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…11 I I AN EPIC WEEK RESHAPES THE MIDDLE EAST. Louis Perlmutter works closely with Palestinians to build their future. 46 …

…THE BIG BANK ACCOUNT OFFICER REPLACEMENT MACHINE R emember when banking in your home town meant familiar faces and people who knew your name? If your bank has been gobbled up in a series of mergers and acquisitions, the account officer who served you last month could be helping someone somewhere else today. Assembly line personnel may be acceptable to the big banks, but at Franklin Bank, we prefer a different approach. You can always count o...…

…DETROIT) THE JEWISH NEWS RONT T h is Week's Top Stories A recluse leaves a fortune, but few clues. DAVID ZEMAN STAFF WRITER ven to those who saw him And yet Mr. Abramson, who regularly, Irvin Abramson once bragged he would burn his seemed a lost soul; a assets rather than leave them to hunched, bow-legged man others, left millions to orphans in soiled clothing who hoarded and schoolchildren he never met. rubbish, shunned relatives and Th...…

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…May 3, 1996 Detroit OPINION Young At Art A Christian view of Yom Hashoah. Picasso, Modigliani, Rembrandt: Eat your heart out! The artists are talented at a tender age. TELL ME WHY 21 Orthodox Harassed The infamous K could be deceiving. Teen-agers taunt and push two Orthodox men on Shabbat in a park over 1-696 in Southfield. ISRAEL 34 Election campaign resumes in full swing. 73 Spilling the beans. page 51 Behind The Scenes A Je...…

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…ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR At Art . his one is mine!" a little boy called as he pulled his parents to a multicolored painting hanging at Temple Emanu-El. To the untrained eye, it looked something like a blob of blue and brown, indistinguishable from much of the other paintings around it. But to the boy's par- ents, his teacher and his nursery-school directors, it was nothing less than exquisite. Last week, Temple Emanu-El hosted it...…

…ABRAMSON page 3 red-brick home on Edison, a well- to-do address where Irvin lived with his parents well into middle age. His 1931 Northern High School yearbook photo — head cocked, jaw jutting forward — offers a hint of the willful, unyielding manner that marked his later years. And yet the epigram accompanying the photo brimmed with congenial op- timism: A cheerful spirit is an ex- cellent asset. Nigh Quality Dry (leaning Each Item Is Only...…

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…ABRAMSON page 8 man also confided that he found it hard to form friendships because he didn't know if people were in- terested in him or his money. As .Mr. Abramson's health de- teriorated, Dave Orzechowski, the hotel manager, offered to help him get nursing care from the state. "No," Mr. Abramson said sim- ply, "I like it here." On April 3, his 82nd birthday, Irvin Abramson was rushed to the hospital with chest pains. Dehy- drated and gaunt...…

…DETROIT I THE JEWISH NEWS Vol. CIX No. 10 Publisher Arthur M. Horwitz Editor Phil Jacobs Associate Editors Elizabeth Applebaum, Alan Nasky Assistant Editor Gail Zimmerman Staff Writers • Julie Edgar, Jennifer Finer, Jill Davidson Sklar, David Zeman Arts and Entertainment Editor Julie Yolles Contributing Editors Michael Davis, Howard LaIli, Neil Rubin Washington Correspondent ' James D. Besser ' " • Foreign Correspondent Douglas Davis Israe...…

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…PUNKS page 14 at the end of Northwestern Hwy. WEST BLOOMFIELD tunately, I had gone through quite a bit of harassment at the various yeshivas I attended. If I see an incident, I do something to help out. Shabbos is a partic- ularly vulnerable time for Or- thodox Jews. In a park situation, it's very difficult for them to get the help necessary to protect themselves." Mr. Abraham added that two of the three youths were known in his former neig...…

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…wot C=./ Ck /_/ , .•,..**;;:. ‘„s4;„ • •`::: A Breakneck Pace In The Middle East Consider all that has and will happen in less than a two-week period in the Middle East: * Israel achieved a cease-fire with Hezbollah. * Yassir Arafat convinced the Palestine Lib- eration Organization to change its charter, strik- ing references that call for armed struggle to destroy Israel. * Israeli Prime Minister Peres changed his La- bor Party platform...…

…Editor's Notebook Community Views Gut Check? Gimme Lag B'Omer A Christian View Of Yom Hashoah PHIL JACOBS EDITOR - THE REV. JAMES R. LYONS SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS Can we talk Lag God gave the Torah to the Jew- The rabbi presents goals de- B'Omer here? ish people. rived from the seven aspects of Please, don't That day is called Shavuot, or God outlined in the Kabbalah, turn the page yet the Feast of Weeks. In between, the Jewish mystic...…

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…BUY A CASE OF FOOD TO HELP FEED THE JEWISH HUNGRY. BETH ACHIM 21100 W. 12 Mile Rd., Southfield, 352- 8670. Rabbi: Herbert Yoskowitz. Cantor: Max Shimansky. Ritual director: Joseph Baras. Rabbis emeritus: Milton Arm, Ben- jamin H. Gorelick. Services: Friday 7:15 a.m., 6 p.m.; Saturday 8:45 a.m., 8:15 p.m.; weekdays 7:15 a.m., 6 p.m.; Sun- day 8 a.m., 6 p.m. Class 7:45 p.m. The Haftorah will be chanted by Steven Jacobs. Youth Shabbat. BETH IS...…

…The Birmingham Temple The Humanist Forum May 1996 Ethics in America The May series of the Humanist Forum will focus on three areas of profound ethical concern to the American public — the government, the legal profession and the media. MONDAY, MAY 6 • 8:30 P.M. MONDAY, MAY 13 • 8:30 P.M. MONDAY, MAY 20 • 8:30 P.M. Vision for America What's Wrong with the Media? Guest Speaker Lawyers: What's Right, What's Wrong THE MICKEY AND ROBERT S...…

…Sara Tugman Bais Chabad Torah Center invites you to join 1204 S. WOODWARD AVENUE ROYAL OAK, MICHIGAN 48067 AJE Hosts Art Session The Agency for Jewish Educa- tion will host mothers and daughters at a session to learn how to create Jewish origami, an art form of folding paper without any cutting or gluing. On Monday, May 6, from 7-8 p.m. in the AJE library, Julie Solomon, AJE Librarian, and artist Seema Selmar will intro- duce the art form a...…

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…Senior Events At The JPM Sisterhood 60th Jubilee Vivian Stollman, accompanied by Sonny Lipenholtz, will lead the senior choir on Mondays at 12:30 p.m. at the Jimmy Pren- tis Morris Jewish Community Center. There is no charge. Socials are held every Wednesday at 1 p.m. at Jimmy Prentis Morris building. Music is provided by local entertain- ers singing a variety of songs in- cluding Yiddish. Call (810) 967-4030 if you are interested in singing...…

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…Births APRIL 23 — Michael and Beth (Ceresnie) Stahl of Oak Park joy- fully announce the birth of their son, Jesse Lee. Proud and happy grandparents are Sheldon and Laraine Ceresnie of Oak Park, Bernie and Sandy Stahl of Hunt- ington Woods and Stephanie Stahl of Pontiac. Thrilled and very proud great-grandparents are Meyer and Rachel Raimi of Oak Park and Terry Reinitz of Huntington Woods. Jesse Lee is named in loving memory of pa- ternal gre...…

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…• A Good Night's Sleep... \ _ Hermelins Chair Fest 11 1 11 David and Doreen Hermelin will be the chairmen of the the corn- munity's Annual Incredible Is- rael Fest June 2 at the Stuart J. 1 1111 z. , . 111 11 III David and Doreen Hermelin Sachse Field behind the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield. The celebration will begin at 1 p.m. with a 3.5-mile walk of solidarity, celebrating the 48th anniversary of the state of Israe...…

…t ner with a group of Kuwaiti elite: government r. Perlmutter, who has the polished looks of a successful mercantilist (gray/white hair, brown eyes and preternatural smooth, tanned skin) had come to Kuwait as part of a goodwill/information-gathering mission sponsored by a New York-based think tank, the Council on Foreign Relations. He and his four council colleagues already had been to Saudi Arabia, and were scheduled to go on to Qatar. Exce...…

…created a better understanding among the leader- ship of each other's problems." And it has created an atmosphere in which Mr. Perlmutter's group finally can embark on the first concrete project of its existence: the establishment of a model industrial zone on one of the borders be- tween Israel and the Palestinian Authority. If it is a success, the zone will bring thousands of new jobs to Palestinians and bring them desperately needed tax dol...…

…Louis Perlmutter: Architect Of Peace even more difficult to support on an on-going ba- sis, and they ought to consolidate. "It would create a much stronger voice for the Jew- ish community that had more influence and au- thority. I tried very hard at the end of my tenure to merge the congress and the American Jewish Com- mittee, but I wasn't successful, and I think that's un- fortunate." Disillusioned with the congress, Mr. Perlmutter turned ...…

…Louis Perlmutter: Architect Of Peace - ground and then issued an unexpected request: Would the CFR put together a group that would work with him in dealing with the flow of development aid and pledge money to the Palestinian Au- thority? It was a signal to all involved that were such a group to be formed, it would have his trust and authority in the region. "Arafat's relations with the donor community up to that point had gone poorly," says ...…

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