…THE JEWISH NEWS SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY CLOSE-UP THE sleepwalkers JANUARY 10, 1992 / 5 SHEVAT 5752 $400,000 Grant Helps JPM Drive NOAM M.M. NEUSNER Staff Writer p lans to improve Oak Park's Jewish Corn- munity Center were aided this past week when the Kresge Foundation ap- proved a $400,000 challenge grant for the renovation of the facility. The grant requires that the remaining funds be rais- ed for th...…
…In 1992, experience Israel as never before••• with the American Technion Society EL PRAGUE s ay, June 3 - ay, June 12 Sunday, May 3 - Tuesday, June 2 ut this inspiring land. Meet Technion's d distinguished Israeli guests. Experience on impacts Israel's quality of life through nology and builds a self-sufficient future. tips exploring the Technion connection vents such as lunch at Yemen Orde with Ethiopian and Russian children to relax on ...…
…Anatoli Cheiniouk was a soloist and member of the Moscow Chamber Orchestra from 1968 to 1980. In the late '70s, he became a founding member and soloist of the renowned Moscow Virtuosi. Mr. Cheiniouk toured with both of these orchestras throughout the world and made countless recordings in both the USSR and the United States. He has performed in many international music festivals. Yuli Turovsky, conductor and artistic director of I Musici de M...…
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…CONTENTS CLOSE-UP Sleepwalkers ENTERTAINMENT Both Sides NOAM M.M. NEUSNER Detroit's Jews and blacks don't share the same dreams. AARON HALABE Mitchell Krieger can be found in front of and behind the stage. 22 63 NOTEBOOK Isolating Israel is counter-productive. UP FRONT 11 Prospects are dimming for loan guarantees. DETROIT 14 • Holocaust restitution keeps open old wounds. • Local professor debunks new "JFK" movie. • Yad Ezra's n...…
…EDITORIAL 4 -4 Clean Campaign For The Presidency Now that we are a week and a half into 1992, the Year of the Election, we can be sure that the presidential campaign is about to descend upon us with a vengeance. On the Republican side, thanks to the disreputable likes of Pat Buchanan and David Duke, there may be more of a horse race than almost anyone expected. The Democratic race, for now, is a bit of a mud- dle, with no clear front-runne...…
…Isolating Israel Won't Work GARY ROSENBLATT Editor It's not diffi- cult to see why Israel is feeling paranoid these days. When Jerusa- lem delayed the opening of the peace talks in Washington last month, the Shamir government was roundly criticized; now, when the Arab delegations delayed the second round of the talks, it is the Shamir government again that is blamed, this time for approving the expul- sion of 12 Palestinian leaders of Fatah...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS • •\\NN\ °\\"‘ \\)" I Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Monday 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 January 9, 10, 11 & 13 CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Elie Wiesel WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: James D. Besser FOREIGN CORRESPOND...…
…NEWS 1 Attention Small Business And Practice Owners: You Can Shamir, Peres Election Talks Jerusalem (JTA) — A rare private meeting between Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Labor Party leader Shimon Peres has sparked renewed specula- tion about the prospects of early elections in Israel. Mr. Shamir said that Mr. Peres had sought the discus- sion, which dealt with "parliamentary matters on which we are not necessarily divided." The initial ...…
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…UP FRONT Prospects Are Dim For The Loan Guarantee ,N- American Jewish groups, no longer out front, are saying Israel needs to deal directly with Washington. /- JAMES D. BESSER Washington Correspondent or Jewish activists who are busy figuring out how to pry $10 billion in loan guarantees from a balky Congress and a balkier administration, last week's events in Israel rep- resented another big dose of bad news. The new concessions to far-...…
…UP FRONT You paid for the Bat Mitzvah, the orthodontist, college and a good part of the wedding. Guarantee Continued from preceding page mined than ever to make sure that the Shamir government gets the point. After the White House ses- sion, AIPAC president Meyer Mitchell left for Israel, reportedly to carry that message to the Israeli leadership. A second reason for the hard-nosed attitude of Jew- ish groups toward the loan guarantee figh...…
…NOBLIA Semyon Kravchenko checks in food. With about 5,000 Jews at or below the poverty line in metropolitan Detroit, Yad Ezra is seeing a rising need for food among Jewish families. The recession has only worsened the situation for some, Yad Ezra staff said. The move represented a six-times increase of floor space for Yad Ezra, from 700 square feet to 4,200 square feet. The new building also allows Yad Ezra to enlist more volunteers and stor...…
…DETROIT AMY J. MEHLER Staff Writer T here are times when Yetta Rosenthal dreads the mail. Mrs. Rosenthal, 68, a Holocaust survivor from the former Soviet Union, receives restitution checks each month from Germany. "When it comes, I can't sleep for a week," she said. "Old wounds burst when I look at that envelope." According to the German schlussgesetz or Final Law, persons (of any religion) persecuted by the Nazis had from 1953 until 1969 ...…
…SIDEWALK Thurs.-Sun. 9-12 Orchard Mall Store Only! surprise raid on the busi- nessman's French Quarter home, which newspapers re- ported was filled with whips and other sadomasochistic paraphernalia. Not long after the raid, Mr. Shaw was put on trial for participating in the conspiracy to kill the president. A jury took less than half an hour to acquit Mr. Shaw, though the trial is central to Oliver Stone's film. It is here that Mr. Garrison...…
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…NEWS , M,L.:2N14A6, 1 IMP MS I MI MI ALL • UNDER ONE ROOF • IM Likud Rejects Legislation Jerusalem (JTA) — Likud's huge Central Com- mittee voted overwhelming- ly against supporting an electoral reform measure soon to be voted on by the Knesset. About 80 percent of the 3,400 members rejected the pending legislation, which calls for popular election of the prime minister by a separate ballot during the quadrennial Knesset elec- tions. P...…
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…I llustration by Bob Lync h Detroit's Jews and blacks don't share the same dreams. Sometimes, it seems they don't share the world. NOAM M.M. NEUSNER Staff Writer 22 FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1992 wo Jewish men, sitting in a West Bloomfield diner, are talking in muted tones. "Yeah, I graduated from Southfield High," says one, dressed smartly in a gray suit. "Boy has that place changed," the other says. The two men grunt in agreement and return t...…
…running the slave trade, for portraying blacks poorly in films and for running a world Zionist conspiracy. Like sleepwalkers, blacks and Jews drift around the Detroit area, floating in their own dreams. Jewish lawyers and accountants drive downtown, often cut off from their surroundings' by the embankments on the John Lodge Expressway. They don't see many of the ills that pain poor black communities: alcoholism, illiteracy, welfare dependency,...…
…T H Sleepwalkers day such as the NAACP. Photo by Dan ie l Lipp itt T Norman Naimark: "We don't have that many shared experiences." 24 FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1992 a cent is spent toward education. There are Jews who say their opinion of blacks isn't based on skin color but on economics. There is an often expressed stereotype that blacks might not have the money a Jewish family has to maintain a home in a middle class neighborhood. Beyond t...…
…N Brown vs. Board of Edu- cation case which outlawed desegregation in public facilities. "When we were in the trenches against a common enemy, we got along. But now that the problem is gone, well, it's like 'I don't need you anymore,' " Mr. Holliday said. Almost every analysis of black-Jewish relations points to the civil rights era of the late '50s and ear- ly '60s as the apex of the al- liance. As soon as blacks demanded a greater presence...…
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…Interior Design Workshops "You have to see them as a people that stick together," she said. Other Detroit blacks feel similarly. John Smith lives in the northwest part of the city and went to Detroit Coun- try Day School. He has had Jewish friends all his life and barely gives the sub- ject of black-Jewish rela- tions much thought. "Beyond the normal silly prejudices that people spread about any ethnic group, I detect no negative feelings bet...…
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…federal funds and reduced political clout. One structural change that the AJCongress rec- ommended for the next cen- sus was to bring minority organizations into the pro- cess at an early stage. That idea apparently struck a responsive chord with legislators. Rep. Tom Sawyer, D-Ohio, and Rep. Thomas J. Ridge, R-Pa., recently urged, in a letter to outgoing Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher, that a new committee be formed within the Census Bur...…
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…atuilmm°1 NEWS HINI[11 1011[11 I CBS April 17-25, 1992. Ma Nishtanah? WHY WILL THIS PASSOVER BE DIFFERENT FROM ALL OTHER PASSOVERS? Presents PASSOVER '92 at Australian Jews Concerns Met? OAK BROOK HILLS Sydney, Australia (JTA) — Australian Jews are uncer- tain whether their concerns will receive the same sympa- thetic attention from the new prime minister, Paul Keating, as they did from his predecessor, Bob Hawke, who was replaced rec...…
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…BUSINESS Setting Up Shop In Israel For American firms doing business in Israel, opportunities and obstacles abound. NEIL RUBIN Special to The Jewish News 38 FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1992 on by Bob Lynch. A s Israel pushes ahead with its housing plan for Soviet Jewish im- migrants, the country has shifted focus to the tremen- dous challenge of creating the half million jobs needed for its newest citizens. One of the key elements in that e...…
…Affording the best is not the questionwfinding the best is. country's minister of in- dustry and trade. That un- precedented package pro- vides grants of up to 38 per- cent of the capital invested in fixed assets, tax advan- tages and guarantees to the investors of two-thirds of the total investment. The plan also revamped the Israel Investment Cen- ter, the agency that decides if an overseas company can set up shop in Israel. In ad- dition, ...…
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