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…THE JEWISH NEWS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY THIS ISSUE 60c CLOSE—UP FEBRUARY 10, 1989 / 5 ADAR I 5749 A Closing Circle For Soviet Emigres Israel wants as many Russian immigrants as possible, but doesn't have the capacity to absorb them. DAVID HOLZEL Israel Correspondent Indivisible As Night ,The son of a Methodis rn: n e through Black Power politics and Catholic mysticism befor "nd,and,s ,are .011e,.. Jewish working parents h...…

…PURELY COMMENTARY Call Me Journalistically 'Dated' Via The JOA PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor Emeritus L egalization of the JOA — Joint Operating Agreement assuring the merging of the Detroit Free Press with the Detroit News leads to recollections about an important cast of characters who functioned in Detroit journalism for nearly seven decades. Those of us who came here at the beginning of the 1920's remember the earlier newspapers, the Detroi...…

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…I UP FRONT Rosensaft Hopes Arafat Talks Will Pave Peace Path ELIZABETH KAPLAN Features Editor M MK Shevah Weiss (Labor) rests on his copy of the Israeli budget during Knesset debate. Israeli Adviser Predicts Negotiations With The PLO the areas with dense Arab popula- tions and few Jewish settlers. "It will become obvious that the KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer I srael will include the Palestine Liberation Organization in peace negotia...…

…EDITORIAL Sharansky For U.N. There has been much discussion this past week as to whether his proposed appointment as Israel's ambassador to the United Na- tions would be a brilliant diplomatic maneuver or a foolish public relations stunt. Both sides agree that Sharansky has proven, since his release from the Soviet Union three years ago this weekend, that he is a man of intelligence, dignity and charm. But those criticial of the appointment ...…

…CONTENTS OPINION 14 FRONTLINES Righteous Advocate RICHARD PEARL Southfield Rev. James Lyons will tour the U.S. on behalf of Israel. 24 CLOSE-UP Indivisible As Night ELIZABETH KAPLAN It was a long journey before Julius Lester's Jewish conversion. 46 KIDS Kiddie Care LISA JACKNOW ELLIAS Jewish parents have limited options when it comes to toddler day care. 52 SPORTS Ancient Warriors Mendel Kaplan addresses Detroit comm unal lead...…

…THE JEWISH NEWS Serving Detroit's Metropolitan Jewish Community with distinction for four decades. PUBLISHER: Charles A. Buerger ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER: Arthur M. Horwitz EDITOR EMERITUS: Philip Slomovitz EDITOR: Gary Rosenblatt ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Alan Hitsky NEWS EDITOR: Heidi Press FEATURES EDITOR: Elizabeth Kaplan STAFF WRITERS: Kimberly Lifton Richard Pearl Mike Rosenbaum CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Elie Wiesel ART DIRECTOR Kim M...…

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…lharamenisinismimEMIONINIMIll SUPER VALUES FROM YOUR AUTHORIZED SEIKO DEALER will certainly create a better America," Lester said. Several members of the au- dience agreed. Cathy Gor- witz, co-president of B'nai B'rith Women in Lansing, said that to better America, Jewish leaders need to en- courage Jews to help the poor. "I think until Jews today open up their eyes and realize this, we're not going to see much progress," she said. The third...…

…I OPINION YOU'RE COVERED With Our T-Shirt! I Jewish Agency Continued from Page 7 headquarters office will be moved to Jerusalem, affirm- ing that Israel's capital is also the hub of the Agency's opera- tional activity. The difficult task remaining is to deter- mine the Agency's program- matic direction in the months and years ahead. Specific departments, too, have been streamlined. For example, in Rural Settle- ment, a decision has been m...…

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…GRAND ILLUSIONS such prominent leaders. "That's the card we're going to play," says Yuri Shtern, spokesman for the Soviet Jewry Zionist Forum, an um- brella group formed last spring to advance the in- terests of Soviet Jews in Israel and the Diaspora. Shtern says those promi- nent Soviet Jews involved with the Forum will use their international star power to lobby the Israeli government for better jobs and housing, to raise funds in the Dias...…

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…I CLOSE-UP I Inctivisth e Night The son of a Methodist minister, Julius Lester journeyed through Black Power politics and Catholic mysticism before his conversion to Judaism. At last, his mind and soul are one. 1■ 1111MIMMIMINNE ELIZABETH KAPLAN Features Editor 24 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1989 …

…Sometimes I wonder if I am as crazy as Momma has told me more than once that I am. Sometimes I do not know what is real. Is it this holiness that only I seem to believe in, or is it the sit-in demonstrations my friends went on with religious fervor? Is it the deep quiescence of night when I sit alone in my room, reading and listening to classical music on a Chicago radio station, or jazz on one from New Orleans? Only when I am alone am I not d...…

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…"smear campaign" against more traditional Orthodox Jews, claimed an article in a recent issue of The Jewish Observer, the national magazine of the Agudath Israel of America movement. In "The Media's Anti- Orthodox Campaign," author Mechachem Lubinsky traced: • The "venomous outpour- ing of vitriol from the media when it seemed that Israel's Likud Party was about to ce- ment an alliance with right- wing Orthodox parties; and, • Newspaper ads ag...…

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…r NEWS U.S. Mediates Taba Dispute Jerusalem (JTA) — The United States is trying to defuse a potentially ugly situation arising between Egypt and Israel in their dispute over Taba. Abraham Sofaer, the U.S. State Department's legal ad- viser who has been serving as a mediator, arrived in Cairo last week with the latest Israeli proposals. His arrival follows two ver- bal attacks on Israel by Egyp- tian President Hosni Mubarak over the Taba iss...…

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…The villagers follow many occupations. Schreier is a farmer, raising herbs. There are also a musician, a sculptor, an architect, a com- puter programmer, practi- tioners of alternative medicine, a plant medicine scientist, a writer, etc. Most of the settlers raise their own vegetables. Four of the families are observant Jews. This is a private village, not a kibbutz, and each family has its own private home, its own domestic economy. In most c...…

…I PURELY COMMENTARY Call Me 'Dated' Continued from Page 2 ten. She wrote many poems of deep Jewish interest. Lee A White had a special role. We respected his insistence that the "A" be without a period. He conducted classes at the University of Michigan School of Journalism and the Jewish Center and was sort of an historian. The daughter of Lee A White, Virginia White, had an interesting career for several years with the Jewish Welfare Fede...…

…LAST CALL! YOU'VE WAITED TILL THE END-THIS IS IT SAVE UP TO 70% the United Nations and in multiple other capacities she not only enthused the hun- dreds of audiences she reach- ed out to in this country, in pre-Israel Palestine and in Israel, and in Canada and European countries. She was a -.guide in actions towards reborn Jewish Nationhood. In the Golda of Ralph G. Martin there are the roman- tics. She was married to Mor- ris Meyerson who ...…

…I PURELY COMMENTARY I Ben-Gurion Continued from preceding page 1 , And the Beat Goes On Save to Your Heart's Content This Valentine's Day. BRUCE M. WEISS JEWELERS 12 Mile just east of Northwestern author of the more than 900-page biography entitled Ben-Gurion — The Burning Ground, 1886-1948. It is the story of his life leading up to the founding of Israel. As the title suggests they were "bur- ning years." They were the numerous eras o...…

…COMMUNITY U-M Tennis Ace Dan Goldberg Named To U.S. Maccabia Squad University of Michigan ten- nis ace Dan Goldberg will be a member of the U.S. team at this summer's 13th World Maccabiah Games. Goldberg, of Avon, Ct., is a senior at U-M. Seven American teams have already been selected for the international competi- tion. Team tryouts are conti- nuing across the U.S.,one of 38 countries which will com- bine to send over 4,000 athletes to the...…

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…!SYNAGOGUES I MIDRASHA•COLLEGE OF JEWISH STUDIES A Divison of United Hebrew Schools and 4 AMERICAN WOMEN OF BAR ILA) DIVERSITY present Jewish Communities In Crisis Many sociologists suggest that the world Jewish community is dramatically decreasing in numbers. Assimilation, persecution and declining birth rates are a few of the reasons for this demographic phenomenon. This series will examine important Jewish communities which are facin...…

…I NEWS 1 The Jewish Community Center and Nancy Gurwin Productions CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM present board of the Jewish Frontier, the Labor Zionist journal, since its founding in 1934. She was its editor in chief from 1948 until the mid-1970s. Menahem Rosensaft, presi- dent of the Labor Zionist Alliance, called Syrkin "one of the towering intellectual influences not only of the Labor Zionist movement but of the Zionist movement as a whole."...…

…KIDS Kiddie Care Jewish working parents have limited options when it comes to day care for infants and toddlers. LISA JACKNOW ELLIAS Special to The Jewish News 46 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1989 …

…r S everal months before her daughter Daniella was born, Debbie Silverstein started to look for day care. Silverstein, a full-time student, began student teaching in January. She needed a secure place for her six- month-old child. The search seemed fruitless. Silverstein hoped to hire a person to sit in her home, but the cost was more than she could afford. So she turned her search to day care homes, in -which women provide care for several ...…

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…tt * ok_ staff members, but a ratio of only 10 to one. Other nursery school pro- grams also offer extended care for students with work- ing parents. At the Beth Hayeled Nursery School at Congregation Shaarey Zedek, children 2 and up can stay from 7:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. each day but Friday, when they must be picked up at 4:30 p.m. The full-day pro- gram is offered only at the synagogue, with early drop- off available at the West Bloomfield...…

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