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…Editor's Letter WOMEN'S EUROPEAN & AMERICAN Bibi's Strategy I Tellingly, the RA., the more "moderate" of the Palestinian n response to the Israeli prime minister's conditional regimes, called on Arab governments to suspend pursuit of support for a Palestinian state, a key Palestinian leader the so-called Arab Peace Initiative in protest of Netanyahu's anticipated the restrictions spurring yet another round comments. Hamas, which governs t...…
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…Metro Mighty Casey Frankel Academy tramples MHSAA in state Appeals Court ruling. Alan Hitsky Associate Editor I t might be the longest game in baseball history, and it still may not be over. But with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, it appears that Mighty Casey has struck out. The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled very stringently last week against the Ivlichigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA) in a case originally brought by ...…
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…A Teen Cause That Resonates T he power of community is unbelievable," says Rabbi Paul Yedwab of Temple Israel in West Bloomfield. His son Jesse, 15, led the youth effort and also performed at the May 24 "Banding Together" event that continues to raise money for the temple's new Yaldeinu Fund for chil- dren orphaned in Detroit's Jewish community. So far, the event that drew 800 participants and volunteers to hear a dozen teen musical acts has...…
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…UND TOWN Money-Saving Milestone National Council of Jewish Women celebrates 75 years of thrift shops. Cathy Cantor (NCJW local president) and Susan Gertner (local executive director), Margie and Burt Ansel! of Bloomfield Township, Sally Green of West Bloomfield and both of West Bloomfield Harold Katzman of Bloomfield Hills B ack in 1934, when Detroit was cheering on the Tigers and Jewish superstar Hank Greenberg was racking up home ru...…
…World EXTREMISTS The Wild West Israel wrestles with settler conundrum. Dina Kraft Jewish Telegraphic Agency Tel Aviv W hen two top Israeli army com- manders in the West Bank received threatening letters in early June, the suspects weren't the army's traditional enemies in the territory. Instead, Israeli Jews angry about the army's recent demolition of several illegal settlement outposts appeared to have sent the letters. One compared th...…
…confrontation between settlers and police turned violent. Afterward, settlers launched a public campaign decrying police violence, and the Knesset formed a special committee to investigate the event. Since Amona, no wide-scale evacuation of a larger outpost has taken place. Mark Regev, a spokesman for the Prime Minister's Office, noted that the police and army presence in the West Bank has been increased and authorities more commonly issue tem...…
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…HEALTH & FITNESS on the cover, Yoga enthusiasts atop Detroit's historic former railway station 1119*1' .- The Flight Of Yoga Studios take off despite the economic downturn. STORIES BY JUDITH DONER BERNE I SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS onny Kest thanks his dad for turning him on to yoga, an ancient practice that is gain- ing modern followers in Metro Detroit despite the precarious economy. Local yoga studios report more people are practi...…
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…Arts & Entertainment Sail Into Summer Our annual summer reading roundup looks at books perfect for relaxing during the balmy days ahead. Gail Zimmerman Arts & Entertainment Editor FICTION The Hebrew Tutor of Bel Air by Allan Appel (Coffee House Press; paperback; $14.95; to be released July 1) is a corning-of-age and falling-in-love tale set just after the Cuban Missile Crisis, in which a studious teenager is hired to prepare a Bel Air, Ca...…
…Arts & Entertainment Detroit Backdrop New books share a Motor City influence. Suzanne Chessler Special to the Jewish News E xperiences in the Detroit Jewish community enter into the plot lines of six new novels, all very different, by people who have made their homes in the area. The books are available on the Web through title searches that lead to on-line sellers. Susan Messer, a suburban Chicago resi- dent who grew up in northwest Det...…
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…Arts & Entertainmen Sail Into Summer from page C3 The Scenic Route by Binnie Kirshenbaum (Ecco/Harper Perennial; paperback, $13.99), chair of the Writing Program at Columbia University's Graduate School of the Arts, features narrator Sylvia Landsman, a 42-year-old divorced, empa- thetic and intelligent underachiever who, finding herself unexpectedly unemployed, takes off for Italy, where she meets Henry, a wistful, married, middle-aged expat...…
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