March 01, 1991

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…EDITORIAL Seize The Day It has been a long time since Americans have taken such pride in their military as this week. Not only was the U.S.-led coali- tion successful in its ground war against Iraq, but many Americans were secure in the moral correctness of their govern- ment's war against Saddam Hussein. Many of the ghosts of the Vietnam expe- rience were laid to rest in the sands of Kuwait and Iraq. Israel, too, expressed satisfaction with...…

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…UP FRONT Henry Kissinger Concurs On Shamir's Peace Proposal IRA RIFKIN Special to The Jewish News F ormer Secretary of State Henry Kissinger agreed this week that Israeli Premier Yitzhak Shamir's Middle East peace proposal is worth a second look in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War. But Mr. Kissinger quickly added that while he foresees new support for the plan, Jerusalem will also have to sweeten the package for it to gain widespread...…

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…willing to relinquish ter- ritory for a Palestinian homeland, and said she would welcome an interna- tional conference on the issue. Mrs. Hertz, Mr. Epel and Mrs. Damraur-Kalo said Israelis are eager to see Saddam Hussein's regime toppled. "Israelis do not want to see Saddam Hussein continue," Mrs. Hertz said. "The United States cannot stop until he's finished." "He has to be disarmed, his war machinery taken out," Mrs. Damraur-Kalo added. "Hi...…

…DETROIT AMY J. MEHLER Staff Writer B oris Vodopyanov looked understan- dably nervous Sunday as he suddenly found himself surrounded by an excited group of teen-age girls. But that didn't stop this band of messengers. They marched right up to Mr. Vodopyanov at his Oak Park home, wished him a happy Purim and dropped a freshly wrapped assortment of shalach manot into his hands. As understanding slowly dawned, Mr. Vodopyanov beckoned to his 4-...…

…FINAL R C H Soviet Politics Slows Local Emigration Rate SUSAN GRANT Staff Writer A lthough a slow, steady flow of Soviet Jews continues to ar- rive in Detroit, Jewish Resettlement Service offi- cials are not sure how long the influx will last. Recent political changes within the Soviet Union have created a feeling that the doors to freedom may soon close, said Lydia Kuniaysky, resettlement caseworker. "The Soviet Union in gen- eral has m...…

…DETROIT 1.1"Immummil Plant Trees for Troops in the Gulf The Jewish National Fund, Israel's only official afforestation agency, has reserved space in the American Independence Park outside Jerusalem to plant trees dedicated to our American troops. JNF has been planting trees, honoring Americans, since 1948. Roundtable Of Humanity At Detroit Open School KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer T SHOW YOUR SUPPORT! A Certificate of Authenticity for t...…

…Thirteen-year-old Jon Salamas, a white student, asked both panelists why the Arabs should pull out of the war if Israel is involved. "They want to help their public opinion," Mr. MacKay said. "The Middle East discrimination factor is religion. Arab nations are afraid that their masses will change if they don't act col- lectively." Mr. Michlin added that Arab hatred toward Israel is greater than the hatred against Saddam Hussein, who attacked o...…

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…HARDER LINE Taking A Harder Line HELEN DAVIS Foreign Correspondent Many Israelis have concluded that they can no longer tolerate Palestinians living and working in their midst. erusalem — The intifada and the Persian Gulf War have raised Palestinian passions to the boiling point. Desperation has become the hall- mark of the Palestinian cause and emotional rhetoric its calling card. But this turn of events has also produced a reac- tion am...…

…HARDER LINE Demonstrating against an American peace plan, protestors gather near the prime minister's office in Jerusalem. THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 23 …

…HARDER LINE Many Israeli Jews are now afraid of Arabs and want nothing to do with them. Soldiers guard the body of a yeshiva student, stabbed to death by unknown Arab assailants near the Zion gate of Jerusalem's Old City. survey taken in December by the Hanoch Smith polling firm found that 49 percent of Israeli Jews favor expelling Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip if a near-term solution can not be found to the Arab-I...…

…HARDER LINE At a memorial service for two Israeli youths who were murdered last summer, a rabbi offers a eulogy while the sister of one of the victims looks at her brother's photo. The service was held in Ramot, a Jerusalem suburb where the bodies were found. item of the charter. "The Land must be cleansed from the impurity and viciousness of the tyranni- cal occupiers," it continues. "The Mus- lims are under obligation, by order of the Prop...…

…HARDER LINE Yet another, a well-established veteran Soviet immigrant, trembled with rage as she spoke of the Palestinian who recently stabbed a woman soldier and a police- man. "He worked for a neighbor of mine, a building contractor who said he would have trusted this man with his own chil- dren," she said. "They smile, but inside they hate us. Liberal Americans don't like to hear this, but we must stop the Arabs coming here to work." None o...…

…YES , "THERE REALLY IS A ROSLYN!" American Attitudes Have Also Changed A rethinking of the Palestinian question is also taking place among American Jewry as a result of the Persian Gulf War. "The mood is a harder line toward the Palestinians since they sided with Saddam Hussein," said Ronald B. Weitz- man, Baltimore regional president of the Zionist Organization of America. "I'm finding that more people are saying that maybe we shouldn't be...…

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…BACKGROUND Renewed Life Israel hopes the Gulf war — and the PLO's support for Saddam — will make the West more receptive to Yitzhak Shamir's proposals for ending the Arab-Israeli conflict. HELEN DAVIS Foreign Correspondent O fficials in Jerusalem are cautiously op- timistic that the international community — appalled at the Palestine Liberation Organization's endorsement of Saddam Hussein — may now give more serious consideration to Prim...…

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…Jose CSS Palestinians Cheer Hussein Hebron (JTA) — The writing on the wall for Saddam Hussein says "Defeat," but Palestinians are refusing to read it. Jubilant residents of Nablus, the largest city in the West Bank, took to the streets Tuesday, rejoicing in what they called Saddam Hussein's "victory." When the Iraqi president announced his troops would withdraw from Kuwait in keeping with U.N. resolu- tions, many residents of Nablus climbed ...…

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…MR. MECH Complete Auto Repair a Soviet Jewish Newspaper Debuts Vestnik, the nation's first semi-monthly Russian lang- uage newspaper for Soviet emigres, recently began publishing in Owings Mills. Its goal, says an editorial in its first issue, is "to preserve and promote Russian culture outside the Soviet Union, to strengthen the existing ties between the English- and Russian-speaking com- munities and to build new bri'd'As of understanding...…

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…PROFILE Eyewitness to History As a political intelligence officer with the OSS in the 1940s, Paul Sweet had a firsthand look at Austria after the war. ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Assistant Editor /\= > > ierma in 1933 was a city of despair. "I remember the se- vere winters, the piles of snow," said Paul Sweet of East Lansing, who in 1933 was in Vienna to research information for a book. "We would come out of the opera and see men kneeling in t...…

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…THINK SPRING! Springmaid's Silver Shadow Designed by Andre Richard I ,400 Jailed By Israelis, Ex-Officer Says Tel Aviv (JTA) — Some 1,400 Palestinians are cur- rently imprisoned without formal charges or trial, the Israel Defense Force's top legal officer disclosed upon his retirement last week. Brig. Gen. Amnon Strashnov, the outgoing IDF judge advocate general, told a television interviewer Feb. 22 that 75,000 residents of the administere...…

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…Massachusetts To Try Gas Chamber Maker Boston (JTA) — Fred Leuchter, who manufactures gas chambers for states with capital punishment but claims the Nazis never used them to kill Jews, was or- dered to trial May 9 to face charges of violating a Massachusetts statute that bans the practice of engi- neering without a license. Malden District Court Judge James Killian re- jected a motion Feb. 19 for dismissal filed by Mr. Leuchter's attorney, Te...…

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…COMMUNITY Danny Siegel To Be At The Tzedakah Fair Danny Siegel will speak at the annual Tzedekah Fair, 9:15-11:45 a.m. Mar. 10, at Temple Beth EL All Jewish fifth-graders, their parents and teachers are invited. The program is co-sponsored by the Jewish Welfare Federa- tion Women's Division, Jewish Experiences for Families (J.E.F.F.) and Temple Beth El. The mitzvah forum, which will open with the modern- day maggid (storyteller), is an oppor...…

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…League of Jewish Women's Organizations of Greater Detroit cordially invites you, your family and friends to our Services: Friday 6 p.m. Saturday 8:45 a.m. Men's Club Shabbat. Men's Club President, Dr. Leon Hochman, will address the congregation. REFORM: Rabbi: Arnie Sleutelberg. Services: Friday 8 p.m. Purim Service conducted by Rabbi Sleutelberg joined by song leader Danny Singer. Conversion of Theresa Hubbel. We will be joined by guests ...…

…TORAH PORTION Victims of the National Socialist Regime MAY register claims with regard to property rights in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) Aaron's Role In The Golden Calf Incident RABBI RICHARD HERTZ Special to The Jewish News From the German Federal Ministry of Justice: Under the act on the Settlement of Open Property Issues which came into effect with the Treaty on the Establishment of German Unity, individuals and associ...…