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…Deraorr MISUSE MEWS Xs.• New Ownership T oday's issue of the Jewish News is the first under new ownership. Detroit Jewish News LLC is a collaboration between current Jewish News Publisher Arthur M. Horwitz and Michael H. Steinhardt. Steinhardt, in partnership with Seth Lipsky, possesses a key Arthur M Horwitz ownership stake in New York-based Forward Newspapers LLC, publisher of the English language weekly Forward. Steinhardt has devoted ...…

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…This Week • a a in awn11111V • a a ..nw UP At \=, Core . asoMMUUk Steven Ballmer's Detroit and Jewish background helped mold the Microsoft miracle. DAVID SACHS Editorial Assistant S teven Anthony Ballmer, the billionaire business brain who succeeded Bill Gates as CEO of Microsoft Corporation, is a leader, some say a cheerleader, of unrelenting enthusiasm and unflinch- ing loyalty,. Enthusiasm and loyalty pervade everything Ballmer does...…

…Ballmer is known to be tightfisted on expenses at Microsoft. He also shares his grandfather's scrappi- ness in business. "My dad loved the tumult of business," said Irving Dworkin. "He liked the commotion of being a businessman. Steve probably admired him for that. Some friends of Steve's told me that Steve, as a negotiator, is really, really good. I think that's why Bill Gates put him up there, to handle this stuff with the government." Toug...…

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…This Week MR. MICROSOFT The Seeds Of Success from page 7 Metro Detroit's Jewish Assisted Living Community "My dad is feeling great since coming to Elan Village! The "heimishe" atmosphere allows him to be independent, while at the same time feel safe and secure. He's made new friends and the staff are caring and kind." Ballmer's grandparents Rose and Sam Dworkin with young Beatrice and Irving. Tina Bassett, family member Elan Village's ...…

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…furniture & accessories Compassionate Care Religious leaders sensitize Oakland medical examiner to needs of 'Jewish dead. HARRY KIRSBAUM StaffWriter A death is already hard to deal with for any family, but when it involves an Orthodox Jewish family, the delay in burial due to autopsy flies in the face of religious beliefs. According to Jewish law, an entire body must be brought to burial. Any invasive procedure is seen as desecration; an...…

…Question Nixed On MEAP Test T he answer may have been correct, but it was anything but right. A social studies question on a stan- dardized test for Michigan eighth- graders raised the hackles of the Anti- Defamation League last week, prompt- ing the state to scrap the question. The Michigan Educational Assessment Program question asks stu- dents what two religions contribute to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Jewish and Arab leaders agreed that ...…

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…To r ah Time Akiva first -graders celebrate the start offormal study. Clockwise from left: Hebrew was a big part of the torah party. Teacher Chana Greenfield gives encouragement from the seats. Mark Nadel of Southfield and his 2-year-old son Cobi enjoy the proceedings. Rabbi Karmi Gross, Yeshivat Akivas principal, looks on proudly irst-grader Hanna Rogers and 15 other members of Yeshivat Akiva's first-grade class were letter-perfect as ...…

…T is Week • Washington Watch JAMES D. BESSER Washington Correspondent ewish activists are confident the Clinton administra- tion will just say no when it comes to Palestinian demands for more direct U.S. intervention in the mired Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. And adminis- tration sources say they're prepared to do just that, although it will be couched in diplomatic niceties. The talks, supposed to produce a "framework" agree- ment on d...…

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…This Week Calculating Risks Austria's Jews silently, nervously, evaluate right-wing's rise. RUTH E. GRUBER Jewish Telegraphic Agency Vienna A s a rabbi and three guests walked home through the streets of the city center after having a Shabbat dinner last Friday, they were stopped by a man in his 60s. "I am a Roman Catholic," he told the rabbi, who with his long beard, black coat and hat was clearly identifiable as an Orthodox Jew. "I ju...…

…the European Parliament and is widely viewed as having been "bought" by the party to try to polish its image. Cold Hopes During the campaign, Haider's plat- form was not openly antisemitic, but his strident xenophobia raised fears that antisemitism could become a byproduct of his rhetoric, particularly as an undercurrent of the antisemitism that still persists among some sections of the Austrian public. Antisemitism "can be easily aroused by...…

…This Week Insight Mt: >t sl q National Recognition JCC's Pitt Child Development Center passes rigid accreditation tests. accreditation, and are so proud of it. They set a goal and accomplished Staff Writer something. To me, that shows they take pride in the center, and that alloons and cookies greeted shows commitment to the well-being parents dropping off of my children." preschoolers at the Sarah Her daughter Ashley, almost 4, and Irv...…

…JXEditorials Editorials and Letters to the Editor are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.com Making Numbers Work opulation studies have the potential to provide valuable demographic data. An unadul- terated sample can tell us a lot about who we are as a people. The last major study of the Detroit Jewish community was in 1989. Cost is a concern, but the time may be right for another. The struggle to protect Jewish identi...…

…SPECIAL COMMENTARY A Beacon For Xenophobics? cism and Nazism up close. We never had death camps on our soil. We were he Atlantic Ocean seemed never occupied. It's all foreign to us. to yawn wider this week Besides, most of us scarcely com- than it has in years. prehend Europe's system of propor- Europe was in turmoil, tional elections, with its legions of haunted by the specter of a radical small ideological parties holding big- right rising...…

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…SPECIAL COMMENTARY `BEACON' from page 34 Only from Glassman Oldsmobile very, very careful." Besides, Foxman says, "Haider is a populist, a xenophobe, an oppor- tunist, but he is not a Nazi nor an antisemite. And unlike the Le Pens or Buchanans, he's at least tried to explain his associations and apolo- gize for them. Now that he's in a position of responsibility, let's test him." Foxman has long stood apart in advocating that Jews learn to ...…

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…• I DMC Sinai's Program for Holocaust Survivors and Families is assembling a photographic legacy. . .s: N Eg ra ga st ws «, At 4 4 « ' , f: Faces of local survivors , will tell the human side of Hitler's fury in an archive project destined for display at the Jewish Community Center. At , think it's important to have these pic- tures because we're getting older and we try to let people know what the Jewish people went through in...…

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…I CALLED MOM FOR LUNCH ON TUESDAY, BUT SHE WAS GOING TO A BOOK REVIEW IN THE LIBRARY. I DROPPED BY ON THURSDAY, BUT SHE COULDN'T COME Jewish Community Teams With Detroit The Detroit Jewish community will sponsor a City Year Detroit Team at the Northwest Neighborhood Empowerment Center (NHEC)/Adams Butzel Recreation Center, a Detroit Jewish Initiative pro- ject facility. An Americorps program, City Year is a national youth service organi...…

…Community A Foundation Federation assists local women in creating philanthropic repository. SUZANNE CHESSLER Special to the Jewish News S To: Susie Pappas. of Bloomfield Hills takes part in the discussion. At right is Beverly Liss o West Bloomfield f/N 2/11 2000 42 Above: At a Jewish Women's Foundation training session on Jan. 23 are Margot Halperin of Birmingham, standing; daughter Gayle Kahn of Bloomfield Hills, to her left, and San...…

…The foundation also is being built grants will depend on resources and with $100,000 intergenerational the quality of the requests. Once procedures are in place, proposals-. donations to the same endowment received in the JWF office by Feb. 1 fund as the individual gifts. A will be eligible for the awards to be $100,000 donation, also payable over five years, provides for lifetime announced after the next Jewish New Year. intergenerational mem...…

…The Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit and Jewish Experiences For Families (J.E.F.F.) e invite you and your family to Havdalah -4 under the stars Saturday, February 26, 2000 • 8 p.m. Cranbrook Institute of Science 1 -221 N. Woodward, Bloomfield Hills • Make a Havdalah set and use it at our Havdalah service. • See the "Laser Swing" multi-media planetarium show. A wonder I grogram for the whole family! Reservations a mus...…

…There's Still Time To Register For SAJE Twenty-five courses spanning the Jewish experience will comprise the Leare second term of SAJE — Seminars for Adult Jewish Enrichment. The SAJE courses, starting Tuesday, Feb. 22, are each made up of three 50- minute sessions over three weeks. Offerings will include Jewish story- telling, Jewish arts and culture, ethics, Jewish poetry, Jewish music, prayer, Israel and a course taught in Russian. There w...…

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…We Condemn Syria's Denial of the Holocaust We condemn, in the strongest possible terms, the publication of an editorial in the official Syrian government newspaper Tishrin calling the Holocaust "a myth" and saying that Israeli policies are worse than Nazi policies. Lecture Room-East. Information: (734) 763-9047. INTRO TO JUDAISM Rabbi Amy Bigman teaches 10-week course 7:30-9 p.m. Tuesdays, through March, at Temple Kol Ami. Fee. Open to the ...…

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