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…THE JEWISH NEWS SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY Church Debates Merits Of War CLOSE-UP CHARMING SAGA AMY J. MEHLER OF A Staff Writer LANGUAG AND CULTURE THAT REFUSE TO DIE > FINDING YOUNG ACTORS TODAY YOU THIN is EASY? , N4 4 1.61 i D 11111,1 ,10 f- P S 7 1. DRAMAS GUARANTEED TO SADDEN THE HEART rfreekra.r/nr. ANEW GENERATION OF WITH GUSTO AND DIGNITY AND THE WILL TO GO ON DIIISII EATER FOR SOME ...…

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…CONTENTS A New Generation Of Yiddish Theater NAHMA SANDROW There's a bit of revival on Broadway in New York. Cover photo by Craig Terkowitz. ENTERTAINMENT Grand Allegro SUSAN SALTER 7 OPINION Dinner table conversation turns from mundane to miracle. Maya Parnes is reaching a turning point in dance. UP FRONT 71 A new push to release Jonathan Pollard from prison. 11 22 BACKGROUND BUSINESS Algeria may soon produce the first Arab...…

…EDITORIAL A Great Deal Remains The Same In just over 60 years, so much about the American Jewish community has changed. Yet, so much has remained the same. Then, our community was planning on how it would assimilate thousands upon thousands of immigrants from "the old coun- try." But then the Great Depression hit, and Jewish organizations not only scrambled to feed, clothe and house its newcomers, but also to take care of those who had been ...…

…OPINION When The Dinner Table Is The Best News Source PHIL JACOBS Managing Editor F or 15 years of marriage that pretty much coin- cided with a career in this business of journalism, I've come home each week to my wife with the news of the newsroom. Some of that news includ- ed the return of the hostages from Iran, countless local and national elections, interviews with national figures such as Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan and Jerry Fal...…

…THE JEWISH NEWS If You Want To Avoid Paying Application Fees On A Home Equity Term Loan,Well Give You Two Choices: 1.Hurry To NBD. 2.Take Your Time. ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER: Arthur M. Horwitz EDITOR EMERITUS: Philip Slomovitz MANAGING EDITOR: Phil Jacobs ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Alan Hitsky ASSISTANT EDITOR: Elizabeth Applebaum STAFF WRITERS: Susan Grant Kimberly Lifton Amy J. Mehler CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Elie Wiesel WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: James D. B...…

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…UP FRONT World Jewish Congress Backs Pollard's Release IRA RIFKIN Special to The Jewish News T he World Jewish Con- gress' American Sec- tion has become the first major Jewish organiza- tion to urge the immediate release of Jonathan Pollard, the ex-U.S. naval intel- ligence officer who admitted passing top secret docu- ments to Israel. In a resolution adopted April 12, but made public this week, the WJC called "for the commutation of Jona...…

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…DETROIT Chaplain Finds Gulf War A Mix Of Camels, Religion And Horror ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Assistant Editor R abbi Ben Romer never put his boots on without first shaking them out. With the numer- ous snakes and scorpions in the desert, "You never knew what decided to move in," he says. And he never knew just who might stop by for a visit at his makeshift home — a tent decorated with a typewriter, a cot and a field telephone. As the troops n...…

…Oakland Will Re-Vote On $5,000 Grant For JWV AMY J; MEHLER Staff Writer T he Jewish War Veter- ans of Michigan are not giving up their fight to win a $5,000 grant from Oakland County to help support their June state convention. They will have another chance to plead their case May 9 when the full board of Oakland County Commis- sioners convenes to vote on the proposal. Commissioner Dennis M. Aaron, (D-Oak Park), who requested a full board ...…

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…• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • I CLOSE-UP • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • NAHMA SANDROW Special to The Jewish News T Producer Moishe Rosenfeld (left) and actors Eleanor Reissa and Bruce Adler pose under the Broadway marquee for "Those Were The Days." ANEW GENERATION OF YIDDISH THEA 22 FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1991 en...…

…•••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• the past, she feels no permanent commitment to Yiddish theater. This above all is what Leon Leibgold, a grand old man of the Yiddish stage, really means when he comments flatly that, "There are no young Yiddish actors any more; there are only young actors who play in Yiddish." Like the larger Yiddish culture of which it r...…

…••••• • • ••• •• ••• ••• • •• • •• CLOSE-UP Eleanor Reissa (at right) and fellow cast members of `Those Were The Days" rehearse for Broadway opening of the musical, — the first Yiddish show on Broadway in more than a decade. 24 FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1991 • • • •• • •• ••• ••• •• •• • • • • •• •• •• •••• •••• • • •• ••• • ••• •• •• • •• • • • • • • ••• • • ••• •••• filiated with Actors Equity. Like Miss Reissa, most of them are outsiders to the ...…

…• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • "ethnically" dark, tough-guy looks, Mr. Kener grew up in Brooklyn, hostile to Jewish authority and culture. When his father sent him to yeshiva, he fought back by becoming a fresh-mouthed cut-up who drove...…

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…BACKGROUND HELEN DAVIS Foreign Correspondent A British intelligence report this week is believed to spell out the details of an Algerian project that is designed to provide the Arab world with its first nuclear weapons before the end of the decade. The report, a collaborative effort by Britain's civilian and military intelligence services, claims that the facility is being constructed with assistance from China and is expected to cause wid...…

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…Israel Races To Help Ethiopians Jerusalem (JTA) — The Israeli Embassy in Addis Ababa is racing against time to prepare visas for about 17,000 Ethiopian Jews waiting to leave the country for Israel. Israeli officials believe President Mengistu Haile Mariam's regime will soon topple following his army's heavy losses in recent weeks to rebel forces. The rebels have captured the town of Ambo, 75 miles from Addis Ababa, and are reported closing in...…

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…,■■•••■• Join your family, friends and community Israel's 43rd U.S. Visa For Kahane Successor Should the leader of the Kach movement in Israel get a U.S. visitor's visa? That was the issue in a Washington courtroom last week where the State Department was taken to task for its reluctance to grant a visa to Rabbi Avraham Toledano, the late Meir Kahane's successor in the Kach movement. "Apparently, the State Department was just sitting on th...…

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…BUSINESS Caught In The Crunch Unemployed workers swamp Jewish agencies with requests for food and grants. Vocational Service, which offers free job training and counseling, is equipped to accommodate everyone. "The Jewish community is fighting for one of the first times because there is not enough money to do all of the things it wants to do," says JFS Executive Director Alan Goodman. "With com- peting demands for funds, we will have to mak...…

…WHEN RECESSION HITS HOME "The Jewish community is fighting for one of the first times because there is not enough money to do all the things it wants to do." Alan Goodman what to do. We keep hearing, lost my job.' " Before Shabbat a few weeks ago, a long line of clients were waiting outside Yad Ezra on 10 Mile Road, just west of Greenfield Road. A passerby assisted an elder- ly Soviet woman with her packages, placing them onto a pushcart. "...…

…WHEN RECESSION HITS HOME "We will have a down Campaign this year and the reason is recession. • Bob Aronson, executive vice president, Jewish Welfare Federation Crunch Continued from preceding page ding jobs and doing repair work. Many of the remodel- ing jobs have gone to large contractors, who also need work, he says. He has no future bookings. Last year, he was booked solid through June. Fortunately, he says, Saundra is a teacher, wi...…

…WHEN RECESSION HITS HOME Tight Pocket ooks / 4 The Allied Jewish Campaign is directly impacted by purchasing power. Staff Writer = or the first time in a decade, the Allied Jewish Cam- paign — the major arm of the Detroit Jewish community that raises funds here and in Israel — is projecting a decrease in gifts. . And this is not an accident, according to economist David Littmann. Historically, the total amount of money pledged has risen ...…

…WHEN RECESSION HITS HOME Clashing Demands Social service agencies throughout the United States have more requests for food and grants. JAMES D. BESSER Washington Correspondent I n Atlanta, this year's Super Sunday fund- raiser uncovered a startling number of Jews who are out of work. In New York, social workers for Jewish agencies are worried about a rising tide of Jewish homelessness — and about their growing inability to respond to the...…

…WHEN RECESSION HITS HOME 1929 Reflections Detroiters remember life and death during the Depression. Staff Writer S aul and Josephine Rubin didn't always have enough food on their table during the Great Depression. At one point, they nearly lost their home. "There was no work and I mean none," recalls Ruth Burdick, 74, daughter of the Rubins. "My dad said he used to count bricks — anything to get some work." Saul Rubin was a tool and die m...…

…BUSINESS IN CELEBRATION OF THE GRAND OPENING OF OUR BERNHARDT GALLERY Clashing Demands AT TEL-TWELVE MALL... Continued from Page 38 related to the economic prob- lems." If the economic nosedive continues, Jewish agencies expect new demands on their limited resources — in- cluding requests for cash as- sistance to help clients, many "newly poor," with such basics as food and rent. With unemployment assis- tance for people laid off dur- in...…

…'"'"'"1 NEWS 1 French Death Camp Recalled Paris (JTA) — French au- thorities last week observed the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Drancy con- centration camp in a Paris suburb, where tens of thousands of Jews were herded to await deportation to Nazi death camps. The victims were all ar- rested by French police. The camp consisted of a U- shaped block of unfinished buildings guarded by French police loyal to the Vichy regime. It was ...…

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…Palestinian Is Freed Jerusalem (JTA) — Israeli military authorities have released Dr. Sari Nusseibeh, a Palestinian activist held for three months in ad- ministrative detention. Mr. Nusseibeh, accused of spying for Iraq during the Persian Gulf war, was or- dered incarcerated for six months. But the High Court of Justice, citing the paucity of evidence against him, directed that his term be reduced by half. He was released last week. Israeli s...…

…VOCAL NEWS 0 0 0 RELOCATING? COME HOME TO SOUTHFIELD general for the Midwest, Mr. Bar-Ner said he "very much wanted to go to Chicago," which, along with New York and Los Angeles, he called a major center of American Jewry. He said Israel's future is inextricably linked with the United States. He noted the importance of the American Jewish community and the fact that "the U.S. is our only really trustworthy ally." As consul general, Mr. Bar...…

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…Maa/D GLASS & PLASTICS our younger generations must never stop learning. In my Without Malice I was very optimistic when I commenced my prophecy by stating: The conservative Eng- lish-Jewish press, now 200 years old, looks back serenely to its birth. Some instruments of our age are hoary. But our beard hasn't even begun to sprout. There is in- destructibility in age: hasn't the Psalmist pro- claimed, "for a thousand years in thy sight are bu...…

…TSSSSS -"`SS:SSSS S:SSSSSSS: e e PROJECT SHEET The Hebrew word sherut means service. Project Sherut provides in-kind goods and services to community service organizations. Each week, we will publish requests for needed items. Persons interested in helping to meet these needs should contact Miriam lmerman at The Jewish Community Council at 962-1880. Also, organizations or groups in need of in-kind services should contact The Jewish Communi...…

…COMMUNITY Seminar Helps Teachers Use Books Creatively SUSAN GRANT Staff Writer lizabeth Strichartz's Temple Beth El nurs- ery room would not be complete without a corner filled with children's litera- ture. • She reads constantly to her students. But after atten- ding a Jewish pre-school ed- ucation workshop, Ms. Strichartz hopes to revolve more of her lesson plans around storytelling. Ms. Strichartz was one of 125 Detroit area pre-school ...…

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