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…Energized Del egates Michigan's Jewish delegates to the Democratic National Convention bring their own agendas. ALAN ABRAMS Special to the Jewish News F or a quartet of metro Detroit Jews who are among the 170 Michigan delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, an opportu- nity to participate in the political process has now become an opportunity to wit- ness American Jewish history being made. The four delegates are S...…
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…Qualified Geography CNN's Web weather page puts Jerusalem in Israel but with a "non-partisan" asterisk. JACOB SCHREIBER , Contributing Editor Fervard Reload MO. Ot Hometown Opposition a ia .* Swett ?W.*. Inuits Print Seotrity Stop http://wv4i.cno.corn/YEATHER/me/israel/JerusalerrORLIX.html Atlanta R esponding to complaints from Jewish orga- nizations and individuals, the Cable News Network has reinstated Jerusalem to the Israel...…
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…Affordability in Memory Care peace agreement, Israel would be the first nation to recognize the new Palestinian state. With both Israeli and American approval, the newly born state would gain instant worldwide recognition. Scenario II In a second scenario, employing a palette of bleak tones, Arafat makes the declaration in the absence of a final peace accord and Israel responds with political countermeasures of its own. Palestinian threats ...…
…imisswommir This Week Yosef 's Vision Shas rabbi says Holocaust victims were reincarnated "sinners." NAOMI SEGAL tainly he would not accuse any of the Six Million," Rabbi Lau told Israel Radio. "He tried to give further under- Jerusalem standing to what happened there." he spiritual leader of Israel's Katsav said he does not intend to go Shas Party is facing public into the theological basis of Rabbi condemnation and ridicule Yosef's rema...…
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…Insight George W.'s Jewish Voice Ari Fleischer, .a son of Jewish Democrats, revels in role as Bush's main spokesman. LISA HOSTEIN Jewish Telegraphic Agency hat's a nice Jewish son of New York Democrats doing as the most visi- ble spokesman of the Bush campaign? "You can thank [former President] Jimmy Carter for making me leave the Democratic Party, and Ronald Reagan for making me a Republican," said Ari Fleischer, the 39-year-old senior co...…
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…ditorials Editorials and Letters to the Editor are posted and archived on JN Online: ww*.detroitjewishnews.com Moral Authority 'My parents raised me to believe that I did not have to mute my religious faith or ethnic identity to be a good American; that, on the contrary, America invites all its people to be what they are and believe what they wish." — Senator Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) by should it matter? We've had a lot of "firsts" i...…
…aikaawm, COMMUNITY VIEWS Overcoming A Disturbing Silence L Rocker [of the Atlanta Braves baseball et us assume that a profes- team] a place on New York's most- sional baseball player on a wanted list. Politicians have been major team tells black jour- crushed for less." [Rocker has drawn nalists that they are members media attention for his intolerant of a race inferior to the white race. remarks about minorities in Would that make a story...…
…PUBLISHER'S NOTEBOOK Coming Of Age Politically move. He targeted the popular Ed Ilir hen Joseph Lieberman Marcus, a Jew who was serving as first entered the sanctu- Democratic majority leader of the ary of Bikur Cholim Connecticut Senate. Now 16 years of Shevath Achim in New age, I eagerly joined Lieberman's cam- Haven, Conn., and settled into the paign, volunteering to fold letters, back row of benches, he was about to stuff envelopes, make...…
…EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK CNN Must Come Clean unfamiliar one, nor was it developed in a vacuum. While most Jews may ast week, CNN* tried to put object to it — and forever consider to rest a controversy it Jerusalem to be Israel's "eternal, undi- stirred up in February, when vided capital" — many others agree it removed Jerusalem from with CNN's stance. the Israel heading on its Look no further than online weather page. Washington for a prime CNN's s...…
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…Israeli Principals' Seminar includes senior educators from Hillel Day School and Yeshiva Beth Yehudah. aa a M a al av PS: IA sgg Barbara and Michael Horowitz offer Jewish day-school administrators participation in Bar-Ilan summer program. SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN Sta Writer program established at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel, soon will make its way to stu- dents in local day schools through their administrators, thanks to...…
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…6 MONTH CD Sherman, Tauber Named To Philanthropy Trust Board Metro Detroiters Jane Sherman and past chair of Federation's Annual Joel Tauber have been named to the Campaign and a Butzel Award recipi- national board of trustees of the Trust ent. He serves on the board of gover- for Jewish Philanthropy, founded by nors of the Jewish Agency for Israel the United Jewish Communities. and is a board member of the Shalom The Trust for Jewish Philan...…
…KEYSTONES IN THE BUILDING OF AMERICA During the early 18th Century, devout and secular Christians in America paid homage to the Bible's moral and ethical values as bedrocks for the budding state. A century before, the Puritan Pilgrims laid the foundations for such respect in their reverence for the "Children of Abraham" with whom they identified. Jewish families had arrived in New Amsterdam years before the ancestors of George Washington and o...…
…Beth Shalom Men Install Officers Congregation Beth Shalom Men's Club will have its installation of officers during Shabbat services Saturday, Aug. 12. Officers to be installed are Randy Davidson, president; Don Berlin, Kenneth Gaynor, Neil Weiner, Jerry Efros, Seymour Rabotnick, vice pres- idents; Richard Racusin, treasurer; and Jack Goldberg and Helmut Bernard, secretaries. Trustees are Sandy Danzig, Charles Gordon, Jack Kahn, Jerry Kaufman,...…
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