…1 9 4 2 Celebrating 50 years of growth with the Detroit Jewish Community 1 9 9 2 THE JEWISH NEWS SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS MAY 1, 1992 / 28 NISAN 5752 JPAC Takes On Issues Of State KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer A What's it like to live in Detroit's largest enclave of Soviet Jews? Page 22 group of activists this month is launching a fund-raising drive to gain Jewish political power in Michigan. A program scheduled for May 20 will inform the...…
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…CONTENTS CLOSE-UP Northgate SPORTS Darling Of The Ice Company AMY J. MEHLER What's it like to live in Detroit's largest enclave of Soviet Jews? On the cover: Alex Gordon. KIMBERLY LIFTON A.J. Roberts takes center stage tonight. 22 50 UP FRONT 11 Ariel Sharon is pushing building in the territories. DETROIT 14 • A racing buff helps • Children's Hospital. • Some Jews are skeptical of finding their kin. COMMUNITY 43 A week of even...…
…EDITORIAL Dedicating Max Fisher There are precious few individuals alive today who have touched the souls of a world of Jewish communities. On Sunday, the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit dedicates its new headquarters to Max Fisher. The honor is absolutely fitting for this man of such international esteem and the work he has done for the international Jewish commun- ity. But as we look around, we see that the testimony to Mr. Fishe...…
…OPINION Indifference Of Man Fought By Education o .ANAND PAREKH Essay Competition 1 saw one family of about six, all already stripped nak- ed and waiting for the order to get down into the grave. Next I.-to the father was a boy of ten or twelve years old. He placed P'iri hand on the boy's head and pointed the other toward heaven and said something to the boy, who, I could see, was trying to keep back the tears. 0..The man's wife was standi...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS Attention Small Business And Practice Owners: You Can ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER: Arthur M. Horwitz EDITOR EMERITUS: Philip Slomovitz MANAGING EDITOR: Phil Jacobs ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Alan Hitsky ASSISTANT EDITOR: Elizabeth Applebaum STAFF WRITERS: Kimberly Lifton Amy J. Mehler Noam M. M. Neusner CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Elie Wiesel WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: James D. Besser FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT: Helen Davis PHOTOGRAPHER: Glenn Triest LO...…
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…---- TOPTRONT1 Hard Sell Ariel Sharon's Housing Ministry is pushing the sale of homes in the territories as an unofficial part of the Likud campaign. INA FRIEDMAN Israeli Correspondent O n the eve of the fourth round of peace talks in Washington, the Housing Ministry — in col- laboration with the Jewish Agency, the Council of Jew- ish Communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, and a collection of other groups and agencies — launched, with...…
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…NORTHGATE Alex Zaguskin and Igor Peysin advise Leonid Nevelev. or six wedding dresses to choose from. Someone else did Mrs. Zager's hair, her nails, her makeup. "Everybody was into it," Mrs. Zager said, smiling over the memory. People are so friendly, many mornings Mrs. Zager Dmitri, Valerie, Irina and Inna Zager. 24 FRIDAY. MAY 1. 1992 lets her daughters, Valerie, 9, and Inna, 17, stand at the gate house on Green- field Road and wait fo...…
…so cool in his black-neon stretch pants. Management estimates the current Soviet Jewish population of Northgate is close to 50 percent. Sandy Hyman, director of Resettlement Service, said that in the late-1980s, at the start of the second wave of Soviet Jewish im- migration, Jewish Federa- tion and Jewish Family Service decided to settle more Soviet Jews into apartments in Oak Park and Southfield. "After the first wave of immigration, we were ...…
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…Pollard Sees Tele-Seder . Convicted spy Jonathan Pollard attended a seder in Washington last week — through the miracle of modern electronics. Mr. Pollard, now serving a life term at the federal prison at Marion, Illinois, participated in the first 15 minutes of a seder at the home of Michael Beren- baum, director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Muse- um, via a teleconference hookup. Also attending the seder at Mr. Berenbaum's house was Mr. Po...…
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