…1 THE JEWISH NEWS SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY AUGUST 10, 1990 / 19 AV 5750 Detroit Iraqis Respond To Invasion Of Kuwait KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer oseph Nadhir has been active in the Detroit Chaldean community since leaving Iraq for the United States 30 years ago. Since his immigration, his attitude about relationships with people of other cultural backgrounds has remained consistent. "We feel we are all bro...…
…PURELY COMMENTARY PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor Emeritus No Silence About Amnesty's Harm To Israel A mnesty International continued to clamor for popularity with claims to objectivity in its reports on human rights issues among nations. Its treatment of Israel condemns it to notoriety. The continuing negations of Israel demand the exposure now being given it by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). The AIPAC Near East Report car...…
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….1V-1110000- .FRONT, ADL Says 'Rio Better' No Better For Its Stereotyping Of Jews New York (JTA) — Film- maker Spike Lee's portrayal of two Jewish jazz club owners in the new film Mo' Better Blues is being called anti-Semitic by the Anti- Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and some leading film critics and a jazz musician. In his previous three movies, including last year's Do The Right Thing, Lee vividly explored the black experience and th...…
…EDITORIAL Religious Blinders The Jewish community is being besieged by a frightening and dangerous problem: intolerance. A new survey, conducted among sixth, eighth and 10th grade-Jewish students in the Detroit area by the University of Mich- igan's Project STaR and the Wilstein In- stitute for Jewish Policy Studies, shows a growing polarization between Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Jews. The students revealed limited knowledge about mov...…
…OPINION CONTENTS Reform And Gays: A Reversal Required DENNIS PRAGER T he recent decision of the Reform rabbinate, the Central Con- ference of American Rabbis (CCAR), to ordain declared homosexuals will be rescind- ed one day, and all those who care deeply about Reform must hope that it will do so before it harms Reform Judaism. Not since classical Reform's decision to declare the Jews a religion and not a people, which led to its early an...…
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…I LOCAL NEWS I Tessler. Receives Scholarship Award Rachel Lynn Tessler is a 1990 recipient of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship and the Council of Jewish Federa- tion's FEREP scholarship (Federation Executive Recruitment Education Pro- gram). Ms. Tessler is the only Detroiter, one of 17 Wexner and 11 FEREP national scholars, and the only joint recipient. Ms. Tessler, daughter of Dr. Warren and Charlotte Tessler, graduated from the Universi- ty ...…
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…DETROIT Detroit Team Picks 16-Year-Old 'Vets' As Games Torchlighters ALAN HITSKY Associate Editor T he two veteran athletes of the Detroit delegation have been named torchlighters for the opening ceremonies of the Jewish Community Centers — North American Maccabi Youth Games. Robert Kamins and Ari Nessel, both 16, have par- ticipated in the Games each summer beginning with the 1985 regional games in Columbus, Ohio, when they were both 11....…
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…I DETROIT Rosenberg Floor At JCC To Be Ready For Games RICHARD PEARL Staff Writer A AEROSPACE, analog and digital chronograph. 18 kt. white gold, titanium bicolor, titanium. Leather strap or metal bracelet. new asphalt floor has been laid in the Jew- ish Community Center's Rosenberg Recrea- tional Complex and will be ready for the Center's North American Maccabi Youth Games Aug. 19-26. During the Youth Games, it will be used for gym- nas...…
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…Story by Elizabeth Applebaum IR ernard Gross can feel the souls of soldiers every time he enters the shrine at the Jewish War Veterans building in Southfield. "There's something here," he says, walking slowly around the dark room. "Do you get the feeling they're looking at you? I get it every time I walk in here. I feel their neshomas (souls)." The room is filled with photographs of young men. Some are smiling. Some are wearing uniforms. Som...…
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…Men like Herman Lash, handsome and refined, who was born in Detroit and at- tended Northern High School. He joined the service on Sept. 6, 1943, and died in Luxembourg. The photos hang on the walls in the shrine and rest in a large book, a page of which is turned every day so the names and faces will be remembered, if just for 24 hours each year. JWV Commander Katz sees a picture of his pal, Abraham Kadish. "There wasn't anything he wouldn't d...…
…MEN GILL first Jewish organization to boycott Ger- man goods during World War II; in 1963, it became the only national veterans group to join in Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington; and in 1985, the JWV, in response to President Ronald Reagan's visit to the Bitburg Cemetery, where former Nazis are buried, rallied other veterans to hold a ceremony honoring soldiers who died fighting fascism. But politics are always set aside for a reg...…
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…INSIDE WASHINGTON Jewish Groups Helped Civil Rights Act Passage JAMES D. BESSER Washington Correspondent L ast week's passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1990 by the House rep- resented a major victory for both the civil rights com- munity and for a number of Jewish groups that had worked for the bill since its conception. The bill reverses a series of recent Supreme Court deci- sions that make it more difficult for employees to prove disc...…
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…Now, it appears likely that the dominant topic will be Iraq's bludgeoning of its neighbors, and the urgent need to contain Mr. Hussein. The week's dramatic events will also help shore up Israel's sagging support in Congress. "First, it should remind everyone of the debt which is owed the Israelis for knock- ing out Iraq's nuclear capability," Mr. Berman said. "Saddam Hussein has used every weapon of mass destruction he's ever been able to acqu...…
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…c ast Monday morning, in a rocky gully near the Arab village of Beit Hanina, a search party found the dead bodies of two Israeli teenagers, Ronen Karmani and Lior Tubol. The two friends left home on Saturday night to visit their girlfriends, but they never got there. Instead, they were kidnapped, bound and gagged, stabbed to death and then left to fester among the limestone and the tumbleweed. Although the killers have not yet been apprehende...…
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…COMMUNITY Detroit Jewish Educators Off To CAJE Conference SUSAN GRANT Staff Writer D etroit Jewish educators will share their ideas and teaching methods with 1,900 teachers and administrators from around the world dur- ing the upcoming Con- ference on Alternatives in Jewish Education. (CAJE) "It's really a summer camp for Jewish educators," said Rabbi Bruce Aft to de- scribe the four-day, 15th an- nual CAJE conference which begins Aug. 12...…
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…TORAH PORTION PROMISED LAND Blessings Continued from preceding page You want to build schools, clinics and community centers for Russian Jews in Israel? especially when they are bestowed upon us so often that we come to expect them as a continuing right. "I am entitled," we hear some peo- ple say. But to what are we really entitled? If we think life hasn't been good to us, look around. Remember to appreciate your health, your loved ones, ...…
…SYNAGOGUES I EXCELLENCE IS OUR TRADITION. following services in honor of the newly installed synagogue administration. There is no charge for the lun- cheon but non-members must make reservations by Aug. 14. For information, call the synagogue office, 557-8210. Synagogues Seek Bond Sales An effort to help Israel build housing and create jobs for the Soviet Jews arriving daily in the country will be conducted during the annual High Holy Day...…
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…FITNESS \ ettin Ica]. - • .0W.i7 B Robert Robillard, 68, and Earl Brown, 69, discuss their physical fitness. Geffen instructs Robillard on proper form. 46 FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1990 rad Geffen's appear- ance leaves little doubt the 41-year-old has been physically fit a long time. Watch him work out and that little doubt disappears. But there's more to Brad Geffen than just appearance. For starters, he sold a lucrative electronics busines...…
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