 retirement communities in South Florida. • The median age for American Jews is 39; but in Metro Detroit, the median age is 47, up six years from 1989. • 27 percent…

…'s a dearth of Jewish adults between 30 and 39 years old living in the Detroit metro- politan area. • 63 percent of Jews have a four-year college degree; 31 per- cent have a gradate degree. The median…

… household income in Detroit, adjusted for inflation, is $85,000, compared to a national U.S average of $45,000. • 44 percent of Jews in Detroit earn more than $100,000, not adjusted for inflation. Religious…

… Profile: • Within the denominations, the current study shows 36 per- cent of Detroit Jews identifying as Reform, 28 per- cent Conservative, 18 percent "just Jewish:' 11 percent Orthodox, 3 percent Humanist…

… the Orthodox movement. (See accompanying story for more details.) Types of Marriage: • Intermarriage of Jews is 16 percent in Detroit, very low com- pared to a national average of 48 percent…

… Harris complete with 377 prints displaying everyday Jewish life from the year 1456 to the present: The Way Jews Lived — Five Hundred Years of Printed Words and Images (McFarland & Co., $95). "Before I…

… even Johannes Gutenberg's development of movable type around 1439. Remarkably, the first 300 years of prints about Jews were created almost exclusively by gentile artists; Jews, for the most part, were…

… defiantly pointing his finger at the family while smoking a cigarette at the seder table. Connie is a practicing Jew who transmitted the duty to give charity to her children; her daughter Marcia died in an…

… book is to enable young Jews to learn more about their heritage — so it's not forgotten. Already, 200 university libraries have purchased Connie's lat- est book. In 2005, Connie donated her massive…

… collection of Jewish cultural artifacts gleaned from her worldwide travels to the University of Michigan Special Collections Library. Connie's rabbi in California, Steven Weil, formerly of Young Israel of Oak…

… Digital Archive I t seems, while looking for stories 75 years ago from the JN for my columns, I often write about the war and the crisis for Jews in Europe. This week, the June 19, 1942, issue of the JN…

… had this headline: “60,000 Vilna Jews Massacred by Nazis.” There was also a sub-headline on the front page that read: “Nazis Renew Mass Murder of Jews in Germany.” The enormity of the atrocities against…

… and age? He must have been living right. There were two other small items of good news. After 15 years of service to the University of Michigan, it was announced that Hillel would have its own house on…

… curated by the Jewish Historical Society of Michigan. …

…L 14 15 36 37 Detroit COMMENT David Gad-Hari on Jews and the peace process. 5 Pen Pals Akiva students meet friends in Clinton Twp. COMMUNITY Quilt Story A potpourri of photos of community…

… Horizon Gary Wasserman is in charge of the Freedom Festival. A new Jewish quarterly publication makes its debut. 58 Unknown Legend Easy riding with Jews born to be wild. Editorial 4 Engagements 90…

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…Friday, June 7, 1946 THE JEWISH NEWS Budapest Jewish Leaders Oppose Demonstrations Page Twenfy-one 13 GIs on Michigan Mortgage Corporation Staff Appeal to Residents Not to Organize Protest…

… Meetings Following Slaying of Three Jews in Kunmadaras; DP Group Fights Jailing of 19 at Landsberg BUDAPEST (JTA)—Jewish leaders appealed to Buda- pest Jews not to organize any further demonstrations to…

… protest the killing of three Jews at Kunmadaras last week, stating that they are satisfied that the government is acting to punish the participants and to prevent repetition of such incidents. A mass…

… meeting was cancelled following the spontaneous dem- onstration of 15,000 Jews before the parliament on May 25, during which several demonstrators were injured. It was revealed that among the 120 persons…

… Seligson, Benjamin. Levinson, president of Michigan Mortgage Corporation, Al Letvin, Joseph Schmidt and Martin Mattler. Seated: Kenneth N. Smith, Sanford Hirshfield, Philip O'Neil, Jr., Donald Leila, Larry…

…BUENOS AIRES, (JTA)—Po- lice began a search for the gun- men who fired a machinegun burst from a fast-moving car at 2 am. hitting the building of the Yiddische Zeitung, largest Jew- ish daily…

…)—Applica- tions to the Conference on Jew- ish Material Claims Against Ger- many, by organizations, institu- tions and communities seeking the allocation of funds for the year 1963, must be filed before June 30, the…

… applicant for the projects in question. The University of Michigan currently has on display in its Exhibit Museum "Old Copper" from Michigan, a collection of Indian copper objects dating France and Algeria…

…; Dr. Wil- from 3000 to 1000 B.C.E. liam Korey, of the Bnai Brith International Council; and Hal Lehrman, journalist. They were gloomy on the future of the Jews in Algeria. `Gloomy' Future Seen for…

… Algerian .Jews: Forecast Moslem Prosecution, Reprisals TEL AVIV, (JTA)—The Jews in Algeria are free to stay there or leave, Dr. Nahum Goldmann told a meeting of the Israel executive of the World Jewish…

… Congress. However, he expressed doubt whether the Jews have any fu- ture in Algeria, despite the guarantees given them under the agreement concluded in Evian between the French gov- ernment and the Moslem…

…- Algerian liberation movement. Goldmann noted that for the present, Jews have been ac- corded the same status given to other Europeans in independent Algeria. He expressed the opin- ion that, under its Moslem…

… lib- eration movement's "shrewd and realistic" leadership, Al- geria would become the Number One Arab state within a year or two. NEW YORK, (JTA)—Warn- ings against the possible perse- cution of Jews in…

… Algeria by the Moslem majority there, after Algeria becomes independent of France, were voiced by a group of experts participating in a radio discussion on Station WNEW, entitled "The Algerian Jew: The Man…

… that, while Algerian Jews will be "welcome to stay," some Jews may face prosecution for having been lined up on the side of the OAS,...,the French rebel under- ground opposed to an independ- ent Algeria…

…" is asked not When the spies returned from spy- just on Passover eve — it's ing the land, they claimed that it was become a Jewish expres- impossible to conquer it. The Jews com- sion, a part of the…

… slang. When a Jew plained and, as a result, God decreed experiences something that the Jews would remain unusual, he asks, "Mah in the desert for 40 years, nishtanah?" with only the next genera- Our Torah…

… leader with an agenda — Maybe the desert heat got to him. to touch every Jew with love. The Rebbe As we know, every leader, in order to taught us that every Jew has a purpose be successful, has to have an…

… agenda. in this world, and we should do things Moses' agenda had three specific to make this world a better place. missions: taking the Jews from Egypt, For us as parents, we are the leaders of our…

… children. In order for our chil- the giving of the Torah and, most important of all, bringing the Jews into dren not to ask us what our purpose the Land of Israel, into the promised is, we need to be a…

… living example. It is land "flowing with milk and honey:' thus incumbent upon us to further our In the beginning, things went very self-improvement by learning Torah well. He led the Jews out of Egypt and…

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…'t want anyone in the world to think we're congratulating those bas- tards," said Sol Lachman, President of the Michigan friends of SJEIC. Lachman recalled the late Senator Henry (Scoop) Jackson's proposed…

… amend- ment of 15 years ago which suggested an annual quota of 60,000 Jews gaining exit visas. Shtern remembered 1979 when 51,000 Jews left, 1980 when 20,000 left, 1981 when 9,000 left and the stag- nant…

… 1,000 every year since. Due to a relative in- crease in emigration — nearly 2,500 Soviet Jews have already emigrated this year — "we're in the position to say we're glad. Our aim is not to be glad…

… imprisoned Soviet Jews who he said tell him, "don't be happy, don't let yourself be tricked. We could be the last Jews to leave," Shtern him- self cautioned, "millions of Jews could be victims of our optimisim…

… effort to aid the struggle to free Soviet Jews. He observed that the Israeli people demanded little from the government in the way of helping Soviet Jews both gain exit visas and re- Continued on next…

…-14 under the auspices of the American Michigan has 324 public li- into Jewish experiences his tocols of the Elders of Zion Jewish Congress. Some 500 American Jews will fly to Israel to braries. life, as he…

…Memmi Explodes 'Theories' on Jews Israeli-U.S. Jews Sponsor 'Dialogue' Chair in Jewish Culture to Be Established at Albert Memmi. a native of plodes the theory of the Jew Roosevelt University Tunis…

…, who was interned in a I as an economic figure just as CHICAGO, (JTA) — Roose- labor camp during World War , the theory of the Jew as a bio- velt University announced a gift H, later studied at the…

… Univer- logical figure was exploded. It of $25,000 for the establish- sity of Algiers and at the Sor- means that the Jew is not a ment of the David H. and Milton bonne in Paris, drew upon his universal…

… economic. figure any Ratner Chair in Jewish Culture life's experiences as a Jew more than he is a universal and Literature at the school. when he wrote his first two biological figure." The program of Jewish…

… studies, novels, "The Pillar of Salt" and ' Thus he refuses to believe leading to a baccalaureate de- "Strangers." His newest book, that Jews are economically de- gree in such studies, will be "Portrait of…

… a Jew," published finable, that they conquered among the few in the United by Orion Press (119 E. 19th, the world economically, and he States offered at the university N.Y.3), continues the trend of…

… deplores the Marxist interpreta- The first "dialogue" between American Jews and Israelis on level and the only one in self-searching in evaluating his tion of the Jews. the problems involved in establishing…

… outstanding Israelis who will longer viewed as his own but against the Jews, he recognizes address the conference are (left to right) Prime Minister Ben- that of his entire people. "a certain amount of fatalism…

… le against i t myself," If " Jews J or in the social and cul- - — - Memmi states that the book tural facts that are so heavy ikT causes him pain. "My enemies and so coercive that they are IN IRVING…

… Michigan Miracle Mission to Israel this spring. Well aware of the tension between Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem, and how the Western Wall — the Kotel — is unwittingly the bat- tlefield of…

…, which ironically marks the time 3,200 years ago when God gave the Jews of Moses' time the Ten Michigan Miracle Mission III goers pray at the Western Wall during Kabbalat Shabbat on April 23. Commandments…

…EDITOR'S WATCH > The Strife Within "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. " —Anne Frank ✓ ews reports that fervently Orthodox Jews (haredim) harassed…

… Conservative Jews at mixed-gender Shavuot services on the Western Wall Plaza in the Old City angered me. They angered me because heck- ling and assault have no place at this holiest of ROBERT A. sites for our…

… headed straight to the Wall, where I'd longed to be since arriving in Israel five days earlier. Stunningly, I witnessed Reform and Conservative Jews from Detroit pray- ing alongside black-hat Israelis, who…

… c ffered a hand in help, not to harm. One of my most cherished memo- ries was sharing precious moments davening with a Lubavitch Jew, who cared more about me as a human being than a wallet bearer…

…, they boiled over following recitation of the farthest reaches of the modern plaza. wrote: Shehechiyanu (blessing of gratitude) The traditions of other Jews may not "It is not the fault of the haredim…

… of us overlook that, ultimately, vidual involved in thets and plastic were all Jews. what happened at bottles; at least As a people, we've won tougher the Kotel." two women were battles against slavery…

…. ing in Israeli and Israeli soldiers One group of Jews has neither the yeshivas. Their bot- ringing the Con- religious nor divine right to summarily tle tossing at the tra- servative minyan decree that…

… another somehow isn't ditions of non- blocked physical "Jewish enough" just because it's Orthodox Jews is contact. That engaging in mixed-gender public worlds away from the attitude of allowed the minyan to…

… groups, as well as immigrants, claiming they are responsible for the virus. According to Carolyn Normandin, regional direc- tor of ADL ’ s Michigan office, extremists have accused Jews of using the…

…28 | JUNE 11 • 2020 O ver the centuries Jews have been blamed for plagues, economic depressions and wars. Now the coronavirus is being connected to Jews by some conspiracy theorists and…

… white suprema- cists on social media, includ- ing encrypt- ed online platforms as well as in tra- ditional media. In fact, the Leelenau Enterprise in Northern Michigan ran a letter to the edi- tor a…

… Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) COVID Conspiracy Theorists Blame Jews Extremists seize on coronavirus for anti-Semitic attacks. SHARI S. COHEN CONTRIBUTING WRITER Jews in the D webinar about white…

… disseminated on Facebook or Twitter. ADL cites this Twitter post by David A. Clarke, former Milwaukee County sheriff and right-wing media favorite, as typical of messages tying the virus to Jews, including…

…- ing people to get vaccinated so Jews can profit. ADL ’ s monitoring indicates that “Many anti-Semites on 4chan and Telegram are sharing the news of coronavirus cases in Israel, while others are…

… JUNE 11 • 2020 | 3 contents Views 5-12 Special Coverage: Jews and Racial Justice “Heartbroken, Scared and Exhausted” 14 Local Jews of color respond to George Floyd’ s death. Jewish Groups…

… black community. Community Protests 22 The suburbs mobilize for Black Lives Matter. Attacked in Detroit 25 Downtown Synagogue VP among protesters injured, arrested by Detroit police. Jews in the D…

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…, and Fox Bldg. Then Heaven tries earth the like, very seldom Jews. the University of Michigan. Gloria, 13. Gloria was just grad- if it is in tune The anti - Semite frequently ' uated from City and…

… Gerand attend Jew and some of the extreme University of Michigan's School ell seemed to think as rare as a reactionaries even denounced Dondero High School. Mrs. Rogan of Medicine and is affiliated June…

….4 " CC o Susan King to Wed Gary Roggin June and Jews BY DAVID SCHWARTZ (Copyright, 1962, Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Inc.) Lowell accounted for this sup- posed eminence of the Jew as a kind of…

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…. Huneker, of a generation ago, was sell Lowell had no such anti- Semitic motive. The fact is when of your wedding always discovering great Jews. it comes to judging other races, One day his mother said to…

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… editor of the Journal means to imply that the Jews of this country vote as a unit, and that they arc swayed in their choice of candidates by the appointment of a Jew to high office, then the Jour- nal has…

… much to learn about the true state of feeling among the Jew- ish people of America. The fact of the matter is that there is no social or religious group in which there is such a diversity of political…

… opinion as is the case among the Jews. The Jew is, above all, an in- dividualist. He thinks for himself and acts by himself. Even in their thinking along religious lines, where one would expect the greatest…

… harmony, there is by no means a unity or even a spirit ap- proaching that of uniformity among the Jews. And this is true in an exaggerated sense of the Jew's attitude toward great national and in…

…- ternational problems. The Jews are hopelessly divided, for instance, in their sympathies in the present war, and it would be very difficult indeed, to say whether there is a preponderance of sympathy among…

… American Jews for the Allies or for the Teutons. In American politics certainly Jews do not vote together, and tho' politicians and news- paper. men arc frequently fooled into the belief that there is such a…

… press that always betray a most hopeless ignorance about Jews and things Jewish, should fall into the error of still talking learnedly about the "Jewish vote," but that a paper usually as wide awake to…

… will see in the recent action of these two great political parties only selfish, ambitious motives. The explain their action by attributing it to an effort to pessimist will procure the vote of Jews. He…

… will give as their reason for their de- fense of the Jew, at home and abroad, their desire to gain political advantages. But, after all, the reason behind this action is not nearly so political bodies…

…(Continued from Page 1) West Germany as war criminals. Nasser noted that the Arabian- American Oil Co. (after a ruling by American courts) agreed to employ Jews (in New York State only). His radio…

… and tele- vision immediately charged that hordes of Jews were being shipped to Saudi Arabia by ARAMCO. A typical Cairo broad- cast said the "presence of Jews among Arab employees and workers in ARAMCO…

…? Toronto Jewish Leaders to Help Nazareth Arabs TORONTO, (JTA) — An of- ficial of the Israel Young Men's Christian Association an- nounced that two Toronto Jew- ish leaders will have key posts on a committee…

… that Canadians will be asked to contribute the balance in the two-week campaign. The two Jewish members of the committee are active in Jew- ish communal activities and in fund-raising for the United Jew…

…- tation of these Jewish littera- teurs, the non-Jewish world is denied an opportunity to appre- ciate the overwhelming contri- butions which Orthodox Jews are making in every avenue of modern endeavor such…

… camp where close to 100,000 Jews per- ished has been written by Erwin Martinson, an Estonian writer, and published in Soviet Estonia. The author describes how the last survivors of the Vilna and Kovno…

…3 40 kat Okk 0 some Italians freely turned in their Jewish neighbors, most worked in opposition to the Nazis to save Jews by falsifying pass- ports, harboring Jews in their homes or working to get…

… Jews out of the country and into safer ar- eas. She said the active opposition A Shared Past A conference on the Holocaust in southern Europe draws a mixed crowd. JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER…

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… one locally is keeping record of how many Jews have been exposed to AIDS, I have grieved for one Jewish friend who has died and am aware of several other Jews living with the disease. What is AIDS? AIDS…

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… Cooper Detroit Helping Soviet Immigration There is now serious disagreement over the alloca- tion of funds to help resettle Soviet Jews. The argument is being made that Soviet Jews come to America with…

… quoted as saying, "As for those who want to come to America, we should say: Good luck, but this is not the Jewish people's problem." In the early part of this cen- tury, American Jews faced with massive…

… Russian Jewish immigration complained that the Russian Jews were too Or- thodox and would be unable to assimilate into American culture. Now we are being told that the Russian Jews are too assimilated and…

… will not remian distinctively a part of the Jewish community. Both arguments have the same motive — to cut off aid to Jews who wish to leave a land of oppression for asylum in a land of opportunity…

…. Funds should certainly be divided between helping to restore the spiritual life of Jews within the Soviet Union and helping Jews to settle in Israel. But, to argue against helping Soviet Jews settle in…

… America is a travesty. Have we forgotten the lessons of the Holocaust so quickly? Jewish survival at the turn of the century hinged on the mass migration of Jews out of Eastern Europe .. . Barry Mehier Big…

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… the first round-ups of the Jews of Rome. The Germans schedul- ed more than 8,000 Italian Jews for deportation to Auschwitz; but by the end of October they had caught on- ly 1,007. Unlike other na…

…- tionalities, Italians were not so willing to collaborate with their German conquerors. Many Italian Jews found refuge in Catholic churches and monasteries, with Catholic priests and higher ranking clergy. On…

… the relative failure of this initial round-up, the German am- bassador to the Vatican, von Weiszaecker, found what he considered a crucial ray of hope: as the Gestapo hunted Jews "under the Vatican…

… both his critics and defenders agree is that Pope Pius did not public- ly and explicitly condemn Hitler's genocidal campaign against the Jews." Raul Hilberg's trenchant comment on that silence reveals…

… Sheehan's report regarding the deportation of the Italian Jews. Mussolini's government was overthrown when the Germans occupied Italy. It was then, not earlier, that Italian Jews faced the death camps…

…. "Comparative- ly few Jews were deported from Italy" because they were rescued or hidden by Italian non-Jews; some of those rescuers were officials in the Vatican; some were priests and nuns, and one may have…

… been the pope. But if Pius XII, like his predecessor, Pius XI, did not speak out against Mussolini and fascism, it was not for fear of harming the Jews, but for support of fascist anti- Communism…

… not to burden relations with the German government. Jews were in a sense legaliz- ed by the formal approval of the Nazi government granted in 1933 in the Concordat sign- ed by Pope Pius XI. Historians…

… criminal behavior. Whether Pius XII felt remorse over the plight of the Jews or felt it was their legacy, whether he felt religious justification or religious pain, seems an- cillary if not irrelevant to his…

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… refuge of many Jews to whom Judaism as a religious message had ceased to appeal. Zionism as a political weapon against anti- Semitism has always represented a minority in Israel. For the purpose of clear…

… thinking we must consider Zionism, first, as a solution to the general Jewish problem; second, as a movement which can satisfy the soul of the Jew; third, as a limited experiment for the purpose of…

… establishing Jewish colonies and a Jewish cultural center; and fourth, the message of Zionism, if it has any, to the Jews of America. The general Jewish problem is created by the civil, political, economic, and…

… other disabilities from which the Jews have suffered. These are removed whenever progress is made along the lines of general emancipation. By a successful Russian revolution and the establishment of a…

… Russian precedent and will make the Roumanian Jews the beneficiaries of this advance of general emancipation. The vast majority of the Jews located in Russia, Roumania, Galicia, and Poland will thus be…

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… Evangelical Associa- tion for Christian churches to emphasize pro- selytizing among Jews has been denounced by Jews and Christians dedicated to im- proving relations between the two religions. In New York…

… of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops said the evangelicals' assertion that God had abrogated his cove- nant with the Jews was theologically incorrect. The Catholic church's 1965 en- cyclical…

…, Vatican II, said Fisher, specifically stated that God does not renege on his promises. The call for renewing Chris- tians' efforts to convert Jews emerged from a four-day con- ference that the evangelical…

… organization held in Ber- muda in April. The conferees' statement described Jews as "branches of God's olive tree" that have "broken off." It denied that contemporary Judaism "contains within itself true…

… committed by individuals and governments. Yet they also asserted that to refrain from proselytizing among Jews would be "a form of anti- Semitism." Attending the meeting were 15 theologians from the United…

… church's position toward Jews that it had held since its earliest days: Jews, "like everyone else, can be ob- jects of grace" by accepting the messianism of Jesus. He hoped that Jewish- Christian dialogue…

… received two reactions The call for renewing Christians' efforts to convert Jews emerged from a four-day conference. since the Bermuda declara- tion was released on April 29. One was a letter from Donald…

… McGavrain, the former dean of the Fuller Theological Seminary, who said the Ber- muda statement "makes perfectly clear what the Christian position is" regar- ding proselytizing among Jews. The Denver…

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… married by their mid-to- late 30s, but today, in many cities, large numbers of Jews, like their non-Jewish peers, remain single into their 40s. More than one-third of Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Jews…

… in their 30s, for ex- ample, have never been married. Furthermore, increasing numbers of Jews in America are single, at least temporari- ly, because of divorce. The Jewish divorce rate, while lower…

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…. Following the 11-day conflict between Israel and Hamas, acts of hatred toward American Jews — mainly online but also with physical attacks — have risen globally by 438%, accord- ing to the British Jewish…

…AgainstAntiSemitism online campaign and held an online rally May 27 to provide the public with information. Carolyn Normandin, director of ADL Michigan region, said in the 10 days of the 11-day conflict, 14 incidents…

… of hatred against Jews were filed to her local office. They include: • At a May 22 anti-Israel protest in Flint, a demonstrator held a sign demonizing Zionists that read, in part, “being pro…

… was right” as a rationale to call for the end of the existence of the Jewish state. She urges anyone who has received or viewed hateful online messages about Jews or any minority group to contact…

… the ADL and file a report. “It’s this vicious kind of ubiq- uitous blame that right now is troubling, ” Normandin said. “We have seen tremendous blame of Jews for all Israel’s policies. They are…

… getting violent responses because they posted a statement in support of Israel or have been asked to leave online groups because they are Jewish. ” Locally, Jews say they have seen an increase of anti…

…-Is- rael and anti-Jewish posts on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. The hateful rhetoric against Jews and Israel support- ers lately has inundated every facet of life and is impacting all generations…

…. ANTI-ISRAEL ACTION IN ANN ARBOR At the University of Michigan, student Ben Moss of Bloomfield Hills serves on the Michigan Hillel governing board as communica- tions officer and is charged with…

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… behind the Iron Curtain to cause interrogation into the status of the vast Communist sphere which officially makes a crime of Jew-baiting but neverthe- less witnesses outbursts of hatred that are…

… "minority ob- stacles" and the role of Jews in th0 Ukraine. It began with an account of a visit to the Kiev synagogue guided by a Jewish univer- sity student, Nadya, who said she 'had gone to services on…

…, for the affirmations of interest in Jew- ish life and in Israel, in spite of the menac- ing Communist propaganda. But into , the re- ports from Russia there often creep innuen- does that serve to…

… emphasize the prejudicial rather than the positive factors about Jew- ish life in the U S S R. Nadya keeps, tell- ing the Christian Monitor correspondent that "Kiev is our home, how can we leave," when asked…

… about Birobidzhan, but when she is quoted about Jews trying 'to make their way into the universities or about , monetary matters, it is always the smart Jew who emerged out of the portrayals, and these de…

… was married to a Jewish boy, and felt a strong sense of identification wtih Jews. She knew only a few Yiddish expressions and no Hebrew. At the time of the Arab-Israeli war in 1967, she said, there had…

… been an enormous surge of national sentiment among Soviet Jews and a feeling of solidarity with the , Israelis. I asked Nayda about the treatment of Jews generally (anti-Semitism is prohibited by Soviet…

… law and is not a subject of official discusson in the Soviet Union). Her comments were simi- lar to many I had heard. "We get along,", she said quietly. "The . We have problems. Jews always know how No…

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… Syrian Jews must carry special identity cards with "Jew" marked in red; that spe- cial permission is needed to travel ("even from one street to the next in the ghetto"); that evening curfew exists each day…

… you hadn’ t noticed, some anti-Semites around the world are already blaming the Jews for the coronavirus. To them, Jews are always the “usual suspects,” this time accused of a truly epic crime…

… blamed the Jews, which led to the slaughter of numerous Jewish communities throughout the continent, particularly in Germany. A variation of that sad theme has played out many times throughout history…

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… events. But a recent letter writer ("Who Gave Protection?", June 4) questions Albania's record of protection of its Jews by quoting Raul Hilberg's The Destruction of the European Jews con- cerning an…

… Albanian SS unit's actions against Jews and others. The confu- sion lies between the old and newly annexed areas, which mattered sub- stantially concerning the fate of the Jews who resided there. The…

…'s Jewish community and of the locale of its memorial sites is flaw- less. Before the Nazi onslaught, the Jews of Kovno worshipped in 36 synagogues; today, only one synagogue, built in 1871, bears testimony…

… to the thorough- ness of the devastation. The last stop on our itinerary was Mariampole. The city once had a popu- lation of 10,000, of which one-third were Jews. On June 2, 1941, the city was…

… undergird the city's highways. Jews, especially in Israel, customarily add the words "may God avenge his death" after the name of a Holocaust victim or the victim of Arab terror. Jew- ish retribution of Nazi…

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… tragic, ,_,J reminding some of the way children were evacuated from Nazi- occupied Europe at the beginning of World War II. The sadness was corn- ,_,__ pounded by the fact that many Jews who wish to leave…

… Sarajevo cannot, said Tuvia Raviv, a Jewish Agency official in Budapest who is responsible for the aliyah of Jews from the former republics of Yugoslavia. "Several hundred Jews are still there in Sarajevo…

…-Herzegovina, where --- ,-, corpses line the streets, there has been no singling '---- out of Jews in the pitched ethnic battles between the Christian Serbs and Moslem Slays, he reported. There are more than 5…

…,000 -_. Jews living in the former re- f- publics of Yugoslavia, most ci of them in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. With no L--/ war raging there, Jews are remaining for now, Mr. Raviv said. Jews hesitate to…

…Jewish Community to Let In Harassed Jews Brazil Gets Petition Froi RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — The Jewish community of Brazil has petitioned the government to issue travel documents to Jews in Po- land…

… repre- senting the Confederation of Jew- ish Communities of Brazil. They asked the minister to use and debts owed to them and place a minimal ceiling on the wages that Jews can receive. Forty…

…-eight Brazilian Jews are en route to Israel aboard the liner Theodor Herzl to settle there. They comprise the fourth and largest group of immigrants to leave Brazil for Israel since January 1968. They are mostly…

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… for a non Jewish academic from Central Michigan University. History professor Eric A. Johnson eventually wrote a book that shows the complicity of ordinary German citizens in the horrors perpetrated by…

… Shir Shalom on June 6. His work, Nazi Terror: The Gestapo, Jews and Ordinary Germans (1999, Basic Books), was prompted in part by the torture and imprisonment of his father by the Nazi secret police. The…

… 200 face-to-face interviews. "Common citizens ran the trains that transported Jews to camps. Bankers and insurance companies dealt with the finances of deported Jews. Even the cleaning ladies at the…

… deportation centers knew what was happening. "The BBC reported repeatedly on the murder of Jews, and most German citizens listened to the BBC even though it was illegal," he said. Gestapo records showed that of…

… 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…

… gives a brief glimpse of life behind bars for some of the estimated 100 Jewish prisoners in Michigan correctional facilities. Activists are pushing a 1986 lawsuit through the U.S. Court of Appeals in an…

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… guerrilla organization. Vance has argued that the meetings did not violate Henry Kiss- LETTERS 'Protestant' Meeting Was Jews For Jesus The recent conference of evangelical Christians in Ber- muda received…

… mainstream denominations to abandon ef- forts to convert Jews to Christianity. In fact, however, the Willowbank Consultation on the Gospel and the Jewish People was instigated by the Jews For Jesus missionary…

… either on the board of directors or council of Jews For Jesus: Dr. Vernon Grounds, Rev. Murdo MacLeod and Tuvya Zaretsky. When contacted at the Denver Seminary, Dr. Grounds, the conference chairman, stated…

… that Jews For Jesus "together with other such organizations has been under pressure [because of] a movement within Protes- tant denominations to deny the necessity and legitimacy of any kind of…

… evangelization of Jews." Dr. Grounds said that Jews For Jesus was one of a "number of organizations that decided it would be good to call this kind of conference" to respond to this movement. In contacts with the…

… media Dr. Grounds never revealed the fact that he was a direc- tor of Jews For Jesus. Harry Genet, speaking for the World Evangelical Fellowship, the formal spon- sors of the conference, acknowledged that…

… it was Jews For Jesus and Christian Witness to Israel (a British af- filiate of Jews For Jesus) who "encouraged" the W.E.F. to sponsor the conference. It doesn't surprise me that Jews for Jesus was…

… fact, a conference of missionaries and their supporters who pro- selytize Jews would be pass- ed off as a meeting of Protes- tant theologians. Jews For Jesus and similar groups routinely engage in…

… groups passed through the narrow streets of the old Jewish quarter. Young Jews attacked the occupants of the cars, beating them and causing their hospitali- zation. A few hours later, near mid- night, the…

… of the former Jewish ghetto in Rome as an aftermath to two days of violent clashes be- tween neo-fascists and Jews. Several Jews were held for questioning and most of them were promptly released. Six…

… persons described as rightists were hurt and one Jew was ar- rested on charges of resisting authorities. Police planned special pro- tection for the synagogue until after the municipal elections are held…

… Sunday. - The agitation in the Jewish section eased Tuesday but the atmosphere remained tense. The Jewish community issued a statement that "violent re- action" of Jews to any provoca- tion was "inevitable…

…" after what the Jews had suffered at the hands of fascists and nazis. The statement also lauded the "tact" shown by police in quell- ing the battles. Jewish community leaders said that the neo…

…-fascist propa- ganda in the ghetto section was clearly provocatory. The Jews said the rightists shouted anti- Semitic slogans and that a shot was fired from one of the cam- paign cars. Angry Jews attacked and…

… mauled the campaigners. Later Monday evening there were more such clashes. Toward midnight several hundred Jews, most of them youngsters, marched to the party offices of the Italian social movement and…

… more scuffles followed. The area of the clashes is a lower middle class district which was once the compulsory dwelling place of Rome's Jews. Most of its residents are Jews. About a third of Rome's 12…

…,000 Jews live in the old ghetto. to Report on Steps to Counter Arab Bias (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) WASHINGTON — Republican Senator Jacob K. Javits of New York Tuesday introduced an…

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