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…February 10, 1995 14 15 Detroit OPINION Laughs On Wheels Man of many voices tries to steer Toyota sales. ROUND UP B'nai B'rith checks out the Chinese. 33 New Tactics MSU groups quietly monitor Dr. Leonard Jeffries' visit. HEALTH Hillel Day School students jump into action. 04 Auto act. page 14 40 . Ira Wise gives a name to our future. 5 TELL ME WHY Farewell, Fleischman The Yankee Doodle put a clerk in his place. 74 As Rob M...…
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…Community Views Editor's Notebook Giving A Name To Our Future Come On, It's February, Time To Get Moving IRA J. WISE SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS PHIL JACOBS EDITOR My son Ethan was pen to support this goal in par- I agree with those who inter- 1; just 2 years old on ticular.) pret the 1990 Jewish Population New Year's Day. I I have been doing a lot of trav- Study to mean that we are facing know this because eling to other Jewish communi- ...…
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…JCC page 1 Barbara Logan, JCC market- ing director, recently lost her po- sition. The adult services department at the Jimmy Prentis Morris Center in Oak Park is bracing for cutbacks, too. The closing of the JCC library in West Bloomfield was among the first of Center services to feel the crunch. The announcement upset many of its loyal users, in- cluding Susie Rosenzveig and Lee Kepes. When the women learned that the library would be acces- ...…
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…MSU Groups Change Tactics On Controversial Speaker JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER Hundreds of people came from far and wide to rail against the racial hatred and bigotry the Rev. Farrakhan has been accused of espousing. Still, 4,000 others came to hear him speak. Five years later, when an ac- cused anti-Semite came to speak at the same campus, he was met with an audience of about 80 peo- ple and no public protests or ral- lies. - - Ken Wal...…
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