…I NEWS There's a word for people who believe Medicare covers costs for long term health care. The truth is that Medicare that allows you to receive policy pays only about 2% of nursing benefits while being treated • in the comfort home costs na- and familiar sur- tionally. So if you count on Medicare, you might roundings of your own home. also count on spending most of What's more, The Travelers your savings. And being depen- will guarantee ...…
…OBITUARIES 1 Dignified graveside services at all cemeteries, at lower costs! Richard Burton, Businessman Richard Burton, a Detroit area businessman and finan- cial consultant, died Feb. 24 while skiing in Colorado. He was 72. Mr. Burton was born as Ir- ving I. Bienstock in Brooklyn, N.Y. Upon joining the U.S. Air Force, he changed his name to I. Richard Burton after the English explorer. He served in the Air Force as a lt. colonel in World ...…
…OBITUARIES YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH Administration Office: 557-6750 Founded 1914 JOSEPH TANENBAUM SCHOOL FOR BOYS SALLY ALLAN ALEXANDER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS 15751 West Lincoln Drive Southfield, Michigan 48076 32605 BelIvinelVail Beverly Hills, Michigan 48010 A HAPPY AND JOYOUS PURIM TO ALL OUR FRIENDS Photo Courtesy of Duchin Productions During the coming week Yeshiva Beth Yehudah will observe the yahrtzeits of the following departed friends,...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY FEBRUARY 1, 1991 1 17 SHEVAT 5751 3,000 At Rally Wave TWo Flags In Support Of The U.S. And Israel PHIL JACOBS and ALAN HITSKY anice Goldfein looked around the crowded Shaarey Zedek lobby, found the table she was in search of and headed right to it. The table belonged to the Israel Program Center. And there, Mrs. Goldfein, a social worker from Southfield, vol- unteered ...…
…The Missiles Fell... When they heard the news from Israel, thousands of Soviet and Ethiopian Jews made a choice. Rather than endure one moment longer in a land that despised them, they would make aliyah and risk the dangers of an Israel under attack. Whatever lay ahead, they wanted to be home. Other people might find that an odd choice. But a Jew understands. To be part of a people. To stand with the Jewish Nation in its hour of need. To he...…
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…Iraq strikes at Tel Aviv EMERGENCY WHEN THE MISSILE LANDED 40 Ambulances and 5 Mobile Intensive Care Units were on the scene within minutes. The wounded were treated on the ground and transported to hospitals. Magen David Adom Ambulances, Mobile Trauma Units and Blood Center are Israel's emergency lifeline. The day the missile landed, 849 emergency calls were received. Your help is desperately needed to keep this vital force in action. r A...…
…CONTENTS DETROIT Waving The Flag Some views of Sunday's rally for U.S. and Israel. CLOSE-UP The Story Behind ‘Hava Nagilah' A most famous song was inspired by homework. Home Front 36 KIMBERLY LIFTON 16 Preparing For War ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Can the world only love Jews as victims? DAVID HOLZEL 14 The families of Jewish soldiers keep a stiff upper lip. 10 NOTEBOOK 40 COMMENTARY Folk songs as weapons and Armageddon. ENTERTAI...…
…I EDITORIAL The Rally Is Not Over With One Meeting Last Sunday's rally at Congregation Shaarey Zedek attracted more than 3,000 people and contributed to the raising of about $1 million in hard cash critically needed by Israel to settle Soviet Jews who keep coming, war or no war. We waved our flags; we cheered; we con- demned Saddam Hussein; we listened to rousing speeches; we painted signs; we volunteered. But now comes the hard part. Now, w...…
…LETTERS Marketing Campus Racism One expects to find racism and anti-Semitism, even on college campuses. But you don't usually expect to find campus programs distribu- ting racist, sexist and anti- Semitic materials. Ferris State University's of- fice of Minority Affairs main- tains a subscription to Alkebulanian, which is published out of Detroit. The editor of the magazine, Joseph Ben-Jochannan, refer- red to as "Pharaoh," was brought to ou...…
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…YOU'RE COVERED hostile Arab states, she must not only be strong but fierce at times, because the Arabs respect power more than they admire kindness. The only way they will make peace with Israel is if they are convinced they cannot defeat her on the battlefield. Anwar Sadat is proof of that. When this war is over, however long it lasts, the United States and its allies eventually will bring their troops home. But Israel will still be where sh...…
…UP FRONT For Some Palestinians, Scud Strikes Too Close GIL SEDAN Special to The Jewish News D eir Balut, West Bank —The Scud missile launched from Iraq on Monday night was targeted at Tel Aviv, but it exploded instead on the out- skirts of this Arab village. Saddam Hussein may still be a hero to the Palestinians. But it is doubtful that many here still regard him as their savior. They know too well he might have been the agent of their de...…
…Taviwfr A the Reform Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Detroit, takes great pleasure in sharing this news with all our friends: YAVNEH ACADEMY IS MOVING TO TEMPLE BETH EL, TELEGRAPH AND 14 MILE ROADS IN BIRMINGHAM, BEGINNING THIS SUMMER The Yavneh Board of Directors has chosen this new location to place our Day School at THE GEOGRAPHICAL CENTER of the Jewish Community, better to attract and serve families from Oak Park, Huntington Woods, S...…
…DETROIT Clockwise from right: Dan Levi ponders the speeches. Information about Israel Bonds is distributed in the foyer. Arnold Gartner sings "Hatikvah." Harry Weberman purchases an Israel Bond. , …
…Rally Continued from Page 1 Pledges of time money and blood were individual responses. Sunday's rally in support of Israel and the U.S.-led coali- tion forces in the Middle East. The rally, which was sponsored by the Jewish Welfare Federation and the Jewish Community Council, was intended to spearhead an effort to raise some $9 million more for the Allied Jewish Campaign. More than 3,000 area Jews were in attendance. The Detroit Federation ...…
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…PERSIAN GULF CRISIS In Israel's Weirdest War, Emergency Is Routine The rear has become the front, peaceniks support the war and the army receives kudos for not fighting. INA FRIEDMAN Special to The Jewish News J erusalem — The "routine of emergen- cy" is the oxymoron that President Chaim Her- zog coined last week for the state that Israel and its citizens will be in for the weeks, and perhaps months, to come. The emergency has been stron...…
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…PERSIAN GULF CRISIS Life Goes On Sort Of But in this Age of Anxiety, the distractions are overpowering. STUART SCHOFFMAN Special to The Jewish News erusalem — The hard part is the waiting. The uncertainty, the endless speculation — and that tiny jackhammer of anx- iety that never ceases to pound your muscles and pre- vent your mind from concen- trating on much of anything. Like someone sitting in Detroit or Denver, I watch the ravaging of...…
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…DETROIT ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Assistant Editor B rooke Lipman has no doubts about an American victory in the Gulf war. "We're going to win," said Brooke, a student at Hillel Day School. "The whole world is against him (Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein)." During last Sunday's rally in support of Israel and U.S. forces in the Gulf, 8-year-old Brooke carried two small American flags and kept two Israeli flags behind her ear. Were she president of th...…
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…CLOSE-UP The most famous of Hebrew songs owes its inspiration to a little boy who was just doing his homework A Jewish folklore group performs in Lithuania in 1977. The Story Behind . DAVID HOLZEL Special to The Jewish _News erusalem in 1910 was a dusty mountain town, a mote on the map of the dying Thrkish empire. Yet, the 60,000 Jerusalemites formed a lively patchwork of indi- genous cultures, both Jewish and Arab. New arrivals, the be...…
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…COMMUNITY Teacher Uses International Law To Analyze Middle East Issues ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Assistant Editor. A pplying the tech- niques of interna- tional law, a Univer- sity of Michigan professor proposed an analysis of one of the most sensitive issues in the Middle East — the at- tempt to link the Iraqi inva- sion of Kuwait with Israel's presence in the .West Bank and Gaza. Speaking last week at Temple Emanu-El, U-M law school professor...…
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…TORAH PORTION HILLEL DAY SCHOOL Welcomes Parents of Prospective KINDERGARTENERS Of RABBI RICHARD HERTZ Special to The Jewish News 1ST GRADERS S TO COME JOIN IN OUR ANNUAL OPEN HOUSE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1991 Classroom Visits — 7:15 p.m. Program — 8:00-9:00 p.m. at HILLEL DAY SCHOOL 3 2 2 00 Middlebelt/Farmington Hills 8 5 1-2 3 94 Tables • Desks Wall Units Bedrooms Dining Rooms 12 Years' Experience & Expertise in the Design o...…
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