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…Detroit Celebrates! Israel 12 Detroit Celebrates Israel. page 28 Where Were You 118 120 Close Up Fork In The Road 136 147 Four Tops Danny Raskin's Best Of Everything Crossword Puzzle Living Well The Scene 149 Young Memories Young adults: different memories, but similar bonds to Israel. Out & About An introduction to some of Israel's cultural superstars. Jews changed their world by shaking destiny. Now what? 112 WIrtgt- WiA&...…

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…Reflections Of A New Israeli: YOUR DREAMS AT AN AFFORDABLE PRICE! Portables, pantomime and panic. RUTH LITTMANN ASHKENAZI Special to The Jewish News S ome friends of ours, Israelis, were shocked to learn that I e-mail my parents a letter each day. "So much news?" they asked dubi- ously. I tried to explain, but choked. After six months of living in Israel, I have mental archives so broad, so jumbled, it's hard to know where to begin. Each ...…

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…ROIT CELEBRAT In his albums is a picture of him in the first El-Al Airlines uniform, and the itiner- ary for one of the airline's first flights. If Newman went to Israel for the adven- ture, his wife was fighting for Zionism. Ann, whom he met in June 1948 and married a year later, came to Palestine with her family in 1934 from Poland. All members of the Irgun, one of New- man's brothers was a political detainee for five years, and the other s...…

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…ears of statehood PAR'TNERS AEL BONDS fONFEREWE NATI/MAI tEAGERS WWWW4WWWWWW IN THE MIRACLE Israel is truly a land of miracles.. . and State of Israel Bonds is proud that it. . .and you.. . have played a central role in one of them: Israel's economic miracle. Through your investments in Israel Bonds, you have helped turn deserts green.. . absorbed hundreds of thousands of new immigrants.. . built a modern infrastructure.. . and fueled...…

…IREDiiiriEttRII6T1 Irene Slitchler was a Holocaust survivor from Kruy, Romania, and had already returned to her home when she heard the news of Israeli indepen- dence. "I was so happy," she said. "I only wished it could have happened sooner so that my parents [could've gone there], and they might still be alive." Slitchler's sister moved to Israel in 1951, and Irene tried to follow, but was denied an exit visa. "I wanted to move there, but I ...…

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…Tt El f 3Rell Guardians Of A Dream Detroit's Zionists may not share politics, but they are still deeply devoted to the Jewish homeland. JULIE EDGAR News Editor T he year was 1936. Ezekiel Leikin, then 23, found himself in the position of assistant to the chief of fruit inspection for the British Civil Service in Palestine. "I knew nothing about horticul- ture," he laughed. But there he was, examining lemons, dates and pome- granates and...…

…a regional director, eventually landing in Detroit. Today, at 84, he serves as the executive vice-president of the Zionist Organization of America- Metro Detroit, which has its head- quarters in the Zionist Cultural Cen- ter in Southfield. His dream of settling in Israel never died. In 1982, he and Bella moved to Jerusalem, where Leikin went to work as a consultant with the Israeli Foreign Ministry. When his wife fell ill, they came home. "I w...…

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…ROIT CELEBRAT The Tie That Binds Thanks to the fervent help of religious Detroiters, Bar-Ilan University grew into a thriving college. LYNNE MEREDITH COHN StaffWriter S tho Imiewbulk 5/1 1998 COLD FUR STORAGE Spring Prepaid Special: $27 181 S. Old Woodward Ave. (248) 642 1690 - Mon.-Sat. 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. ometimes, connections come from the most unusual places. Take Bar-Ilan University, Israel's only university that requires aca...…

…,—, /-' who served as "the real backbone" of a very important role for Bar-Ilan to Bar-Ilan. play, and I think he was right." Through the help of people like the The elder Stollman is the only liv- Stollmans, American support, especial- ing founder of Bar-Ilan. ly in the Midwest, continues. In the Barbara Stollman believes Bar-Ilan past two decades, Rabbi Rackman said would not exist if it weren't for her the Midwest has realized about a 600-...…

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…rig ItEdi 3Rel JULIE WIENER Staff Writer Pressure Cooker Detroit's Israelis have discovered that being Jewish gets complicated once you leave the homeland. Above: Ronit Gutkovitch with her son, Ben, and neighbor, Edna Sable. Right: Doron Lax fears Jewish "aya- tollahs" are taking over his country. one planned to leave Israel for good. But with each passing year in the United States, their jobs, children, American spous- es, a more afflue...…

…"I know from personal contact with many families that the Israeli commu- nity in the United States is following the American Jewish community," he says, adding, "It goes both ways, how- ever. A lot of Israeli families come not religious, then become more observant here." Hannan Lis is one of the latter. "I grew up secular, but when I came here I realized the only way to feel Jewish is to act Jewish through some sort of religious practice," say...…

…Photo by Krista Husa about retiring there. She is heartened by the fact that her two oldest chil- dren have settled there. Her oldest son served in the Israel Defense Forces, and her younger son is talking about it, too. "When our kids were growing up, I always told them I'd like to live there and I shlepped the kids there all the time. I pretty much brainwashed them," she laughs. Lake Kinneret In West Bloomfield A mnon and Naomi Reiter us...…

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…RAI r T ti alp3e ig)I i Passport To omise The Jewish Community Center in Oak Park hosts a `journey Through Israel." S and, sun, sea and fresh fruit were on the menu last Sunday at the "Journey Through Israel" at the Jimmy Prentis Morris Jewish Community Center in Oak Park. Children and their parents took a "tour" through the Negev and visited the Dead Sea, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Eilat and Haifa, sampling the natural wonders of the country t...…

…Above: The orange juice table. Top left: Stephanie Zerbib and her sister, Leah, dip into the colored sand of the Negev. Middle left: Jake and his teacher, Anna, practice drawing on plates. Left: Chaim Gross caught a fish! 5/1 1998 29 …

…ROIT CELEBRATE Awaiting The Boom Tourism officials are expecting more Americans to travel to Israel. LONNY GOLDSMITH Staff Writer F or the third consecutive year, the rate of travel from the United States to Israel has remained steady. That's not a cause for concern, said Deborah Shochet, Midwest director of the Israel Ministry of Tourism North America (IMTNA) office in Chicago. "The numbers not going up is not catastrophic," she said. "...…

…Jewry's Role in Human Affairs GREAT JURISTS OF OUR TIME /–) were Jewish, whereas today, 55 to 60 ers — 10,460 of them Michiganders percent of travelers to Israel are not — visited Israel. Jewish, Shen said. The Northeast, which includes The IMTNA is expecting that the New York and New Jersey, makes up number of non-Jews who visit Israel nearly 40 percent of the travel to will increase because of the 2,000th Israel. The northeast region also...…

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…kin Editorials o• Israel Coverage Remains A Vital Component Of The Jewish News IN FOCUS From its fragile birth in 1948 to its near-super- "Weapons Shipped To Israel Proposed As US Gift By National Security Council." power status today, Israel continues to shape Twelve years ago, The Jewish News utilized American Jewish identities. For many older six full pages, about 20 percent of its news Jews, Israel was built upon the ashes of the hole...…

…COMMUNITY VIEWS The Israel Connection Is Deeper Than You Think I true, I wish with all my heart that the srael and I are almost the same last one was. Yes, I am one of those peo- age. We grew up together, sharing ple who believes that every Jew should the same infant needs for support visit Israel at least once. and nurturing, the same rebel- And why not? Israel is, after all, the lious teenage years, the same slow Jewish state. It does not...…

…MOWS NOTEBOOK. New Israel Album Promotes Teen Travel To Eretz Yisrael T gan/Israel Connection. A total of een travel to Israel should 208 Reform and Conservative teens become a Jewish lifecycle have signed up for the five-week trip event, just like bar/bat June 25 to July 30. They'll tour mitzvah and confirmation. Israel with 32 Israelis from the Cen- And it should focus more on Jewish tral Galilee, Detroit's partner region. education and o...…

…OPINION My Hope For Israel: That It's A Builder Of Peace In Middle East I make no demands upon others. They t was Thomas Jefferson who even develop the philosophical atti- stated in the Declaration of tude: "It might have been worse." Independence that "all men are Fifty years ago, the state of Israel created equal." It is true that came into being, and it is interesting before God, all men are created equal, to note the different reactions...…

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…T SL01110111111 TEARS Striding Toward Statehood With A Detroiter T High School, 22,000 people marked Abba Hillel Silver of the World Zionist began to trickle out of Europe about here were many local Jews the birth of the new state. "People were Organization. the Nazis' efforts against the Jews. A who took active, even dan- very excited," recalled community Even in victory in 1947, when the Jewish Telegraphic Agency report, pub- gerous, role...…

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…OPINION Israel Bonds: Fulfilling A Vision I decade, hundreds of thousands of Jews srael's War of Independence was made their way to Israel. Israel's dramat- won and harsh economic realities ic rescue of Ethiopian Jewry brought set in. Although financial thousands of additional immigrants to resources were severely depleted, Israel. It was the per capita equivalent of Israel still faced the daunting challenge the United States absorbing 50 m...…

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…need of properly designed programs, competently administered, that can provide a transformative experience for these young people . .. These programs need to be more creative and daring if we really want to attract those who need it the most, namely, the currently unaffiliated youth." In short, he's saying we need to supplement the excellent post-Israel- experience programs already offered by the Agency for Jewish Education and the synagogues....…

…Join the Detroit Friends of Bar-Ilan University Community for a lunch and learn with world-renowned Bible scholar Professor James K. Kugel Bar-Ilan University Harvard University Author of the critically acclaimed The Bible As It Was who will discuss Which ji2n CD.171.171ilfttbiladA? )111d ("UNA QilflatiOILA anciant ob.& gidelliviRtatimi on Thursday, May 14 12:00 Noon at the Max M. Fisher Federation Building 6735 Telegraph (S. of Ma...…

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…Co m mu ni ty Here's To... Steven Kaplan, Assistant Prosecutor Macomb County, will receive one of MADD's Macomb County Citizen of the Year awards for his "dedication to vigorously pursuing the OUIL cases." Marilynn Rosenthal, professor of soci- ology and director of the Program in Health Policy Studies at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, received the University's Distinguished Faculty Research Award at the campus's annu- al honors convo...…

…1 GENERAL MOTORS LOYALTY FIRST REWARD Club Cabaret Welcomes Spring The Campaign Quarter Century Club will celebrate spring at its second annual cabaret event, "Swing Into Spring" 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 13, at Adat Shalom Synagogue. The Campaign Quarter Century Club is open to persons who have contributed to the Jewish Federation's Allied Jewish Campaign for 25 years or more. The evening will feature the music of the Bob Hopkins Band. Fede...…

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