…THE JEWISH NEWS SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY MAY 10, 1991 / 26 IYAR 5751 Engler Staff Apologizes For Proclamation Mixup ALAN HITSKY Associate Editor W as it Israel's dem- ocratic status in the Middle East or miscommunication? Mark Schlussel doesn't care. He hopes to turn a poten- tial snub of Sunday's Walk for Israel in West Bloomfield into closer ties between the Jewish community and the office of Michigan Gov...…
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…CONTENTS OPINION CLOSE-UP When The Land Becomes Weary Peace initiatives, olim and the ecolomy changes Israel. 28 Our family section celebrates Israel independence and Jerusalem Day. center ENTERTAINMENT Senior Showcase `Art from a Mature Perspective' is a hit in the Jewish Center. 76 11 UP FRONT This story pays tribute to Jerzy Kosinski's life. 14 DETROIT • Holocaust symposium is revealing for students. • Detroit Jewish educa...…
…EDITORIAL Why Do We Walk? Last Sunday, some 8,000 Detroit area Jews came together at the Maple-Drake Jewish Community Center to walk in sup- port of Israel. Even under a cold, overcast sky, we felt good about ourselves and this show of support for Israel. But as Assistant Editor Elizabeth Ap- plebaumi-eports on Page 28, the Israelis would rather have us rename our annual function the "Fly to Israel." Their resent- ment toward American Jews i...…
…OPINION Should Intermarried Jews Be Community Leaders? GARY ROSENBLATT / Editor Should a quali- fied professional in the Jewish community be denied a top ex- ecutive position on the grounds that he or she is married to a non-Jew? In New York, the ap- pointment of Judith Ginsberg as executive direc- tor of the newly formed Covenant Foundation, which provides funds for Jewish education, has touched off a controversy be- cause she is a marrie...…
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…I UP FRONT This Story Pays Tribute To Jerzy Kosinski's Life ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Assistant Editor T hree years ago this week I received the se- cond of two curious letters from Jerzy Kosinski. In the first, he sent a story he'd written called "Chantal," which tells of a young girl who hopes to in- spire a famous writer. In the second letter, he sent me an- other original piece, "Death in Cannes," the story of his friendship with Jacques Mo...…
…UP FRONT YOU'RE COVERED With Our New T•Shirt! Jerzy Kosinski Continued from preceding page in that cottage at Albion. I've heard of all his faults — the lies, the craziness, the paranoia — but none of this means anything in view of his extraordinary talent. And that is what I re- member. "This story is not a tribute to death," Mr. Kosinski wrote in "Death in Cannes." "Like birth, death is final; that's quite a tribute al- ready. This stor...…
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…DETROIT KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer S tudents watched in disbelief last week as they viewed a news tape of a home video game called KZ (concentration camp) Manager. _ The students were par- ticipating in an interfaith youth symposium on the Holocaust at the Maple- Drake Jewish Community Center when a Channel 7 news team/brought in a tape showing the game and re- ported on their reactions. KZ Manager, which has about 140 other names in- c...…
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…I NEWS Cheney Plans Israel Trip To the 8,000 walkers and volunteers who made Sunday's New York (JTA) — Defense Secretary Dick Cheney has announced that he will travel to Israel at the end of the month, after at- tending a NATO meeting in Europe. Mr. Cheney said the trip to Israel had been planned a year ago but was first delayed when Israel's na- tional unity government col- lapsed last spring and later put off by the Persian Gulf crisis. T...…
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…I CLOSE-UP When the Land of Milk and Honey Becomes Wear y Between new peace initiatives, Soviet olim and increased economic woes, Israel is undergoing a dramatic metamorphosis. .4 "INDEPENDENT?" the poster reads. "We are slaves of America!' ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Assistant Editor ne Israeli cab driver believes the Arabs are the root of all Israel's ills. "Give the Palestinians a state?" he cries, running his hand over his head. "What, ar...…
…away, now stored in large blue and rust-colored metal containers resembling dumpsters. Later, when residents are back in perma- nent homes, their furniture and photo albums will be returned. Humor these days is grim. Pranksters have added the letter yud to signs reading "Tel Aviv," changing the word tel to til, missile. Numerous Tel Aviv residents have decorated their cars with the bumper sticker, "I stayed in Tel Aviv." Thirty miles away and ...…
…y Ila • Top: Drawn by the affordable housing and jobs, Soviet immigrants have settled in underdeveloped areas like Tel Teomim in the Bet Shean Valley. The typical home in Jerusalem costs between $100,000 and $150,000. Most Soviet olim arrive in Israel with just a few dollars. Above: Observant and secular Jews battled at length over this community center pool, which permitted mixed swimming. 30 FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1991 says is crucial to Israe...…
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…FOCUS Life on the The Jews of Windsor enjoy the best that Canada and the U.S have to offer. AMY J. MEHLER Staff Writer tense silence followed 13-year-old bar mitz- vah Leonard Epstein last. Shabbat, as he ap- proached the bimah of Con- gregation Shaar Hashoma- yim, the second oldest syna- gogue in Windsor, Ontario. The congregation waited anxiously, curious to see how Leonard, a recent Soviet immigrant, would perform this age-old Jewish ...…
…"Some of Windsor's earliest settlers wound up in Windsor so they could sneak across the border and get into the United States." Rabbi Jonathan Plaut . son, David David, but it wasn't until the 1880s that the next significant wave of Jews came to Windsor, Rabbi Plaut said. "They were mostly Jews looking to escape pogroms," he said. "Canada has a long history of being settled by immigrants from other countries. It's like a grab bag of mixed na...…
…Heather Mantle of the JCC reads to Gabriella Schnayer, 4, Carly Gordner, 2, Tori Sheifetz, 2, and Joshua Morrison, 2. Above: Congregation Shaar Hashomayim: The second oldest Orthodox synagogue in Windsor. At right: Gravesite of Moses David, Windsor's first Jewish settler. 48 FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1991 said, "but we have the same community services and organizations as Detroit. Most of us only go into Detroit when we want to see a good play or s...…
…"I'd have to get up around 6:30 in the morning, and I wouldn't get home until eight or nine at night," Mr. Jarcaig said. "We always tried to liven up the car rides, though. "We all had this game we'd play. Like we'd try to think of as many names of things starting with the first letters of the alphabet. When we got bored of that, we'd just sleep." According to Rabbi Rosensveig of the Shaar, Windsor once ran a Talmud Torah but it had no high sc...…
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