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…9 4 2 Celebrating 50 years of growth with the Detroit Jewish Community APRIL 10, 1992 / 7 NISAN 5752 SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS CLOSE-UP Six 'Days Of Decision' Will Change Campaign PHIL JACOBS Managing Editor I In The Spirit Of Reform The Reform movement in Detroit is growing with worshipers who see in it a chance for deep spirituality. 1 9 9 2 n years past, Detroit's Federation would close the annual Allied Jewish Campaign in early spring...…

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…CONTENTS CLOSE-UP In The Spirit Of Reform PHIL JACOBS The Reform movement here is growing with spirituality. Cover photo of Cantor Gail Hirschenfang by Marsha Sundquist. BUSINESS OPINION Home Run! 7 Remembrance vs. survival: Jews and their priorities. RUTH LITTMANN Home-based businesses are popular with women. UP FRONT 11 A hawkish Yitzhak Rabin leads a cast of doves. 55 DETROIT 24 14 • A political column looks at new issues....…

…EDITORIAL Fight Harder, P'TACH For 15 years, P'TACH has provided edu- cational services, combining principles of Torah with the modern skills of remedial education to hundreds of Jewish school children. Now, P'TACH, like so many other Jewish organizations and Jewish households, is feeling the severity of the recession. Only for P'TACH, this isn't a question of belt tightening or cutbacks, this is a true threat to its very existence. That exi...…

…OPINION Remembrance Vs. Survival: Jews Must Re-Order Priorities JEREMIAH I am a child of Jewish refugees. My father es- caped Hitler from Poland. All his siblings were killed, as were his parents, nephews and nieces. As a young girl, my mother fled Russia with her parents. Many of her relatives perish- ed in the Bolshevik Revolu- tion, in the Stalinist oppres- sions which followed, or in the German onslaught. of World War II. I am a Jewish...…

…THE JEWISH NEWS Attention Small Business And Practice Owners: You Can ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER: Arthur M. Horwitz BE A BIG FISH. It's easy to get your bank's undivided attention—if your business or practice is the size of a great white shark. Smaller com- panies may be left to flounder on the hook. Come to a bank that values your business, even if you're not "Jaws". Franklin Bank's Commercial Checking account has all the angles you need. Corp...…

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…UP FRONT Labor's Paradox Yitzhak Rabin, a "hawk," was elected to lead the party but the new slate has .a "dovish" slant. INA FRIEDMAN Israel Correspondent F asten your seat belts, ladies and gentlemen. The two major parties in Israel have picked their list of Knesset candidates, and now the roller coaster that will carry them up to peaks of euphoria, down through vales of despair, and undoubtedly to a few loop- the-loops along the way is...…

…UP FRONT I Paradox Continued from preceding page form a government if it wins the election in June. Pluralism (the "supermarket syndrome") has long been one of Labor's prime and problematic traits. Now the party must settle on a clear basic strategy. Will it stress its fundamental differences with the Likud or try to blur them? Will it downplay sen- sitive issues to placate potential coalition partners or bid for the support of new constitu...…

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…DETROIT Jewish History Groups Seek Cemetery Sleuths ALAN HITSKY Associate Editor T aking inventory is a massive job. Recording Jewish graves throughout Michigan and Windsor will be an even bigger one. Three Detroit area historical groups are seeking volunteers to record in- dividual Jewish burial sites throughout the state and neighboring Windsor. The groups expect the project will lead to a treasure of Jewish historical records. The Jewi...…

…POLITICALLY SPEAKING I Dealer Demo Sale Need For Jewish Shelter Debated By Alexander CLEARANCE SALE! . KIMBERLY LIFTON $25 895. • Staff Writer Editor's note: This is the first in a bi-.monthly series on politics. • • • • • • • OOOOO • • • • L ansing — Jewish Fam- ily Service and the National Council of Jewish Women want to launch a privately-funded, kosher domestic violence shelter in Oakland County, but Denise Alexander, ex- ecutiv...…

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…FIFTY YEARS AGO P7 The Kinder Kamp with Jewish Pizzazz Jewish News Keeps Eye On War, Anti-Semitism PHIL JACOBS Managing Editor This column will be a weekly feature during The Jewish News' anniversary year, looking at The Jewish News of today's date in 1942. presents KINDY KAMP NEW GANEINU KAMPUS NORTH JUNIOR KAMPERS V.I.P. DIVISION Dais Chabad 32000 Middlebelt, Farmington Hills 6-8 Years Old Girls 9-12 Years 4230 Middlebelt, West...…

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…■ •••1 NEWS Israeli Soldiers Make Protest Jerusalem (JTA) — Six- teen Israeli soldiers who had just returned from nine months of duty in the Gaza Strip, walked off the job last week to protest their grievances and were declared absent without leave. The men, who voluntarily returned to their base for a disciplinary hearing, were sentenced by a panel of offi- cers to between 25 and 28 days in the stockade. But their action received wide atte...…

…CLOSE-UP Dr. Allen and Batya Berlin: Capturing a sense of spirituality at Temple Israel. In The Spirit Of Reform ancy Kaplan re- members years when she and her husband Michael did not even know the High Holidays had come and gone. It was a sad time in her life. Her son was experienc- ing major medical prob- lems. Mrs. Kaplan walked out of a Philadelphia hospital and into the first Jewish house of worship she could find. It happened to be a ...…

…N N Hashanah instead of one, 59 percent provide kippot, and 95 percent say the blessing over bread before communal meals. Almost all Reform temples have members light Shabbat candles at Friday night services, and more than 20 percent require board members to attend ser- vices. But with this increase in spirituality came modern decisions which included the ordination of women as rabbis and cantors since 1973; the decision to allow non-Jewish ...…

…CLOSE-UP Rabbi Dannel Schwartz speaks to his Shir Shalom congregation. thodox have a code — Halachah — it is in a sense easier to live an Orthodox lifestyle than a Reform one, he said. There are guides to life for the Reform Jew, but, he said, they are not presented as a code of law. "I know as an Orthodox Jew how many times a day I have to go to shul, how and when to lay my tefillin," said Rabbi Syme. "The difference is that a person who is...…

…imemilmormirsrammilimumem FA =NNW • • mending the world, as an important basis for Reform's deep interest in social action. "Our goal is to show that, as Jews, we can express our Jewishness and our responsibility to help the world," she said. "It's im- portant that we look at what we do and make sure that we and our children understand the Jewish connections behind helping in the areas of the envi- ronment, the homeless and programs such as...…

…I LOCAL NEWS I In 1991 I won The Harry '7. I and Sarah Laker Israel Youth Scholarship. P'TACH Continued from Page 1 This year- You Too Can Win a Year of Study at a leading University in Israel. University How do you qualify? You must be a resident of the Metropolitan Detroit area, must be currently attending a college or university in the continental United States, and must have applied to a school of higher learning in Israel. What univ...…

…When one child goes to bed hungry, each of us shares the pain. That is what it is to be a Jew. When a man loses his home because there is no work, each of us shares in his despair. That, too, is what it is to be a Jew. The Jewish Family Service reports that hunger and homelessness are a new reality for many of our people. To help them over the hard times is one of the reasons why that agency — and other agencies in our Jewish Federation fami...…

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…DOUGLAS DAVIS Foreign Correspondent T he personal and pri- vate lives of PLO offi- cials "have come to resemble the smell of an open sewer running through a refugee camp on a hot August day." There is "rampant corruption," entertainment so lavish that it rivals "the embassies of the richest states" and Pa- lestinian officials "who have lost count of the number of rooms in their houses." The script could have come from the disinformation sec...…

…DETROIT We certainly know ow-10 draw a i'7.- fito FREE !PREVIEW APRIL 10 THROUGH AWL 13 ON CHANNEL 51 Women of all ages carried placards at the March For Women's Lives, the largest demonstration in the nation's capital in 20 years. Enjoy front row seats for The Disney Channel's "Animation Celebration," featuring such favorites as "Alice in Wonderland," "The Roots of Goofy," "The Brave Little Toaster" and "Robin Hood." With a line-up like t...…

…CELEBRATE ISRAEL! 44 Years of Statehood • 25 Years of a Reunited Jerusalem Meredith Baxter, Louise Fletcher and Morgan Fair- child. Presidential hopefuls Jerry Brown and Bill Clin- ton took time off from New York campaigning to march for choice. U.S. Rep. Sander Levin, D-Southfield, state Rep. Maxine Berman, D- Southfield, and state Sen. Lana Pollack, D-Aim Arbor, took part in the demonstra- tion. Timing for the march, sponsored by the Natio...…

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…NEWS) The Greater Detroit Chapter of Hadassah Cordially invites you to its 75th Anniversary Celebration At 90, The Rebbe's Influence Is Growing An impressive mix of Jewish and national leaders paid tribute to the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Featuring author JUDITH VIORST speaking on "What is a Grownup?" 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 28, 1992 Congregation Beth Abraham Hillel Moses 5075 W. Maple Rd. • West Bloomfield A Dessert Reception will foll...…

…PRE-SEASON SPECIALS - The Pool & Spa People podium next to a large color photograph of the Rebbe, whose countenance seemed to hover over each speaker. Shoshana Cardin, chair- man of the Conference of Presidents of Major Ameri- can Jewish Organizations and the only woman to ad- dress the crowd, offered her prayers for the Rebbe's health and praised the movement for "keeping the light of Judaism alive" through Lubavitch centers around the wor...…

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…THE B'WAY HIT MUSICAL COMES TO METRO. DETROIT! HUMDINGER! _ LIKE A GLASS OF COLD SELTZER, 'THOSE WERE THE DAYS,' BRINGS SPARKLE TO THE EYE AND A TICKLE TO THE THROAT. IT'S IN YIDDISH AND ENGLISH, PRACTICALLY A SELF-TRANSLATING EFFUSION OF SONG AND DANCE. _ New York Times A MUSICAL MITZVAH ! WERE THE DAYS: AS THOSE OLD-TIME BREAD ADVERTISEMENTS USED TO PUT —Clive Barnes, New York Post IT, 'YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE JEWISH TO ENJOY "JOY AND TALE...…

…FOCUS Cathering the Remnants F first, she had only silence. Then she learned to scream. Next, the psychiatrist taught her to cry. Then she told her story: a true tale of live demons and nightmares and death and agony, of her years in a Nazi death camp. The girl — her name is not reveal- ed — lost her voice during the war. It came back, years later, in a dis- placed persons camp. Her story is the first on a new program written and produced i...…

…Members of the cast of "Remnants": Maria Orlowski, Bob Green; Rebecca Winston, along with engineer Steve Graham. Dr. Greenspan said he was looking for each monologue to reflect a diff- erent mood: one is quiet; one is outraged; one tells his story as a documentary. Similarly, each survivor feels he has a different task, Dr. Greenspan said. "One is giving memory to an entire community; another is wav- ing his fist in the air, shouting, 'We are...…

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…COMMUNITY Independence Day Celebration Planned Holocaust Memorial Set At Maple-Drake The Dudaim, the Simon and Garfunkel of Israel, will perform at a cabaret evening celebrating Israel In- dependence Day 9:30 p.m. May 9 at the Maple-Drake Jewish Community Center. The cabaret will be part of a week-long communitywide observance of Israel's 44th an- niversary of statehood and the 25th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem. The singing...…

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…DOWNTOWN SYNAGOGUE 1457 Griswold, Detroit, 961-9328. Rabbi: Noah Gamze, Cantor: Israel Idelsohn. Services: Monday-Friday 5:15 p.m., Saturday 8:30 a.m. SHAAREY ZEDEK p.m.; Saturday 9:15 a.m. Chevrat Torah Study Session. 11 a.m. Shabbat Worship. Friday: Bar Mitzvah of Scott Richmond, son of Diana and Roger Richmond. 27375 Bell Rd., Southfield, 357-5544. Rabbis: Irwin Groner, William Gershon, Cantors: Chaim Najman, Sidney Rube. Services: Mond...…

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